[kalo]

Please go watch 12 years a slave and tell me that driving people around for money whenever you choose is anything close to slave labor you idiot.

Modern day slave labor.. You idiot!

 

[josolo]

im in same boat, about 15K on my car,but my only expense is gas and $30 oil change every 5,000 miles. And it'll remain like that for years due to
warranty:
bumper to bumper for another 3 years
powertrain for another 8 years

so exactly what are your car expenses? and you pay tax yearly on the car or something?

> And it'll remain like that for years
If things go well.

I hit a pothole (filled with water - looked like a puddle) and ran over some road debris during my uber stint. The pothole popped my low-profile tire and bent my wheel and control arm. Soon after I got those fixed my cv joint started creaking. The road debris cost me yet another $100 tire and I forgot to mention a windshield from a rock popped up by a truck. ...more like fired from a mortar. My car is a turbo so oil changes are $60 (synthetic only, I use Royal Purple. 2012 Chevy Sonic LTZ ). I drove the last few months of the last fiscal year plus the first two of this year. Plus, when I first started I was buying water and mints and phone charging jacks and solar chargers and other things that UBER recommended to get good ratings. What a waste that was. PLUS, I live in a rural area that doesn't get cell service. After I quit renting the uber phone, I had to pay for a cell phone I couldn't use at home. Just a bunch of nickel and dimes, but thats all I made was nickel and dimes in my area. Average ride was very close to minimum charge. 75% of the rides under $10. Yearly propery tax for the car comes out to about $150 but I have to pay that anyways. My car had 5k when I started driving. Is a 2012 and out of warranty by the months which came first.

 

[azndriver87]

For your info, I do have day job that pays me around $45 /hr, and this UberX driving is part-time one. Here is the math:

Hours I put for last 3 weeks: 60 hrs
Total trips: 102
Total fares: $782.77
Gas : $150 ( gas is bit expensive compared to US )

$1 safety fees: ( 102 trips ) * 1 = $102
20% Uber commission : $ 156.55

The net I took home : $782.77 - ( 150+ 102+156.55) = $ 374.22

My hourly pay: $374.22/ 60 hrs = $6.24 /hr

For your info, the minimum pay in Canada is $11 /hr.

Take out the "Safety Fees" This doesn't get taken out of your fare.
782.77-102-156.55 = $476.21
476.21/60 = roughly $8

lets go back to square one, look at how much you are making the fare. You're fare is $13/hr. wow you're seriously messing up here already.

also what kind of car you're driving? what's your gas mileage?

I'm in US, and I make $37/hr in fares, and yah it's 1:0.81 US to Canada, so that's equiavalent to $45.66/hr in fare.

 

[Bart McCoy]

Modern day slave labor.. You idiot!

To be 100% fair, and not to get too far off topic, but nothing you do while Ubering can be compared to being an actual slave. Nothing. The word Slavery should not be thrown around loosely

 

[azndriver87]

i don't know why you guys calculate safe rider fee in your deduction from your fare,

safe rider fee IS NOT PART OF YOUR FARE, it's charged to the rider, and taken out too.:

see last night, a total of $107.51 in 3 hours (i took a 30 minute nap), total fare = $35.84/hr in fare. gas was only $5 (i drive a prius) so not bad, took home around $27/hr after uber cut.

 

[YouWishYouKnewMe]

Glad you realized the hard way
Now tell all your friends what you saw
LoL

 

[20yearsdriving]

Seriously if you make 45.00 per hour
I would double down on that

Why gamble to make 20.00 average at best??

It's mind over matter

 

[Uber-Doober]

To be 100% fair, and not to get too far off topic, but nothing you do while Ubering can be compared to being an actual slave. Nothing. The word Slavery should not be thrown around loosely

^^^
The term "slave labor" or "slave wages" has been used in this country for probably over 150 years and you won't be changing that.
Just get used to it being used in the American lexicon and stop trying to equate it with some long gone institution and don't be so politically correct.
Every society in history has had slavery of one sort or another, so go back to the Egyptians and Romans and go to bat for them.
Next time you buy a pair of Chinese shoes, shed your tears for the 12 year old kid that works for 67¢ a day.
Personally, I have bigger problems.

 

[Bart McCoy]

^^^
The term "slave labor" or "slave wages" has been used in this country for probably over 150 years and you won't be changing that.
Just get used to it being used in the American lexicon and stop trying to equate it with some long gone institution and don't be so politically correct.
Every society in history has had slavery of one sort or another, so go back to the Egyptians and Romans and go to bat for them.
Next time you buy a pair of Chinese shoes, shed your tears for the 12 year old kid that works for 67¢ a day.
Personally, I have bigger problems.

Go be a black slave back in the day for a mere days. Bet you'd opt to driv for Uber for free and give pax tips instead!

 

[Uber-Doober]

Go be a black slave back in the day for a mere days. Bet you'd opt to driv for Uber for free and give pax tips instead!

^^^
I don't giveashit.
They're dead.
They're gone.
They're dust.
I've had indendured servants in my family a few hundred years ago.
So, what am I gonna do, go into some lacrimonious session crying big crocodile tears while trying to be politically correct and parsing every damned word in every sentence. .
I don't live in the past, and don't give a ***.

 

[kalo]

To be 100% fair, and not to get too far off topic, but nothing you do while Ubering can be compared to being an actual slave. Nothing. The word Slavery should not be thrown around loosely

The term "Slave Labor" is a modern day language idiom. Labor with long hours, poor working conditions, low pay. I see no problem using it for Uber drivers. Many are giving their time and the depreciation of their auto, unseen risk ($$$) of being sued to build the 50 Billion dollar company and are too foolish to know what is actually going on. Now that California Labor Commission considers Uber drivers employees the future maybe change some for drivers. Lets hope so.

 

[Bart McCoy]

^^^

I've had indendured servants in my family a few hundred years ago.
So, what am I gonna do, go into some lacrimonious session crying big crocodile tears while trying to be politically correct and parsing every damned word in every sentence. .
I don't live in the past, and don't give a ***.

well of course you always have the right to be insensitive, rude, and disrespectful about those that suffered
proceed

 

[Uber-Doober]

well of course you always have the right to be insensitive, rude, and disrespectful about those that suffered
proceed

^^^
Oh, yeah... let's all hear it for sensitiiiiivity.
You can be an Eloy if you want to when it serves your immediate purposes.
Since when is the truth rude and disrespectful?

 

[hanging in there]

For your info, I do have day job that pays me around $45 /hr, and this UberX driving is part-time one. Here is the math:

Hours I put for last 3 weeks: 60 hrs
Total trips: 102
Total fares: $782.77
Gas : $150 ( gas is bit expensive compared to US )

$1 safety fees: ( 102 trips ) * 1 = $102
20% Uber commission : $ 156.55

The net I took home : $782.77 - ( 150+ 102+156.55) = $ 374.22

My hourly pay: $374.22/ 60 hrs = $6.24 /hr

For your info, the minimum pay in Canada is $11 /hr.

$6.24/hr MINUS wear/tear/depreciation/maintenance/unexpected repairs +extra risk of traffic tickets/accidents/injuries/potential insurance rate hikes/cancellation