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Sean112

Discussion Starter · 5 mo ago

This is the only forum I know where the people in the business demean others for being in the business. “Ants will do the work”. What does that mean? That people who are almost as stupid as you will do the work? Seriously, I think the whole driving labor force has PTSD.

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Deegizzle

· #41 · 5 mo ago

painfreepc said:
Want to make it clear to you do not assume that because I can do comfort and lux that that's all I do, there are days when I see very few Comfort trips and maybe one or no Lux trips, but when I get the higher higher tier trips especially the Lyft luxury trips it brings up my average per hour earnings.

Yeah if I do 15 rides in a day, I’d be lucky if I get more than 3 Comfort rides.

Also, my Comfort reservations seem to come in spurts. I’ll get none for like a week or two then suddenly it’s all I am getting, as if I have exclusivity to the ones in my area for a short stretch or something. Tomorrow, after not getting any for at least two or three weeks, I all of a sudden have four lined up.

And when I get them during those brief stretches, I stop getting the regular X reservations. Even the pings start seeing more Comfort frequency.

In fact, I just ended my night with a $50 40 minute trip from the airport to my neighborhood, and got a $20 tip. I sure wish all nights could end this way.

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Ted Fink

· #42 · 5 mo ago

Deegizzle said:
my Comfort reservations seem to come in spurts

Leather seats, and lysol wipes

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colamacy

· #43 · 5 mo ago

Looks like the OP touched a number of drivers' defenses. Good for him for livening up this dying forum.

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New2This

· #44 · 5 mo ago

Sean112 said:
“Ants will do the work”. What does that mean?

Ants take the unprofitable shit trips leaving the profitable trips for the cherrypickers.

But you already knew that.

So which sock are you?

Head Vertebrate Sleeve Mammal Gesture

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Lord Summerisle

· #45 · 5 mo ago

painfreepc said:
As an ex taxi driver, ex Medical Transport driver, ex limo driver, I am used to sitting and waiting for an assignment, so my mindset with Uber and Lyft is the same I sit and wait for a profitable trip, I don't care if I sit in the car for 50 hours and my active time is only 20 for 30 hours, I don't see the point of continuing to work and put wear and tear and mileage on my car just to make maybe a few extra hundred per week, I intend to keep my car in good condition so when I sell it in a few years it's still a decent Transportation car I don't intend to run the wheels off of it like is said on this site,

In my mindset my car is what’s earning the money I am guess it's driver, my job is to make sure my car earns the most amount of money per active hour/per active mile,

Depending on how busy are non-busy it is and the traffic conditions, I use one of two mindsets when I am working,

1. Pay per hour earnings, this rule is mostly used for longer trips,
I don't care what the mileage of the trip as long as my car is earning 40 plus per hour and I am dropping off in a busy City

2. Pay per mile earnings, this rule is mostly used for shorter trips,
short trips those ones that come in for under $10 especially the ones that are like $5 to $7, short trips need to be able to be completed within 10 minutes 15 minutes max if it's a slow day or slow hour of the day, if the trip is closer to the $10 range I will allow it a few more minutes, the total mileage to complete the trip can't be greater than the fare,

So think of it like a sliding scale, one end of the scale is pay per mileage based, the other end of the scale is pay for time based, so I adjust that scale as needed.

This is a good way to think of it - not what you're earning but what your car is earning.

Lord Summerisle

· #46 · 5 mo ago

colamacy said:
Looks like the OP touched a number of drivers' defenses. Good for him for livening up this dying forum.

It would get better if you left.

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Heisenburger

· #47 · 5 mo ago

Your observation is accurate. The average self-esteem of the membership is low. There are sock accounts in spades. Many ex taxi drivers. That should tell you something. The primary purpose to all the whining, complaining, denigrating and mocking is to reduce competition in the marketplace. Members like this comment merely to discourage would be competitors from entering or remaining in the gig driving labor pool so that they can have more work at higher pay rates for themselves.

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Heisenburger

· #48 · 5 mo ago

colamacy said:
Looks like the OP touched a number of drivers' defenses. Good for him for livening up this dying forum.

Yeah, both are facts.

painfreepc

· #49 · 5 mo ago

Lord Summerisle said:
This is a good way to think of it - not what you're earning but what your car is earning.

My car my vehicle is what is earning the money it is what is for hire, and I am it's work manager and it's driver, I decide which clients my car will work for, I decide which clients can hire my car.

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Qdx

· #50 · 5 mo ago

Heisenburger said:
Your observation is accurate. The average self-esteem of the membership is low. There are sock accounts in spades. Many ex taxi drivers. That should tell you something. The primary purpose to all the whining, complaining, denigrating and mocking is to reduce competition in the marketplace. Members like this comment merely to discourage would be competitors from entering or remaining in the gig driving labor pool so that they can have more work at higher pay rates for themselves.

Yeah, it pretty clear that a lot of drivers simply hate other drivers because they view them purely as competition rather than peers. You usually don’t see this level of bitterness in other gig/job communities, but it is what it is.

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ThrowInTheTowel

· #51 · 5 mo ago

Atavar said:
Isn’t that what you just did?
please explain how you think whining or complaining to other drivers here is going to change anything.

No I don't go into a thread created by someone just to tell them they are wasting their time complaining. When I see a thread complaining about high gas prices I skip by it cause I have heard that complaint a thousand times. I don't make a fool of myself by telling them to just stop driving over and over knowing nobody is going to listen and take my advice. I believe in common sense.

Atavar

· #52 · 5 mo ago

ThrowInTheTowel said:
No I don't go into a thread created by someone just to tell them they are wasting their time complaining. When I see a thread complaining about high gas prices I skip by it cause I have heard that complaint a thousand times. I don't make a fool of myself by telling them to just stop driving over and over knowing nobody is going to listen and take my advice. I believe in common sense.

But how do you think complaining to other drivers here will accomplish anything?

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ThrowInTheTowel

· #53 · 5 mo ago

Atavar said:
But how do you think complaining to other drivers here will accomplish anything?

I think you are smart enough to know why people complain but you just refuse to accept the truth. It is no different than a woman that is in an unhappy relationship and she sits on the phone every night complaining to her girlfriend how he spends no time with her, shows no affection, and cares more about football. Her friend could be an idiot and say just leave him if you don't like it but a real friend would let her vent and try to offer some constructive advice. They wouldn't try to tear them down for their own self pleasure like many of the losers here on this forum. Hint: There are a few active right in this thread.

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Atavar

· #54 · 5 mo ago

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Atavar

· #55 · 5 mo ago

ThrowInTheTowel said:
I think you are smart enough to know why people complain but you just refuse to accept the truth. It is no different than a woman that is in an unhappy relationship and she sits on the phone every night complaining to her girlfriend how he spends no time with her, shows no affection, and cares more about football. Her friend could be an idiot and say just leave him if you don't like it but a real friend would let her vent and try to offer some constructive advice. They wouldn't try to tear them down for their own self pleasure like many of the losers here on this forum. Hint: There are a few active right in this thread.

I still want to hear how you think whining and complaining hear will effect positive change.

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bobby747

· #56 · 5 mo ago

Hate will always be here. use butter to let it never stick to you or sunblock , to block the hate. alway's find a way to make it work if you can. if you cannot. seek another job. many still can.
and dont give a rat's ass what other's think here.
those crumbs know who they are.
maybe do food. maybe work 40 hours and another job as an uber.
as it get harder to find ways to beat these guys, beat i mean earn a fare living...was on youtube watching dave ramsy...the guy is now telling guys in bad debt to to eat's dash''g.h...
is this guy nuts...
so i love you all. may the new year be the best foe all. even ABDC..

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painfreepc

· #57 · 5 mo ago

Atavar said:
I still want to hear how you think whining and complaining hear will effect positive change.

Users whining and complaining about the service that they use is not unique to rideshare, I'm involved in the server community, people complain all the time about a particular company or service our product and still keep using it, they will complain and whine about the the ticketing support which takes days sometimes a week to get a response that should take no more than a few hours, they complain about Server company saying they have unlimited bandwidth and everything is going fine until one day or a few days they need a lot of bandwidth all at one time and then they find out their server is throttled still a good company still good service but the actual statement of unlimited bandwidth was false kind of the same thing when our cell phone service saying we have unlimited bandwidth, they complain about a server that they're using whose price certainly increases because they claim that their electricity costs have gone up, if you join some of the server social sites that I am involved in you read people complaining all the time.

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ThrowInTheTowel

· #58 · 5 mo ago

Atavar said:
I still want to hear how you think whining and complaining hear will effect positive change.

I hope that if everyone continues to complain that it will drive you crazy enough to stay the hell out of a forum called "Complaints" and that will be positive change for everyone. Of course that will never happen because this is what you live for is to attack people as a form of discouragement. Good luck I am finished on this matter it's like beating a dead horse.

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painfreepc

· #59 · 5 mo ago (Edited)

illin1 said:
cab drivers do no care about 10+ mile away rides going less than 2 miles (90+% of requests)or .60 a mile super scabs lmao

I wish I had a Time machine, so I could bring you back to the year 2000 to 2012, and have Riverside Inland Empire taxi hire you as a driver or let me make that clear let you lease a taxi at $500 a week plus gas and then you will find out real quick that a lot of the trips you did as cash are crap, like being told by your dispatcher to go from Downtown Riverside to Moreno Valley to pick up a fare only to find out that they're going to their local 7-Eleven or liquor store for a pack of cigarettes total fare about five bucks, are sitting downtown Riverside near the public bus station and the Greyhound station is across the street and all you're getting all day long is people walking up to your car going one or two miles down the street into the local neighborhood about $4 to $7 a few of the fares didn't even make it to $4 and many of them did not tip, there was one old dude who would request a taxi every night, if there was a few of us sitting downtown Riverside we would actually talk among ourselves of who's going to go get him, some dispatchers would let us keep our position to go service him, his fare was less than $4 and he counted his fare out in change, he actually tell us I don't pay
anymore or anyless, one night I had to wait about 3 or 4 minutes for him to count out change I finally told him the trip was free he told me I pay for my fare not a penny more not a penny less, go live in my taxi world for a few months then come back and cry more about rideshare,

Did I do well driving Taxi, most weeks I did, but most of it from my own advertising efforts are the account trips that were given to me, rarely from cash paying customers from dispatch.

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painfreepc

· #60 · 5 mo ago

painfreepc said:
1. Pay per hour earnings, this rule is mostly used for longer trips,
I don't care what the mileage of the trip as long as my car is earning 40 plus per hour and I am dropping off in a busy City

The $40 plus obviously will not work in every market and will not work at all times of day, I will be honest and sometimes I have to adjust it down to as little as 25 per hour but most mornings in the Inland Empire weekday mornings, $40 plus per hour is doable.

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