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I drove Uber for three years in Houston and quit driving in April. I live in the Houston area, and after getting in a minor accident while driving Uber, my insurance rates skyrocketed because I had to raise my liability limits and get a Rideshare endorsement (my insurance company didn't know I was driving, and it wasn't clear that I needed to tell them because Uber touts the fact that it insures you while driving). The other reason I quit is that gas/maintenance/and misc. expenses were really eating into my income from driving, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I began to look more closely at how much my passengers were paying Uber, and what my cut actually was. I had one trip where my passenger paid Uber around $75 and I got paid only $32...and there were multiple cases where Uber was taking anywhere between 25% and 50% of the fares (it was wildly inconsistent but the average was between 40% and 45%).
On the plus side, I had a few cool passengers including former Chiefs backup QB Pete Beathard, Texans OL Max Sharping, and while I can't remember his name, he'd been Neil Armstrong's commander in the Navy during the Korean War. |
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I traded in a Nissan Quest a few years before I should have had to trade it in (because I ran up the mileage driving Uber), and got almost nothing for it. I bought a brand new car and drove that for less than a year (because of Covid, and because of quitting driving) and it's value is so much less than it should be because it has more miles on it than it should for the age of the car. |
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I was in Dallas this past weekend for a bachelor party. We took Lyft's pretty much everywhere and holy shit, IDK if it is Dallas or what, but every single one was a ****ing nightmare.
One guy was going anywhere from 90-120 showing us "all the best spots in Dallas." A ride that was supposed to take 20-25 minutes, took an hour and a half. The next morning my friend noticed that Lyft was sending him notifications asking him if we were okay because we "appeared to not be headed towards our destination." Another driver was trying to pick up hookers on the way back from dinner. He said he wanted us to see how easy it was and how cheap they are... Another one just refused to really speak with us other than yes or no responses, and was driving like he just learned. Getting on the highway doing 30 miles an hour and shit. Like I said, I don't know if that is just Dallas in general or if we were just unlucky with our drivers, but jesus christ it was an adventure each time. |
It's been increasingly hard to count on getting one in the KC area.
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