I drive for lyft/uber
 

So the last few months I have been drving for lyft and uber and last night I was given a quest to do 25 rides get 250.00 and 80 ridcs get 181.00 plus 70.00 for 15 more rides after the 80.

I started driving last night at 5 pm and went to 2am. In that time I made over 550.00 in one night and over 1100.00 for the week with less than 36 hours driving. I completed he 80 ride quest and I am 13 rides from completing the 25 ride quest and 12 rides from completing the 15 ride quest for the extra 70.00.


When I go out tonight I should be able to come close to what I made last night again.

This is allowing me to install new HiD/LED headlights on my car and installing car play stereo system as well.
The math comes out to around 32.00 an hour for last night.

Way to go, Reroka.

Put some of that loot to the side for a rainy day.

When you get a chance, tell us some of the horrible and funny things about people that you've driven!

I have video of two smoking hot women going at it in my back seat. Kissing, tits and all.

I have a Fidelity account that most my earning go to.

Boy, we just went from 0-60 in 1.9 seconds!

Awesome! Get that bread!

That's pretty great. How long can someone keep up that pace? Once a month or something?

Yea. I think I'm going to buy a car.

I have been doing it now for 2 months, with a day taken off here and there.

I tend to drive Monday-Thursday 430 pm to 11 then Friday and Saturday from 4pm to 2 am and Sunday 11 am to 9pm.
Over that 2 month time I have made 10 thousand dollars so far.

IF anyone wants to try it, I have a referral code which will give you over 700.00 dollars for just giving 30 rides when you first sign up.

are you taking into account the expenses you are incurring with the vehicle?

Yes
I drive a 2011 Hyundai sonata that I own. It has close to 101,000 miles in 10 years old

Reroka,

Do you provide water and snacks for your guests?

I always appreciate the extra amenities some drivers provide.

I do provide bottled water that on ice in a cooler as well as hand sanitize and mints

That makes a huge difference.

Is this primary or secondary income?

Secondary, I’m a analyst at UNC healthcare for my primary

So where's the damn video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good for you. I love seeing people bust ass and out work others. I went hard for about ten years and now I get to enjoy the fruits of it. Again, good for you.

I’m trying to upload it. Sorry never had, shit I can barley get a link to post correctly

Wow congratulations man, I’m trying to do the same. I want to retire at 50 to 55.

Oh that's very nice of you, very kind gesture sweetie!

It’s so easy to get out there and make money now days if you want it. You just have to be willing. Employers are desperate for good workers right now.

Can you tell them to quit sending me their stupid virtue signaling emails? I don't need to get my morality from a taxi service I use to avoid DUIs

So true, I have been offered employment by my passengers when they here I work close to 90 hours a week at both my jobs.

Wow what a nice response post this is. You seem nice!



This is also a very nice thread I applaud Reroka :clap: he seems nice as well!!

My 37.5 hours a week feels like 90 so pretty much the same.

COME ON!!!!!!

I used to make $600 a nite driving a Dumptruck hauling millings and asphalt.. Did that 3 nights a week along with my day job.. Did that for three years… Payed for 2 daughters weddings and a kickass vacation… Almost killed me though because of lack of sleep..

I still get my 8 hours of sleep and when I need rest I take a day off.

I drive a pristine vehicle but can't drive for uber/lyft.....it's a '92. Only 127k in miles.

I prefer doing food delivery. I started doing door dash a month ago. I love being able to turn down smaller orders or orders that are too far away. Also love being able to drop their food off and have little to no interaction with the customer.

POST THE GODDAMN VIDEO

I’m trying, I may have to send it to someone to post it, it seems I can’t.

I thought about doing this but I’m a people person, I love meeting new people and talking to them.

Ask MTG for hot stock tips.

I couldn’t deal with the constant small talk. You do get to know some of the restaurant workers you deal with like some of the cute girls working as hostesses.

Pornhub is broke down we need a video!

I drove for Uber before covid in Portland.
One of 5 cities that required the use of rigs no older than 5 years so I took out a loan for the rig and covid hit.
That financial hit was too much for our already weak marriage leading to the D.

You know why my divorce was so expensive?






IT WAS WORTH IT!!!

It sucks to drive in a major city. You are paid for distance but not time so traffic kills your ability to hit any goals.

It takes like 3.5 hours to do 7 rides.

Well it's been tough but I do see light at the end...

My health is slowly deteriorating and she seen an out. Yes she was/is that petty.
Then again I don't know how long idda lasted if she went out with her girlfriends and got paralyzed, smh.

You got the Lyft email this morning, too?

Eventually you’ll have to replace that car eventually. You’ll need to factor that expense in also.

Sorry to hear my man.

Burst thread

Yeah, so was mine....but she outgrew it. Now shw is stuck with ugly inside and out. I'm still pretty inside.


Sounds like you might have dodged a bullet.

I got one from Uber today, but I’m guessing it was the same nonsense.

Last night

I also got a message from Uber asking for donations to re-settle Afghan refugees

Seriously?

Yes. I got the same one from Uber. Asking for donations to help them “settle in”.

The only way I’m donating to refugees is if they’re shaking their ass on a stripper pole!!!

Screw the upgrades on that 10 year old car, put that money in AMC through your Fidelity account and buy a goddamn brand new Ferrari before the end of the year.

Five years seems pretty tight. So if you were to buy a new vehicle and then drove for five years, you'd have to buy a new vehicle again?

That would be incredibly liberating for an Afghan woman, I bet.

I just finished a big field project where I had a team of people driving all over a big state. I had one woman who volunteered to take some of the more distant places, in no small measure because she had a Prius and I think she was making bank on the mileage reimbursements. It was fine by me, though, because those were the harder sites to staff since most people didn't want to drive that far.

Good for you. I always hear uber guys complaining about how small the fees are ... etc etc. Now we know the truth. I like both lyft and uber, just figured out how to contact lyft here. Both are very good services

Door dash bruh. I usually make 100 bucks in 5 hours or so

That's after deducting wear and tear and gas?

Asian business men?

Well, good for you!

I’ve done DD too and I make around $25 an hour. I’d say $20 an hour is pretty accurate when you deduct the expenses. Also, track the mileage for taxes.

That's not bad at all, maybe something I might consider

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.

hell yes! did they show you their butthole reroka?

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Titty you ever cum in someone's Wendy's?

This is pretty much true, and accurate of my own experience driving for three years with them. Thanks to a raise at my f/t job, I was able to quit (that and I started looking closer at how much passengers were paying Uber vs. what Uber was paying me). It can be an OK side hustle, but making a "real" profit doesn't happen because of the expenses that most drivers don't take into account that eats up your earnings.

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.

I thought my frosty tasted weird. I’m pretty sure that I didn’t ask for salty mayonnaise when I ordered online.

I’m pretty sure I did

wTF I am going to puke.

This drives me insane. Stupid bot bumps an old thread with a barely coherent sentence, then the next 10 people just reply on like the thread was just created.

It's not a big deal. Some of us never saw this thread the first time it was made.

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.

The thing that stands out to me the most as something people don't consider is when he talks about how spending that much time on the road increases chances of something bad happening. Getting into an accident where you're at fault is something that can continue to haunt you even if you stopped driving for them. The icing on the cake is at the end where he explains how Uber is basically using today's drivers as a way to finance their development of autonomous vehicles. That alone should keep people from wanting to work for them.

No it's not. It's just kind of funny.

Had a buddy telling me one of the worst things for him was something called a dead route? Basically when you pickup someone from a highly busy area like an airport and take them 25-30 miles out to the suburbs. But then, there is little to no business going back. So you have to use your time, mileage and gas to get back to a profitable area.

I thought it was an odd bump as well but didn't really look into it yesterday. Now that I have, the guy definitely has a odd posting history, all in broken English and shows IPs from all over the world. No spamming though, but definitely not here to talk about the Chiefs. No idea wtf he's up to.

Exactly! I drove for them out of necessity when I started doing it as a side gig, and it did help me out for the first few years (probably not as much I as I think it really did...but I'm not going to go back and do all of that math--though I did check my fares to see how much Uber was taking from time to time and a few years ago, the percentage was acceptable). It was only in the last year after I bought a brand new car and was driving that, and started hearing that Uber was taking a higher percentage of the fare than they used to, and once I verified how that had changed, and once I got a raise at my regular job...I stopped driving and won't go back. Now, if anyone asks me about it, I try to discourage them from driving if they can help it.

You complaining about a thread bump is like DeBerg complaining about someone starting a shitty thread.