Tell me about being an Uber Taxi Driver

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goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

People itt seem really bitter about uber. My friend has been a driver for the last 8 months in a medium-small college town. He loves the job and makes s decent amount of money, especially on game days. Yeah it will wear your car down faster but you won't be doing maintenance every month like some people make it seem.

The thing to do is work until you have some regular clients, then ditch uber and do them privately.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 13:54

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 13:43

goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Well if your friend says he is totally stacking bills then obviously everyone else is wrong and illegal cabbing is a boom business that nobody ever thought of until 2009.

It's doing well in the towns I have used it so far. No reason to ever use a taxi over uber/lyft/others. He used uber to get to know enough clients to drive them privately now which is what every driver should try to do.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 20:13

goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

I'm curious if anyone has complaints as riders or just as drivers? Has anyone had a bad experience with uber as a passenger?

# ¿ May 12, 2015 04:34

goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

luminalflux posted:

Same, never had a problem with Uber not showing up in SF. I have had Lyfts not be able to figure out how to get off Market and on to my office's street during Chinese New Year, and had one keep continuing down the highway without any sign of turning around to come to where I was in East Bay.

I still prefer to take Lyft over Uber since you can tip and also because they seem to treat their drivers a little better.

You can tip Uber drivers cash if you have it. You can do card tips with Lyft?

# ¿ May 19, 2015 19:08

goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

tsa posted:

It's the same pay as Denny's except you need to purchase an expensive car just to have the privileged of working. Ignoring the all of legal and personal risks a driver is taking, the legal gray zone (where it's not already outlawed) and a billion other things. It's weird how many left leaning people support such an awful and exploitative business model. Also at the glorification of taxi driving into an "interesting" job.

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There's no doubting it's definitely a good option for the passengers in a lot of places, if you don't mind supporting such an exploitative company.

Nobody has to work for Uber. "Exploitive" jobs in the US is laughable.

# ¿ May 25, 2015 17:40

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