Sorry for the repeat thread, can't search on the app. Just wondering if anyone drives for Uber and how much you take in and how often you drive. Thanks 
I drove for a few weeks in South Florida. It's not worth it anymore, when I first started the pay was pretty good but since then it has been cut almost 60%. Not worth it 
I wanna know if there are any in Austin, Texas area that had to drive for South by Southwest.... I can't imagine the amount of money they made...me and the wife were downtown and came to a intersection... There were at LEAST 60 ppl waiting on there uber/lyft rides... And no it wasn't for the metro bus BC it wasn't a bus stop.
I went through the process, got approved and was not hired once. lol I live ina city with 50K people and not one of these bumble fucks knows about uber, I guess. I still see people take cabs to the grocery store and shit.
Lyft drivers are doing a bit better, lyft takes 20% but allow passangers to tip the driver (which lyft doesn't touch)
I suspect that many of the drivers don't realize how little they are actually making becuase they don't take in to account the cost of car depreciation, maintenance, wear/tear, gas, etc.
UltimateKeyboardWarrior -Your ass. All drivers take that shit into account.
I suspect that many of the drivers don't realize how little they are actually making becuase they don't take in to account the cost of car depreciation, maintenance, wear/tear, gas, etc.
I drove a little over last summer. It was fun, but totally NOT worth it. Worked out to like $2/hr, NOT counting shit like gas, and it ate up our tax refund.
thebehemoth73 - I wanna know if there are any in Austin, Texas area that had to drive for South by Southwest.... I can't imagine the amount of money they made...me and the wife were downtown and came to a intersection... There were at LEAST 60 ppl waiting on there uber/lyft rides... And no it wasn't for the metro bus BC it wasn't a bus stop.
One of my apprenticeship students missed class last week (Thursday) because he was going to work SXSW. He's here on Thursday again. I will get a few details from him on how well he did or didn't do.
I can't imagine making much money since the rates are fairly cheap. I caught an Uber Saturday night to a bar and the fare was only $5.39 there and the way back was $5.57.
I know 2. Both have quit. 1 worked in Atlanta. You get paid by the mile, so with all the traffic jams and one way streets with no parking she was actually losing money.
The other was more suburban and 60% of the calls were driving drug dealers around to houses.
I think in Alberta they're suspended because of insurance reasons and they have this new thing taxx cars
The new dork at work wont quit talking about it. He acts like he makes a ton of money off it
I won't ask him about it because he's a dork
What the hell is up with the uber commercials saying u are "guaranteed" 1500 a week or whatever number they spit out? I thought uber guys banked ?
Only people making money are the initial investors of Uber, the billionaire and millionaires...especially once it goes public.
Short trips only, certainly losing money vs. min wage job.
I drive once in a while for fun. I don't expect to make a lot of money because the car I use isn't great on gas but I enjoy driving it. I decided to try out early morning driving yesterday and drove from 4-9 am. I banked $108 and almost always had a fare. Drove about 180 miles since a lot of the fares were long range rides from people going to work or the airport.
One thing to consider is you can deduct $0.54 per mile which will offset you gas and some expenses. You can make a lot more money if you play the game of driving only during surge times. Surge is when the prices go up based on demand of riders/drivers.
my friends all ended up quitting
my last uber driver bought a honda civic and pays the monthly payments from doing uber part time
so he isn't making big bucks, but it works for him
Another thing to consider is the market you will be in. Big cities offer the chance for surge pricing much more often than suburbs. At the time of me writing this Fremont/Union City is about 3-4 times the price of normal fares.
I asked this question to about 8 different Uber drivers last time in Vegas. They all said it's not worth it. The only ones who did say it was worth it were driving little shit 14k cars that got like 50mpg
jakeb - Another thing to consider is the market you will be in. Big cities offer the chance for surge pricing much more often than suburbs. At the time of me writing this Fremont/Union City is about 3-4 times the price of normal fares.
That as my problem. I was driving in Manchester NH and there was just fuck all for demand in that tiny city. Shit, I would sit in the airport parking lot for hours without a single call.
Well shit....I live In austin and drive a prius c that gets 56 mpg...I wonder if it would be worth it.