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Louis Lingebach (Goodideasll)
Ride Apprentice from Plattsburgh NY
Plattsburgh NY Uber Driver
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Is There A Way As An Uber Driver That I Can Refuse Trips With Multiple Stops?
Is There A Way As An Uber Driver That I Can Refuse Trips With Multiple Stops? I have been driving … -
I Am Temporarily (I Hope!) De-Activated Because Lyft Support Is Stupid! Lyft Says My Background Check Is Ongoing But If They Look - I Was APPROVED TWO MONTHS AGO!
I am temporarily (I hope!) de-activated from Lyft while they say they conduct an ongoing background check, I have been … -
Why Doesn’t Uber and Lyft Take Into Account Extreme Weather Like A Blizzard When Charging Customers For Rides?
Why doesn’t Uber and Lyft Take Into Account Extreme Weather Like A Blizzard When Charging Customers For Rides? Here’s the … -
Lyft and LyftSupport Is Not Paying Me For My Mileage For A Long Trip And Will Not Answer My Queries After Telling Me During The Trip That I WOULD Be Paid! Lyft Support Has Not Replied To Multiple Inquiries - What Should I Do Now?
Hi! 🙂Louis here from Plattsburgh , NY (way upstate- 30 minutes from Canada). Yesterday (7/24/19), I was returning from an … -
I Had A Flat Tire With A Passenger- My Car Was Out Of Service - Got No Response Nor Help From Uber - I Called For My Towing Service To Help - State Police Also Called For A TowTruck To Help- No Ubers Would Help- I Called My Wife To Take Passenger And Grandson Home - I Terminated Uber Trip - Wife Took Uber Riides Home- She Came Back And Got Me Forty Minutes Later- I Tipped Out TowTruck Drivers(2) and Went To Where They Ttok My Truck - Paid $216 For My Tow! What Should I Have Done And What Now?
Dear Gurus: I was taking a passenger and her grandson home, about a 26 mile trip, ( to the best … -
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL ESPECIALLY MOMOF4! (Sunday 5/12/19)
HAPP MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL MOMS! (Especially My Mom here - MOMOF4 - sometimes referred to as MOMO😊)None of us … -
I’m In Plattsburgh, NY - Do I Work Tomorrow (Wed. 5/8) - Am I Supposed To Strike - Does Anybody Know?
Am I supposed to strike tomorrow (Wed 5/8) if I am not in a major city? -
A Slow Period Is Coming Up For The Next Two Hours - What Would You Do As Drivers: Option A) Do Whatever It Is You Do Normally or B) Go Home, Lay on the Couch and Nap or Watch The Price Is Right. ????
Whenever it gets slow around here, (Plattsburgh, NY) I usually go to a good waiting spot, turn the car off … -
Uber Drivers: How Far Will You Drive To Pick-Up A Fare Not Knowing Their Destination?
Uber Drivers: How Far Will You Drive To Pick-Up A Fare Without Knowing Their Destination? Okay, here’s what happened today … -
You Know A Rider Is Gonna Give You A One-Star Review Because Of Something He or She Did - What Do You Do?
I recently received a go to the pin request for a pick-up. I went where Uber sent me! I sat … -
Refusing customers who don’t want to go the long way from Plattsburgh NY to Burlington, VT - how do I tell them nicely?
I NEVER look at a rider’s rating and I always give all of my riders a 5 star review. I just don’t have the time to worry about either. As for tips, 90 percent of the time I don’t get tipped until hours later or even a day or two later. I appreciate them and always send a ‘Thank You’ to them right away. I have had great experiences working in the worst neighborhoods and terrible experiences working in the so -called best neighborhoods. I usually work in a tiny town but have worked in the biggest cities many times. There are good and bad people everywhere but 99% of the time people are GREAT to me. I have over 5000 trips with Uber and my rating is usually between 4.95 and 5.00. Right now it is 5.00 and I would like to keep it there unless it means not telling the truth about Ex-President Trump or anything else Conservative News lies about. I get mostly people that agree with me but occasionally not, that is why I received my last three one-star ratings. Fortunately, they have now fallen off and I am back to 5.00! That being said, I believe honesty is more important than a few one star ratings. I must say also, I am NICE to everyone, regardless if they agree or disagree with me. Have A Great Day!
Hi! If you are in a big city and the gas for the car is not bad you should be able to make decent money, I would say you should be able to clear a thousand a week working 50 - 60 hours. Of course, that is if you don’t get any speeding or parking tickets ! Be careful and be nice - you will do fine! Good Luck!
Hi Jaykay, can I ask you why you like(d) Uber? Your taxi drivers seemed to be very nice, helpful and professional! Where I live the taxis cost about 50-100 % MORE and wait times are generally 20-45 minutes more. So, wherever you live, it sounds like you have no need for Uber. Good Luck! PS I just read your reply to me again, I see where you say you never tipped the Uber drivers - maybe that is why your ratings went down. I know that is not rational, I never give anybody less than 5 stars and honestly, many of my riders tip me much later in the day !
Myself personally, I do not like grocery store pick-ups for several reasons - not saying that these have anything to do with you!
#1 Some people expect us to either load, or help load their groceries. When the items or bags are few - it doesn’t matter. But some people fill up the back of my vehicle with many loose or heavy items and if I stand there and watch them, I feel like a heel.
#2 Getting to these people’s houses or apartments, they have to carry items to a location seconds or minutes away and may take forever. All the while my next pick-up is waiting for this person to get their groceries out of my car. And once again, some people expect us to help them into their houses’ vestibules, steps, sidewalks, whatever.
#3 Most, not all people tip us accordingly if we do go the ‘extra mile’, so to speak.
That being said, there are some good, nice people who do everything right with their grocery runs and tip us well. To them, I say a Big THANK YOU! But, to the rest, that infringe upon our good nature and ask us to go above and beyond without even a Thank You, I say, we don’t want those runs!
As I said earlier, I cannot speak for your drivers, they sound like pricks to me, but I haven’t heard their sides of the story either. You seem like a good person Jaykay, I am sorry if Uber drivers have been mean to you - I do not like to hear that! Good Luck and Have A Great Day!😊
What’s a Communist App? Am I on one?And where do I go to start collecting bottles and cans? Maybe collecting cans is more lucrative than Uber!😊Have A Great Day!
I would share but I am pretty much broke! How much you need?😊
I guess there is now way to stop multiple stops! Thanks for reading my query! Have A Great Day!
Good Luck Jkirk! I definitely feel you! Lyft definitely could care less about its’ drivers and I am sure that Uber is not much better, if any at all! Sorry about your plight!
Most of the comments I have read are spot on and very intelligent (I though that I was the only smart Uber driver 😊). We drivers, should be earning way more on minimum rides, $3.66 per ride , per minimum trip makes it nearly impossible to make minimum wage per hour. Four trips per hour is like, a pipe dream, 2 and a half trips per hour is close to reality, so, if we drivers got $5 dollars out of the $7.80 or so that Uber charges, all of us could earn sufficiently. But, this will never happen, powers that be are way too greedy, in my opinion and I am definitely ignorant to the CEO’s problems! But, Thanks for asking for OUR INPUTS! Have A Great Day!
After being stationed and living in Texas - all I know is that everything is truly possible in Texas! Unbelievable - maybe. Incredible - fo’ sure! Good Luck to you! PS God Bless the HEB !
I would say nothing and hope that your insurance pays for the accident. Good Luck! I will say a prayer for you!
No, I do not believe that Uber or Lyft deduct credit card fees from tips that us drivers earn. That being said, Uber and Lyft take about 50 percent of most of the overall charges on our trips as their cut for their services. About 90 percent of my trips are minimum mileage trips meaning that they are less than 3 miles. For these trips I earn $3.66 per trip with Uber and $3.90 per trip with Lyft and Uber/Lyft take the other $4 that they charge for these trips. It took me a while but I have learned that we, as drivers, cannot possibly earn enough as Uber/Lyft drivers to make it worth our while. Everything I said is true, but it is only true where I work in a small town. 80 percent of my customers are college age and of that group, most NEVER tip. So, take everything I say with a grain of salt, drivers in bigger cities may make tons more money than those of us struggling in Mayberries across the globe. I hope that they do! Good Luck to All of You out in Guruland!😊
Thank You Beth! I was just curious about this. Where we live in upstate New York, we get occasional rides to the airport in Burlington, Vermont which is only about an hour away by ferry. The problem is that we are not allowed to pick up passengers over there so we are required to return home empty and we still have to pay for the ferry ($10.75 per car +$4.50 per extra passenger). Plus, Uber and Lyft make us collect the ferry money ourselves from our passengers because they do not acknowledge the ferry exists. Even after telling somebody at Uber Support this, they do not care. It always makes us seem like beggars to our passengers. I tell them that if they don’t have the cash that they can pay for the ferry by masking the payment as a tip. Anyhow, I Thank You for your answer and wish you many successes in this New Year and hopefully 2021 will be much better than its’ predecessor!😊😉😊😉
Hello. I read your post. I was wondering if any Uber driver from New Jersey can pick up riders in Pennsylvania? Where I live in New York, we are only allowed to pick up people in New York ( and we are not allowed in NYC!). Can you pick up people in any state? Thank You!
It might be nice if you said where you are and where you are going! Or something!
Hi Amy! Just saw it and e-mailed you!😊
Thank You StefanBLM! 😊I saw a great sign this week - BLACK LIVES HAVE TO MATTER NOW and then ALL LIVES CAN MATTER!😊
Hi Kris, nothing would surprise me with Lyft or Uber. In my time working for both I have not been able to figure out which is more incompetent!☹️But where we are in Plattsburgh, NY, there is a demand for Lyft rides but since COVID-19, there are only 3 or 4 drivers who drive sporadically. Before COVID there were 30 or 40,(you figure it out!). So, basically there is very little coverage. Most people just give up trying for a Lyft and go straight to Uber, at least that’s what they tell me! I have been reactivated on Lyft, but frankly, because they pissed me off for months and months, just not caring at all. I doubt I will drive for them very often, if, at all! Have A Great Day Kris ! And Happy Veterans Day To All!😊Louis😊
Hi Amy, Louis from Plattsburgh here! I do remember you and your friend (with the Polo!😊)! I am tied up all day till about 6 PM today(11/11)waiting on my wife’s car in Vermont. Then I will be home to Plattsburgh! If you like, you may e-mail me at Goodideasll1979@ yahoo.com. Good Luck! Louis
I am getting the same stupidity from Lyft. My updated background check was completed inFebruary and yet they are still denying me access in September. Very frustrating dealing with Support that will only send out canned responses. Getting the same response ‘to have patience ‘ is maddening! Good Luck LS!