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Leonard Girsh (LG-PA)
Ride Apprentice from Southampton, PA
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Posts by LG-PA
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How low is too low (Passenger rating)
Had a Lyft request last night for a long ride. As I was pulling up to the train station in … -
Rideshare Insurance for Drivers
In time for the Thanksgiving I want to share with all of you my Rideshare Accident Checklist.I put this … -
Lyft’s scheduled ride passenger no show cancellation fee or lacke thereof
Second time in 2 weeks I scooped up a scheduled ride, was sent the ride. I arrived 5 minutes prior … -
Do lower ratings for drivers come predominantly from Pool/Shared rides vs. regular or spread is about the same
Any drivers able to pinpoint a trend of which type of rides hit drivers with lower ratings? i suspect pool/shared … -
Is anyone experiencing and issue wuth Uber not reimbursing drivers for all tolls?
Hi, Three times in the past three weeks I had to call Uber to complain that I was not reimbursed … -
Never ending Phone Mounts
Hi, Not sure if other drivers are blowing through phone mounts as frequently as I did, so I decided to … -
Driver survival Kit
What essential items do drivers have in the cars to help make rideshare driving easier?
Featured Answers by LG-PA
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On Uber platform Drivers have to rate passenger right away when ending the trip, so no way for the driver to know if passenger tipped or will tip, thus no ral way to penalize passneger for not tipping. On Lyft passenger can be rated up to 24 hours after the trip. If passnger did not tip on a long ride I usually go in and rate them 4 stars or less if they did something crazy like brough a child and did not bother buckling them in or bit their nails and left clippings on my floor
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Also, many students from Rider University go home on Fridays, so if you hang out by campus right off 295 you will most likley be shuttling them to Hamilton Train Station and that is not a bad ride on the highway,
even if you have to run right back to the university to grab more.
After Rider runs dry up, after your last drop off at Hamilton, head over to Love's Travel Stop in Bordentown, Friday is when long distance truck drivers go there (because of new regulations where they can only drive so many hours), park their rigs and often need rides home which could be miles away, and Bordentown in General has some riders. Hope this helps for Friday planning
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on Lyft there is a Scheduled Ride section (sort of like a job board) it displays avaialble scheduled rides probably with pickup somewhere within 10 mile radius of where you are at the moment of looking at that screen. On this screen you will see pickup and drop off locations and approximate fare, so that is an instance where drivers can see destination :) and of course in Destination filter mode, while you can't see destination exactly you do have an idea of general direction since ou are the one who entered the destination filter :)
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I decided to read up on this a bit.
So it looks like The FCC is aware of such problems and even set up a "Jammer Tip Line" for people to let the bureau know about people who may be selling or using a jammers.
Found here:
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
There is an app to help identify if a jammer is being used, here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microcadsystems.serge.jammerdetector&hl=en_US
It appears to only work on Android
A quick search on line also revealed that there are Jammer detectors out there, such as on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmXsKCEeP4o
Nipping in the ass a few of the assholes using them and reporting to FCC will hopefully help.
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When requesting pool one has to specify number of riders, driver confirms that at pick up on the screen. This enables the system to plan as to whether driver can pick up another couple or only a single passenger.
I had the happen to me. Rider requested pool for 1, but there were two of them at pick up.
I tried changing to two (system told me to make the rider add the second passenger (their friend)
it is $0.11 more for their friend, so I see why rider stated 1 initially vs. 2. (a lot of money - understandable), eventually she changed to 2, and almost immediately got an add-on passenger for a couple, since system figured I should have 2 more seats available. But for example if the same cheap passenger #1 requested pool for 2 but showed up with 3, and I did not force her to change, my next stop for the couple would not enable me to pick them up. SO it is driver's responsibility to ensure number of riders getting in matches the number Uber was told will get in the car. the screen to change number of riders is right in front during pick up.
Occasionally I may have 2 separate passengers already in the car, pool up to my next pool pick up, to find party of 4 who requested a pool, I roll down window and tell them basically I can't fit 10 pounds of passengers into my 5 pound car. I also ask them if they selected pool? knowing already they did and tried to cheat system. I ask them how many passengers they put in during request? (knowing they put in for 2 as system wuld not even let you pool as an option if you have 4 passengers in the single party. (because it would no longe be a pool if you r party of 4 took up all seats) of course the passenger claims they put in 2. Anyway I ask them to cancel, they do not want to cancel because they do not want to get hit with $3.75.
The point for me talking to them is not only to educate them, but to also milk time, so if they do not want to cancel themselves, by time I am done talking to them 2 minutes are up and I just hit NO SHOW and cancell myself, so I can collect my fee. Last thing I need is to drive to them for 5-10 minutes and not even get the NO SHOW fee, because the cheap asses were to cheap to book regular pool.
I do not do many pool rides anymore because of this hassle and dealing too much with cheap asses who request pool, do not tip (for most part), drag my ratings down (I bet the other two passengers in my car already would leave a lower rating because it too longer) and then cheapskates try to beat the system even further by trying to save $0.11 by not declaring all people in their party, find another driver :)
Oh yes all that on top of Uber paying drivers less per mile and minute for doing a pool ride vs. regular. So more work (more hassle) = less pay - makes total sense :)
Tip $1.00 for every 5 minutes in the car (round up tip total at the end if feel extra generous)
Uber's GPS is welll... not so good:) Use Waze
That is when driving for both Uber and Lyft comes in handy
Yes, but..... with 67% of all drivers quitting within 6 months Uber and Lyft would be no more if they did that. Why do you think they spend millions to recruit drivers and bend background check rules to recruit more drivers :)
Most likley due to cherry picking. Though I nver picked anyone up at PHL I can imagine drivers sit there for hours just to give a ride to Penss Landing and earn $9.00? so drivers must be sitting there and declining all non 45+min rides. Uber"s logis is probably (since driver is at airport que, that driver must be ready to drive a long ride) thus notifying them is not necessary. I however am guilty of doing something similar at EWR, though I do not ever go to stage lot, if I end up in North Jersey and want to make my way home I put my destination filter on Lyft to PHL (while I am near EWR) and often when too many planes land, Lyft will snatch you off the road vs. stage lot to go grab a passenegr. So I will decline every request until I see a 45+ min plu banner form airport, so I can at least make my way to Princeton area with a passenger driving on turnpike vs. on RT1. On Uber I do not believe they will alert a driver if a ride is 45 min plus on a destination filter, and perhaps make you go to stage lot in EWR so I do not use Uber for destination at EWR. Uber can afford to hide long trip banner in PHL as there are more drivers in PHL airport to handle demand of landing flights than EWR and not as much strain from passengers outside PHL = more drivers in stage lot then needed to handle arrivals.
EWR handles
43,393,161 passengers annually, so if we divide that by 12 to represent a month [3.6 million], then by 2 if we are to assume endplaned and deplaned numbers of passengers is same we get 1.8 million arrivals per month of 60,3k per day
PHL handles
29,585,754 passengers annually, so if we divide that by 12 to represent a month [2.4 million], then by 2 if we are to assume endplaned and deplaned numbers of passengers is same we get 1.2 million arrivals per month of 41k per day, still a large number, but remember, drivers in EWR are in extremely high demand in all the nighboring cities in NJ (Union, Newark, Jersey City, West NY, etc) so paired with high volume of arrivals in EWR and strain from neighboring towns, creates a situation where drivers in EWR que may evaporate very quick in comparison with PHL. PHL has an oversaturation of available drivers and other than Philly itself not too much demand form what I can tell so all these drivers compete for a fare, those that waste hours in que naturally want only long rides so must be declining requeast after request causing longer wait times for passenegers
A typical rideshare driver drives for at least 2 apps (Lyft and Uber), there are other ones out there, but having 2 makes good sense. Drop a passenger off, turn on both apps and you are now increasing your chance of getting a request any reducing wait time. Some passenegrs only use Uber and never heard of Lyft, Others got so fed up with Uber that they now only use Lyft, like having HomeDepot and Lowes across the street from each other, of CVS and Walgreens....On a slow day a request may come through for a pick up 10 minutes away, accept it and start heading towards passenger, leave the other app open in case a request comes through on that platform with ony 2 minutes away passenger, then you would cancel the original request. Just a few benefits of running both apps. Not to mention occasional network issues where one app acts up... and of course if you got into a fender bender where the app you were driving for at the time shuts you off until you send in pictures, etc for reinstatement. If car is not in bad shape you can fall back onto the other app. Turning the other app off imediately after accepting the request on the the first app is not alway beneficial
Scammers or Jammers? Or is it Scammers that use the Jammers?
That actually smells like a federal offense as if one is deliberately jamming a signal which would prevent one from calling 911 in an emergency and results in death....
Not sure if Uber charges more for cancelling a prescheduled ride or not. Lyft charges $5.00 for cancelling or not showing up in 5 min on a regular Lyft ride and charges $10.00 for Prescheduled rides. And unlike Uber transfers this entire cancellation amount to driver where as Uber takes their cut on top of cancellation fees as well
Probably have her go to GreenLight hub;
Ansure she has not given her Uber credentials to anyone. There was a scam going around where someone would call the driver acting as if they were Uber rep and collect user name, password, etc then only to chenge the bank account info on the website to their own, or something like that. Uber will never ask you for your user account or password.. The reason I know is becasue I now had to call Uber twice in two weeks as they did not reimburse me for taking a toll road in PA while I was driving pasenegr home
There is an app Myestro or something like that that will actually swithch off the other app for you :)
The reason Bensalem police dispatch wants to boot you to Philly is most likely because they want to keep their crime rate stats down:) As if you report a crime in a particular town it goes against theoir record (at least I think so)
If you have google drive, you put pic in there then I think right click and get link for sharing then just place link here
Many parents do not know about age of riders, had a lady this weekend who was shocked to learn her 14 year olds are not permitted in Uber to be shuttles to practices.
rideshare companies need to do more to educate riders like they do to drivers with service animal policies
No reason then for you to have 4.72 then.
if you do not take many rides perhaps some idiot driver gave you a crappy grade for no reason which plummeted your overall rating.
if you take a few more rides I think your average will creep up. Since you tip anyway, try tipping in cash instead of app, this will take any doubt out of a disgruntled driver and not give them reasons not raw you lower.
not sure if passengers see drivers rating at time driver accepts, if yes and it is low, and you are in area with plenty of driver perhaps cancel right away and re request in hopes of getting a better driver;)
If you were to preschedule a Lyft ride (can do up to 7 days in advance) that ride with pickup / destination and approximate income for the driver will show up on Lyft (Scheduled rides) -job board that many Lyft drivers monitor like hawks. A lucrative ride to the airport that can put $40.00 - $50.00 in driver's pocket for completing a ride in an hour or so will be gobbled up in seconds by eager drivers. Yhis is easy money and no traffic an dless gas used.
Rig up what I show on my picture, you will be surprised :) Especially that you already have a bunch of parts to do so laying around. In my setup I actually have enough room on the plastic face plate to affix a second round magnet but that may be too strong of a magnet. So far I am very happy with this rig:)
Anytime my original old mounts use to break I would run to nearby Burlington, Marshalls, TJ Maxx to pick one up in a hurry so I could finish off the day
Only to have that female driver pull up, and say "Hello I am George driving under my wife's account tonight" :)
What I meant is if a driver rated a passenger anything lower than a 4 (i.e. 3; 2;1) that means that particular driver and that particular passenger will never get matched up again. The passenger will still get matched up with other drivers.
Thanks for sharing, wow it has 6 magnets vs. 4 in my round one. Not too hard to remove phone off? And you are not ripping the holder out of CD drive when pulling on phone.
i see they recommend affixing metal backing between phone and case probably so the pull in the magnet is not so strong.
on my Mazda 6 the CD drive is under the AC off button like on this pic, which would be toooo low for me to have phone
https://goo.gl/images/xEog1T
But good to know there are such holders
From what I understand, reviving an OD person may turn them into a very violent person as you just took their high away that they spent a ton of money on. Of course they do not understand that you just saved their life, they only care about one thing ;)
the more we discuss this subject here the more I am leaning away from administering anything, several articles popped up recently where first respondents had to be treated for OD like symptoms caused by them helping OD patients due to highly potent synthetic garbage people take these days.
good post, made me think this through and come to a solid conclusion at least when it comes to me ;)