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Kevin York (RadarRider)
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Posts by RadarRider
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Uber's latest squeeze (as in blood from a stone.)
Uber is now lowering the wages to 7.95 an hour (gross) at times. Can this be legal.What they do … -
Uber is using Surges to pay the drivers less!
The latest trend in Uber squeezing blood from a stone is dispicable. They are offering surges, but when they do- … -
Coffee mug icon rest between trips
HI,I was wondering if this would break a CRB? Or allow you to rest and keep the continuous run … -
Do riders not like the newer prius???
HI,Do riders have an eversion to the newer (gen 4) Toyota Prius?I am about to replace my 2010 … -
Newer Prius... aversions?
HI,Do riders have an eversion to the newer (gen 4) Toyota Prius?I am about to replace my 2010 … -
Getting into a newer Prius 2016+ vs older Prius...
My mint 2010 Prius is no more. Another driver took it out. was hoping to get newer one with the … -
Pick up's: Passengers do not give a signal they are the ones being picked up
More often than not, passengers will stand on the curb listless and give no indication they are waiting for you. … -
DM - at Tax Time - reconsideration...
HI All, Upon doing my taxes, something important came to mind that I had not considered at a potentially huge … -
In the event of a disgusting - and special - rider? Serious answers only please.
Handicapped people deserve a bit of tolerance and consideration. They should always be respected or never treated horribly due to …
You idiot. What is that going to do? That is going to give them data that DM mode makes the customers on average wait LONGER for rides. It is going to give them data to support ELIMINATING DM MODE. Way to cut your nose off to spite your face and ALL OF US.
I think you guys are hilarious... because it is Big business sucking from us little guys, not the left liberalism. It is big right wing republican bubbles that are clueless as to the plight of the average Joe/Uber driver and so far removed... that obviously they don't give a crap and are shooting themselves in the foot. DM removal is not going to save or help pick up times. If you are 2 hrs from home and need/want to get back... if someone local at your current location gets the ride that would have taken you home instead... they will be removed from that location for 4 hours minimum. You are going to turn off Uber and dead leg it home. Now instead of what Uber wants... they are short that one local driver that could have been there for local rides and reduced some wait times.
When I waited tables, we always had to take some crappy tables to get the good ones. Same thing with rides, but some are cherry picking too much... which puts off the manure to other drivers who accept anything. What Uber needs to do:
1) Give incentives to drive 20 minutes to pick up a fare. Especially if it is a $4 fare. (I probably had an hour and 20 min of rides to pick ups in 2 hours this morning. It sucks.) Local drivers get wise to repetitive 40 minute rides for $4. Of course they are going to decline. (Kind of like Uber Eats)
2) Keep the DM with two a day... This is the bare minimum that they need for DM for some of us.
3) Monitor acceptance rates. Reward people with higher acceptance rates.
In fact, maybe a compromise is to give people with a maintained acceptance rate 2 DM's a day.
I also have to ask: Why are they considering letting people know where the rides go before accepting them, but then offering incentives to never decline a ride? (Isn't that sort of what UberPro does?)
They like Uber eats in Orlando and make good scratch.
Twice I have been tricked into doing it for what equates to $3 an traumatic hour.
Nope, not here. It actually costs me money to do it here. Esp when it is 17 minutes or miles away.
Hard to believe. Sounds like Congress at Christmas. Trying to see what they can get away with by pushing it, knowing no one will retaliate. It is hard to believe that with Uber's constant lowering of pay outs for drivers, that anyone would have faith in their stock. Right down to stealing 30-50% off the top (not the payout) for some rides. Granted drivers have to agree to it and choose the mode... but many depend on the income and are so strapped... they have to bend over and take it until they can find more work. At this time, I would not want to be in business with them. If they are smart, I would think they would delay this IPO stuff, rather than selling a pipe nightmare. I mean please: Convince me I am wrong. Please.
Simple... I will not use destination mode, but rather turn off Uber and eat the cost of a 2 hour dead leg. Or I will use Lyft's Destination mode.
End result: Uber has less drivers. Some other driver will get the ride that I would have taken... and there will be one less driver to take the other rides... Furthermore, if that ride takes the rider 80 miles away: then there will be one less driver in that area for HOURS... where If I had taken the ride home... that rider would have remained in his area to handle jobs there.
I am not going to chance getting a ride an hour in the wrong direction at midnight when I am already 2 hours from home and have been working for 10 hours.
I also think that if they remove DM mode... many drivers may just tell pax that they cannot do rides that long because of the dead leg and Uber's unscrupulous business methods. Gas is going up too.
If Uber would just allow DM filters to get home... or when over an hour from home or town or the destination... rather than locally just trying to get back to the airport... I mean... DM only works twice a day for about 20 min... WTF?
The Uber Kool-Aid is tasting more like Vinegar.
This is stupid to mention Bernie. He only wants to tax those who earn a quarter Million and more … more. Not people who barely make enough to pay taxes.
Not exactly the same thing but I had a passenger take me to a place on a lake where everything was closed. First he would not get out of the car, then he did but would not take his hands off of it, then he got back in the car. He would not speak. He was trashed and I am still not sure how he was conscious.
If I kicked him out he could have walked onto the highway there.... possibly get killed.
He could have easily fallen into the lake (a similar thing happened to a friend a two years ago) and drowned.
Nope. Got the police to get him out of the car and I managed to contact the closed bar I picked him up at and his wife was looking for him. NO, I did not let him back in my car. Yes his wife had to get him. No, he did not get arrested because I was able to get his wife's phone number or he was going to jail.
Point is, I was not going to read about his death the next day. It is easy to blow people off and miss potential results of your actions. One needs to be mindful. Death is permanent.
All it cost me was 2 hours and five minutes. I may have saved his life. It was only my third day driving.
Oh, I learned an important lesson. Never end a ride before the passenger gets out of the car and takes his hands off of it.
That being said. I have said no to open containers before the ride... and now, a year later, under the right circumstances I would kick someone out of the car, preferably some place safe to let them out. Lets hope it never comes to that, because it would have to be pretty bad.
No, it was not a colostomy bag. And those do not smell... unless they leak, and that does not smell nearly as bad. Not even close.
Unless you have experienced something like this... it is almost hard to conceive. Worse than deer scent. (that hunters use.)
I have started looking into that. Shame, the car is mint... hate to make people sit on a crappy seat, but you know... I have already invested way to much in this considering how we are being treated and cheated.
Well Even though I had the car professionally cleaned due this anal leakage into my leather.... Uber is telling me that "Cleaning fees are only for tangible messes that needs professional cleaning..." even though I sent them a receipt for a professional cleaning.
Uber is burning bridges. And they are using napalm.
And yes, some handicapped people are incredibly intelligent. I only mentioned that he had a disability to show that I gave him extra consideration.
It is never acceptable, with a few exceptions.:
1) Emergency. (also if someone calls repetitively and you suspect it is an emergency.
2) Urgent: if you ask the rider and if it is brief. (medical, legal, children.)
3) If you pick up a long ride and have to call your significant other to let them know not to wait for you. Once again be brief and ask first.
These calls had better be hands free... or stop the car to make the call.
Focus on driving, never acceptable to talk on the phone and drive while you are being paid and are responsible for a passenger.