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Sergio Avedian (Uberserge)
Ride Apprentice from Los Angeles, CA
Blogger, Podcaster, Active Rideshare Driver/Coach
1300 Rider DriverActive Uber/Lyft driver in Los Angeles, contributing writer for Rideguru and RSG (The Rideshare Guy), podcaster, rideshare driver coach, independent consultant to rideshare and tech companies.
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Dashboard Cameras: The Ultimate Guide for Both Drivers and Riders
All explained in this article! https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/dashboard-cameras-the-ultimate-guide-for-both-drivers-and-riders -
Is the Scooter Era Ending? Was it all just a Fad?
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Step by Step Instructions on Accepting your First Trip as a New Uber Driver and General App Tutorial 2020
It is all explained in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-instructions-on-accepting-your-first-trip-as-a-new-uber-driver-and-general-app-tutorial-2020 -
Step by Step Instructions on Accepting your First Trip as a New Lyft Driver and General App Tutorial 2020
It is all explained in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-instructions-on-accepting-your-first-trip-as-a-new-lyft-driver-and-general-app-tutorial-2020 -
Is Uber Just A Payment Collection Agency For Drivers Now? Must Read For All Drivers & Passengers
Looks like drivers are Uber's customers and passengers are drivers' cutomers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers -
Step by step instrucitons for Uber & Lyft car inspections!
It is all explained in this in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-guide-to-get-an-uber-lyft-car-inspection -
How to track your tax deductible miles for Rideshare driving? Potential tax deduction missed by Drivers!
I have explained it all in this in depth article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/how-to-track-tax-deductible-mileage-for-uber-lyft-drivers -
Is driving for Uber & Lyft full of Flexibility and Freedom? Not so fast!
My in depth article about the plight of NY drivers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-driving-for-uber-lyft-really-full-of-freedom-not-in-new-york -
Uber is fighting AB5 in CA with a new PAA (Platform Access Agreement)
Drivers are Uber customers, passengers are drivers' customers. Uber charges drivers a service fee for accesing its technology platform.https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers -
As per Uber, passengers are driver's customer and drivers are Uber's customers
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Uber claims to be just a payment processing agency for the driver and passenger
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I must be in a time machine, taking me back to the starting days of Uber albeit at much lower rates!
https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/uber-is-making-big-changes-in-california-for-drivers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/uber-is-making-big-changes-in-california-for-drivers -
I got skunked by the Uber Algorithm! Is over saturation the problem or does Uber put drivers in Time Outs due to declining too many rides?
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Driving Uber's Way vs. Driving My Way
Do you take every ping Uber and Lyft send you? Are you the slave of their algorithms?https://therideshareguy.com/driving-ubers-way-vs-driving-my-way/ -
Now Uber is letting some CA drivers set their rate at small airports
All the changes over the past couple of months, definitely due to AB5. Will all these changes spread throughout the … -
Is the Scooter craze coming to a crashing halt?
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Dashboard cameras: Ultimate guide for rideshare drivers and passengersrs
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Do you think the changes implemented in CA by Uber should go nationwide?
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Uber commissions capped at 25%, no upfront pricing, exact destination on each trip before accepting a ride, old surge multiplier is back, no AR restrictions etc.
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Uber is Making Big Changes in California for Drivers! Is all this due to CA AB5?
I welcome these changes over the past month culminating with commission caps at 25%, showing destination, bringing the old surge …
Don't they do everything this way? no transparency, it's all PR
Agree 100%
I definitely take the Lyft rating system over Uber. Uber allows the pax to retaliate with a low rating and won't allow the driver to change theirs. Lyft's 24 hour period for ratings with a default to 5* if not rated is fair. Probably the only thing Lyft has over Uber.
Bravo, couldn't have said it better myself. Main stream media is one reason why Uber and Lyft became so successful. A large majority of the MSM have no clue what they're writing about when it comes to the rideshare industry. They basically get fed stories from Uber and Lyft and run with it. MSM has been the best free propaganda machine U/L could hope for.
Drivers are expendable like yesterday's newspaper, passengers are the goose that lays the golden egg for U/L.
They have announced it but so far no transparency as far as what the rating is to get kicked off
Well, you’ll take an Uber X to the airport, take an Uber X on vacation. Take Uber helicopter and an Uber Submarine. In the meantime take Uber scooters everywhere and order Uber Eats. There you go, no car needed. That’s how Uber sold the idea to their investors and created 70 billion of wealth out of thin air. I think you got the my headline as if I was in favor of dumping the personal cars. I was being facetious. 😂
I'm truly sorry what you're going through, I learned the hard way myself a few years ago, stand your ground with Lyft, don't take NO for an answer, they'll cave in.
Hopefully you have screenshots of the texts and e-mails, you'll get paid hopefully but it's going to be a few days until Lyft reviews this ride and makes a decision.
Wow, what an ordeal, there you go, no good deed goes unpunished.
There's a lot of wrong in this, especially on the Lyft end, you're just trying to scrape a living. But you made some mistakes as well. First, why would you drive 22 minutes to pick anyone up without knowing where you're going? What if that was a minimum fare? Second, when the ping comes in, in this case this was clearly a scheduled ride, you should have passed on it. I know scheduled rides are usually long distance but you need to figure out your downside before you take it. Third, you need to understand that Lyft has a max dollar limit on rides, I don't know what it is in your state/city but you should never take thise types of rides. Fourth, when you got to the pick up point, you can click on the menu and you'll see the destination before you start the ride, once you saw that you're going to a different state, it's an automatic cancel for me. It's not your fault that Lyft scheduled ride was done by the doctor/hospital, it's Lyft's problem that the original driver couldn't accept the ride when it was time and you were late showing up. This ping also had to come in with a 60+ disclaimer, you need to pay attention to the ping screen instead of accepting everything U/L throw your way.
I hope you'll get paid, it's all a learning experience. Good luck and be safe.
I agree completely, pax think a 4 star rating is good, we're not in high school where a B+ is good. It's because UBER doesn't educate the pax in any shape or form, pax don't even know we'll get deactivated for 4.60 or below. Very high bar for the driver, why don't they kick all pax off the platform at 4.60 as well?
Appearance is no big deal but bad BO is automatic downrate, if I'm picking up at the beach, wet sand no shoes, GTFO 1*, I'm in CA where pot is legal, if they smell pot, it's a no go.
It's mandatory for us or we can't get a new request, it should be the same with the pax, rate or they won't be able to request a ride.
Yep, pax hold you hostage. I like the Lyft rating system iver uber by 10000%, a lot fairer a lot more transparency.
As UBER does everything this way, they'll announce it but no transparency of course, no one knows what the threshold is. Typical.
Pricing, percentage they take from the driver, ratings system, unfair deactivation, rEdwards for high rated drivers and the list goes on.
They're unethical and as shady as they get.
As it is mandatory for drivers to rate the pax immediately after the trip ends, they should apply the same rule for pax, make it mandatory before they can order a ride. More Ratings will translate into more potential tips as well.
As per DOT data, most personal cars on the road today are utilized at a 15-20% clip, between car payment, gas, registration, insurance, maintenance it costs over $500 a month to own a car. Would it make more sense not to own one?
My opinion is that UBER will never kick a low rated pax off the platform since they're the golden goose that lays the egg, UBER will just reset their rating back to a 5*
Most quit because it takes them that long to figure out that they're losing money, basically turning remaining equity in their car to short term cash to pay their bills. It used to be decent but without checks and balanced it's become modern day digital slavery.
😆 you're funny, before any of this they have to drive a few miles before killing a pedestrian. I took a Lyft driverless car in Vegas, it took me two times longer to get there plus I was car sick from heavy breaking. 😆