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 …
It's not what Uber and Lyft make it sound like, they don't tell you everything the job entails. Be safe out there.
Couldn't have said it better myself, hit the nail on the head.
Don't know how long you've been driving but I miss the old days where you could drive without a strategy amd make 300 in 8 hours.
No it doesn't, it's green light for Lyft to screw the passenger and the driver.
None is worth the life changing $3.75 that the driver gets.
Nope, nothing, as long as you're ready to go before 5 minutes, it's all good. Now if you run into a driver who waited 5 minutes and you're coming out of the building and he cancels looking at you, he's an A hole.
There are different metrics but if you're going per hour way, the truest measure is gross earnings divided by door to door hours. App on hours is very misleading.
Pax has two minutes to cancel after ordering a ride. Once we get to the pickup, pax has five minutes to get in the car and they'll be paying a waiting fee between minute 2 to 5.
😆 I don't think you're going to get many responses for this one, no one likes to remember the failures. I honestly don't, however I remember in the good old days a split shift of 10 hours would bring in easy $400. Ahh, the good old days!
Once you request a ride and are matched with a driver, he or she is on their way to pick you up, if they cancel for any reason before pick-up, you won't be charged. However, once you order the ride, you have two minutes to cancel since the driver is on the way, if you change your mind after that and cancel yourself, you'll be charged the $5 because the driver is probably half way to your location.
The only way you're charged for a cancellation is if you have let the 5 minute wait period lapse. Why shouldn't you be charged for that? That's the policy. On top of waiting five minutes, Uber doesn't pay the driver the full life changing $5 either, they take 25% of it and the driver gets $3.75. You don't want to get cancelled on, be ready to go, then you'll never get cancelled on.
My AR for the last 4 years is mostly in the single digits, some weeks it creeps up to the teens, my CR fluctuates between 10-20%. No surge=no ride in my book.
You're misinformed, I'm in Los Angeles, we don't have flat rate surge yet, we're probably the last city not to get it since in March they cut our rates to 60 cents a mile and increased time portion to 21 cents a minute. If they bring in flat rate surge on top of those rates, there will be a revolution. 😆 Appreciate your rates as long as they last, $1.11 per mile is almost double of what we have, seems like you still have the surge multiplier as opposed to the flat rate surge as well. So, what city do you drive in again?
Ok, where do you drive? What do you make per mile and minute? You’re on flat surge, all bonuses, boost is gone but there are other incentives to keep you around? What incentives? Uber Pro?😂
It depends in what city you’re in. The list of cars is long, however in Los Angeles, the Accord, Camry as well as a lot of Select cars like BMW, MBZ, Audi are on that list.
I agree, since 70% of drivers quit before 6 months and due to price cuts, car and driver quality has gone down a lot.
You can slice and dice it any way you like, the attrition rate is extremely high, what's the reason for that? THE RATES! Every time U/L cut, they'll let it surge in the city to attract new drivers, once they have enough, back to the program.
U/L thrive on high turnover, you would think it'll be the other way around. You would think they'd want to keep the veterans on the platform.
Here are the numbers according to U/L, about 70% plus are part time drivers who do 30% of the rides, 30% are full time drivers who do 70% of the rides. In either group the attrition rate is is upwards of 80%, why do you think that is?
Well said, but there's DAC (driver advisory counsel) for Lyft and DAF (driver advisory forum) for Uber. I wonder who those drivers are and how they're picked? Every email I get says as per your feedback, my feedback? I never gave feedback to take PT away, I guess they did. 😆
Yep, let's give that a try, immediate deactivation. 😆😂