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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 …
In your case, the wife doesn't count, so you may be the only driver to give a single ride to a stranger and quit. Why?
That's probably extremely rare, most people do it to put food on the table or as an inbetween job. A lot of driver are in It for the bonus, used to be quite high, those days are gone.
It takes them about 6-8 months to figure out what a horrible gig it is and stop especially if they experience price cuts. It definitely isn't for everyone, it used to be very lucrative a few years ago, I used to make over 2k a week easily. Now, I'm down to 10 hours a week at best, after 8 price cuts that is.
WOW, you have to be tip champion for U/L, good going. If you're only driving regular Lyft of Uber x, you won't see those numbers. XL, Select, Lux, Black and SUV drivers get tipped a lot more often than a Prius driver.
Come out to Los Angeles and give it a go as an X driver, you'll see what I mean. 😆
When you become a driver for ride share you don’t put down why you’re driving, fun, stop gap, additional income, full time etc. so you can’t go by full time drivers stopping driving. It’s getting on the platform and getting off the platform, it’s about 80% that stop driving in less than eight months. And who does become a rideshare driver for fun? It’ll be like getting a route canal for fun. 😂
It’s their way of admitting how crappy the pay is, so they want you to be a 7-11 in your car to make ends meet. Horrible!
Yeah exactly Uber the evil empire and Lyft the dysfunctional little sister 😆
Uber goes the other way they do everything in an opposite fashion gas prices in Los Angeles went up from $3 to over $4 and in March of 2019 that cut the rates by 25% there you go and they expect happy drivers
LOL you would have known some lady got charged $9,700 instead of 97 she must be on a American Express Platinum Card, she got a lot of points
Another reason for not tipping is 90% of the Riders once they ordered their ride they don't look at the Uber app and one day leave the car there usually in a rush and it's forgotten that's also another reason Uber drivers get rated maybe in 3 out of 10 tips
This also has a lot to do with their pricing games Uber is playing these days such as charging the passenger surge amounts and not passing it to the driver so ride prices have gone up quite a bit over the last year or so meaning is the same ride year ago was twenty bucks now it's at 30 bucks the passengers are feeling more reluctant to tip
Exactly a lot of riders have not been in a cab but for the ones that have been in a cab how many times have you been in a cab and walk out without tipping your driver it's social etiquette it's a small show of gratitude for a job well done that's all there is to it
These are the same people that tip their bartender there ballet the doorman in Vegas the waitress why is it so difficult for people to tip their Uber drivers that's because they have been program for 6 years and they've been told that tip is included by Travis
They Don't Know About Us social etiquette it's a small reward for a job well done they tip the waitress they tip the valet they tip the bartender for god sakes they even tip the doorman in Vegas why can't they tip their driver
You have to be careful Uber sometimes doesn't pass the tips on I can't prove it but sometimes I see passengers tipping in front of me and the kid never shows up who says they're not stealing the tips
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Everytime gas prices Spike UPS and FedEx adjust the shipping costs by calling it fuel surcharge we don't have that Uber doesn't have that because they don't own their cars
Absolutely not, not like ups or FedEx, in fact in Los Angeles we had a 25% cut in mileage from 80 cents to 60 cents while gas prices over the past six months went up from $3 a gallon to over $4 a gallon. Go figure!
Jump e-bikes raised their prices to 30 cents a minute, that equals $18 per hour, are they out of their minds? A lot of people are very upset but I guess UBER the owner of Jump decided to make money on something they do.
This goes to show hiw ridiculous the driver rates are, in Los Angeles the driver gets paid 21 cents a minute in Uber and 12 cents a minute on Lyft. I guess we're not worth as much as a bike. 😆
https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/the-micro-mobility-trend-the-economics-of-it-the-effect-on-rideshare-drivers-part-ii
Lyft pax tip twice as much as uber pax do, what's the reason? They've had tipping from the first day on. Also it's a lot easier to tip on the Lyft pax app than Uber.
The pax were programmed under TK for six years not to tip, UBER even claimed the tip is included, now of course old habits are hard to break. These are the same people that give the valet 5 bucks for them to bring their car to them or tip their bartender to pop their beer. Go figure, we have their lives at hand but we don't get tipped.
How About mandatory 10% tipping to start with?