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03-03-2019 , 10:16 PM

#1851

borg23

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 15,019

I've never sat in the front of an Uber or even considered doing it

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03-03-2019 , 10:24 PM

#1852

Didace

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 19,866

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Originally Posted by Nittery

Do Uber drivers make LLCs or anything? They should be able to write off most of their expenses.

Why do you think you need a LLC to do this?

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03-03-2019 , 10:24 PM

#1853

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

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Originally Posted by EddyB66

You can write off 95% of your gross earnings. Between dead miles and ride miles, along with other misc stuff, you can pretty much 0 everything out.

I wish I had known how to do that. Im paying off thousands in taxes from Uber earnings 8/14 through 3/15.

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03-03-2019 , 10:35 PM

#1854

Alpha Fish

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,826

get an accountant and re-file

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03-14-2019 , 10:32 AM

#1855

bobboufl11

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 14,329

I'm planning to sign up for Lyft and probably Uber. Anyone have a referral code(especially if willing to kickback some of the bonus) I live in a good area for pickups and hopefully lots. I'll drive nights/weekends during surge and multi-app with a few food delivery apps & Taskrabbit, trying to figure out what's best in my market.

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03-14-2019 , 12:53 PM

#1856

cs3

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 13,677

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Originally Posted by bobboufl11

Based on this post, driving people around is probably not the best job choice for you

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03-15-2019 , 01:54 AM

#1857

two pairs back

banned

Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 249

As someone who has given a combined 5k rides total through Uber and Lyft, I can confirm the "sitting up front solo" does actually happen. It is weird and annoying, for sure. Sit in your place, bitches. Your place is in the back, kinda thing.

What makes no sense is the people who sit in front and don't say a word the entire trip. But its whatever, not the biggest deal in the world and in the end you just drive them to their destination and let them out.

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03-15-2019 , 03:08 AM

#1858

marknfw

Gaming Commissioner

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 13,089

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Originally Posted by two pairs back

babs? is that you?

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03-15-2019 , 07:49 AM

#1859

bobboufl11

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 14,329

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Originally Posted by cs3

Based on this post, driving people around is probably not the best job choice for you

You might be on to something. Driving Doordash through neighborhood backroads, I almost cut a guy off turning left in front of him. I got to the intersection with stop sign first. He had a sign and a white line on his end, but didn’t stop. then I realized it was one of those careful for pedestrians signs in front of a crosswalk on his end and he didn’t have to stop. I did a point with raised eyebrows and confused look until I double checked and saw the different shape.

He only gave me a staredown instead of the full 180 middle finger. He also did not look like a low level drug dealer. And I realize I was wrong. So it didn’t piss me off.

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03-19-2019 , 01:07 PM

#1860

txdome

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 17,918

Stuck in the front seat of a 2 door Nissan juke for a 20 minute ride. If I knew what a juke was I'd have canceled immediately. Then when he showed up I was too short on time to get a different driver. At least he isn't trying to make conversation. He has a 4.77 rating, I don't know if that is good or bad.

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03-19-2019 , 06:10 PM

#1861

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

I hung at 4.77 for months, and was dishonorably discharged while having a 4.78.

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03-19-2019 , 06:25 PM

#1862

Didace

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 19,866

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Originally Posted by bobboufl11

Isn't the correct assumption that if there is not a "Four Way" or "All Way" sign under the stop sign the cross traffic does not stop? How do you have a drivers license?

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03-19-2019 , 10:32 PM

#1863

bahbahmickey

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 15,255

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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235

I hung at 4.77 for months, and was dishonorably discharged while having a 4.78.

Uber boots drivers with a 4.78?

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03-19-2019 , 11:11 PM

#1864

foatie

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5,277

Juke's have 4 doors, the back door handle is in the upper quadrant of the door near the roof.

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03-20-2019 , 12:03 AM

#1865

Slighted

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 16,758

i'm like 6'5-6'6" and broad so i pretty much always ask right away if i can sit up front if its any kind of compact car. never had anyone say anything about it really, although one lady had her purse there, so i just pulled the sit up manually and sat in the back.

most cars like mazda 3 types i cant even get into the back if the front seat is in normal position.

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03-20-2019 , 12:28 AM

#1866

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey

Uber boots drivers with a 4.78?

When you game their promos for 1k a week they do.

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03-20-2019 , 02:03 AM

#1867

blackize5

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 1,358

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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey

Uber boots drivers with a 4.78?

They treat anything other than a 5 star rating as a failure. And if you fall below the avg for your area you're gone. So ratings end up averaged at very close to 5 and the cutoff for getting booted ends up pretty high

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03-20-2019 , 02:14 AM

#1868

chillrob

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 20,871

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Originally Posted by blackize5

Such a ridiculous system. So what rating are you supposed to give if the ride wasn't that great, but you don't want the guy to be fired?

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03-20-2019 , 03:17 AM

#1869

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

When I first started in Seattle, it was literally my first time driving downtown Seattle, so naturally it wasn't that smooth.

About a week in I had a 4.55 rating, which, not knowing anything, seemed ok to me. I received an email that I was on the brink of deactivation as a result. Which would have been personally disastrous at the time.

So yeah anything but 5 star ratings is harmful. Really stupid way to do that.

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03-20-2019 , 06:39 AM

#1870

txdome

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 17,918

What's a bad rating for a rider? I'm 4.93 over a few hundred rides. I blame any markdowns on my drunk obnoxious friends or having to take me to a remote area, where they won't any sort of return fare.

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03-20-2019 , 07:23 AM

#1871

Emily G

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 299

I got a 4.6 driver once and was pretty excited to see what that was all about and then spent five minutes being berated in broken english for not answering my phone. I didn't want to seem racist so I gave him a two instead of one.

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03-20-2019 , 01:05 PM

#1872

Fossilkid93

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 14,200

I got a lot of rides in Colombia, and I guess the rating culture is really weird there and it's rare to give riders a 5, so now my rating is a 4.68 or so. Hopefully that doesn't impact my ability to get rides in the future in other places. So far it hasn't made a difference in Mexico City. There seems to be an insane amount of drivers here. I've never had to wait more than 3 minutes out of dozens of rides.

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03-20-2019 , 02:27 PM

#1873

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 86,123

their rating system is so stupid. if a 5 is all that matters then it might as well just ask "was the driver/passenger acceptable yes or no"

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03-20-2019 , 02:48 PM

#1874

Rapini

ragging

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 13,096

Yes/no would be far superior. I don't care if my driver was "awesome." I'd like to get from A to B safely and comfortably. If that happens, we're good. If it doesn't, I want a refund. I don't care what you do with the driver either way.