10 Years Of Driving Uber And Lyft!
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- RSG contributor Joe has been driving Uber and Lyft for 10 years. See some of his highlights and why he chose to start driving Uber and Lyft and why he continues to today.
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I'm Harry, the founder of The Rideshare Guy. I started driving for Uber and Lyft in 2015 and eventually quit my day job as an aerospace engineer to run The Rideshare Guy full time.
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How long have you been driving Uber or Lyft?
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Drove Uber 9 years 13000 lifetime trips, , Lyft 3 years 5000 lifetime trips
Lyft 5 years,uber 8 years now, little over 19000 trips total. Love not answering to anyone, and working when i feel like it ! Be safe out there everyone 🙏 😊
That's a ton of evidence for a lawsuit. They must've stolen over a million $'s from you by now
I like rideshare for many of the same reasons as you. I enjoy the quiet of the nightime and a lot of the world i get to see when i drive.
I drove 9 years Uber and Lyft, 18,000 rides. Just quit Rideshare due to it not worth doing anymore. Didnt expect to do it that long but rather work alone , own hours, pay at end of day, after corporate lay off after all the work done for them but now dont see Rideshare any different than corporate.
Own my own business and control of my own pay not any other business pretending that you an independent contractor treating you like an employee.
6 years and 20,000+ rides. It's been a love/fucking hate relationship.
I have been driving for Lyft and Uber for 8 years now. Before this I was a full time security guard. I started doing it full time in 2021, and left my security job.
thank you for sharing your story. I’ve been a driver not quite as long as you have. I am coming up on six years in between the two. I’ve got to almost 10,000 rides. It’s crazy to think that it’s been that long and I’ve had that many rides, but I’ve had a lot of great experiences and a lot of great stories.
We all have. It's definitely a calling for some. What a journey! What lessons we have all learned and are still learning!
At one time driving rideshare was a good paying gig. Some people thought it was a career. Times have changed and it's no longer a source of easy money. AND surely NOT a career!
32,566 7yrs 2mo rides - I could not work for years after some Back and Neck injuries. Discovered Uber back on February 2, 2017, and started driving February 5th, 2017, up here in Minnesota .. Being a distance driver, I loved driving to all the Outer cities from Ham Lake, Anoka, Maple Grove, Lakeville, Stillwater, White Bear Lake, Hugo, Forest Lake back in the day. Today you can start from basically anywhere in the twin cities metro area but its thanks to guys like Joe who built the inner cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis because it's the backbone of Rideshare up here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Cheers Joe for 10 years
8 years with 17,450 rides. I love meeting people and listening to their stories
9 years with over 36k in san Francisco Bay Area
@@1087shotwell damn that’s a lot of rides.
I only like the $ who care their stories?
Stupid. Waste of time and money, cost versus gains.
Scam Uber
Hi. Taxi Driver from Sydney.
I’m jumping ship to Uber very soon.
Purchasing a Hybrid Toyota Camry this week.
Great car for passengers and Drivers.
These Rideshare videos have been very helpful, although I have experience doing the same job, but from a different angle, I knew not to assume I was king. I have a strategy and flexibility with tactics.
A target area that seems to be neglected on the fringe of surges will be researched heavily. Also a side hustle region.
Both areas have big $$$ and I’m excited 🤓
BS. Hopefully you'll make your car payment and nothing else to live on.
I have been driving Uber since August 2017. 16,000+ rides. 4.93 rating. Last week they locked my account and i haven't been able to even sign on. They even locked my passenger app. All i got was an email saying someone reported me for safety reasons and it was between Friday and Sunday. This garbage about them being transparent not deactivating people based on just what the passengers say is just that, garbage.
Recently retired 5.7 years. Used the drive job for multiple reasons. All is well. See you on the other side.
Approaching 5 yrs in October 2024. It's always been a way to augment my income. I love the people and their stories; I once had the CEO of a fairly large company in my backseat for 45 minutes, and she was in a chatty mood; I learned more about business in that hour than four years in college.
Driving 5years 14,000 rides and I do feel the same way freedom sight seeing talking to different people and the availability of when to work but I do stick to the same time n days 85% of time too
We need to stop calling ourselves rideshare drivers. We are basically poor people's taxi service.
I've been doing rideshare 7 years
How's the pension retirement package
how much you saved akk money go to the gas and car mInteance
the rideshare companies should pay you in stock options as a bonus for a 10 year veteran.
they save those only for the over paid executives.
9.5 years. Rideshare Robert. Started in Baltimore market in 2014. Been following Harry since the beginning. I have accumulated 17k Uber trips and 7k Lyft trips.
I have experienced many of the same things you have mentioned. Never thought I would still be driving. On my Third vehicle. That’s show biz.
How long did each vehicle last you?
I thought they got rid of Uber and Lyft in Minneapolis
May I ask what city and how much you make a month after taxes, thank you.
Good question. They won't tell you the truth.
@trishbrad00 why wouldn't they? Negative nilly.
5 years in Sept of this year. Part-time. [4-5 hrs. 5 days a week]. Just under 7,000 rides. I appreciate all of your content, Joe. Thank you!
I'm now driving for Uber full time during the day and into the evening. I'm in California and after gas oil changes car cleaning ect. I'm three months behind on car payments. And what uber pays drivers is less than half of what they are charging passengers. I enjoy driving and have had no bad experiences with passengers but at the end of the day I'm not making enough money.
Joe, your story is very similar to mine. Driver of 8yrs here and I also posted on Craigslist offering airport trips, as well as through Task Rabbit offering airport trips. Then I started bringing people around at different destinations. I signed up just to start doing it here and there, it blossomed into full time and was profitable up until this year. So our household has three solid sources of income, including a new full time job. Uber will now mostly be a few hours after work heading home and most weekends. Because of the other two solid job incomes, including the other source, Uber is no longer going to be the primary source.
Going on 6 years, almost UBER exclusive. I switched to Lyft last week and it pays way better than UBER in my market ATM, so I'm mostly Lyft for the moment. I don't think I could go back to a "regular" job anymore! Could I use more money, sure. But what price can you put on the freedom rideshare gives you? I was a trucker for years. This is a way better gig...
How would someone finance a vehicle for ride-sharing while have Lyft for a main source of income so who finances ride share drivers
FYI you don't want to finance a vehicle for Commercial Capacity cause the insurance alone will cost you a lot. If you gonna buy a vehicle for Rideshare get a used good condition cash car cause they don't pay enough to cover a car note! Rideshare is a side gig to make money on the side of your primary job. It's not meant to be a primary job which is why many are disappointed in them today trying to get them to care more for the drivers.
When you use your personal vehicle you will get less rides for a higher amount of fares. If you rent through their apps you will get more rides with less amount of their fares cause over 70 percent of your profit goes to the weekly rental fee and gas or charging an EV or Tesla.
I've used my personal vehicle twice and rented through Uber and Lyft apps. You can write off as expenses through standard mileage.
@@texasmade2719 I'm currently doing it full time with a rental and after rental fees I pocket anywhere from 700-1000 a week that's why I want to finance a vehicle so I could make way more and not worry about rental fees
@@texasmade2719 I currently drive full time and I pocket anywhere from 700-1000 a week after rental fees so I figured if I had my own vehicle I can double that
@@texasmade2719 I still would like to know how to do it cause I need my own vehicle
My ex roommate rents the cara car in Boston through Lyft. He has been doing it two years now. Last year he made 84,000. If you minus the rental fees he still brought home over fifty something thousand.
I also discovered I love getting totally wasted on days off. Dealing with some of these Jack Offs drive me nuts, plus tell everyone about the force to buy a new vehicle to get the best drives.
12000 rides 6 years uber and lypt. harder and harder to make money keep doing what your doing..need to stand up..how much cheaper r they gonna get
September of this year will be 10 years for me also with Uber.
Congratulations, kind sir.
46,266 rides done in 5.5 years.
I started in March 2015
Drove for 1 year 2800 rides
7½ Years in Nashville with over 27k trips on Uber so far. The last 6 of those years have been full time.
I am retired but couldn’t sit home all day. I’ve driven Uber,Lyft and Door Dash. I just deliver Door Dash now because I don’t have to concern myself with my appearance or my cars appearance. I have fun with Door Dash and don’t worry about the tipping etc. I can understand the frustration if your dependent on the income to survive as the base pay has gone down. My advice to anyone driving Door Dash is if a problem comes up deal with whatever it is in a calm manner and try not to let emotions get in your way. Always make the Top Dasher requirements because then you control your schedule without having to schedule your work time. Deliver the $2.50 and $3.00 deliveries because Door Dash will always kill your acceptance rate if you decline deliveries. Enjoy your craft learn as much as you can on shopping deliveries etc. Drive sensibly for good gas mileage and you can make money at driving. Drive safely and just let any driving rage go because your going to run into bad drivers, slow pickups, bad directions from the app. It’s better to pull over take a short break then move on.
Almost 8 years in the Richmond Virginia I have 10,000 rides on Uber and over 9000 on Lyft
7 years driving for Uber 13283 trips
6000 5 * trips ,I started when I got retired
Great video. I’ve been driving since 2017 myself. I love everything about it. Stay safe out there God bless.
Everything? C'mon, not one thing you can think of that you don't love about it? I bet you wouldn't even have to think too hard to come up with one.
@@zjbell700 it was a figure of speech, my friend.
@@zjbell700 for the most part, I love driving rideshare
@@TheRideshareMinister it's actually not, it's quite literal. Especially when you type it and not speak it.
@@zjbell700 Okay sir. Hey good luck to you!
I will be hitting 10 years later this year....
The very same here.
I have working for over seven years. With 21,000 trip not worth to work with this guys because North paying fair.
Uzurv🤔
By the volume of response, the attrition rate must be super high, just like fast food, enough said.
6 1/2 years with 15,974 rides 🔆
😮😮 i been driving for 8 years in CALIFORNIA 27,300 rides 💪🏼
I love when you post because it doesn't ilicit all the negative replies that you see in the other guys video. Like if Uber is so bad for them then just stop driving. Don't ruin Uber for the rest of us making good money.
Those same people you alerting too are people like him who said they love driving Uber until something unfairly happens to them or else they would not be doing it.
Although they may sound negative does not mean they are not telling the truth!
@@texasmade2719 sure but when I hear about a push for legislation that would make Uber less profitable is where I have a problem
Do you get some kind of $$ bonus or raise for 10 years with Uber?
Lol, rates were far higher 10 years than today by the looks of it. Meanwhile, Lyft has about doubled their take rate. Some of those trips look like they would now pay half as much in my market. Freedom and flexibility is an illusion since you can't earn squat when driving without surge or bonuses. And if you even want to earn a minimum wage, you can only work during surges and bonuses, so there goes your freedom and flexibility. Congrats on the 10 years though! How much worse can things get for drivers before they start to get better?
DD 200 delivery
Imagine getting deactivated after 10 years lmao
7 years 35,000 trips
4 years driving with 13,400 rides.
7 years next week and I'll hit 30K in 3 or 4 days!
It should have been congratulations Joseph! Here is a 10,000$ Bonus!
Keep selling it
Lol 90% of what I think too!
The ride share guy only connect with driver's in the North East
9.5 years
A job is mai ly to pay for one's needs and wants. " Enjoying " a job is such a silly notion. You get enjoyment from being around family,friends,pursuing interest, and hobbies. So in conclusion: YOU GO CHAMP !!!
6 years for uber lypt 12000 rides. harder and harder making money
Yeah... no thanks pay isn't fair
The tax code isn't fair
And high maintenance costs
Don't forget insurance/ cleaning
$
Comes from your own pocket
Not everyone can succeed at it.
I dont see how you can survive,,unless your living in moms basement,,,the money is no longer sustainable!!years ago yes no problem,,,but having to work 60 hours to just get by is not flexibility since when you wake up and realize you are working two fulltime jobs you quickly realise how much safer and smarter it is to get a real job working 40 hours and actually being able to save money because your not putting away for the next car repair or gas payment!!!,,after gas you are making 12 an hour which is not sustainable to do fulltime unless you are living in mommys basement free of charge
4.5 years lyft
4 years 16,436 combined UberX and Uber Eats
Actually, no not worth to work with Uber and Lyft, because not paying money to the driver or the company shit
Well sounds like you woulda been fired at any other job lmao
Reflection of the sad state of extreme capitalism.
10 years O penefit😂
Imagine admitting to being a driver for 10 years. How embarrassing
Imagine being recognized for the stupidest comment on here. Embarrassing.
Says the guy who can't even drive.
@@SteveHoffmann ok broke boy
@ArtMexico-vu6qq why do you keep projecting your problems on to others?
Now we know you are also broke.
How can I help?
@SteveHoffmann you are an idiot. I do not drive uber and I am not broke. If I was broke I would not drive uber. I would find a real job
What's with the Hitler mustache?
congrats on wasting your life
I don’t like to show up to an office at certain days and times but also go open the same schedule driving for Uber so where’s the complete flexibility? 😂
4&1/2 yrs uber deactivated perm no explanation after 4,325 rides high rated
Bout 8 yrs w Lyft goin ok
67 yrs old love th flex but they should consider loyal drivers for some help w gas/ maintenance