Why is the Mainstream Media Hiding the Truth About Uber? | Driver Diary with Sergio
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- Why does Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi hide the reality about driver earnings with mainstream media outlets? Senior RSG Contributor Sergio Avedian explores this in his latest edition of "Driver Diary with Sergio."
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2023 Avg $1368 per week, 125 to 150 trips, 90% AR. Today $100 per week, 7 trips, 12% AR. Rating 4.99, 2024 SUV, 9k+ trips. Uber is dishonest, algorithmically manipulative, takes 60% and ACTIVELY works to subvert its best drivers. Sorry, plain straight facts. South Florida. Best of luck to those who choose to continue driving.
Hey mark, My cut from Uber is running 71% thru 6/30. I take those % from the monthly tax summaries….my net income records track closely with what Uber says my net income is….within 10-20 bucks.
They try to do whatever they can to suck more money out of the driver's pockets. I would respect it if they would be upfront about it instead of trying to mislead everyone.
@@jonnydougs Yes, more accurately I would've put 60%+ for Uber's gross take. Disappointing is understatement!
These are your facts Mark. Perhaps it is your business model that sucks? SoFL driver over 30k trips. Doing just fine.
Same feelings here in Chicago.
The biggest tell that someone's lying is when they say "we're not lying." Active hours don't exist without online hours so it's an irrelevant metric that's only used to obfuscate and....lie.
Most cities Uber still charge surge fees but drivers don’t see a dime
They have that through upfront pricing in every city .
So true, I drive in Chicago and earlier this week I picked up someone during busy hours at the airport.
The ride was a long trip around 30 plus miles to the suburbs, and I was offered $33. Upon arriving at the airport I asked the the rider the amount they paid for the ride.
The lady told me she paid over $100. I drive an EV and the ride was comfort. We are being screwed. 🤬
@@hockeycanada18next time that happens tellem you’ll do it for $90 and cancel the ride. That’s the only way we go be heard is if when start canceling rides and making our own upfront fairs
I drive in new jersey i went out today for 3 hours today i came back home with 27$
I agree NJ Uber is pure slavery
Same here in south Florida. Too many drivers and they know it
I haven't seen 30 to 35 an hour in years.
Like four in the Illinois suburbs where I'm at.
NJ is the worst state to drive for Uber. All blind driving. I am down to driving 5 to 10 hours only now that is down from 25 to 30 hours I used to put in. Is just not worth killing my car for pennies
Pay is way down in Chicago and there are so few good hours to drive. Surges last about 5 min before floods of migrants (from everywhere) arrive and kill the surge immediately. Quite often it goes from $11 surges to zero surge in only 5 min!
Keep up the good work, Sergio. We appreciate it.
Thanks
The market is oversaturated with drivers, yet they are still offering Us hundreds of dollars if We refer them a new driver. Go figure!
Take care of the drivers you already have first Uber & Lyft!!!
It's been 2 years since I've seen 30-35 an hour, with the exception of last NYE, I think...
Media are desperate for advertising revenue and they don't want to be on Uber's shitlist. Advertising buys silence.
Same exact reason why congress does: because they don’t want to have to pay more for their food deliveries at lunch and their trips to and from the airports and restaurants for their business travels and lunches and dinners
Dara would never lie to Us? He believes that, 5:01 maybe. Your action and lack of action speaks volumes Dara.
Thanks again for letting Dara admit that surge and tips are included in that $30/hr.
Dear Uber, can you please stop allowing people to order on ubereats 20 miles plus away. It is disrupting the algorithm by allowing this and I'm sure the driver is getting skipped over with in zone orders. I have hella screen shots of ridiculous mile orders. Plz fix. Also seen a %50 drop in under a year in pay. I live close too the triangle. One of the most desirable places to live in the USA. Why is my pay dropping
I am doing UE now and I had to decline NUMEROUS 50 cent a mile orders going over 10 miles tonight. They really do need to stop that nonsense.
Years ago, when there were no drivers nearby, you couldn’t order food. Nowadays the apps don’t care if the driver looses money. They just care about their reputation, which thankfully is going in one direction - the gutter. Restaurants near me are giving you discounts if you don’t use Uber or DoorDash. Grubhub already lost momentum in this area. Smaller local companies force the restaurants to not allow Uber or DoorDash if their app is used. Talk with your customers. Drivers have more power than you think!
This is.
More drivers = fewer utilized hours per driver, but has no effect on utilized hourly pay. NONE
I lasted 2 months in Australia and realised its impossible to make money, lowest paid job in the country by far...
Uber and Lyft aren't like they use to be. Back than,you were able to make a decent amount of money whenever fhe companies first came around. In today's society,doing Uber and Lyft full-time is just crazy. You have to work very long hours to make the same amount of money you made before. Its a shame for what ride-sharing has come to. I use to do Uber and Lyft part-time,now at this stand age,it feels as though it isn't worth doing rideshare anymore. The pricing on rides have gotten so low that it's made it unstainaible to do rideshare. The prices are too low,the surge is no longer available,and the challenges that they do send to you are a complete joke. The well has dried up within these compaies. I think it's time for change. A type of change that wipes these two companies off the map and start off with another one that is willing to pay drivers for what they're worh. Uber and Lyft have gotten so greedy with the shavings and take rate,that it's made itself a complete laughable to do anymore. To me,when one door close another one advently opens. Do not let these companies control you. Live,learn and grow. Continuing doing these things to help yourself grow as a person.
Hi Sergio main media is paid employee of big corporate companies so they will ask which is not related to back bone of company.
One thing I noticed in Lyft they increase the driver fare by paying some extra due to slow down in traffic not traffic jam I received msg from Lyft " earn more if ride is delayed 5+ min " I notice a trip of $13 due this incentive ends up in $16 it's a good opportunity to earn more. It is in Houston Tx area please let us know how many state this is working. Sergio Uber CEO will not going to come to RSG reason he doesn't want anything bad for his business. But investors are not satisfied with Dara khosroshahi interviews because company is under performance that's why stocks are doing like roller coasters. Today 2% up tomorrow 2.5% down for stock related peoples understand the meaning of this rollercoaster situation.
Can you send me screenshots of that, we worked really hard on this, also if you had email explaining the program sergio@therideshareguy.com
The discussion around ride-share earnings is indeed complex. The $30 per hour figure, based on utilized hours, is a critical detail that merits further exploration to fully understand its implications. It's true that individual actions alone may not shift a company's approach to compensation. Collective action, however, such as drivers adjusting their ride acceptance criteria, could potentially influence market dynamics. Yet, the challenge remains in the oversupply of drivers, which can undermine individual efforts to negotiate better pay. This underscores the importance of community and shared strategies within the driver network to address these systemic issues.
Did you use chat gpt for this?
Drivers with microscopic AR are the cause of over saturation. CPU drivers and Uber have a lot in common, you reap what you sow!!
@@sergioSMTMC1 No
You do know the reason why you won't come on your shelf is because he doesn't want to be called on his bullshit and he knows that it's bullshit
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You know he is not going to come on the program, or just maybe he will schedule a time slot with brown nose harry. Uber and Lyft garbage, i declined 29 rides today, i am in Chicago, they want to pay me 12.00 to 16.00, from the airports to downtown Chicago. Just keep declining until we get our way. Let the desperate drivers work for peanuts.. I know your reading this posting David and Dara, you should be ashamed of yourselves..
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Amen! I saw an airport request for $10 and laughed. These ppl aren't getting to the airports, trust me. I took someone for $75, she was amazed how fast it was booked (I had a surge). She said it's hard getting Uber to the airport, she had her neighbor drop her off when she waited 90mins. I told her Uber is under paying drivers to drop off. It used to me $40 to $50 in my market, but with my XL I don't take anyone under $60. She said it makes sense now why drivers are declining airport trips until surge kicks in.
Uber is sending trips from Philly to New York for less the 70 dollars that’s over a hundred miles two hours I called a cab company and asked how much they charge they charged 430 dollars. If you’re a Uber driver taking trips from Philly to New York you are losing money after expenses
Don't forget the ride back. I count the five there and back for long trips because the odds on finding anyone to come all the way back to my city from where a different city are slim to none. So if it's 2 hours one way then I divide the fare by 4.
They are not charging riders enough
@@johnwayne397they are charging more than double of upfront to riders
Thanks for all you do Sergio.
Thanks
Earnings based on utilisation time is meaningless
Utilization is way down for me
Uber driver since 2014. Thanks for advocating for us rideshare drivers. It is truly above and beyond the call of duty. The San Francisco market used to be good. Now, waiting a half a day sometimes for a decent ride. I'm laughing the rest of the time as I monitor the ridiculous low-balling of rides that is now the norm of Uber.
They are probably right about the 32 an active hour, but that isn't that great to begin with.
Not in my market. Most fares are less than $20/hour
@@red32303 Have you added up all your active hours and totalled it or are you just going by what you are making while you are signed in?
You should play The Davos interview on CNBC where he blatantly lied about pricing rides and the interviewers said to Dara when he lied! They can test that! Lies is what drivers get from Dara!
We've tested that, it's called algorithmic discrimination
@@sergioSMTMC1 and yes we have Dara on video saying they don't do that and you have the proof to show he is lying! Now that would be a compelling video. You and Harry can turn on your apps together at the same place and video the different prices coming at you! Or order rides and see what happens with the pricing. Test both sides of the coin. Or ask 2 people to do it for you and roll the video proof! We can test and show everything.
No upfront fares in NJ.
No one cares about active hour pay.... That's because we turn down a bunch of BS. And the ones who don't drive double and make the same thing.
And why would tips ever be included in their calculations? They didn't pay me that. They paid me closer to $25 and the other $7 was from the passengers as a courtesy. We can't count on those, sometimes because the apps don't give them to us.
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Surge pricing is charged to the rider and filtered into the drivers regular fare and the driver sees none of it.
Every driver needs to know their numbers. Most don't
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The only thing they can improve is the app. They can’t improve the service. They don’t own the vehicles and the drivers are not obliterated to drive for uber
I started driving for Uber and Lyft three months ago for something to do and to supplement my retirement income. I think to attract new drivers they do the "bait and switch" con. At first I was making between $18-$30 an hour and that was enough to keep me interested and I had fun but now I'm only getting low fares with long routes and lucky to even make $10 an hour so I am no longer using the apps.
They probably don't quote online hours because of the variation of acceptance rates with cherry-picking. Their active hours count even tends to just calculate the trip from p2 and p3 from time to time
Living in Inland Empire area CA. 1 trip radar request on the last hour.
London Ontario Canada. Making $20 an hour with Uber and Lyft.
Nope
Again please someone help us drivers
Dara is a Criminal
Dara always plays games with numbers hiding data or bs answers.
Everyone should stop driving for a week and bring these companies to their knees.
I agree. But unfortunately, most of us can't afford to just not dive for a week. And, as with any strike, there are always scabs who will continue to work because companies offer more money to the scabs to keep things running instead of just paying everyone fairly.
I’m not earning $18 per hour
This morning I got a trip total time 38 minutes it was 14$ from
Daly City to San Francisco near Golden Gate Bridge . Uber is very dishonest . I don’t care how much you charge the Passanger . I wanna get fair pay ! This is not fair pay .
If we're supposed to be Ubers customer and the rider our customer, does it not make sense they should have a driver first mentality? While we're responsible for giving the rider the best possible experience? If they are rider first then no need to interview him. You already know his stance.
Good comment
It just gets worse
Ubers support is top notch! 😂 it’s like swimming in a pond hoping to catch a whale!
I feel for drivers who are stuck in the Old ways of thinking ( How many Cherry pickers do you actually hear them talk about how Great there income is today ? The Hybrid driver is the way to go and if you do the numbers its easy money .
$30 is lots of cake in Erie pa but not in San Francisco !!
20 per hour less expenses
This is a lie. I live in Jacksonville, and I'm having a hard time keeping above $20. And since getting my own car and getting rid of the rental noose that was hanging around my neck, it seems to be a struggle to break $16. My acceptance rate has greatly increased because i refuse to average out at $12 an hour, which is minimum wage and not acceptable. We almost never have surges and I can't remember the last time we had any boosts. They're definitely charging the riders more, but that isn't translating over to the driver's. Now, the airport prices are dropping for drivers. I've discovered that driving for Lyft, I'm getting a much better rate. Another peeve is that they jumped the carrot amount by 45 cents. It may seem petty, but why charge us for cashing out in the first place when you're already keeping the lions share of the fare?
They are not charging riders enough money The times that you were talking about they are charging them more or not that often they do two things One they charge them more and they hide it but 90% of the time they under charge to keep the ride request flowing like retail.. The majority of the rides that come in are undercharged so they can keep bulk sales and volume
Congress should completely stop Uber and the rest of this companies until they have a better structure pay it that but they won't Uber has lobbyist working behind those close doors with lots money 💰 from drivers hard labor
I drove with Uber for 7 years. Uber's decreasing pay scale is CRIMINAL! DK should be put in jail for how he has robbed us.
Got rear ended by a semi this week at a red light on a $6 ride. Now I'm deactivated til it gets fixed. $2500 deductible waiting for insurance to hash it out and now can't pay my bills. But Uber is willing to send me links to rent a car without providing rental insurance. I'm kinda screwed.
The rental insurance is added on as an option by the rental company everyone knows this
@@johnwayne397 Uber insurance does not cover rentals and there is additional insurance you can buy to cover rentals, but the regular insurance to cover you purchased by Uber does not cover rentals
Words are free actions speek and they show they are lying and everyones pay is less
I average 16$ hr before gas is deducted
Maybe that interview was 2 years old ?
Ok, didn't I say that? Are you grossing 32 per active hour?
@@sergioSMTMC1nowhere close
Dara is nothing but liar, where's the riders identity in Uber application. Where's all the things he promised us.
Uber and Lyft do two things
1. Most of the rides all over the country are undercharged to the passengers they are too cheap that is how Uber keeps their ride request up by volume they are selling rides so cheap it's like buying an item at Dollar tree or selling a cheeseburger at McDonald's at low prices but high quantity that is not sustainable, it may be for them, but it is not for the driver, It cost more money to run the vehicle than what the passenger is actually paying for the ride and passengers get sucked into this not knowing that they are contributing to costing the driver money and not realizing they are hitchhiking for free because the amount of money that they're paying is going into the negative it doesn't cover anything but as long as Uber may be takes $2 off of that ride thousands of times a day that's how they make their bulk profit they keep it cheap enough to keep the passengers coming in so they can make a couple of dollars on each ride knowing that the driver is actually losing money for that one ride
2. There are times when the rise cost more than normal in the passengers pay more but they try to hide that and they don't give it to the driver so they make it look like they're charging more when they're actually not these are just surge times whenever they're trying to make up for the money that they save the passenger in the past those few times at the rides cost more do not count because the majority is too low they do not charge appropriately for the time and distance they do this to confuse people they do it to make it look like they're charging more or the driver is getting more it's just an illusion
When you complain about a $3 ride you're not understanding that that passenger is only paying five bucks or less the passenger is not being charged enough money but they brainwash the passengers into thinking that everything is taken care of for a cheap ride price just like going to McDonald's and buy a cheeseburger for a dollar
They try to keep the prices as cheap as possible to keep the ride request up to keep the passengers coming in so they can take $2 a ride and make their bulk profit that is the scam
The only way to make money is to reduce the amount of drivers increase the charges increase the pay there are too many drivers and they are trying to buy too many passengers a ride
If passengers would keep up with their tips with these cheaper rides and the oversaturation of drivers things won't be as bad but at the same time that the passengers are getting faster pickups with too many drivers and cheaper rides they are not paying it forward with more tips
All ppl want is a fair piece of the pie. The fees on Lyft and Uber are not consistent. I feel like the gig apps are catering more towards immigrants cause you can’t survive on what’s being paid in America.
Just drive any city!,,,,,,,!,,
Quit signing up more drivers. There, fixed it for everyone in the game for awhile.
Uber robberies passengers money and driver gets shit .
no
Everything he said is bs
Just offered a 50 mile trip for $27. Lol.
I’m in a top 20 market…(SF Bay Area). Thru July 23 my YTD income (includes fares, tips paid by Uber, and Cal Prop22) 38,784.00. Take your metric….online hours per hour….36.77. Active hours….46.65. Per trip……. 22.40. Per mile…1.61. Let’s compare actual numbers…..Dara show yours….Sergio and your followers, show yours….quit talkin around each other. All the best…
Your numbers don't make sense. Online hours per hour? 46 active hours YTD? Also, look into how to use periods.
@@d.fenestrator9529hey D, yes my net income is 38784.00 thru July 23. My online hours thru that period was 1054.5. My active hours were 831.25. I believe the math is correct on my excel spreadsheet. Check it for me…..
@@d.fenestrator9529 hi D….my online hours from Jan 1 to July 23 were….1054.5. My active hours (same period) 831.25. I believe my excel spreadsheet is correct….check my numbers! 38784.00 net income.
@@d.fenestrator9529so what about your numbers?
@@d.fenestrator9529periods are from monthly tax summaries….thats what we use with the IRS.
"We are not gonna lie", he's a snake
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