How To Survive The "2.5X Gig Worker Revolution"

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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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[@TheFriscoBassAce]

They win. I quit. Hopefully this will be my last month as a full time driver. I worked 14 hours yesterday and made $290 with tips and a Lyft Challenge bonus. Absolutely ridiculous. 14 hours should net twice that much. They have reduced us to $20 an hour workers.

[@MJSmithGroup]

On-app rideshare driving for the vast majority of drivers is (after proper accounting for expenses & taxes) sub minimum wage work.

[@Tch5802]

The rideshare companies don’t and can’t set the prices. The Biden administration that allows tens of millions of il legals in drives your pay down to peanuts.

[@007josiah]

I work 8 hours and don't hustle but still easily make $200 a day.

[@TheFriscoBassAce]

@@007josiah you take every ride? What market? What class of vehicle? Dallas is oversaturated.

[@TheFriscoBassAce]

@@007josiah also, I don’t want to do this job for $20-$25 an hour. I used to make around $40 an hour. It’s just not worth it with everything going up due to inflation.

[@dadrewco100]

In the summer there are too many driver’s. But when school starts it is money time !

[@TheFriscoBassAce]

@@dadrewco100 not anymore. They have changed the algorithms. They want us to earn $20 an hour gross.

[@markhernandez5760]

Very true. Before the pandemic, I was making $150-$250 a day. Now I barely make it $60 a day.

[@damoneymaker]

What market are you in?

[@Voltaic_Rider]

Private rides are the only way to make this work full time

[@MicDropBBQ]

Facts!

[@amjadpervaiz4453]

@@MicDropBBQoo you are here too.

[@MicDropBBQ]

@@amjadpervaiz4453 I'm all over the Matrix. LOL!

[@amjadpervaiz4453]

@@MicDropBBQ yeah I saw you in the Matrix movie with beautiful glasses on.

[@MicDropBBQ]

@@amjadpervaiz4453 HAHAHAHA! Morpheus

[@MJSmithGroup]

If you drive rideshare fulltime, and you want to keep driving people around to earn your income, the smart move is to get your private driver credentials. Find out what's required in your market (licenses, permits, ins., etc.) and do it. uber/lyft are routinely taking 40%-70%. You can turn that into 0%.

[@cc-tb3st]

Up until November 2023 my minimum during a weekday was $250 maxes around 600 on any given weekday. My minimum on weekends was 4:50 and I could max out any given weekend for no reason at all at 7:00 or 800 bucks and I had six days over $1,000. Now during the week I struggle to make 200 max3 and on weekends I struggle to make 300 max 350. And it's not just summer slow months this started actually in November 2023. Uber has made significant changes to surge pricing. They reduce the max surge from $30 to $20 in my market. Instead of running surge prices they'll ask drivers from as far as 30 mi away to come and do a pickup at an event in downtown. I was offered $4 to drive 15 miles to downtown and do a 1 mi ride. My acceptance rate is below 7% on Uber and below 1% on Lyft.

[@jeromyrjohnson]

New Lyft driver in the Folsom Roseville area. Thanks for sharing the good advice! Cheers, Jeromy

[@swaggermac18]

People that take ubers 12 times a week ($6000/yr) arent tiping. People that take ubers twice a month ($500/yr) tip bigger on ave, its not complicated.

[@JeffBrown518]

Jay, you did about as good of a job as anyone could at this point in time, but even your fine effort can't make up for the reality that earnings have plummeted so far that I can't imagine how anyone can eek out a living doing this work these days. It's not like it was easy to achieve before or during the pandemic, but you could do it. Now, even if someone coul apply every single one of your tips -- and every single strategy ever provided by the Rideshare Guy channel for that matter -- the money simply isn't out there any more.

[@bmuns6445]

LC351 is CA law that states employer cannot take your tips.

[@MoneySmartDriver]

There are thousands of fake accounts out there. Also drivers using Ghost GPS

[@Tch5802]

This is just embarrassing.

[@lastofadeadbread5727]

People like him that ruined the game not inflation

[@billestep6804]

Work the hours others don’t want. Overnight is busy for me. Work until you get kicked off app for break. Never heard somebody working the whole 84 hours not making money. Always the ones working 5 hours then quitting cause it’s not busy complaining how Uber Lyft fcking them over

[@polishpimp4233]

driving 84 hours is not healthy.

[@billestep6804]

@@polishpimp4233 then stop complaining not making any money. You’re doing something anyone with a car can do.

[@polishpimp4233]

@@billestep6804 I am not complaining about making money. I know a trade and know better then to expect gig work to get anyone ahead. You dont have to be a communist to understand that working 84 hours a week aint healthy