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I'm a driver for Uber and Lyft — here's exactly how much I make in one week on the job
The final tally was about $257 for less than 14 hours of work — or about $19 an hour.
Read on for a detailed breakdown of how much I made driving for Uber and Lyft, including some of the most unusual passengers and some mishaps I had along the way....
I put 291.1 miles on my Prius, using about 5.75 gallons of gas, which is about $13.22 in gas expenses for my area...
I had to then find who was open on a Sunday to replace the flat tire. While I was on the phone calling places, I figured I might as well get four new tires altogether, and an oil change too, since my car was almost due for those. Safety first... It was $430.22 to fix my car.
One estimate of the Prius TCO for 5 years / 75,000 miles is $34,067 - or $0.454 per mile, beating the IRS mileage rate of $0.58. This guy doesn't come off as one who does his own work or otherwise keeps that TCO down...
Interesting that he even neglected his gas money in his hourly "income" quotation, factoring in $0.50/mile TCO instead. His net income is around $112 for a self (likely under) estimated 14 hours of work (isn't calling around town on a Sunday to get your car fixed also work?), or $8 per hour. I suppose it's good for the self-esteem if you don't think of yourself putting your life at risk for less than minimum wage.
Anyone here eager to get out and live that gig economy lifestyle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @03:00PM (4 children)
I wouldn't be surprised if Über self-insured drivers when a passenger is in a vehicle.
The lack of a chauffeur license is probably covered by the general capitulation of the state to this company with deepish pockets and lobbying power.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 10 2019, @07:12PM (3 children)
Well, I'll take "not surprised" and "probably" from an Anonymous post on the Internet any day, over the alternative of actually reading my policy terms and relevant state statutes.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @09:47PM
Do you have anything of intelligence to add? Guess not.
Your "relevant state statutes" seem to be at odds with an apparent flourishing illegal transportation company and thousands of individual lawbreakers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Friday October 11 2019, @11:38AM (1 child)
In all fairness its not a new business model.
Really, these services are not innovating the business model of being illegal taxi operators, nor are they innovating the tech side of being a taxi operator. They're just using dotcom 2.0 money to bootstrap large scale corruption.
My guess is the next big corporate financialization move will be corporatizing food trucks. Who needs illegal indie food when the bankers can fund a flood of the streets with the "McDonalds (tm) Branded Food Truck" selling McWhoppers or whatever.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 11 2019, @03:10PM
You are totally on to something there... an English (UK) friend of mine said that the great thing about the chain food was that you could expect a certain minimum level of quality, not great, but at least you probably won't get food poisoning or more disgusting than expected food (though, those McNuggets were pretty far out there...)
Anyway, I could see a Chipotle branded food truck army easily sweeping the nation, particularly if they could deliver at the same quality and price point as their brick and mortar stores.
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