There are better, more efficient ways to earn money with personal vehicle, other than with uber.
After reading so many horror stories about uber, and how they never respond to costumer or contractor complaints, I'm happy to post any alternative I can, to their exploitative way of running their company.
Negative things I've heard about uber from reading real peoples accounts of working there or being passengers.
Former or current drivers gripes
1. Pay is way way to low, while company over all keeps doing better, has made millionaires out of management and ownership, the actually drivers on the streets keep seeing their pay get cut, and uber doesn't seem to give a darn since they realize they have a constant evolving door of curious drivers who want to try it out, and by they time they get burned, will have more first timers to take their place.
2. When there is a dispute that driver has with pay, there's no 'real person' to reach, it's all done by email, robo call, ect...(never ever work for any company that thinks so little of you that they don't man the phones with real people, you have no future with such a company, none, zero)
Uber fails to realize, and doesn't care, that the worse you treat contractors, they in turn or more likely to pass that onto costumers, by cheating them on miles, going out of route to add more to fee ect.
But uber could give a damn, and that's obvious by their lack of response to current driver contractors...so my advice is not to work there, not now or ever.
Passenger gripes
1. Many passengers complain of getting extra charges on their credit cards, and again, since uber thinks so little of common people to have live operators, good luck getting issues resolved, instead costumers complain of robo calls, robo emails with endless dead end loops that don't resolve a dogman thing, other than leave costumer out of money, and a feeling of being fiscally violated.
And again ubers response?...nothing, nada, the upper management and ownership millionaires could give a dm, or I wouldn't be writing this.
2. Because drivers get paid so little, costumers often complain of drivers going out of route to add extra mileage to trip..(a very slimy thing to do)
You could make more just delivering pizza!...at least delivery pizza you get tips!
Or delivery flowers, or contracting with U.S. mail on the weekend or on rural routes, at least then you get paid real money!
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Or you could give airspacetechnologies.com a try, or similar companies.
Here's the link..http://drivers.airspacetechnologies.com/
I don't work for either company, and never have, but have been contractor before in commercial driving industry so I can relate to the ups and downs of it all, and know the feeling of being exploited, and not being fairly compensated for your time and equipment, extra insurance ect.
Airspace Technologies and why I think they're probably a better place to work for than uber.
1. You're dealing with packages, small sized freight that fits whatever size vehicle you have, instead of people!
2. Like uber, you sign on and off with app, so you work when you want, and when you don't want you simply turn app off!
But at least when you work, usually near airport or airports, you know you've actually made some real money worth your time and mileage, and not chump bubble gum money type of change that uber pays.
There are parents why pay their kids higher allowance pay than uber pays it's adult drivers, and as a company they should be ashamed of themselves for that, but they're not, so what does that tell you about them?
Why work anywhere where the people you help make rich from your labor don't care nothing about you?, don't have live operators, off living in Mansions, while you risk your life on the streets for them, why work there?
Anyways, give Airspace technologies a try..http://drivers.airspacetechnologies.com/
Point is, there's other companies out there where you can contract your vehicle and work when you want to, like with uber, only actually go home feeling you've made some dough, enough dough to pay down some bills maybe, save for vacation, get something fixed, better your life.
A well paid driver is a happy driver is one you'll get more production from.
To bad more upper management doesn't realize that.
More blue collar thoughts and ideas, suggestions to follow.
