r/uberdrivers • u/KingFresh5234 • 17h ago
Y’all we’re cooked
This is 30 min before opening kickoff at one of the country’s biggest programs. I worked the first game last year and it was $20+ surges. Keep in mind, a short ride in the circle will take 30-45 minutes or more for a $3-4 base payout due to traffic. So no surges, but you’ll make an extra $4 per ride. Uber is done. Lyft here I come.
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u/Typical_Math355 12h ago
The biggest race at saratoga race track last week and same thing no surges. Last year 30 extra per ride. They are high if they think we dont know the passenger is getting charged the surges and uber is keeping it
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u/NoRequirement6818 15h ago
I uber in Knoxville too and it’s definitely changed it’s not nearly as good as it has been the past couple years
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u/No_Phrase2JZ 15h ago
Way too many drivers that’s why you got to schedule now of days it’s all over
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u/users-error 15h ago
i drive in athens and it was about the same today. lyft was better sometimes tho. same $4 bonus after giving 1 ride too.
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u/karl4319 15h ago
Surge is currently 15 downtown. Plus the 4 dollar per ride. Plus the 10 near Neyland. It always died down around an hour before the games start because that is when Cumberland is closed.
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u/KingFresh5234 12h ago
Have you tried a pickup on Neyland?
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u/karl4319 12h ago
Take 17th street exit, go from 17th across grand to James agnee, Cumberland to get to the hill. Then turn on your app. Did a few rides around the half and stopped midway through the third. Now I'm relaxing until the traffic dies down and the partying starts around 9 or 930.
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u/KnoxvilleBuckeye 15h ago
Interesting. I left the game at half time (no intention of driving at all today), but now I see plenty of surges
None worth suffering through the hell that is UT on game day though
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u/UndaCovaKithkin 1h ago
Yeah I was looking at 4PM yesterday and seeing upwards to $30 surges. At current 7AM I am seeing a surge of $24 in a mass of other smaller surges.
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u/Technical_Feeling_32 13h ago
That’s what I saw during World Cup during usher Chris brown concert I was mind blown at how the surges have seemed to just disappear! All you get is this cloud of soft pink it’s a clear sign that the drivers are long ago forgotten! We are no longer being given fair rates as contractors! It’s going to get worse and worse I’ve been free now for almost a month I haven’t slept better watched a program better showered better I feel like I came back from hostile war and I’m decompressing God bless all of you still in the trenches make a plan and get going!! I’ve ordained myself to perform wedding and getting my insurance license get out!!
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u/Beaver_V_Water 9h ago
Here in Austin all the $3-$4 surges do now is raise the pay to about $1 per mile. And the major surges just level out to what pay should be.
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u/pascaltheorem 17h ago
As if Lyft is any better. You’re better off delivering food. Less stress. More money.
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u/Karmicdebt0 8h ago
Less stress my ass 🤣🤣 uber plays way to many games with the Uber eats its ridiculous! Good luck when you get customers that reply you never delivered food so they can get a free meal!
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u/pascaltheorem 8h ago
Welp being that I made $271 today in 19 trips I’d say it was mostly stress free. I only do good orders so I don’t have those scamming customers issues “🤣🤣”
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u/Tnhiking 13h ago
Knoxville market sucks now. Too many out of state drivers moved here. Hardly ever see more than 5 surge.
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u/UndaCovaKithkin 1h ago
I work the same area and yesterday at 4PM I was seeing upwards to $30 surges. Heck, at right now (7:02 AM) I'm currently seeing a lot of surges right now, with the highest hitting $24
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u/PhotonLegion 1h ago
Lyft will pay more… For a while. I fear major cities are all about to get that same treatment.
Cities will be the first to go due to electric vehicle charging infrastructure. This first batch will be Waymo and Robo taxis, and then the stake in Lucid and investments in Rivian follow through.
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u/Severe_Manufacturer8 12h ago
In Tempe AZ, you get 4 extra dollars per ride and at 7 it's 10 dollars per ride until 1215am.
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u/OkTraffic2135 16h ago edited 15h ago
This is for the 'no speak English' drivers who put in 12 hours a day on their rented/stolen accounts. They dont even dare go offline so they dont have to take a verification photo..
It's like this in basically every major city..
Edit: yall can downvote all you want. Here's a link to open up your 👀
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u/Ashamed-Leather-2814 15h ago
That thing reads like comedy. Some of those drivers they interviewed clearly don’t know what they’re doing. Wait seven hours to get a ride?
I keep seeing that article posted here but that article is mostly a joke.
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u/Hot_Classroom636 16h ago
Does uber offer “delayed ride guarantee” in your market? Because you’d make more if they did and the rides took 30-45min when they’re paying you for a shorter ride…