UBER Driving

Hi peeps.

I’m surprised that no one has started this thread yet, so kindly let me be the one to get the ball rolling.

I’ve been backpack travelling for last 6 months, and had my fair share of adventures on the road, but I shall save them for another day/time/thread.

Came back in in Oct and has been looking for a day job but to no avail. So my friend recommended me to give Uber Taxi driving a try.

I started a month ago and am really surprised that my peak-hours (morning & evening) driving can actually make more than $3K. Now that’s a big “fuck-off” to my ex job/boss.

If I can put in few more hours each day, making more than $5k per month really isn’t difficult. Alas, the mind is willing but the body isn’t. Guess I am a tired old dog already.

Anyway, if any bros here like to know more about Uber, you can leave me a reply here, or PM me. I will try my best to answer your questions.

please note:

current (Nov 2015) Uber promotion is that if I refer anyone with own car to start driving Uber, the new driver will get $250 and I get $250 as well.

if he rent a car, then I will get $200 for referral fee, but the new driver has no incentive. I will split the referral fee with any bro here if he give my Invite Code during sign-up. The requirement is that the new driver must complete 25 trips then I can get the referral fee.

My Invite code is : zqphpue

cheers!

Thanks for dropping by, bro Muller.

Just a gentle reminder:-

The $250 uber referral promo is for nov until dunno when ends. Also, lately always rain in the afternoon and uber driving has gotten even easier.

So don’t wait, I have never regret starting to drive Uber, I only regrets that I should have started sooner, rather than wasting my time looking for a day-job.

Now, after my morning peak driving, I always go JB for massage and fill petrol.

That is Double happiness! Hahaha…

For those who are having doubts (like I did before) with Uber driving earning, I gladly post a screen-shot of my earning since this Monday. As you can see, I only did 2 trips (start 8 am and stop at 9.30 am after last trip completed, already $48 dollars.

Previous night at restarted evening peak at 6pm and finished at 9pm, only 3 hours…

pls note that I stopped at 8.59am this morning and I went JB, the jam at woodlands is quite bad and took me 1.5 hours to clear both customs. Sianzzz

yes bro jason,

of course every business has its own cost & margin, Uber can’t be providing customers/passengers to us drivers at zero cost.

I would say 20% is fair and Uber gives back alot of incentives to us if we fulfill the recommended peak hours driving hours. I got $130 plus just for peak hours incentive for last week.

ps. i have to go drive my evening rounds now. cheers!

Quote:

Originally Posted by

moose

Bro. Thanks for sharing.

Do Yiu use your own car or rent the car ? Pro and cons

If use own car, need to buy commercial insurance or something like this ?

To bro moose, thank you for acknowledging my efforts to share.

And yes I’m using my own car. To further answer your question, please see my next post.

cheers

I had quite a number of PMs asking some questions (which are similiar in most cases), hence I think its better i post some additional info for all to share.

For using own car to drive Uber:

Yes its good to use own car for Uber driving, as you save on paying rent for car. Your cost is only your time and petrol.

To be a Uber driver, you first need to register a sole proprietorship company with ACRA / ROC. The cost is 0 if you did it online like i did. Then you need to pay $5 to print a ACRA Biz file hardcopy. If you’re unsure how to do it online, then go down to Tg Pagar ACRA office and ask the staff to help, the cost should be around $50.

Next, you need to buy commercial vehicle insurance, this will cost more than your usual car insurance.

Following that, you go LTA to transfer car ownership to your new company, in order to do that you have to produce the Biz File hardcopy, the new car insurance and convert vehicle type to Z10. This process at LTA takes less than 5 mins (excludes the Q time).

With all the 3 steps done, you can go Uber office to register and activate within the same day. You will be given a goodies bag which contains car charger, air refresher and a nice little black notebook (which till now i havent use the notebook yet).

You can start to make money as soon as you’re ready. I heard many part-timers drives after office work and before picking their wife/children/dinner. Make twenties or fifties a day for 1-2 hours also good.

Hope the above helps.

Quote:

Originally Posted by

sadsky18

ya , i was thinking of taking up uber also ( just kena pop by my bastard boss last week )

while i was checking , i notice

1. need to pay 20% of fares to uber

2. need to fufill min trips if not rental will go up

3. cars pump petrol , not disel

4. uber cannot street pick ( so if i on the road but no call in , then how )

5. say rental is $60 per day , petrol $40 , if i earn $300 in fares , minus $100 ( petrol + rental ) , minus 20% ( $60 ) , i i left with $140 ..

and that is if i earn 300 which i doubt lo

wah , like that do despatch better , using own bike also earn 100-150 . finish go home . petrol maybe only $10-$15 .

**ts , you trying to earn refer fee right ?

hahahahH

Hi bro sadsky18,

To answer your question, here:

1. need to pay 20% of fares to uber (yes, its the same everywhere, no free lunch))

2. need to fufill min trips if not rental will go up (hmm.. unheard of, all my friends driving Uber rental cars are able to fulfill the min trips, if you think its unfair you can always switch to another car rental companies, there are plenty. Some are as low as $42 per day).

3. cars pump petrol , not disel (yes, only regular cab use diesel, but then cab rental is more than S$100 a day)

4. uber cannot street pick ( so if i on the road but no call in , then how ) so you wait in the car or play hp games loh. that’s why i only drives during peak hours.

5. say rental is $60 per day , petrol $40 , if i earn $300 in fares , minus $100 ( petrol + rental ) , minus 20% ( $60 ) , i i left with $140 .. (petrol cost $40 a day? then you would have made $500 or more. Usually a full tank of 40 liters can run for at least 2 full days.

**ts , you trying to earn refer fee right ?

I saw many bros posting job lobang or are seeking jobs, so I share because I care. If any bros took it up, then its win-win for us both.

hahaha

Quote:

Originally Posted by

sadsky18

hahahaha im not trying to suan you lah .

cos online feedback ( fb ) is super negative about uber

what i quote and mention is min like i say petrol 40 . i dont expect full day driving mah hahahaha

i also got taxi licence .

its a battle of uber or taxi but i still prefer finding a full time job and maybe drive either taxi or uber part time

to jump straight to uber driving is the last resort if really jobless .

** like if u wan to earn 3k ( net take home ) you need to include say $50 rental per day $50 petrol per day plus their 20% ( you need to earn agar agar $6750 )

pretty much abt $250 in fares per day

taxi with street pickup and calls had a hard time achieve it

uber solely depend on calls in —- make me think twice …

its depend day to day .

doesnt mean today you earn this much , tomorrow will earn the same .

just my opinion .

yes bro sadsky, you do have a point that regular taxi drivers with street pick-up/flag-down are having a hard time, thats partly because now there’s Uber and Grab-Taxi to level the playing field, also partly they still practice the “sorry changing shift” and pick customers. Their daily rental of more than $100+ a day doesn’t help the situation as well.

As for petrol cost, if you do peak-hours only like i do, $50 can easily last for 4-5 days of driving. My car is 7 years old, and only 30 litres max full tank.

If you still have doubts, ask anyone you know whom are driving Uber. My advice is not to take FB comments at face-value, so of them are just jealous of Uber or are full-time taxi drivers.

cheers

To bro bigbigbigbird,

I too had have concerns whether the gov will shut down Uber in the past, then I picked up a attorney from New York, he told me that many countries like in the States, Europe, and also in Asia, Uber is something that no government can do anything about it.

This is the digital age now, ladies do shopping online like ebay, Qoo10 etc, can shopping mall owners complain and ask gov to close them down? So like-wise, consumers can also choose to get cabs digitally right?

Uber started 3 years ago (estimated), if they can be stop, wouldn’t the cabbies in NY or London already ask their gov to do so?

I took a london cab in London few months ago, a 10 mins drive costed me 50 pounds. Can you imagine the amount of money the london cabbies lost to Uber?

Next, to bro hiretuja, its more than 3.6k gross last month. Minus 300-400 petrol I made $3k plus.

I shall try my best to answer to all the queries here.

To bro TomMAffolter, yes it is a short term solution for me. I’m already in my middled age now so I’m not looking into next 10 or 20 years. My goal is to make enough and start a small business of my own. For those who are young (in their 20s) I would strongly suggest that they build a career at this stage. Taxi driving (Regular cab or Uber or Grab) isn’t meant for everyone.

To bro hiretuja and bro lasupkia, I’m not sure how you arrived at the number. The amount you see on the top left? FYI, Uber calc weekly and the amount shown resets. The amount will be reset every Monday and payouts on every Thursday.

Also, I said gross 3.6k is after uber deduction. My petrol consumption is low because average I refill twice every week, each time is around $50 so I estimate it should around $300-$400. As for cashcard, all ERP charges are paid back to me.

To bro titan, I too have taxi voc licence. I already had it for more than 10 years. Used to drive Comfort cab but it gave it up because of the diesel fume smell in cab, I was worried that I will get cancer if I drive long term. Was considering to join city cab until my friend recommended me to try driv Uber. Since then, I never look back.

Lastly, to bro whiskersF, I assumed you are a ex Uber driver who quitted Uber. You have your own reasons and no one will judge you here.

But I have no idea why you drive 14 hours daily and make only $120+? I start every morning and each trip from HDB estates to CBD already more than $12 avg. You drive 14 hours daily but 90% of the time you sitting in coffeeshop is it? hahaha.. You also mentioned that you suspect that i cheated by using my own creditcard? lol thats is most absurb because I don’t even have a Uber passenger account, I havent even ask my wife to create one for herself. Why must one do that to cheat, is really beyond my comprehension.

Ok now, I got to go driving. Bye!