Uber.
 

You think you just register with them, pick up your clients, cash in and get out with that all?
Fuck no. In EU Uber drivers are being hunted and caught for MANY law breaking reasons.

How does it work in USA? Are you an Uber driver yourself?

the very best an uber drive can make is $500 per week is what I'm told by top drivers.

Is that after all the expenses and car amortization?

it is unsafe :Oh crap

What laws are they breaking? Here in Canada I will always prefer an Uber picking me up over a cab for 5 reasons: 1) I feel safer in them than cabs 2) The cars and the drivers are 200% more pleasant to deal with 3) The chances of them taking you on longer ride/give you the run around for a higher fare is very low 4) No pressure for tips from drivers; no bitching because you're paying with plastic 5) cheaper fare for the same distance (unless Surge is on)

Overall Uber is awesome and I will take an Uber any day over a taxi if I can :2 cents:

They NEVER register an individual business ( is a must ). Some drive cars that are registered for another Uber driver. I'm not sure but there may be issues with transport licensing.
I'd say in Europe the safest bet is using an official cab.

New Job?

Uber will completely replace taxis within a few years, save a few exceptions.

People were nervous about Uber when it first launched here for safety reasons (Mostly the cab companies pushed this narrative) , but beyond a few exceptions the service has been extremely safe.

The companies value speaks volumes.

You live in Europe? I tried Ubers in many different countries and its definitely 100 times safer then the taxi mafia who are always trying to scam you.

Probably the tax / biz law is made to work for biz in the USA.

Where do you get this SAFER thing from? How do you feel safer because of Uber?
Taxi mafia? Yes, if you land in an airport you may get wrapped into something unpleasant if you are looking for cheap deals - take an official cab. But locally, in your town, just call your local cab co - I do that. I do see same drivers many times even.

I was once concerned landing in Amsterdam, yes, muslim cab mafia made me eek.

So again, what is this SAFETY slogan about Uber?

Taxi driver charges tourists €485 for Schiphol to Amsterdam hotel trip - DutchNews.nl

This was last month.. True story.. Would never happen with Uber. And I got hundreds of other examples (not only from Amsterdam) And yes, they're all official. Since you need to have different license plates if you drive Taxi. Otherwise the police will take you off the streets within minutes.

Uber is great. Obsolete industries mad!

Ouch.

Do you know, applicable to Holland or any other country where Uber is up ( Austria, Germany or say CZ ), if drivers have to register individual business to work with Uber? I mean they would be getting income they would have to report. Anything like that in USA/Canada?

I only use Uber when I can. I hate taxis, it's usually someone who hates their life sitting on their phone talking to friends/wives all day and just driving around half paying attention. There is also no feedback system really, yeah you can waste your time calling the company and complain but what good does it do, the guy already hates his life.

Uber is efficient. You get a bad driver, you rate him badly and leave a comment, you hurt his bottom line directly and force them to shape up or get out of being an Uber driver. Billing me straight to my CC and emailing me receipts is another huge advantage.

I believe it's main feature is being cheaper. So far. Also, they have potentially much more drivers that need no license ( kind of, not sure even ).

There is another 'movement' like Eating With Locals, so you choose your place, your cook and join a food theme of your choice as a cook or as a eater - contrary to Uber they are MORE EXPENSIVE than an average diner. Where is the trick? Anyone gets poisoned - who's responsible?

Same about Uber? Who's responsible? Is anyone insured?

Sid does stuff

Ride sharing is Uber's short term game. Having fleets of driverless cars is the goal which put all taxis completely under and also make it much more pointless even owning a car

is like porn, adapt or die

Nice insight. 1st world thinking :) Urban dwelling.

I used to work in porn for a decade. Earned a couple of nominations. But never paid a dime for porn myself. Still it's a mystery to me who pays your fantasy?

I don't know how uber this days in different parts of Europe these days but in the US it slid down the evolution ladder. My very first uber ride was in Paris. Guy came to pick us up in Mercedes, drove us to downtown to our hotel and we sued his on our return trip as well. Ride was 20 euros cheaper than cab. Used it in Miami airport again and driver was driving Cadillac Escalade. Few weeks ago I used Uber and 5 feet tall ex-convict looking guy in wife beater shirt drove up in Ford Firebird. Had tools in his trunk, "suck on this" tattoo and had very heavy Alabama jive. I'm going to try Lyft during our Thanksgiving trip.

So no standard with Uber. No man would work as an Uber driver in Escalade becasue of good living conditions too. People gotta get real. An average mofo who needs to earn an extra dollar is what Uber driver is.

I love taking Ubers and then farting and then I accuse them of doing it.

I also love leaving used condoms on the floor in the back set...filled with hand lotion!

Uber's are great fun, I tell the driver that my Porsche is in the shop but their Toyota is "nice."

One of guys I know owns limo service. He told as example me before Uber got saturated with drivers and had any competition they were charging $50 for specific route, now it's $18. So Escalade guys left and now you have college students driving Honda Civic. Used to be classy, people had to wear tie and a dress shirt. Now its whatever..

A friend of mine started driving for Uber about two months ago. He only drives a few days a week and makes about $350-$500 per week. That is for about 15 hours a week.

My understanding is that earning depend a lot on when you work, what days you work, and where you work. He lives in an area where there aren't many other uber drivers and taxies are expensive so it is in demand.

All she said ! :thumbsup

Not too long ago a friend and I took a cab ride while downtown. It wasn't a long ride, maybe 5-8 minutes, but the entire time the cabbie bitched at us about people not tipping him. He finished his complaint with, "This isn't me telling you expect you to tip me, just talking." When we didn't tip him (mostly because the cab smelled like rotten cheese) he just scowled at us.

Hello Sid, I have to disagree here... :)

You, and pretty much all of us never paid for porn, of course it's our job, we have access to hundreds of members areas thru friends & partnerships (just like anybody have some perks related to their jobs, no matter what), but the regular Joe Shmoe who don't want to care about pops ads, viruses, want higher quality, whatever, will at some point pay for his porn (which is a good thing btw, otherwise we'd be ALL out of jobs here). THEY are the ones who put money in our commune $$ ...

Kenny told me something very clever once : Even with all the free water from the faucet, people still buy bottled water...

:2 cents::upsidedow:thumbsup

Back to Uber, everytime I used it, I had ONLY great experiences (here Mtl, EU, US), maybe because Cabs in Mtl are kinda bad, but so far, yeah I,d choose Uber before any angry cab driver :)

Uber rocks. About 50% less to take uber then a taxi, if you do multiple pickup it's like 30% of taxi.

I'll cut right through all the crap and say it like it is...

I don't use taxis OR Uber because I hate :

1) Paying some asshole that can't be bothered to learn the city but instead depends on GPS to tell him where to go.

2) Slob drivers that don't have an official uniform

3) Slob drivers don't hold the door open for me. (important at my age)

4) Pakistani, Hindu, African, etc. immigrant drivers.

5) Slob drivers that never bothered to learn how to drive.

I'll stick to driving my car and because of the construction nightmere going on in Montreal I'll often take my bike if I have to go into the city center.

never seem to work for me :(

uber is great.
very professional service, clean cars , good drivers behaviours .

Not sure if those times / conditions you want are gonna be back :\ But I hear ya.

I find Uber very convenient and safe (the app knows where you are and who is driving you)

That kid is so full of shit... just ignore anything he says.

I use Uber all the time, its awesome. RIP Taxis

Works for me, good for traveling cuz there's no chance to get ripped off. But once a very talkative driver invited me for dinner. I found it very strange. It isn't a dating service, is it?😂

I pride myself on trying to be the most non-racist prick in the world. So you know it's bad when I'm bitching about these taxi driving immigrant Pakistani, Arab, etc. They come to Canada and instead of learning how to drive here they continue to drive like maniacs in a 3rd world nation war zone

As for the rest,
I don't care what the job is I only pay professionals and this includes drivers. I would rather carry my suitcases from the airport and come home on a bus before I give a nickle to some GPS using twat wearing jeans.

My friends in the U.S. that can't get real jobs drive for Uber.

I use Uber all the time. I've had 3 drivers where the car wreaked of cigarette smoke and about 5 times where the driver was texting and driving (I HATE that).

Otherwise it's been great. No problems, no violence.

I got a tip that best times are morning because its business people in a rush to go to airport. Weekend and nights is when you get the drunks who vomit in your car.

I always give a cash tip and have a 4.95 rating :batman

in Poland they have to have registered company too

Right, I'm informed about that, that's why I noticed in the beginning many do that without registering individual business and get caught.

I like UBER