what happens if an uber driver paid toll to go to a rider's pick up location. Does the toll can be reimbursed ?

No

Serious? busy hours so early in the morning?

I am also confused by this when I receive it every week.

I think what it means by Busy is the number of riders is much more than the number of drivers during those time. Demand much much more than supply.

Hi... I am new here and also a new Uber driver.

I just want to share some of my experience about driving Uber so far. I started driving yesterday night from 8am-11.30pm. Total 2.20 hours online.
Trip 1 - Damansara - One Utama Net earnings 3.74
Trip 2 - TTDI - KLIA Net earnings 63.65 (inclusive toll 7.40)
Trip 3 - KLIA2 - Damansara Perdana 63.65 (inclusive toll 7.40)
Trip 4 - Damansara Perdana - Cheras Net earnings 24.20 (inclusive toll 3.00 + Surge 9.42)

Day 2 started 8am - 9.30
Trip 1 - TTDI - Cyberjaya Net earnings 58.30 (inclusive toll 6.00 +
surge 38.04)
Trip 2 - Taman Desa - Damansara Jaya Net earnings 14.77 (inclusive toll 4.50)

Estimated payout is 228.31
-) Toll -28.30
-) Petrol (approx.) -70.00

Net earning 130.01

Total time on the road approx. 4 hours.

My personal feedback is driving is quite easy especially if you met some nice rider and chat with them (if they initiate) chat with them and also learn something from them. Quite relaxing. If we are driving it as part-time, this job doesn't require you to use alot of brain and it may be a good option.

I think driving to KLIA is good provided you can secure another rider from KLIA back to town. Another tips is also to drive under surge where you can get alot more money for the ride.

One thing I don't like is that the system will not tell us where is the destination until we pickup the rider. Since this is similar to a 'call cab" services, it will be better to let the driver know where is the destination before we confirm whether or not to accept the trip. For example, my trip 1 on Day 2, from TTDI to Cyberjaya with surge of 2.2x. I think very minimal people will take Uber in Cyberjaya in the morning and I had to return to town without any rider. The base fare for this trip is 31.70. Imagine if it is without surge, the based fare 31.70 - 7.93(uber fee) = 23.77 for this trip and I also have to pay at least 3.00-6.00 toll to get back to town area.

Verdict: easy and not stressful part-time. fun to meet more people. But you won't make much money driving it part-time. If you want to earn extra, try to drive in surge area... the amount can be quite significant if the surge is 2x and above. My humble few cents

Surge is like a joke. So many times i go to surge area (either online all d way or offline first the online there) the surge counter goes off. And rider requests, i get normal rate. Rarely i'd get a surged fare. Waste my petrol n toll money.

Maybe others have better luck. But i asked another driver he said the same thing.

Hi Schok. I am new and had only experienced 2 surge trip so far. Both also happened when I was near the surge area... so kind of lucky for me. Maybe it is not worth to drive long distance to surge area.

Do you mean you picked up rider or passed by surge area?

Don't waste your time chasing the surge. Surge happens when that area has less drivers than riders. If all of you also rush there，there will be enough cars already and the surge will reduce or go off.

Moreover, not many people will take a surge ride, mostly expats only.

Just hang around if you are in a surge area, and hope for one. Don't waste petrol and toll to rush there if you are not.

Even if you remove the surge of about RM50 from your nett nett RM130, you still made RM80 from 4 hours work, that's RM20 per hour. What kind of part time pays RM20/hour.

Anyway, your sample size is too small now to make a conclusion whether it's worth it for you or now, drive for a while more and you can get a clearer picture.

Good luck!

Thats what i do, wait around the surge area. But most of the time when i am in it, there is no more surge or rider request comes up when there is no surge. Then whats the point notifying us about surges? Its just a tool to pull drivers into an area.

I was in the surge area and received the ride request.

Quick question guys. I went for the briefing at Partner Center today. Do you know how long for my account to be activated so I can start go online and earning?

Thanks!

Should be immediate if all your documents complete and submitted.

I doubt so. Need to attend training session 25 mins, and wait for your queue for activation. Lucky going on week day less people, maybe took one hour or so. I went on weekend that i have 70+ queues before me.

I thought he said he already went for all this.

oh ya. i think he forgot to go do activation on counter? If did then can online already.

This post has been edited by JungWoo: Mar 10 2016, 10:52 AM

Says here you are a member of uber momentum the minute you're signed up, so are you supposed to receive a momentum card? i haven't received mine yet
http://www.momentummalaysia.com/partner-re...general-rewards

Sounds like there are an operation by SPAD at Sunway today right now. I got an msg and photo forward from another group, one of the driver get caught. hmmm...

Where is the news?
What happen to those driver once they get caught??