You can't 'start' one. Have to wait for Uber Malaysia to bring the service to Kota Kinabalu.

They recently expanded to Ipoh.

cannot do franchise for them in KK???

No, it doesn't work as a franchise.

When you're online & you "off" your phone screen, would you still get notified when a request pops in? For me even when I plugged my cable to my car's USB port, it's still draining my phone battery (it's using more power than its charging). So I was thinking to turn off the screen to save power, but worried my acceptance rate will drop if there's no notifications lol.

Uber did discourage us from putting the phone in standby mode when we are online, as there is a chance you won't get the notification.

I didn't try so far, but I know it does come in when the Partners app is running in the background.

Strange that your phone draws power faster than it charges. Try lowering the brightness of the screen?

my battery even died my i on a ride to sent a passenger even when the phone is plugged in, so i cant end the trip once o drop the rider off. i drove a while to charge the battery and turn it on but it already a few km from the spot i dropped the rider. saw the map it will be a one straight line.

I'm used to this level of brightness already. Gonna try one of these days if requests will be notified through locked screen or not. Normally running in the background; uber, music & waze.

You can request help from uber to adjust the fares. For instance when you took a wrong way & caused the fares to increase significantly, you can try to save your arse (or rating lol) by telling your rider that you'll adjust the fare to what it's supposed to be rightfully. Hopefully the rider will be less annoyed that way.

It's like when you're reimbursed with the wrong toll fares. Uber will further deduct from your passenger as a result of the adjustment.

You can also adjust the fares if you wanna give someone a free ride. One of my friend picked up a rider who's working for a charity organization. After sending the rider off, he requested Uber to waive the fares entirely for that rider.

TS, can you share what car are you driving and fuel consumption?
Thank you.

Hi,

Am presently using a Perodua Axia for Uber driving purpose.

On the average, petrol cost is about 20% of the income. I.e To make RM250 I will need about RM50 worth of petrol. But that's according to my driving style - I don't wait around, always on the move.

Thanks for your sharing

bro

I read this in the star today

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016...rivers-licence/

IPOH: The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) could either suspend the bus driver’s card or revoke the driving licence of the dri­ver who allegedly assaulted a passenger in an incident on Jan 25.

SPAD chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said action would only be taken after a tho­rough investigation by the police.

“The police will take action against the bus driver. SPAD will take action against the bus operator and the driver based on police investigations,” he said after visiting the Amanjaya Bus Terminal here yesterday.

Syed Hamid said SPAD would not compromise with private vehicle owners operating under the Uber service, if they violated regulations.

He said it was SPAD’s main objective to ensure vehicles operating on Malaysian roads had valid licences.

SPAD had previously stated that although the Uber app was not illegal, it was an offence as drivers did not possess public service vehicle licences. — Bernama


so Uber driver need to have public service vehicle PSV license after this?

IINM, it is clearly stated in their contract with you that you're the one who must get the necessary license to operate. So, yeah, it has always been.

Recently I became a Uber Partner for Ipoh market, I found out some people here like to troll us (driver) like ask for pick up, and cancel later. I encounter couple times already. Day 2 of driving today. PS, of course I only start driving when I call the customers confirm for the ride first.

This post has been edited by NightFelix: Feb 3 2016, 05:18 PM

Rm50 petrol per day?

Give and take, about RM50 per day to get about RM250

Ok to be honest , to purely drive and just earn fares everyday is not worth it all.

This is because, the more u drive the more fuel u consume and your car wear and tear increases. Yes u can drive from morning till midnight everyday but i can tell u, u wont be making much in all honesty.

To earn with Uber, u definately must earn their PHG with minimal trips . Reason being reduce fuel costs and wear and tear. It is when u earn peak hour guarantees is when u make money. Because its money u make without switching on your engine and running about.

So in order to make real money with Uber u need to do minimal number of trips during phg hours and do max trips during non peak hours. And u also have to monitor your ratio to make sure it is good.

As a conclusion, if u are aiming to earn money from just fares, u are wasting your time. Earning from PHG is a must!

how does the PHG works by the way? minimum 1 trips per hours?

Assuming the evening peak hour is 4pm-8pm.So you only need 1 trip to activate this block.

Assuming the Peak hour guarantee Tier 2 is RM 18 / hr so thats 18x4 = RM 72

Lets say the trip that you did is RM 15 nett , so Uber will do this calculation.

RM 72 -RM15 = 57

Out of the RM 57 , uber takes 20%

So you get RM45.60 top up

So assuming u did 1 trip in that 4 hours, switched off your engine , and then stayed online for that 4 hours without getting anymore requests, u will get the 45.60 topup for practically doing nothing.

So the trick is to do minimal number of trips in that 4 hours. But you also have to make sure your trips to hours online ratio is 0.75.

So you take your number of trips you did for the whole week( Mon - Sun) , divided by the number of hours you online.If you get 0.75 and above you are safe.

BTW, i am not a partner. I just did some analysis on their incentive scheme.

This post has been edited by Mamapapamsia: Feb 6 2016, 08:02 PM

One of the requirement to hit Tier 1 rates of PHG is you need to gross RM600 in fares per week, so you can't really sit around and do nothing

U go all out during non peak hours.

10am-11am
2pm-4pm
After 8pm

Plenty of time to do loads of trips