it is the airport, he was already there waiting for passengers. already can see his car immediately when requested for one.

but he damn kns ask me cancel even though it is his car which cannot fit my luggage
they should add a function to set ratings of drivers which is in cancel status.... now i remember reporting one guy too, saw he was eta 10 mins, so i call him and inform him my precise location so no more delay long, he said ok ok otw.... after 6-7mins, he cancel my ride. have to submit request wait another 10mins for another uberx to come -.-

start trip after 5 minutes? as in when rider is inside car, only press start trip counting after 5 mins???

not reasonable fair request and its might post danger to everyone to press start trip when the car on the move!

Out of curiosity, what phone you using? Nexus? Motorola?

Had one request where the rider cannot even describe her location and even the location she gave is not correct. Pointed me to somewhere far off where she was waiting for me... had a cat and mouse hunt looking for her.

guess my lower rating is due to me holding the phone while driving.. .need to get a phone holder asap

Thnks.
So we call but can reject if destination isn't suitable for us right? Will that cause us a low rating frm uber?
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Hmm. Possible to request cross state?

Hi i would like to ask, if the rider is going to KLIA which is fixed rate of Rm75 from anywhere in Klang Valley, but they want to go pick up their friend first,say about 20kms away. Can i end the trip at the friend's house and start a new trip to KLIA? And how do i do that?

Some potentials
1) Trips near to areas which are having flash floods
2) Trips to areas having demonstrations

I meant as if we r driving in island and there is request to mainland. Penang mainland is quite big. Could be an hour or more for a trip if forth and back. Plus u pay tol only coming back and not going out.

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

Serious? busy hours so early in the morning?

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...  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

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!

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.

This is what drivers rate you

For mutual understanding. I think we rider should let the driver start trips to our pickup point because it consists of tolls. Uber are very fussy, driver are hard to claim back the tolls fee if the tolls occur before your pickup point.

As a perspective of driver, they don't give a damn to us. As a perspective of rider, I think we shouldn't take advantage of this loophole abuse driver.

So if you agree with he start trips first to your pickup point, let it be. If you doesn't agree with it, cancel it and request another one, if you ask driver cancel, driver will have his acceptance/completion rate dropped. So we should cancel our-self as a rider. The drivers must be kind enough to keep on rate you as 5 stars.

i once had to call the customer to cancel because i need to make a u turn far in front as i was in DUKE, customer had to wait for 18 mins till i arrived, so i told the customer to cancel and re-request because i thought he would get another driver who's much closer than i am then

The problem is that currently there is problems with Uber mapping logic and differences with drivers expectation versus riders expectation

If I am not wrong, the matching of driver and rider is based on geographical distance between driver and rider, not on route. For example, the rider may just opposite road of the rider, but, what the system failed is that the road is a huge major highway, and the driver may need to drive further 20km to U-turn back to pick up the rider, and all these will take time, cost and maybe toll. And, the problem is that if the driver did not accept the ride request, it will affect their ride acceptance %, which will impact their incentives, or worst case, suspended by Uber. To add further to the frustration, some of the ride distance even shorter than the distance that the driver need to cover to pick up the rider. Anyway, I always take it as pinch of salt, give and take, just don't complain. What pissed me off is that rider will unhappy why you take such long time to arrived, or accepting their request, and make a big fuss on that. Calling the rider to inform them, well, this even further eat up the driver operating cost.

Second is that many of the rider misunderstood Uber driver as taxi nor your personal driver. Uber are not taxi!!!!! It is a ride sharing app, where the driver agree to use his/ her personal vehicle to ferry the rider to their intended destination. If the rider expect immediate availability of driver right in front of you, or expect driver wait for you while you taking your own sweet time meddling your own stuff (driver are not suppose to start the trip before the rider entered the car), the rider incurred additional cost, and worst still, some area, there is no waiting allowed, or being surrounded with taxi (we try to keep as low profile as possible, to avoid trouble with taxi), so, these riders are really equivalent to what rogue taxi drivers to passengers, which I will usually rate them low.

As mentioned numerous time, it really take 2 party co-operation and mutual respect for each others for the success of the Uber.