Yesterday RM115 for 6 hours. 7am to 2pm.
Today morning 9 - 10am and 3pm+ to 9pm , RM100 for 7 hours.
OMG!! around RM30 - 40 petrol per day. 200 kilometres.
What do I earned? Gotta register for GRAB tomorrow.

He still can use Taxi what, he know Uber is cheap and trying to fish newbie driver

Going both way KL-Seremban would require 130-150km easily, fuel cost alone will need about RM20-25 already. Come back toll charges RM8-10, end up profit RM20+

I haven't factor in maintenance and car cost yet.

at least he called and let you know where he will be heading. imagine not knowing before hand. he got on the car and you swipe start trip. location: Seremban. and you already set target that gonna be the last trip, tired and wanna go home. will be in a very very sticky situation.

Can we just cancel that trip? Any known consequences?

I actually have a trick/way, but I don't know whether to tell or not - because it's kinda evil.
Lemme know if you guys want to know tomorrow.


True, always charge at least an additional 50% to cover your empty car back.
This trip is in the middle of the night somemore, confirm 100% no return trip.


This rate has been going on for quite a while already.
Normally is around ~rm20 per hour, with quest bonus maybe ~rm25 per hour.
If unlucky, maybe only ~rm15 per hour.


Used to have target previously.
But everytime also caused additional stress, cos most of the time also disappointed.
Nowadays, I drive without target and so I feel more relaxed.

it happened to me last month that i received a ping from jalan sultan, near petaling street. once arrived there, saw 3 fat european ladies with their big back packs. helped them load the bags in my boots and swiped 'start destination'... it showed chulia street, penang. i almost pengsan. it was only my second day of driving and didn't know what to do... so i just quickly canceled the trip and picked not to charge rider some more... told them i can't go penang. they were all in the car already and asked me what to do. i told them to take ets train from kl sentral. they agreed and i sent them to kl sentral free of charge if it happens again, i would just ask them to change destination instead of cancelling it. asked them how much was the ride to penang and it was just RM265. worth it?

Not worth it.

U sure ets train ended up in Penang?

Guys, it's been a while since my last post.

Regarding some bros concern on the trip that much more further than what you wanted to drive, you can do the following :-

1) You can and you should reject outstation trips if you are not ready to drive that far and you will make a big loss. Kindly tell the rider it is out of your driving radius and end the trip by drop off, the fares will show zero and rider no need pay anything. Put a remark on that particular booking. Rider can request driver again and try their luck.

2) You should ask for an additional op-up for long-distance trip. Eg, RM150 to Melaka (from Uber apps), you should ask additional RM100 for empty car return, if they don't agree, cancel the trip.

3) Out of city trip, return tolls should be bared by rider (stated in Uber).

Hope this helps!

Penang 1 way at least you need to charge RM500 offline trip bro.

If no mistaken, once we start the trip, rider can rate us even if we cancel it later in our app. So need to talk to the rider nicely for rejecting their trip.

Stupig and newbie question..I had a pickup over the weekend..there was 3 riders..

One of the rider requested me to drop him off to his house first (not part of the destination request, even with the new multi-stop feature)..

Then only I dropped off the other 2 riders to the requested destination..do I get paid for the detour?

If the fare took you further, yes, if it's still inside the upfront fare calculation, then it's a nope...if not using too much time, tutup mata je la bro....

+1

Another bad day at PJ with 2x boost empty car for 30 minutes

Ublur is not the charity organization....think!!!

but once in a blue moon, u may get lucky.

This post has been edited by bcombat: Jun 21 2017, 01:23 PM

Check back the route. See the trip, minute? and km? calculate back to check the fare is correct or not.
if you are underpaid, send in a trouble ticket report. mention that got detour as rider ask for it. you will get compensated.

for boost / incentive, how the hour is defined? say from 2pm - 4pm is boost 2x. is it time is accepted time or start trip time or complete trip time? if i accept trip at 1:55pm, but start trip at 2:05pm, is it got boost? if accept trip at 3:55pm but start trip at 4:05pm, got boost?

same thing to me yesterday... started in pj during noon time but drove for 30 mins without a request ping. got fed up and drove back home without a single trip yesterday.
today a bit lucky... landed in ss2 after my 3rd trips around 12pm. got a request ping in ss2 to send rider to setia alam and the boost was 2.1x. so the earning inclusive of RM2.40 toll was RM48 in total. 10 mins b4 dropping the rider, another ping came in... to send rider to titiwangsa bus station. but this time without surge nor boost and the earning was rm28.

When the request comes in.