If your car qualifies for Uber Black, you would be less likely to think of earnings. Probably more towards passing time productively.

You have to complete 100 trips on UberX before you can apply for Uber Black. So yea, you need to use your Lambo for UberX first.


For those worrying about taxi, yes they're upset at Uber drivers for "stealing" their business & intruding their area. So with that in mind, just be a lil more tactful;

1) Don't hang around taxi areas waiting for requests. You'll still get requests if you're chilling at the housing area or under the trees near the mall.

2) Don't display your Uber Partner app obviously in your car. Just leave it running online at the background.

3) When drop off at taxi area, just drop off, wave your hand to your riders like buddies & quickly drive out. End the trip few minutes later when you're on the road.

4) When pick up at taxi area (malls), call the rider & see if it's possible to pick up at a "safer zone". You need to be familiar with the malls to do this. A lot of experienced riders would be more than happy to comply as they wanna avoid incidents too.

5) Once in a while, you'll get ignorant or new riders. So it's alright to educate them on how to avoid incidents with taxi drivers eg sit in front, avoid taxi areas etc. Do this for the sake of our brother in arms out there.

Part time, lack of discipline 😅
My 1 week payout is just slightly over your 1 day payout lol.

It was fun in the beginning when we're chasing trip counts. But now it's kinda dull already.

You're really hard working la, 1 days >RM300

I've been getting slightly below RM1k cause I'm not doing 100% in hotspot area. I've been relying on the incentives, that kinda shows my area is still lacking in riders.

Yea, gone are the days you can get big bucks easily la. Uber reduced the incentives a lot & also the rates. So I see more like extra pocket money only. Those doing full time have to pour in long hours to get the big pay cheque.

Another thing to look forward to are the "interesting" passengers

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.

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.

These are the conditions;

1) Half of the request must come from the hotspot aka core areas. So if you have 1 trip in core area & 2 trips in non core area in that particular time block, you won't qualify.

2) At least 4.3 rating (pretty easy to achieve this, so it's negligible).

Personally I've been trying to benefit from the guaranteed fares, these are my findings;

1) If you're in the hotspot area, you'll generally earn more than the guaranteed fare. Hence like TS said, it's NOT an incentives, it's merely a safety net. For instance, 11am to 2pm for Tier 2, it's guaranteed RM18 per hour but usually you can earn more than RM54 by being online 11am to 2pm in popular areas like PJ, Bangsar, Mont Kiara etc.

2) You'll get trolled somehow. I got a trip at PJ around 4pm. So after the trip, I quickly drove back home (far from hotspot area) thinking of staying online until 8pm to buta buta earn the guaranteed fares. My kampung area hardly has any Uber drivers/riders, but this 1 fine day....the moment I reached home, I got a request.........to KL.

So in conclusion, don't bother with the so called "incentives". It's a safety net, just be online at your convenience.

To answer your question, no you can't rate drivers/riders if the trip was cancelled.

But you can report the driver/rider to Uber. Which seems like you did, so that part is done as well.

I understand your sentiments & frustration, but remember that rating & reporting works both ways. If it goes your way, drivers can also report riders who simply cancel trips. It's really open to abuse from both parties & thus inviting a lot of headaches for Uber.

There are riders that cancel the trip when they see "cheap cars" coming to pick them up. So try to understand our situation too.

Pretty common thing to happen. If possible, pull over soonest possible & ask if the rider wanna walk to you or wait comfortably wherever they are for a longer time. I had ladies willing to walk several minutes cause they're in a bit of a hurry.

There's this RM1 or 2 sticky pad which are easily available in Mr DIY. I'm using that to place my phone next to my 45 degree angled air cond vent. It's a sticky pad, not the anti slip pad, anti slip one may accidentally pop off when you hit a port hole or had a harsh bump.

What's the "kesalahan" written there? Kinda blurry

Hmm, that makes sense.

But honestly how do SPAD kantoi us besides their officers pretend to be riders? If it's like road block, I'd quickly turn off Uber app upon sight of those officers.

Yea thinking of letting things cooldown first.

All the while I'm quite flexible with riders sitting at the back. But moving forward, would probably request for them to sit in front.

I felt that recent is kinda quiet, I practically sat in PJ from 3.30pm to nearly 5pm without any requests twice already.

Also, any idea on SPAD's modus operandi to catch Uber/Grab Car drivers? I've been hearing warnings of SPAD's operations only but no idea how to even identify one even if I do spot them.

If below 4.3, you won't get any incentives at all.

1) Yes unless there's a surge.

2) No.

Usually when you call the rider & inform them your ETA, they won't cancel if they're agreeable to your ETA. There's no reason for them to do so unless they wanna troll you.

Cancellation more prone to happen for those that don't call the riders to clarify their location & manage their expectations. So if you don't wanna be driving far & through tolls & Kena cancelled last minute, spend that few RM to call the rider & be honest.

Another common reason to cancel is when the driver overpromised & couldn't arrive on time. If you don't know the way to your rider (100% rely on waze), either give a safe ETA with buffer time included or just be frank with the rider. If the rider is in a rush, tell them they have to choice to cancel & try to find another driver.

Some reasons why I rather pull over by the road & call;

1) New riders sometimes moved (by accident) their pinned location a bit during the requesting for driver part. So happened once in a while, the rider is easily at least 500m away from the actual location. No riders will ever admit that they made that mistake cause they don't realize it. So I call to get a rough idea where exactly they are e.g. ask for name of shops, house number, landmark etc.

2) Request made at a busy road or worse; busy junction in KL. We're always thankful when the experienced rider knows how to key in the exact address where they are. But again, new ones will just use their current location instead. So we don't know which side of the road the rider is at, if you end up on the opposite side & end up having to make a long u-turn or jam your way through the other side of the road, it's more frustration for both you & the rider.

3) Uber's mapping logic goes haywire once in a while. To the rider, you're 4 minutes away as declared by Uber. But realistically you're easily 10 minutes away due to nature of the road. You drive to the rider, but after 5 minutes, rider cancelled the trip thinking you're not coming.

I'm not even a full timer & yet i get into trouble frequently when I tried to save some money on the calls lol. Maybe it's just me being really unlucky or perhaps I'm driving in unpopular areas that tend to get new riders a lot. Sometimes i wish that when i bumped into those kinda problems, the riders would just cancel the trip....but nooo, they didn't cancel & i ended up getting upset riders that totally KO my ratings after drop off

Might get into some situations la.

My first was this father & son flying flying, trying their luck with UberX instead of UberXL. Fortunately managed to squeeze their luggage into my backseat too. So it's a lil uncomfortable la.

Then those with baby prams, the long ones couldn't fit into my car boot, so have to bring it to front passenger side. Poor family have to squeeze behind.

On a side note, anyone had parcels as their passenger before?

That's a wise move by the rider. Unlike mine, see small car also dunno didn't cancel. Drove all the way to them to get surprised.

Bersangka baik lol

Cheers, same here. Must be driving in non core areas haha.