driving uber has worse income than normal taxi driver, its only suitable for those who unable to calculate the true p&l and risk.

ts's 16 hours to earn RM100 assuming petrol/maintenance is half of RM200 gross profit. and bearing the occupational risk and driving hazard, even the old school taxi drivers are laughing at uber drivers because they enjoy way better incentives than you.

uber drivers dont get paid for tolls, internet data, car maintenance, journey to pick up passenger, journey back home, no subsidy for ngv if install own cost, no fringe benefits, healthcare, saman, no EPF, no SOCSO, pay own insurance, risk getting caught and car confiscated etc.

its worse than working as a promoter who gets RM10/hour NETT for 16 hours work its RM160, those who can't do the maths will drive uber.

if you like to be abused, drive uber, the worse employer in town, who is not even an employer actually, because when u get into shit, u are only a digit to them.

GROSS RM50 (probably 4 hours job)

minus: petrol, toll, car maintenance, idle/waiting time in between booking, heavy internet data usage, time-to-pickup own cost, journey-go-home own cost, traffic jam, robbery/saman/accident/authority confiscation risks, yet need to wait for your 'salary'. Better call yourself a slave rather than own boss.

NET AT BEST RM20 for 4 hours job, better work in MacD nicer.

Risk Potentially -RM2000 or more.

imagine say your home at wangsa maju, you pick up first customer go to kl sentral, then someone else there in kl sentral goes to putrajaya, then from putrajaya someone else ask to go sepang.

unlike normal taxi driver who can choose base on destination, uber (the master) dont allow uber driver (the slave) to choose which destination to fulfill, often driver will go back empty car paying double the trip/toll done. in above example, empty car bark from sepang to wangsa maju.

since here so many uber rider, if u want to prebook just post here and let them confirm your order here lol.

go ahead. the impact is more efficient, competitive, healthy economy, hence taxi get paid less as app base transport service provide way more convenient, efficiency, and accountability.

took me only max 2 days to realize that driving uber isnt going cut it.

It would be delusional to think of it as a job,

and insanity to think of it as a business, most of them do not know how to even define 'business' properly.

however its absolutely rational if u think of it as a form of 'voluntarily slavery'. I mean, come on, life has so much to offer you, why do you have to treat yourself cheaply, like sold your life to uber?

having said that, uber is indeed a paradise for passenger. I just wrote these out of pity of drivers who are hard working as if they have no other alternatives, these bunch of hardworking people deserve more than just these peanut payout, however uber passenger is king.

Uber's 25% is cut throat if anyone still want to defend it go ahead.

Running an online app to get 25% of all transportation cost is essentially awesome if you are in the cooperation, this is hundreds of thousand commission overriding business EACH DAY. Totally awesome business model from business point of view.

But, how on earth they charge 25%?! Even fund managers charge 15-20% for wealth building, agent of telco gets 3% selling prepaid cards. Who do they think they are charging at such premium while the poor drivers bear all the risks?

If you have not realized yet, the US based company has invaded worldwide transportation economy, this time without producing any tangible product like the Apple did, without ANY responsibility attached to the business, they are reaping it like no other business did in history.

Look at it this way, there isn't any positive economy impact to our country when all the profit goes back to america in USD, neither any positive impact to the drivers' family, whose father business driving days and nights.

Only short sighted person would get hyped up by the concept of freedom (which actually a slavery trust me) and income (which actually liability and expenses) that the uber marketing projected to the public.

How many uber drivers here actually has a Public Service Vehicle (PSV) License?

do you realize that uber doesnt care if you dont have one and yet approve you to drive?

think along the line...

This is the reason why being a taxi drivers is always better than uber driver, that you always can pick up passenger anywhere on the way without waiting for the stupid apps to do the job for you.

For those who like driving uber so much, you guys should be taxi drivers really.

Once you get your taxi, simply display a logo somewhere to show that you are also a uber/grabcar driver. Get yourself 2 phones, install both apps separately and on it. Guarantee you make money like nobody business.

This post has been edited by lowya: Jun 17 2016, 02:40 PM

its ok if you still didnt get the massage, already the taxi driver is one of the worse job in malaysia, but u chose the worse then taxi kind.

i think before i type, did u read between the lines?

clearly you conveniently misquoted me, "one of the worse job" is not "the worse job"

in case you are not aware, when people type something it's always means IMHO,

if it's fact, you can rebute. If it's of different opinion, you can disagree.

i dont need your english lesson, because you have failed to read between the 2 significant meaning of basic english.

in case you wonder why i mentioned these, i just want to highlight that you deserve better than driving uber, as i have personally experienced it, it's not worth your time and health, i was trying to help people with better option in life, but driving uber is definitely a no no as my friendly advise.

i am happy that you should your thoughts, but next time please remember that the one who actually give a fuck to what u do is the one who care to tell you something, meaningful.

sure i can share, but no in specific..

in uber, you trade your time (which is limited and the more u spend, the less healthy you get, which in the end you pay all the money you earn back to get your health fixed) for money, essentially you are a worker (not employee), an uber slave imho cause ordinary workers gets fringe benefits given my full understanding of it's system.

most people do no know what to do with their life because in the early days they didn't acquire any skills that is marketable, or they have it but not well polished, or just simply don't know how to market it.

I am pretty sure everyone is talented in some way, but driving (is a skill) is not a talent if u ask me, so ask yourself if u need my help, what is your talent that you are able to use to help other people solve their problems, this is the first step.

how can you turn a skill to a talent? for example, if you driving is your skill and passion, you can use it more specifically if you polish it into a talent, for example a race car driver, but i am not implying that it's suitable in malaysia.

Or.. if you know how to market your skills, try look into a niche that needs your specific skills (if it's not a talant yet), for example, people who need special need in transportation, are you able to market yourself into these niche markets? marketing is another skills you need to acquire if you choose to go into marketing yourself.

i can go on, but u need to share what you want in details and what u can do.

what is the job of CID if victim need to prove themselves getting the service from police as a citizen who paid tax?

giving this type of statement shows that they don't care about the victim, and they forgot that they are police and not judge.

So much evidence, incl mentioning eye witnesses, still want what proof in order to get their ass off to work?

Confirm make the public avoid the gangster taxi drivers even further, stupid gangster will get lesser customers from now on.

The more taxi do this, the more people will take uber / grabcar.

rider can move the map to the exact location, its not gps issue, if only rider knows how to read a map.

during my 2 days uber driving trial (which gave up after 48 hours), i had 2 nasty customers, both agree for me to on my trip early:

1. stuck on traffic jam on the way to pick her up, she called said so near but why so long and she gave bad feedback. Reached there pick her up very short distance ride and done the trip.

2. another one also woman, gave a location that cannot be found, turn and there endlessly, called no answer in the end.

ended up both gave bad rating, lots of riders don't know it's tough to drive uber to get paid so little. They paid peanut and yet expect chauffeur on time service. Uber has no intention to protect drivers, cause the one wish cash is king.

these days the police became judge already, they know 'their facts' without investigation.

i wonder how many Uber Black drivers here...

pay your friends to do short 10 trips (average 1km) to get rm200 woohoo!

finally u agreed...