High passenger cancellations. KL was my playground. I live in Ampang, where else could I go? Jam but good incentive due to the amount of short trips. 60 hours, 220 trips a week was too easy to achieve, even tho jam. So it was like average 3.7 trips/hour. The last week of Ramadhan 2017, I did 300 trips in 75 hours. Ever since they changed the incentive scheme to 4 trips/hour, I hardly considered taking double digit trips unless it was supper surge. Sometimes, RM8 also I ignored. mostly RM7 and below. But still, I never missed my 85% AR. Of course, the high passenger cancellations contributed to the AR. 10 months driving, I completed almost 7000 trips. Over 1000 trips cancelled by passengers.
10 months, my total incentive payout is in excess of RM40k. Within that 10 months, I had like 30 days off, holiday, balik kampung, work outstation. I have a fulltime job tho. So, I'm glad, I made the best out of the 10 months. I saw this coming. When I first started, I also asked alot of riders which were fresh graduates to take this opportunity to build up their financial savings. But now, things have changed. When incentive was good, there were a lot of drivers in KL, you won't get b2b booking with 20-30 minutes waiting time. E.g. dropping off at beach club, get b2b from pavilion, at 6.30pm on a weekday. These days, u will get alot of this so becareful, turn off the b2b until u really really almost drop off. The reduction in incentive and the removal of busy areas have sent false signal to alot of drivers. They avoided KL, thinking that they can't make money out of it. But drivers like me, without much choice, still had to drive in KL and I benefited from it. Even if I want to run away back home to Ampang, people in Ampang still want to go to KL. Hahaha! This is the trend, people in Ampang go to KLCC & Pavilion. People in Pandan & Maluri go to Berjaya Times Square. And these are all single digit trips. It was just too easy.
But sadly, these days, passenger cancelled, driver also kena and and I am very sure it's more about grab trying to kick out all the heavy incentive drivers. Instead of putting a ban on me, it could've been sweet if they told me, "thank you for your service, it's time for the new blood to take over, we cannot afford you anymore."
In your 10months of intensive jobs, have u actually tried to off the available button after pickup and noticed that it does not impact the guaranteed incentive?
Ive always wondered this.
Do recall u mentioning that u asked the trainer twice about this and they say as long as got passenger, still counted full guaranteed earnings.
I am not entirely convinced abt this till now.
Some folks here suggesting off available after pickup in kl and off back before drop off, will this work?
Thanks a bunch for info sharing, most of us wont be continuing for long grabbing btw.