hahaha grabshare now restricted to popular areas only.... also commission rate 25% for new grab drivers (registered after 13 Aug...)... taking a page from Uber

but for me, GS is still acceptable as there is chance to get 2nd rider or even with 1, we are given less comm to crapcar. (self comfort)

i would keep my bullet to ignore those pick up more than 5km one.

every week, my AR is very marginal at 85 plus 1%-2%.

CR has to be maintained ard 5-6%, just worry later crapcar suddenly say my passenger cancellation cases is more and then i incentive burn..

I'm gonna try to see if can still order GrabCar at 130am. I'm at selayang hospital taking care of my father and I think this week I will do less then 50 trips

I like Uber system.

1. Airport queue
2. Waiting time countdown
3. Rm5 cancelation refund
4. Better driver payment system.
5. Sync with Waze is better.
6. Destination trip
7. Passenger rating
8. Ability to track tge route taken
9. Toll included in fare
10. CS is more professional

What i dont like

1. Cannot see destination and fare.

Grab has so many things that need to be learnt from Uber

About fare. Opkos the 25pcnt commision is a turned off. And their surge no better than Grab. And their cash Kingquest getting lower and lower

Personal opinion, i see no reason why i wud go back to Uber. Drivers also lesser. Need to go as far as 7km to pickup point. Crazy

U have to understand the meaning of Guarantee.

If they RM50 means if u do 4 trips in MP u sure will get rm50. Even though all of the 4 trip were rm 3 trips

Rm3 x 4 = rm12 only right

With rm50 guarantee, they will topup rm38 for you.

11. Ublur Pick up locations are more accurate...

Cash king quest - those with limited time + higher payout one (such as 6-9am quest) are not easy to hit the target..it is more challenging than than it looks..

Ublur cs - generally more pro than crapcar but having difficulty to understand driver mindset and real life driving challenges....simple thing like why driver need to cancel the trips occasionally.

Upfront fare calculations is lower than actual trips + distances...sometimes assuming there is no jam but in fact it was heavily jam.

Wrong pick up and drop off location the fare are not auto fixed. Either u kawtim  with rider or call cs to fix.

But if pickup differ by a few meters ok la. If a few km then u report

When I was driving grab, 60 hours a week can earn RM2.2k easily.  Half fare, half incentive.  But these days, grab dont have much $ to keep up with the incentives.  Incentive drivers like me got kicked out from the system.  Even the incentives block weekend are now greatly reduced.  I remember I made RM490nett on a saturday, 7am-8pm with only 1 hour break, 10-11pm.  Those days are gone.

Because drivers avoid KL city center.....

2.2.k was 2 weeks ago.  Now, I got kicked out already.

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."

Yes, I made >2k/week.  But because I was playing incentive, my mileage was lower than playing fare.  I serviced my car once every 7 weeks.  Weekly petrol around RM300 and my car fuel consumption considered high.  It's KIA.  If you drive axia or bezza and play incentive, your petrol should be less.  Throughout the 10 months, I only change the tyres 1 (4 numbers) and brake pads 1 sets (4 pieces).  I can say that my cost was like 20% if my earnings.

We used to have >HP from 6-10am and then 4-9pm.  Doing 9 hours a day >HP, even with 4 trips incentive scheme, if you are good, u can easily earn RM300 nett (after commission deduction).   On Friday, if you tahan to drive 6am-9pm, with only 1 hour break, 10-11am, u can easily earn RM500 nett (after commission deduction).

Saturday now, very low incentive.  During my time, >HP was from 7-10am, and then 11am-9pm.  With that 1 hour break, I could easily make >RM400 nett.

Try not to do grab full time.  They can change their pollicy, incentive scheme anytime.  They can also ban you anytime.  I met a two year old driver that was recently banned due to driving skill.  Sudden brakes.  U drive in jam area, sure got sudden brakes.  This one also kena banned.  Even when 200 passengers give u 5* but with 1 passenger complaint, u will kena warning.

If u have a full time job now, don't quit.  I took grab as a quick fix to financial issues.  I saved more than 60% of my earnings from grab.  Now i can plan to do something else with that saving.

This is my experience.  What u can do is to give it a try.  Don't straight away buy a new car and get committed, unless buying a new car has already been in your plan.  Drive for 2-3 weeks and learn how u can minimize your cost and maximize your profit.

if yur AR/SR/CR still not lowest than grab required..dont worry

Can la. Else how monkey sifu achieve 8k per month.

Mon to Thurs, 6am to 10am, 5pm to 8pm total 28 block
Friday work lIke cow full day 6am to 10pm with 2 hours break total 16 block
Sat 2pm to 10pm is 9 block
Sun 4pm to 10pm is 7 block.

total block is 60 hours

Give it all block is HP for easy calculation
, one hour get 3 trips... means get gross $40 per block. Per week can get 2.4k gross. Take oUT 20% comms and 20% petrol. Nett earn per week around 1.4k, one month already more than 5k

Of course this 5k including incentive

so 6 working days weekly with 2-trip per hour contribute to 3.6-4k nett per month (after less 20% commission and petrol).  My old days, like Monkeyboy, could easily earn 5k nett by driving on weekdays, off for 2 days per week (weekends).
The situation mentioned above is based on my driving style, as I want to maintain a balanced healthy lifestyle instead of driving non-stop just because I'm a full time driver...  You may exceed 4k nett surely by driving on P blocks or be a fare driver but long working hours, or else, 7 days.  If you can accept 3-4k nett income monthly, then go ahead, but like what others suggested, do try driving before getting a new car.  Cheers!