One strategy I can foresee is that morning and daytime fulltimers will accept all jobs to build up bullets, then use them during evening rush hour, when or if unlucky they use it up early, go home and offline. So then riders find that 7pm onwards why no drivers and fare surge 99 for the few flexi drivers on the road. And as for KL city center....better just go take teksi again, good luck finding a grab driver.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 2 2017, 10:52 PM

I think if you do part time 3-4 hours grab also prefer you do Flexi (seems like the new structure is designed that way)

but boss....if flexi...weekend also have to flexi... pancing ikan at KLIA/TBS sunday night?

No, I think you are right too.

E-hailing has really disrupted our local transportation scene, to the point that all stakeholders (drivers, riders, transport company) are still adjusting their tactics to maximize their benefit. Everytime one party adapts, the other party will adjust and come up with new tactics. The disruption is pretty huge and new, hence the pace of change for each party is much faster then in the old days (timescale is like weeks or months rather then years and years for the old teksi/bas).

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 2 2017, 11:26 PM

This week less mapren, all lying low after recent raid in Flora Damansara last weekend.

if driver rating reset daily I will cry... worked really hard for my 4.91 rating (after 600+ratings)😪

yup...I think this daily refresh especially on CR is to discourage specifically drivers cancelling on high fares. Reject one job, owe six, Cancel one job, owe nine...which one better? Cancelling is only for last resort such as no shows, not to save AR.

Like yhtan said, better also to take some high fares as insurance incase you dont make the daily requirement. No more collect $50, incentive $100 days...
eg...yesterday I took in $200 while gross (with incentive) was only 260...I still owed 4 jobs to make up my AR to 85%. With daily refresh, if something happens or the last few pings are all to KLIA...at least can call it a day and go home with $200.

Over time should be more equal distribution of type of jobs to every driver, not just a few sapu all the short jobs and then last half hour get bombed with high fares for the rest. Ofc full timers still have advantage since they start from morning and have the P hours to build bullets.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 09:50 AM

Take high fares during peak hour, same as before.

I think Grab also implementing new surge model during peak hours....riders not adjusting yet hence a lot of GS.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 09:52 AM

how was it? DId you get GS pings and if so, did you take any high fare GS ones?

that is because too many adopt this strategy, hence nobody take high fare... with new system over time the distribution of these jobs should become more evenly distributed... one or two high fare job won't kill your daily earning.. problem becomes when some drivers don't take ANY high fare at all. this was not the intention of GRAB when they introduce incentive...
also with new system, is safer to have more fare collection also in case anything happens when the day is almost over.. you don't want to have rm160 fare at night after 40 trips and potentially rm290 incentive, then suddenly at 1130pm you get multiple klia trips and a few no shows... all your hard work for the day gone.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 01:04 PM

In KV we all became too gila about chasing incentives, that is why. For example say at 1230pm Friday a $30 job comes in. Instead of taking it most ignore it because they thinking "damn, I cant maximize the next hour block of incentive lor". Mostly the $15-30 riders suffer cannot get drivers.

those 1:2 fare:incentive ratio drivers are the ones who will be wiped out with this system. it was not the intention of Grab to pay them all incentive and have them only take short trips.. rather it's to compensate those times we get $4 jobs but then get stuck in hour jam.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 01:55 PM

'Building bullets' to ignore jobs is precisely the reason why they have to change the system. Better just to adjust mindset to "earn xx amount a day, accept most jobs". Not saying be a kuli and accept 100% jobs, but just be less choosy/target only short trips (no more monkeyboy style). CR no control sometimes, just like 1*. If that day is your bad luck to have a lot of no shows....call it a day and go home with fare collected. Too many of those days....consider gantung kunci until system is changed (hopefully). I expect this wont be the last change Grab will be making.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 02:03 PM

replace with $350 fare la

now you know the perils of waiting at 1u 😁

more like 12 jobs in five hours...

incentive in... thank you Grab for paying me the 20% of fare cashbacks !😁👍

I think this was during the infamous new year's eve surge. The article is a bit disingenuous...yes the metered taxi fare would be only around $25... BUT... how easy is it to get a teksi at that time, AND we all know the teksi all follow the meter during these super peak period right ? (actually teksi's have been practicing dynamic pricing for years oredi...if you know what I mean )

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Oct 3 2017, 11:01 PM

Today first time ever I managed 4 trips per hour for every hour from 4-8pm weekday....never happen to me before and I kept expecting some long trip bomb...but only rejected one GS from Quill 9 to Bukit Jalil ($21 at 6 something).

Youre not Grab Ambassador yet (or Pro) so your incentive is probably based on Flexi structure.