What they should do is implement ACE incentive.Then these 1-2km rides will suddenly become most desirable trips

the real killer is the upfront fare, i first took Uber in year 2016 and it is still running on meter basis.

The breakdown of KM and mins is clearly stated there, with this upfront fare it is just not so transparent anymore, back then the issue is driver driving using longer route to cheat on the KM and mins, other than that it was fine.

Uber should raise its base fare to match with Grab, their short trip is crazily cheap compare to Grab. Hence u all as drivers can see a lot 5 stars rider popping out and some behaving like shit (pin wrong location and ask u to wait).

Aku. Got it 2/3 days ago.

Some riders really idiot. Expect us to wait at entrance of shopping malls? Cannot la. The guard will halau. After halau they expect us to make a big round?

Today kena again. Luckily it was Uber. I already reached there like 2 or 3 minutes, then she call me and ask me to wait 5 minutes. Hahahahahaha.... 

Then I get another ping from that same entrance. I ask rider to walk to me because I park a short distance from the entrance. Haha. So far DR belum jatuh. Wait tomorrow and see.

Basically the 1st rider punya cancellation fee paid for my traveling distance to pick up the 2nd rider. 

Hope this post will be useful for those new to UG.

having completed >10k UberX trips, 0.2mil km and having kept data since day 1, the daily goal is to achieve rm1(nett of commission) for every km driven. Reset your trip meter every time you start your day so that this can be tracked throughout the day. Will call it a day should this target drift near 0.50/km.

This 1/km is impossible to achieve without the incentives which is
1. Boost (1.1-2.1x)
2. Quest/flash quest (1.30-9.70/trip) btw FQ is extinct now
3. Ace (useless if you make use of 1&2)

1 &2 is announced every Thursday/Sunday evening, so that's the time to work out your schedule for the next few days.

Average speed 21kph. Goes up if more airport trips.

Average cost: fuel 0.16 +50% scheduled maintenance (engine/gear box oil & tyres are the top 2) +25% accelerated depreciation & accident risks. Total 0.28/km

Average dead miles:35% of daily km driven

Barest minimum cost should be 0.50/km and consistent nett earning 10-35/hr..

That's the reason why I go offline when earning drift towards 0.50/km and also when I achieve the daily quest quota.

Btw driver destination which was useful in getting long trips with high boost/surge is useless since the start of the new year.

Would definitely like to hear from those who can consistently achieve >1/km.

any other nice short trip place rekemend?

avoid>? apa these few place u dun wan to go? no short trip?

Kena 2 months back..going around Putra Heights for almost 4 hours and got clean of RM50..thank fully hit the RM70 quest so covered abit

And this weekend.. 15 trips for RM20..haven't driven the past 3 weekends =/

I totally disagree (see my earlier post on how you can earn or lose money).

Since the incentives are based on number of trips (regardless of distance), the shorter the trip, the lower your costs so effectively you earn more.

What's the point of doing an airport trip that earns you additional rm3 incentive when you can earn the same by doing a short 0.5km trip?

Many drivers are making the mistake of equating total fares with higher earnings when they don't take into account their costs. In reality the more you drive without incentives, even if your total fares are sky high, you may end up doing charity work

Long trips are only worth doing when the boost/surge is very high else you can never get anything close to rm1/km. Unlike before, without the SD feature, getting a long trip with surge/boost above 2x is like striking 4d

haha well said

I always hantam short trip on super peak period and ignore long trip

really feels great clocking 20 short trips per day than 10 long trips per day  

highest ignored ever is RM60 - RM120 range

hmm,. what u say is correct too
incentive too low lar. 39trip for 70 only , what the hell

any long trip high surge place rekomended ?

ace incentive max top up 30%.

do check out you earning per hours after expenses such as petrol if you think it is worthwhile to get all the short trips.

Want to get RM30 after deduct commission with Uber... Without Surge or Boost... You need to drive 40km like that.

Assuming you take highway and can complete the trip in 40 minutes...

40km*0.7 = RM28
40 minutes*0.3 = RM12

RM12+RM28+RM0.95 = RM40.95

Minus 25% = RM30.71

Per km you only get 77 sen.
The only way to reduce costs and increase earnings per km, is to filter pings until you get pick up distances that are very close to you. Like less than 2km.

And pray you don't get long distance trips without Surge or Boost.

I fucking hate it when I get a 30km trip that will take like 38 minutes to complete. Because of that, I don't get any "40 minutes plus" warning.

Uber's business is all about balancing the demand and supply through their big data analytics.. their only target is number of trips. Balancing of rider's is done through selective promo codes. Drivers are distributed via boost incentives.

As long as income from non-incentive drivers are not less then payouts to incentive drivers, they can do business at no costs.

Why are we discussing strategies in public? Hopefully, if we are united, we may be able to have an edge over big data. In short, a very simple strategy

No boost, no surge, no drive

It's either the company or the rider has to pay for your hard work.

Another scenario is that they will bring back more and/or higher boosts areas. Have you notice that boost does not exist on Fridays which is usually very busy? So they can now sapu all your earnings.

If enough drivers have the courage to go offline, they may even bring back flash quest (which used to be about 5/trip) which is available at very short notice and limited to peak hours.

Happy strategizing!!

About RM6 net. So ngam ngam hou RM1/km.

Ceh.. Why didn't say 15 minutes is total time to pick up and drop-off?

Then you tell la how long to pick up, how long to drop off?

You have a very good point about the upfront fare not fucking up.

But sometimes it works to our advantage when Waze recommends a shorter and faster route than the one calculated by Uber.

WTF..yea man..request for re-adjustment..was it super heavy traffic?

No need report, i can already tell u what they gonna say. This is upfront pricing, we have to honor it, rider love upfront pricing with no suprise and bcos of that increase in demand bla bla bla..basically tell u fuck off, u collect & earn whatever the fuck we give u
It was super jam. Suppose take only <4mins..
Ya, the private school go off at 3pm i think..like i said, just avoid and dont be tempted to drive in that area during that hour.

This upfront pricing thingy is really the dumbest policy on earth. Traffic jam can occur anytime of the day due to the smallest issue like accident etc..uber's map service does not monitor real time traffic..
But anyways la..take this as lesson learnt the hard way..

Just try and report. If they give standard reply, post it to their Facebook or something. Buat kecoh or something.

Upfront pricing is the dumbest?

Grab's fixed price is dumber.

That day got one passenger tell me to take the wrong way then it was a huge round to get back to his destination. Total distance become double.

Luckily it was Uber, not Grab. Then he report me for Navigation. Wadefak? I change his rating to 2 stars.

If rider suggest stupid route, of course rider's fault.

But fixed fare.

So go beat up rider to lepas geram.