FREE NOW St.Patrick's Week

[Octavia1]

2 ton. Still €0 so far today... one offer from Hal's neck of the woods is the only noise my clever phone has made since I logged on over 2 hours ago... I'd nearly take a taxi save job to the station at this stage!

Funny that ... I'm flyin today an yesterday after 2 hours not one offer .... home to nap 

[Rat Catcher]

I'm still tweaking my latest passive working methodology. Starting before 08:00 and staying out between jobs until 09:30 seems to be a wise strategy... I'm also considering experimenting with holding Drogheda or Swords for maybe 15-30 mins if/when I get to those parts and maybe holding the station if there's a train due and maybe trying to reactivate my Bolt account. In any event, working the apps in these parts is extremely inconsistent. You could stay logged on for 12 hours and not see a job from Free Now or Uber... then on another day you could be racing up and down the M1 all day! One of the two local firms is aligned to Lynk so I think the other apps are only feeding from the crumbs off Lynk's table. Tuesday was also a good day for me... so it's easy enough to conclude that the Lynk men were off spending the large fortunes they made at the weekend and they're all back today, I guess.

P.S. still jobless!

[mercenary for hire]

I used to think I noticed a definite boost on Tuesday afternoons after all the Freenow money had hit the bank accounts.Maybe in time that will move to Monday as Uber can have more work.

I have about ten and sometimes fifteen taxi drivers living around me within 500 meters and another twenty driving in the Navan road at any one time.I don't know when or if they're working so I choose to keep moving if I'm on duty and stay away from the gaff.On quiet days I'll drive in as far as Ballsbridge after leaving having gotten no offers.Eventually I get something.I learned to do this after living in Blanch as there are a lot more taxis out there doing fuk all.Blanch is like the desert for taxi work compared to town.I frequently refuse jobs going out there.Tallaght isnt much different.You will be returning empty most of the time.

[Rat Catcher]

Probably best to keep moving but I'm kinda doing other stuff as well with the apps running most of the time. On balance I'm getting at least as much as I was working evenings in the Northside suburbs. It just comes with quite extreme peaks and troughs. The biggest plus is being finished by 17:00 most days. I might migrate to a less passive daytime methodology in the summer... although I do miss the smell of cannabis!

[Rat Catcher]

Still haven't got a job today, btw.... and I have my Tesco shopping list and empty tins ready and waiting for one of the apps to get me off the couch!

[mercenary for hire]

If you can get the right work it might be the smarter thing to do RC.I remember hearing about a girl taxi driver living up in Templeogue that only accepts jobs to the airport.Apparently she has her kids monitoring the pre-book screen the night before also.

Recently my boredom has brought me to Tiktok where I've been watching UK Uber drivers live streaming declining tens of jobs until they see one juicy one they want.I assume lads are doing it here too and especially out at the airport which probably explains how I'm getting out of there so fast as I'm not very fussy.

[Rat Catcher]

I did experiment with working from home a while back - before I had Uber - and only taking jobs priced above a score. I got bored with that though... with only Bolt and Free Now such jobs were few and far between on a good week!

You gave us a theory before that moving cars get more offers and I think there's something in that. In any event, if I were to analyse the decent, say €40+, job offers I probably get as many while out doing a mickey mouse run to the station or on the way back from the same as I'd get sitting around e.g. on Tuesday I got a €93 job from Free Now while doing a €9 run to the station for them... so, I reckon you might as well just take what you can get and see where it might lead. The less thought you put into this game, the better. Sometimes we could do with FDS coming back to remind us that it's a neck down job!

[mercenary for hire]

As a courier we could just blame the base controller taking bribes and giving us no work in the past.Now I have convinced myself it's much more complicated when it might not be..

[silverbullet]

Weird. I went back to my Coolock centric circuit on Sun night having got my second ton plus job from Uber or Free Now up above to Dublin. I needed one job for an Uber bonus but ended up doing 8+ for Free Now and clearing their €40 bonus instead. Was just about home by 21:30 when for no good reason I automatically accepted a Free Now to Skerries following which I figured I might as well take one to Rush following which I couldn't resist the third (almost) ton of my shift going right up above to Dublin city via Swords. Didn't get home 'till 23:02 having started at 16:05... and after doing a few hours in the morning (c.10:03-c.13:01). Done a few hours (2.57) yesterday afternoon which were shite by comparison, barely pulling a ton in total... rough with the smooth, I guess.

Anywaysanall, I digress... my point is that there's fuck all work on Uber in the working class northside suburbs where you'd be forgiven for thinking folk might prefer cheaper fares.  I couldn't get a single fare to clear the bonus or (for the conspiracy theorists) do they deliberately bypass you to avoid paying the bonus? I don't really subscribe to that theory 'cos I have cleared a few of their bonuses working the north county and even got the odd extra fiver per job that they seem to offer once you've completed the minimum requirement.

Anywaysanall, I digress... my point is that there's fuck all work on Uber in the working class northside suburbs where you'd be forgiven for thinking folk might prefer cheaper fares.

Having to provide banking details is most likely the reason DNS punters shy away from Uber.

Uber has announced a cash option now to address that. drivers will have the choice of whether to opt into the service or not.

[Rat Catcher]

As a courier we could just blame the base controller taking bribes and giving us no work in the past.Now I have convinced myself it's much more complicated when it might not be..

The virtual base controllers are pissed off with me today. Looks like I'll have to go to Tesco without a job!

[silverbullet]

As a courier we could just blame the base controller taking bribes and giving us no work in the past.Now I have convinced myself it's much more complicated when it might not be..

25 years ago, the town was riddled with courier companies. Are they still a thing?

[Rat Catcher]

Might help alright, SB. Not sure why a driver would opt out. Unlike Free Now, Uber is guaranteeing payment on behalf of it's cash clients.

[mercenary for hire]

SB
"25 years ago, the town was riddled with courier companies. Are they still a thing? "

There are a few left but a lot of the small ones got swallowed up by the bigger ones.With internet speeds so fast nowadays you can send full documents via WhatsApp in an instant.A lot of that was courier work in the past.

[silverbullet]

Might help alright, SB. Not sure why a driver would opt out. Unlike Free Now, Uber is guaranteeing payment on behalf of it's cash clients.

Cash will be live from tomorrow
On Thursday March 20th, Cash payments (e.g. cash, debit/credit cards, Revolut) will be available to riders as a payment method. This means that riders can select to pay you Cash and not via the app, while requesting a trip. Cash payment trips allow more people to use Uber, and that means more business for you.


How does this work?

Cash payment trips will be automatically enabled on your account. By allowing Cash trips, you allow passengers to pay directly in the car. Before charging a passenger, check the driver app for the correct fare, as they may have a promotion. If a promotion applies, you will receive the full trip amount in your weekly payment.


Don't want to accept Cash payment trips?

No problem. Cash payment trips will be automatically enabled on your account. However, if you do not want to accept cash as a payment method, you can opt out of accepting cash at any time. Go to the preferences menu to opt out. If you want to accept cash as a payment method, you can opt in again at any time.

[Rat Catcher]

I wasn't questioning whether drivers could opt out, only why they would when payment is guaranteed?