Shit Sunday

[major]

I remember use to make easy £200 Sunday day time, now i struggle to make £120 and i read they want to double the drivers by next year.

Has anyone consider a different option than working for Uber???

 

Any ideas?

 

Is it just me?

 

[LUED]

 

Has anyone consider a different option than working for Uber???

 

Any ideas?

 

 

 

Get yourself an operator's licence, find your own clients, then you take bookings directly from them. 

[mike31]

Get yourself an operator's licence, find your own clients, then you take bookings directly from them. 

But you need an office, land number, etc?

And if we take customers from Uber, they can sack us because we are stealing customers no?

[LUED]

You can use your home address as an operating centre, and it's not necessary to have an office (you can use a room in your home - which also gives the added benefit of offsetting certain utilities such as electricity against your income tax). If you're referring to an office where customers can come in and make bookings, then it's unlikely you can use your home to do so, as you'd need planning permission for change of use of your property, which is unlikely to be granted if your home is in a residential area. 

 

I'm also sure you've got a land line at home? 

 

My post was meant to say that, it will just be you, the driver, taking bookings over phone, e-mail. No other staff/drivers need to be involved (unless, of course you want to take on staff and drivers), for the time being. Any work you can't do, you can sub-contract out to other drivers, and take your own cut. 

 

I have not heard of Uber in London "sacking" you for taking their customers, though it appears to have happened in the U.S. There are other ways of getting custom, mostly through word of mouth, also setting up your own website, dropping leaflets/cards in your local area, spreading the word through social media, etc.