where and when.

[apple1]

hiya all, as a new driver to uber in brum, can any bt worummie uber drivers tell me where best places are for getting work, and what time is good to start work, i used to start work around 7 when taxi driving in other area for ph company, and finish around 3/4 o'clock, are these hours ok to earn money with uber in brum?  thanks.

[josh]

Are you Uberx or Exec?

 

I always work from 4pm to 1am. Around train stations, office buildings or pubs area. Around £15/hour is my average

[apple1]

uberx i think josh, i been a ph driver for 26 years, mostly in brum, but last 10 years i been in bristol area, starting back in brum next week, cant really work after 4ish cos of comitments, so normaly start early and work till about 3/4 o'clock.

[Zaven]

earnings are capped anyway, all the drivers make about the same per hour, eventually is going to be like in US - x amount guarantee per hour.

Everything being computerized makes it easy for them to control everything....including money

 

So in many cities with the fare cuts, they have announced around the clock guarantees. Here is a sample of it:

• Sunday 7am-Friday 5pm – Off Peak – $15 per hour
• Friday/Saturday 5pm-3am – Peak – $20 per hour

Here are the requirements for the hourly guarantees:

• An average of one ride per hour
• Be online for 50 minutes of any hour to get the guarantee
• Acceptance rate of over 90%

Here is how the Uber Hourly Guarantees work:

• You need to work 50 minutes of every hour to get the guarantee. You will need to start right at the top of the hour: 5:00pm, or 6:00pm, etc. If you work from 5:30 to 6:30 and get one trip during that time, you won’t be paid for your guarantee. [Update, according to Kevin and an Uber rep (see comment below), you may not need to do this. You can work from 5:30 to 6:30 as long as you work 50 minutes of that hour. Thanks Kevin!]
• Each portion of the guarantee, you are required to maintain an average of one trip per hour. So between 5pm and 3am, for example, you need to average one trip per hour. So if you got 10 trips within the first two hours and none the rest of the hours, you will still get paid the peak guarantee until you stop working or 3am, whichever comes first.
• The trip requirement resets when it changes from Peak to Non-peak and vice versa. So if you continue to work from 3am to 5am, you will need two trips between that time frame.
• If there is no change from peak to non-peak, then your trip requirements reset at the end of the day. So you work 10pm to 2am on a Monday night and there is no peak guarantee, you will need 2 trips between 10pm to 12am and then another 2 trips from 12am to 2am.
• Make sure to accept every request. You never know what kind of app issue you may have that will cause you to miss a request. Accept every single request. Its a ride an hour.
• http://ridesharedashboard.com/2015/01/15/how-new-uber-hourly-guarantees-work/