What’s It Like Driving For Uber? Mixed Emotions Of Hope And Sadness | Financial Samurai

There probably is less than 5 articles about Uber that I would consider recommending  people read, until now! What’s It Like Driving For Uber? Mixed Emotions Of Hope And Sadness | Financial Samurai This is one of the best articles written about being a driver with Uber for a while now. The last one that…

Travis Kalanick’s Vision For The Future . . .

You know, I really do not mind Travis Kalanick’s vision for the future. I think the “autonomous car” is out there on the horizon just waiting to prove itself  a contender in the transportation market. I have little doubt that it will be a very efficient  system and transportation of persons will become less confusing…

Need To Be Rolling In The Numbers!

All right Ride-Hail/Ride Share Drivers, Riders, and Services. The US RIDE-HAIL DRIVER’S ASSOCIATION needs numbers. In other words we need members, and we need them now. We can add to our membership in a couple different ways. New members can join as individuals. It doesn’t cost you anything to join and we only collect minimal…

Silicon Valley to millennials: Drop dead – CNN.com

I have figured it all out . . . Economist predicts economic failure in about 26 days! Silicon Valley to millennials: Drop dead – CNN.com For the past year or so, economists have been predicting we will have a very serious financial failure in this Country leading to the worst recession/depression in the history of…

SB0294 Third Substitute Transportation Network Company Amendments

  SB0294 CHAPTER 51. TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY REGISTRATION ACT This is absolutely ridiculous. This is Utah’s SB0294 that they just approved. Allow me to draw your attention to line #103. (c) receives, in exchange for providing a passenger a ride, compensation that exceeds the individual’s cost to provide the ride.   Do you understand that this means…

An Association Does Not Have To Be Adversarial . . .

An Association does not have to adversarial towards the Business that the represented workers are from. Actually, it is our hope that this Association not be adversarial towards anybody, but serve to better relations between workers and the companies they work with. This is one of the reasons we welcome Ride-Hail Riders into this Association.…

How Is A Driver Supposed To Live On This?

I know a Driver that took a trip to Cupertino and thought he was going to make money doing so. Boy, was he pissed when he did the math. He drove 2.5 hours, for a total of 87 miles and the fare for the trip was $88.00. After dropping his first rider off he received…

Some Times You Learn The Lesson The Hard Way . . .

Recently the State of New Mexico passed HB0272 which is the New Mexico Transportation Network Company Services Act. It goes into effect July 1, 2015 and is proof that the Drivers needed a Representative in the making of these regulations. The thing most required by regulation of the Ride-Hail Services is restrictions on how the…

The honeymoon is over: UberPool rates in S.F. just went up | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Harrison Weber

Big Deal, so Uber raised rates on a service that still doesn’t pay the drivers a reasonable wage . . . The honeymoon is over: UberPool rates in S.F. just went up | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Harrison Weber I guess Uber decided to increase the fare for UberPool from $5 to $7 yesterday.…

Uber Does Not Have The Right . . .

The most damning thing Uber has done in it climb to where it is today, is cause harm to the communities it served by destruction of the very jobs Uber created. The United States has been struggling for years to improve it’s economy, and it’s lack of good employment for workers that have been struggling…