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Uber has now made it very easy
for the drivers to attach their vehicle by visiting their website and
filling out the applicable forms and submitting to a criminal background check
and vehicle inspection. And since the company is currently in growth mode, they
are even offering sign-up bonuses of $100 to new drivers who complete at least
20 rides and they are also offering referral bonus to the existing drivers as
well as the new joiners to get both the drivers benefited out of scheme and
enjoy the benefits of the company. Apart from highly populated companies like San
Francisco, New York, or Las Vegas, the company has started expanding
globally and actively trying to spread its reach into markets of every shape
and size. However there is no need to sign a contract to drive with Uber, it is
essential to atleast have standard driver agreement. “You’re actually an
independent contractor with Uber, so you’re free to work for other rideshare
companies if you’d like,” Cambell said. “Many drivers do just that”, he added
finally.
Best things about working for
Uber
All drivers
feel that the best thing about working for Uber is the ability to make a decent
wage on you’re their schedule,” explained Campbell, who has driven for Uber
since shortly after it launched in his home state of California. In fact, the
flexibility extends far beyond the hours you choose to work on any given week.
Since you don’t have to make any sort of commitment, you can easily
take time off for the big moments in your life as well, such as vacations, a
wedding, the birth of a child, and more if managing the expenditures is not a
problem and enough back up has been made for those days. There aren’t many jobs
that will let the employees take a month off if they’d like and then come back
and start working again and at the same time if any extra money is needed for
the month or if any unexpected expenditure has risen in the family then the
driver can easily work for extra months and days. According to Campbell, Uber
drivers notify the company of their availability through the mobile
app by turning On and Off the application in their mobile. The driver can log
on any time he wants, and log off if he needs to take breaks or even do a long
lunch if he wants to,” says Campbell.
Upfront Pricing
The
company has recently introduced ‘Upfront fares’ after suspending ‘Surge
pricing’. Previously the app used to
show the surge multiplier(something like 1.6x, 2.2x which means the customer has to pay 1.6 times of the
actual charge) for a trip the customer is about to book which in turn varies
according to the demand of the taxis in that locality. This has led to the
cause of many distressful customers to give up using the app immediately they
see the surge sign.
By introducing
‘Upfront fares’ the company has helped the customers to get an idea how much
they have to pay at the end of the trip even before the confirmation of the
booking. However there is no compromise in raising the fare when there is high
demand like that in ‘Surge Pricing’. But the customers are not let to know the
‘surge multiplier’. So if the customer is looking to book a cab for a trip
which he usually commutes and pays Rs.200, and the app shows him a upfront
charge of Rs.400 he would be aware that there is a ‘surge pricing’ and could
take a call whether to go for it or not. But, what would be the case of a
customer who is looking for to book a cab in an unfamiliar location or new city
itself. Here is a two step process to know whether there is surge pricing or
not over the ‘upfront fares’ shown in the app. All that the person has to do is
- Open Google maps and enter your destination.
- Tap on the right-most option, for hailing a taxi.
According to the
location the person is in, Google would give him a list of taxi options along
with the approximate fare estimate and it provides the surge multiplier for
each taxi too. Recent tests have shown that the fare estimate given by Google
was pretty much close to the actual fare cost for the customer has paid at the
end of the trip. Also the ‘surge multiplier’ given by Google is almost same as
that in the receipt given by the driver at the end of the trip. For instance
the Google has shown a ‘surge multiplier’ of 1.5x whereas the receipt had a
surge pricing of 1.4x.
There is no need
of one to find the uncertainty in the above method, as it can be used just to
find out whether the fare is reasonable or not, when the person is in a very
unfamiliar location. However it is high
time for the company, Uber has to realize that hiding the surge factor is
unethical and against consumer and strive to become more transparent and
genuine about the pricing in near future.
In spite of this
fact the company claims that it has pitched ‘upfront pricing’ only to add
transparency to its service by letting its customers to know how much they have
to pay at the end of the trip even before they have confirmed it. But this
change in app has become as a cause for the customers to accuse the company for
pocketing extra money by which the customers as well as the drivers are being
affected.
Since the company
has introduced this ‘upfront pricing’, there are many complaints being raised
by the drivers against their payments. The drivers claim that they are under
paid for each trip whereas the customers are being over charged. By usual norms
25% of the total money paid by the customers goes into the company’s pocket as
commission and the rest are the earnings of the driver.
The biggest disadvantage with the ‘upfront pricing’ is here. Consider a
customer enters the destination and the app takes up a route to calculate the
cost of the trip and the customer confirms the booking. However during the trip
due to traffic or any other concern if the driver takes up the shorter route,
the cost remains unchanged for the customer even though he has travelled several
miles lesser than the actual route used to calculate the cost by the app.
Neither the driver is paid more, as his payment is made based on the distance
he has travelled along with the base fare. Here comes the question where the
extra money paid by the customer goes. The Company simply pockets the extra
money which totally unethical and unprofessional way of doing business. All
these facts are never brought into the customer’s knowledge as the driver
himself will get his own receipt only after several days after the trip.
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