Ride volume is still sharply off. I’ve seen one 75% normal day in a week. Yesterday I drove from Benicia to Antioch, Brentwood, Livermore, Pleasanton, and back up the 680 through Walnut Creek, Concord, and a return home. 4 hours of work and I picked up a single rider.
So it appears riders are adhering to stay-at-home directives….but it also means I’ve lost money so far this week thanks to two flat tires on Oakland’s pathetically maintained streets. $235 for two tires (on a replacement plan) plus two Uber rides myself. So I’m still upside down this week going in to Friday.
Another day I drove two Dialysis patients, two home care providers, two retail employees, two in warehousing. Modest work, but it felt value-adding.
It appears assistance for ‘gig economy’ workers like me is incorporated in the legislation making its way through Congress. That’s a very good thing, and very needed.
Driving the Daisy's 