Report from the Ride-share front, Week 2 of Shelter at Home in the SF Bay Area:
Note- from my experience …. not a reference to company financials…
Lyft volume is 67% normal, Uber has fallen to 50%. I attribute this to Lyft having established relationships with Car dealerships, Medicare Transportation Brokers, and Companies specializing in moving the elderly; Go-Go Grandparents for example. (Go Go says they work with both Lyft and Uber but I’ve never seen an Uber Go Go pick up)
Not only is the stay at home order taking volume away, but if people are not making money they darn sure don’t have money required to splurge on a car for themselves.
I haven’t been in a traffic jam in 2 weeks. Not once bumper to bumper.
I’m averaging 1 rider for every 1 hr trolling. Previously I was a tick over 2 riders an hour. How many business can stay open for 1 customer an hour??
Not this one.
Thanks to my $235 for two flats + BART and two ride-share trips, $42 in tolls, and $135 for gas, I’ll NET $120 for the WEEK, for 7 days and 49 hours.
$2.45 an hour work.
The last time I made $2.50 an hour I was 16 in 1977 and working at a Carvel Ice Cream store in Toms River, NJ.
Because the customers I am driving are Dialysis patients, in home care givers, and people in essential retail I’ve worked hard to keep the car clean and offer a disinfectant wipe to each rider to help them feel confident riding.
It’s been stressful. More fatigue now then when I was working twice as hard. Of course I probably was sleeping 3 times better. How many times can you look at a home budget at 2 am in excel and reallocate $100 bucks. Geez. This sucks.
Driving the Daisy's 