Managing a Primary Job While Driving for Uber or Lyft Part-Time

Whether your are a baby-boomer entering a second career like myself or a millenial it is quite feasible to hold down a primary position while driving part-time. Regardless of age and personal circumstances many drivers have expertise and interest in everything from real estate to eCommerce to playing the stock market. Many of these positions afford you flexibility of hours and schedule. An when combined with the flexibility of ride share driving it can make for a career (and income) that is both rewarding and allows you to generate a full-time or near full-time income. Let's poll other Uber and Lyft drivers to see what their primary jobs are as they drive part-time. I am sure we will uncover a wide range of professions and expertise. Share your comments with Uber and Lfyt Driver Best Practices

The World Rides with Uber and Lyft - 70 Countries and Counting

This post is not about driver earnings rather driver trivia. While Uber and Lyft do not incent or reward drivers for the number of countries their riders come from perhaps this bit of trivia may be of interest. The are 193 official "member states" of the United Nations. How many nation states are represented by your riders since you began ride sharing? Well, after 15 months of part-time driving in the San Francisco Bay Area including Silicon Valley I now have had riders from seventy (70) countries. Recent additions to my rider roster include Macedonia, Tanzania, the Bahama's, Bulgaria and earlier this past week Bostwana. Let's here which exotic countries of the world other drivers have had riders. Share comments with Uber and Lyft Driver Best Practices. 

Uber and Lyft "Destination Filters" Do They Truly Add to Driver's Earnings?

Both Uber and Lyft driver app offer a "Destination Filter" feature. Uber allows drivers 2 'destination' trips per day, Lyft offers 3 trips per day. The question is simply: Do these features really allow drivers to pick-up riders as they return to their 'home base' which otherwise they would drive back "empty" An informal poll of drivers offers mixed feedback. Sometimes the rider requests from the filters are not necessarily on your route to home base. Yes, there may be exceptions. I used the Lyft destination filter on a 30 mile drive back to my home base near Palo Alto, CA USA recently at peak rush hour and the filter provided no (that's "zero") rider requests over a fairly densely populated area. The jury is still out on the value these filters provide driver. Nonetheless, kudos to Uber and Lyft for their efforts to help drivers. Share your comments at Uber and Lyft Driver Best Practices.