re: The truth about UBER

Since Uber operates illegally it's best not to tell them.

While participating with Uber, I'm prety sure you have to add a rider to your policy if you are using your personal car for hire, which is what you are doing in your insurance company's eyes.

We have that here in DC as well. It's called Sluglines.

Or else the can companies will have to evolve. *gasp.

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Better quality + Better Service + Cheaper Service = A victory for consumers and an end to the losing side (Cab companies)

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that was what i was pointing out. Uber poor background checks and screening. LINK<---- you call that better quality.

Ohhh I'm going to tear this up.

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First off they do not hire drivers they have partners, which takes all legality away from them.

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So?

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First off Uber Min is $5.00. Yellow Cab is $4.00. UBER BASE FARE $2.50 $0.35 PER MINUTE $1.60 PER MIL. Yellow cab is $4.00 start $2.00 mile and $.25 a min. Now to the bitty gritty.

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Don't have to tip and Uber almost always ends up being cheaper. Ridden both hundreds of times in the same city to the same destinations.

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They charge you$40.00 a month for that phone. You can't call or text your customer from it you have to use yours for that. Also you have to furnish your own GPS. Now that is what you pay UBER. Now you have to pay 33% to uncle SAM. Then your gas that is about $40.00 a night. Then add in your veh cost and deprecation that is about $30.00 a day.

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How does this affect the rider? You are getting priced out of the market. Your profession is dying like thousands of other professions in the history of capitalism. You're essentially a horse drawn carriage business now. Uber drivers use this as a supplemental income, not primary. I'm sorry your job security has evaporated due to a better product hitting the market.

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Now insurance and wrecks. Uber will only cover the customer in your car god forbid you get in a accident. They leave your car for you to take care of. No big deal you got full coverage insurance. When you call your insurance then begin to tell them how and what you were doing they will then tell you sir you have a personal ins policy not commercial. We will no longer be covering you as of this moment. So with all this and breakdown in the end you will drive around destroying your car/truck for about $8.50 an hour.

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Again, the customer is fine. And you don't have to tell your insurance company what you're doing. LOL.

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Yes they may flat rate you but just hope they don't hit you with surge price that $20.00 trip will now be $125.00.

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They tell you ahead of time and make it very clear it is a weekend with surge pricing. And those are pretty rare.

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When this happens you wanna pick up the phone and call UBER to get this resolved. You can't there is no standing # to call them at. You have to email them and correspond that way. Oh and time after time customers are getting random charges on their credit card on file.

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Ubers customer service is so much better than any cab company its hilarious. They will not only refund anything, they will credit future rides. Yellow Cab and similar companies are renowned for their shitty customer service. I am honestly flabbergasted you chose customer service as a topic of argument. Uber comes from the line of Amazon/Zappos/Amex customer service. Above and beyond. Plus, the drivers are 1000000x nicer and the cars are cleaner.

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I drive for yellow cab

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The taxi problem in baton rouge as everyone claims that is prob 20% yellow cab fault and 80% public. I drive for yellow cab and let me tell ya I waste more time going to pick someone up who called for a cab but went back in the bar and didn't hear their phone ringing. We have to do a call out from our terminal in the cab wait 3 minutes then call dispatch if no one showed. Dispatch then call cust 3-5 times if no answer they leave message. The biggest problem is honesty. When the driver takes a call form dispatch all the info is sent to us pickup location name and destination. Never fails if driver pulls up and your not outside then the person that is will walk to that driver and ask who he is there to get. Drivers says name and person will say oh yea that's me. You just lost your cab. The other thing is you call for cab your buddy says just come ride with us and that person doesn't call back and cancel. Now if I do this 6 times in one night that is a min 30 min I have wasted on running around for nothing.

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Those passengers are kicked off of Uber. So you can have them! And you're full of shite. The cab companies in Baton Rouge are very bad. They take 3 hours sometimes and other times don't show. Its a fricking joke. Its been this way forever. Everyone knows this except cab companies. Why do other major cities not have this cab issue? They don't have passengers no-showing?

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I do have regular customers though. The reason that is they learned that good tips lead to being picked up a more sure thing.

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No tips on Uber. They just show up in 5 minutes without needing extra compensation.

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Only time this really gets tricky is between 1:30-2:00 everyone seems to need a cab at this time. There is not enough cabs UBER and buses to get everyone at that time.

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When there are a shite ton of Uber drivers in 2 months, this will change.

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I do have regular customers though.

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Great for the people that don't need to be regular customers, like 99% of the population.



Your company is shite. You are being priced out of the market by a better product. Sorry man, you should probably sign up for Uber to make money on the side.

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that was what i was pointing out. Uber poor background checks and screening. LINK<---- you call that better quality.

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What do background checks matter when most criminals in cars either don't get caught (looking at you tax evader) or don't do anything of concern with regards to them driving?

Richard, just hope that you don't lose your regulars to Uber, because they will likely be the only people you will have to drive now that Uber is here. Them and people without a smart phone.

The last cab ride I took in BR was about 2 months ago. Not 5 minutes into the cab ride the driver was telling us about his last DWI. sounds safe to me

dick doesn't like uber because he says that drivers don't make any money... That's how they keep the prices down. But I just can't believe that because people still drive for them...

He also says that the reason yellow cab sucks is because BR citizens suck and don't know how to wait outside a bar for over an hour without walking away...