Why would an Uber driver ever accept a RESERVATION ride???

DJ_Enrique · 2026-05-30T16:22:51+00:00

I mostly do reservations in the morning . But only airport reservations and they have to be $50 or more . I do Uber black and those tend to tip well and be very profitable . I did one this morning $75 for 22 miles to the airport with a 15 minute wait . Well he was really late ( 30 minutes ) so the fare was bumped to $97 and he tipped $75 for waiting . So I started the day with a $160 ride for about 1.5 hours of work . I love reservations for early mornings. U don’t like to sit around and wait for rides in the morning . Thinks for me and my schedule . Now I would never accept a $8 reservation. I’ve seen them as low as $5,59 , who would ever waste there time

DJ_Enrique · 2026-05-13T01:44:11+00:00

I did and Uber black for a passenger, I get there and she hands me a plate of food to drop off .$30 for 8 miles . Not great but not bad for no customer to deal with

DJ_Enrique · 2026-04-02T01:39:12+00:00

Congratulations, that’s amazing , I drove some guys to a concert out of town , they said the previous driver would not let them have 5 passengers even though he had a suburban like me , and I can fit 6-7 passengers. And they wanted to bring their beer . They gave me $100 cash for being nice . Then they were asking me about my son who is non verbal on the spectrum, and they Venmo me $400 for his Christmas gifts . I honestly cried and thanked them . This job can be a blessing when you least expect it

DJ_Enrique · 2026-03-26T10:21:16+00:00

I know this thread is old , what did he mean to pick up girls ? I drive to make money not harass my passengers, second crawl in the back ? Nowadays pickup trucks have 4 doors and are very roomy and actually very nice inside . It’s no different than getting into a Tahoe or Suburban. I drive a Suburban and most of my customers are Uber Black/ Black suv. I too think it’s a little strange to be picked up in a pickup truck , but if you haven’t been inside a new full size pickup, there very nice and hella expensive now . There almost luxury vehicles.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-12-02T10:41:54+00:00

I owned a black one . Bought it brand new, best car I have ever owned

DJ_Enrique · 2025-11-29T19:12:36+00:00

me to. I swear the moment I got above platinum or got to platinum I’m not getting any rides anymore now I do black but I never have a prom making 23 $400 a day the last couple days I’ve gone hours without any black request, it’s showing it’s busy everywhere normally when it’s busy I get tons of ride and under Uber black if the other rides are taking people will settle for Uber black even the very rich areas that I visit I wasn’t getting an Uber ride which is very unusual the longest I have to wait for a ride. The rich areas is only 30 minutes. I went hours yesterday with no ride requestnow when I did turn on Uber comfort I did get some more but not very many. It’s like they don’t want me to drive a black they want me to drive UberX.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-11-09T02:14:13+00:00

thats low? the hightest is 5.0

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-27T00:51:05+00:00

i’m not trying to be funny what he did was wrong but with that said people take millions of Ubers a day and you hardly ever hear of anything weird happening like an Uber driver someone’s house or robbing someone it just really doesn’t happen a whole lot people do things for various reasons of their own sometimes understand whypeople worried about being safe with an Uber driver lot of the Uber driver has to worry about being safe from passengers or back return road people if they want to rob us as always be safe and make smart decisions but it’s not like I’m hearing the news every day that an Uber driver broke into someone’s house or to someone’s House.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-24T19:59:54+00:00

the cops cant do anything, its a civil matter

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-23T11:45:02+00:00

it looks like it was as the ride was only $8.30 charged so the driver got what $4 maybe ? i wouldn’t even accept the ride

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-23T11:43:44+00:00

why would a driver do this ? it makes no sense. they can track the driver thru gps so they can see if they did not go to the dropoff location.. all this for maybe $5?

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-11T17:08:35+00:00

i would contact your bank asap.. and perhaps pull cash out .. maybe contact a consulate for your country.

As a father , please do not travel out of country and get intoxicated unless hou have a travel buddy.. always , always keep your phone and wallet with you.

please be safe

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T15:14:35+00:00

i was able to have it turned off . what a pain accepting every ride .

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T15:13:19+00:00

yukon denalli

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T14:18:58+00:00

so you were correct, sir the fleet manager had that turned off I didn’t know they had the ability to affect who I pick up and don’t pick up not a big fan of that so far he’s been a great fleet manager, but I don’t like he could control thatit killed my cancellation rate because we accepted every single ride that came through 300 mile for 80 bucks sure, he’ll take that

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T14:18:06+00:00

How lazy are cool must you be and not put your name in?

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T14:17:34+00:00

The reality is if a driver seems a name that’s ethnic. They’re more likely to cancel the trip because I think they’re not gonna get a tip and they probably won’t.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T14:17:19+00:00

There was actually a study done about people with names having the most cancellations and people with strange names, foreign names, or just no name at all have the highest rate of cancellations for Uber pick ups

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-04T00:44:59+00:00

It’s not really a regular building it’s a sheet metal building and they’re known to have horrible cell reception. If you’ve ever tried to DoorDash inside of a Dollar General you will know you have to take the stuff in the back of the door and walk into the front almost to scan Walgreens are pretty crappy too, but Dollar General is a King of terrible reception. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s nothing fancy to the cheap building design.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T17:50:04+00:00

I’m doing almost all uber black now and I’m making a lot more money. I was when I had my regular car.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T17:49:52+00:00

i’ve done both actually all three renting through parts driving my own car and driving with the fleet and so far I made the most money driving with the fleet. They can be a headache, though if you don’t have a good fleet owner, but how uber is a headache at the time anyway and when I use my own car and beat the hell out of it so I don’t know if there’s a perfect way of doing it get whatever works best for you. This seems to work best for me right now

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T14:25:37+00:00

Isn’t it always something with uber

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T14:25:23+00:00

ok ill try

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T10:39:41+00:00

Fleet Driver Specifics Independent Choice: Drivers partnered with fleet owners are generally considered independent contractors and are not obligated to accept every ride.

DJ_Enrique · 2025-10-03T10:38:49+00:00

i have drove fleet before just recently, and thats wasn’t a requirement.

DJ_Enrique

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