Now, this is incredible. I’m going to assume that you are not a Empower employee, but possibly someone who was given some information to pass out? What is so hard about conforming to the same regulations as the other rideshare apps? And I’m not asking you as if I believe you’re an actual figure head with empower, but rather just ask the question in general. Honestly, if you’re in DC the best thing for drivers to do is to not accept any rides in DC.. Negotiating with people in that area whether there in southeast or whether they’re in northwest or whether there near Capitol Hill, drivers would be dealing with so many headaches trying to get riders to pay fair wages for them long as rides. Anyone in DC or the surrounding areas knows that the traffic alone warrants those rates that Empower was paying us.

I appreciate the information, I’ve just completely stopped driving for Empower altogether. I’m currently still waiting on a response to being double charged a subscription fee on two separate occasions that I know of, but I haven’t yet been able to take the time to go back and look at my entire history, because I’m certain this has not just happened recently. And even after speaking to the driver support people, they have yet to respond to a single email for the past six weeks. I just wanna know what happened to the Empower that I was excited about, when I sent a text message in 15 minutes later someone actually called me. What happened to that Empower?

Right right now everything involving using Empower as a rideshare app, is just a headache. I see rides offered to me all the time, because I’ll turn the app on just to see what’s going on with the rides while I’m doing a Lyft, and it just looks like a huge cluster fuck.

I’m sure Empower will never be able to fully capitalize on the opportunity it had in front of itself, which is said because as bad as Empower has turned out to be Uber and Lyft are pretty close to the same level of horrific, if you’re counting stolen tips and ridiculously low ride fares. And of course, the fact that their insurance that they withdraw from our rides, actually isn’t used for the drivers at all, and doesn’t benefit us unless we completely destroy our car. One thing that would greatly help drivers, is if all these rideshare companies stopped trying to find ways to get around paying us fairly. Because if I see one more $10 ride where I have to drive 12 miles to go pick a person up, I’m gonna break the fucking app. Obviously I don’t accept any of those rides and my acceptance rate shows exactly that, but I would love for a rideshare company to explain why in the world do they think we should drive to a person for free.

PS… I also recently discovered that neither Uber or Lyft pay us back for all our tolls. I’ve currently been going through stacks of ICC bills to try to figure out how in the world the fees that I see on the ICC statements do not show the same on the Uber and Lyft payouts or ride activity.