![]() Thus, the net profit might be as low as $50 for a big day on the road, or five bucks an hour.” Whether they realize it or not, it’s costing them $125 in direct car costs before even accounting to the damage to their health or the risk of injury. “If this driver is burning through $30 of gas, (twelve gallons), they’re probably covering over 250 miles. But I’ll only use, like, not even a full tank – maybe thirty bucks” UBER DRIVER: “No, that doesn’t include gas. ![]() MMM: “Is that your profit after subtracting the cost of driving?” On a good day I’ll make a hundred bucks, sometimes even two hundred if I really work it and stay up late.” I always inquired about their experience with rideshare driving, and the response was inevitably something like this: ![]() We would talk about life, family, money and business. Which is another great improvement, since renting a car at an airport has never been a fun experience.īut during all these Luxury Executive rides, I’d often get to talking with the driver. Between walking, renting a bike, public transit and calling a Lyft, a car rental is only useful for destinations deep in the boondocks such as a ski resort or a distant beach cabin. Once I arrive at my destination city, these ride sharing services have replaced at least 90% of instances where a car rental would be useful. Nowadays I sit in the back and get some work done like an Executive, leaving the driving to someone else. And that was before the considerable joy and time savings of not having to park in the airport lot and cram in among the huddled masses in the shuttle buses. The math of it was pretty simple: Uber was cheaper than paying for my driving and parking*. About two years ago, I switched from taking my personal car to the airport, to hailing Ubers and Lyfts.
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