Uber/Lyft Driving is facing big changes in California

Vanity | 10/28/19 | self

[Born to Conserve]

The pressure to automate is proportional to the total cost of employees, most of which is government regulation and taxes.

Any wonder Uber and Amazon are developing automated replacements for employees, and contractors?

[spokeshave]

Will employees be given company vehicles to drive or will they continue to use their own, often unsafe vehicles that lack maintenance?

What are you talking about

Uber checks the vehicle status annually, must be 4 door, 7 or less years old, no salvage vehicles, no visible damage.

reminds drivers about renewal of driving license, car insurance and annual inspection.

Random checks of driver, selfie matches DL photo, checks has home computer password, does complete 3 page security check

Think about it...if you drive a crappy car will get poor customer reviews...and get terminated by Uber

Spokeshave who drives 5000 miles a month for Uber.

[spokeshave]

Yeah,,,and my 50,0000 annual miles are tax deductable at 53.5 cents a mile.

[dragnet2]

What are you taking about? It’s a known fact when the companies operate owner operator the maintenance is on the RO and always suffers. It’s why they they operate their biz this way to avoid all the maintenance issues and lay it on the RO drivers. When the drivers wear out their own vehicles spinning up the odometer, ya think the company gives a rats azz?

[dragnet2]

When the company has employee drivers and company vehicles, guess who’s liable? The company$$. And that’s exactly why companies maintain their vehicles way better than any owner operator uber hack who’s barely making ends meet.

[spokeshave]

I dont know about other RO drivers....but I do all the maintenance on my Prius myself

Have over 250K miles and the only problem I have had is the driver side window control broke, a $50 replacement.

[dragnet2]

So every two years you’re putting on 120,000 miles and ya need a new vehicle. And now add in all the miles ya drive when your not trolling for passengers...Are you buying/leasing a new car every two years driving for uber?

Factoring on all that, + insurance, maintenance, fuel etc, if that’s the case, the company is getting their mileage out of you big league. It’s why they don’t want employee drivers. They cost WAY too much for the company not to mention the sky high liability.

[dragnet2]

RO registered owner....That’s you unless you’re getting ripped leasing.

[dragnet2]

You have over 250K miles on your prius? And you’re driving the public around? You do all your own maintenance? Are you even qualified to perform spec maintenance? Ya see what I mean? As the company fat cats wink and nod.

[dragnet2]

So what do you plan on doing, giving public rides in your prius that will soon be pushing 300,000 miles?

[spokeshave]

I know about tools and safety...was an equipment engineer in the semiconductor industry for many years...also previously a ISO9000 registered quality systems lead auditor.

Will wait till January to see what Uber does.

[spokeshave]

So what do you plan on doing, giving public rides in your prius that will soon be pushing 300,000 miles?

It's not that the Prius is pushing 300,000 miles

I will 78 shortly and ready to stop working.

Here is my retirement location:

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Posting from there now.

[dragnet2]

Neat place. How did you wind up choosing that venue?

[DAC21]

“Yeah,,,and my 50,0000 annual miles are tax deductable at 53.5 cents a mile”

Seeing you will need a new car every 3 years one would hope so.

[spokeshave]

Spouse of 51 years is from Ikaria...previously lived in Greece for 12 years...some of it during the time of the Military coup.

[tbw2]

Freelance writers in California are freaking out over the same bill.

If you write more than 35 pieces for a publisher, you’re an employee. That’s not hard to do unless it has a massive amount of research involved. I have a weekly column, monthly column and ghost write several blogs on a weekly basis.

This makes me not living in California a selling point.

I can imagine sites like Upwork or Demand Media limiting how many articles someone can do for a California writer AND California publisher.

It won’t lead to companies hiring more writers full time. They’ll bust a lot of people’s weekly columns to bimonthly or monthly.

We’ll get far more de facto content marketing. Instead of having a legal writer, they send a permanent staff member to interview attorneys who speak for free in exchange for a mention of the law firm. Or you get more chosen representatives for nonprofits being interviewed on a subject.

And a lot of Indian content farms cheer the decision.