Should have taken a taxi.
Sometimes it’s wise to choose the professional.
“I’ll give him twenty more minutes....but that’s it!”
When these services pick people up, don’t the drivers know where they are taking someone?
Then, also, don’t the drivers have the right to decline to give someone a ride?
I think I don’t know enough how all this works. But it also sounds as if the driver, bitching about getting only $6, ends up making zero instead.
Again I don’t know enough about the pricing structures or how drivers get paid. Maybe Lyft doesn’t pay very well to start with???? Maybe he needs another line of work???
A talkative Uber driver told me that she always calls the client first to see where they are going. If it isn’t enough money she won’t take the call. (They don’t know where you are going until you get into the car.) She said that none of them would take any calls from FSU, as the students wanted a ride down the street for a dollar or two and it often took twenty minutes just to drive to the pickup point. They pay their own gas.
I did have to take a cab recently and it cost twice what an Uber cost. The cabby paid $70 per day for the use of the cab and paid his own gas. I asked him if he actually made money and he said, “most days.”
Lyft and Uber will exist as long as their are indebted and cash-poor Americans willing to put up their own money for capital (i.e.. buy a car) and work for $6/ hour
The driver should’ve parked in the parking lot for 7 hours, turned the A/C off, not offered the passenger anything to drink, given him a voucher for a free Lyft ride, and THEN booted him out.
My biggest repeat problem is they often get lost picking me up. Irritating to see them drive around in circles on the App. Then, ignore their GPS guidance when taking me to a destination. Worst experience was a car reeking of pot in Las Vegas.
I would have offered him a $10 tip.
But this pilot whips out his phone to record the encounter. And ends up late to work.
Seems to me if the pilot was really interested in getting to work on time, he would have offered the driver a substantial tip to ensure that he reached his destination on time.
He should have sprung for a cab.
I’ve had a taxi driver drop me off 1 block from where he picked me up because he didn’t want the 28 mile to/from. That’s okay, you’re tired, your shift is going to end and you don’t need the money refuse the fare and close up shop.
Instead, he picked me up, drove me about 1 mile to the Bus Station, told me he can’t take me and I owe him $6. I said I’m not paying him nothing, and I paid him nothing.
We either use a crew cab, airport shuttle or a cab. Never depend on these people. Ever. Also we always allow for delays getting to the airport for our flights.
so the guys a pilot...late for his flight...why didn’t he just throw the guy an extra ten spot...this is one cheap pilot.
Insane. The driver knows where you are and where you are going before they pick you up. That one should be fired and flagged from being hired by the other service too. Holy Shiite, I was picked up a zillion times from Manhattan Beach (next to Hermosa where this guy lived) to go the very short distance to LAX. There was never any problem. So now the drivers don’t want short rides? Why not? More tips in anhour right?
Another reason to take a taxi or car service over Lyft etc: last time we took one, our destination changed. We told him we wanted to go to X but then we needed to suddenly get to my son’s school to pick him up. The guy had to drop us off at the first destination and we had to wait for another driver. They can’t be like the taxi who can stop and get you food, stop at a store, anywhere you want. And wait for you. Advantage taxi.
(Also I am apparently deathly allergic to car fresheners. I’m talking head out the window and still my throat closes up. After suffering one mile short ride I literally couldn’t get into another car who had sprayed or who had the tree in it. And you can’t ask for that before your ride! )
You sometimes run into people who are ill suited for their jobs, and this Lyft driver is obviously ill suited for his. Sounds as if he has difficulty envisioning the future consequences of his decisions. Being a Lyft driver working in the vicinity of LAX would mean a fair number of fares to and from LAX, to anyone with even a modicum of foresight. It’s my understanding that drivers see potential fares via the app and know what the destination will be, before accepting a given call for a Lyft driver and car, so really there’s no excuse. This driver needs to find another field of work, this one is clearly too complicated for him.
Darryl should have planned better and mangaed his time better to not be “on a tight schedule” getting to work. Sure hope he’s never my pilot.
I use Lyft and in fact on Friday Night I used it again. During my conversation with the driver, he told they do NOT know the destination until they actually pick you up. However, they can game the system by updating the status to “arrived” meaning they have arrived to pick you up. And then they see the destination. They are not supposed to do that. They are not supposed to know the destination until they actually pick you up. At which then they update to “arrived.”
Well, that’s what I was told. Never had a problem with Lyft. Never used Uber.
That’s my input here.
$6 for a ride into LAX is a rip off for the driver. Pilot should have given him more. We paid $36 for 40 minutes into LAX and I gave him a $20 tip. The guy was a Trump voter!!
the dumb bunny didn’t offer the driver an extra 20 to get him there?
I called a taxi. They know me from other rides, I tip well.
On 2 occasions however I was told after waiting and waiting that they would call another cab company to pick me up.
No one came, no one called back.
On the 2nd occasion I took my car to the doctor 20 miles away using the 101 to 405 (LAX is by 405 another 10 miles) after being told this and waiting another 15 minutes. I never did get a call back. I was suppose to take a cab to the doctor as they were going to put me asleep for a procedure and did not want me groggy driving home. I explained the problem when I got there and they adjusted the amount so I would be wide awake for that easy ride home on the 405 freeway.....