Thinking of drving for Uber, Lyft or GrubHub?

[Not_A_Llama]

You just have to be strategic about what you partake in.

If you run it like a fulltime job and are plugged-in, running an import vehicle or have a long-term rental contract, you'll do fine - plenty of dudes are making a good living and Uber even pays for online college. If you're doing a few strategic hours around bar hours in an urban area with a personal vehicle, you'll probably do fine.

Someone hopping in and aimlessly driving a time or two a month because they saw an ad or heard about it from Karen is probably not making money.

It's not any different from hotshot trucking when operators get lazy about finding backhauls, and we consider those people to be plugged-in and informed.

I'm reminded of a guy I worked with who owned a newish Jeep, and anxiously volunteered at every opportunity to drive to a company site in an other state, instead of taking a flight. He was after the mileage reimbursement, which he explained to me was "free money". Then his transmission grenaded to the tune of multiple thousands of dollars in the middle of nowhere and he (of course) could not afford it. The lower classes oppress themselves. Whether you feel like legislation is the fix to "protect" them is kind of the key determinant on a person's political leanings these days.