Uber adds fuel surcharge because of high gas prices

[Dave Hess]

Uber adds fuel surcharge because of high gas prices.

Uber adds fuel surcharge because of high gas prices

The company said that the fees will go to drivers, who are responsible for paying for gas they use.

www.cnbc.com

 

[bdcardinal]

There was a story on this on the LA (KCAL9) news. The people they interviewed were saying that with the increase of gas they were almost at a break even or net loss unless something was done.

 

[wings&wheels]

Good... I admire Uber. I worked with them as they were expanding into the corporate market and was, and still am, impressed with them.

 

[dishdude]

If it's going to the drivers, I'm good with it.

 

[tnt_motorsports]

This makes sense even though we may not like it. I see the freight companies and other delivery services doing this. It reminds me of 2007/2008 when this same thing was going on. Your freight charge was "$x.xx" and your fuel surcharge was "$y.yy".

just my $0.02

 

[c502cid]

I was having this discussion with my lyft driver last night coming home from the airport. He is in a Corolla, and is paying a lot more for fuel. No surcharge but I tipped him plenty well.

 

[nthach]

IMO, too little. Make it $1-2 - those who can(in the SF Bay Area, its usually a 20-something who works in tech, Cal/Stanford student living off a trust fund or people in the nicer parts of SF/Oakland-Berkeley and suburbs) will still use it, and those who can’t, will retreat to public transit - BART’s seeing their weekend ridership recover and AC Transit in Oakland/SF Muni has been at near-normal levels.

My dad’s driving for Lyft and I haven’t heard of anything from them.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

*edited.

PM me with your opinion. I will gladly listen.

 

[M56959]

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