Uber adds fuel surcharge because of high gas prices

[Dave Hess]

Uber adds fuel surcharge because of high gas prices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/11/uber-adds-fuel-surcharge-because-of-high-gas-prices.html

 

[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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