[OFFICIAL] SG Uber Drivers

[MrSinkie95]

most of your use own car or rent cars? all are full timers? no part timers?

 

[andrewlim5496]

Just to update some info here.

If you rent your car from Uber preferred rental partner which is LCR, you will not allow to use grabcar apps or any others. The insurance will not cover you if you encounter an accident while using others apps.
Some may say "then i go other rental company", do take note only LCR give incentives, other rental companies do not.

As for relief driver, I personally will not hire a relief as will be very high responsibility. The insurance excess for car by LCR is $2000 for each party, excluding gst. Mean if i knock into another car, i will need to pay $4280. If i knock into 2 cars, will be $6420 etc. if you knock into 3 cars or more, god bless u liao.
So if a relief driver drove your rental car and knock into another car or cars, the LCR will chase the hirer for the $$$ if relief driver not paying up.

Technically i will say driving uber will give you around $20/hr gross profit, but you need to deduct rental, petrol, parking cost and 20% commission off your total fare to Uber.

Transferring your car from personal to company does not affect your car parf value. You can transfer your NCD to your company car too, and as what i got from NTUC income, up to max of 50%. Anyway NTUC INCOME insurance excess is $2000 and $1500, but i forget which one is for 1st party liao.

I believe you can earn more by driving a taxi, but as a taxi driver, you will need to a vocational license which need to renew every 3 years, and must follow whatever new/old rules and regulations LTA throw at you.

I just did a calculation of how much money a taxi company can make from a taxi driver rental. Nowadays a taxi rental is around $130 a day. Commercial insurance, road tax and maintenance is about $14 a day.
So $130-$14=$116/day profit
A taxi can be drove upto 7 years which is 2555 days.
$116 x 2555 = $296,300
A Hyundai sonata VIII cost around $114,000.
So you all go figure out how much profit a taxi company got from a poor taxi driver.

 

[preakshox]

i'm keen to try out as a relief driver (without renting but co-share a car with a car-owner). Noticed that the site offers only 3 options for registration:
1) Rent a car
2) Drive a car
3) I want to drive a licensed ubertaxi

Say I do not own a car, which do I fall under? Is there an alternate site to register? Thanks!

 

[andrewlim5496]

i'm keen to try out as a relief driver (without renting but co-share a car with a car-owner). Noticed that the site offers only 3 options for registration:
1) Rent a car
2) Drive a car
3) I want to drive a licensed ubertaxi

Say I do not own a car, which do I fall under? Is there an alternate site to register? Thanks!

No, uber does not take care of relief driver. For those interested to be a relief, you need to find the hirer by yourselves.

 

[stacipher]

bookmark first....pm me if anybody looking for relief driver near bedok

 

[fatdog14]

Hi expert,
I been driving grab for a week, do you know when will I see my incentive? how do they calculate incentive? thanks for any advise.

 

[MrSinkie95]

your have own car? or rent car one?

 

[Optionstrader]

Hi,
I'm interested in trying Uber Part-time on weekends only.
I am 33 years old with 10+ years class 3 driving license, staying near central area now, and without a car.

Any pointers to get started? Details on rental and profit etc?

PM me

lol i jus rented a supercar

 

[pilotsnoopy]

lol i jus rented a supercar

how super is your supercar?

met some driving BMW 323i and C-Klasse UberX

seems they get from this http://mcqueenrentals.com

 

[LifeIsJinHappy]

Yes, definitely possible, but higher cost on commercial vehicle insurance (personal car, not sure about rental car rate) and potentially, you need 2 mobile devices to run both app simultaneously.

Grabcar requires an active mobile line with data whereas Uber requires data for the app to run. However, if your phone running Uber only has data/wifi, you probably will not be able to make phonecalls or receive messages through the app.

Grabcar may let you purchase a Huawei phone at 150 while refunding you 150 back in credit to deduct the 20%. Then uber lets you rent sim card data only unlimited for 5/week.

This way can do both if you own a car or rent from non uber/gc affiliated rentals.

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[pilotsnoopy]

Grabcar may let you purchase a Huawei phone at 150 while refunding you 150 back in credit to deduct the 20%. Then uber lets you rent sim card data only unlimited for 5/week.

This way can do both if you own a car or rent from non uber/gc affiliated rentals.

Sent from Sony D6503 using GAGT

apparently its no longer unlimited but capped at 2GB.

 

[24thchromosome]

Hi Bros,

Really need some advice... I have my own car and am thinking of using it to drive uber.

1) I called up my insurance company and they said can transfer NCD when converting to commercial. Let's say if I decided to stop after one month and need to convert back to private insurance, which insurance company can allow transfer of NCD back? My current insurance only allow one time transfer from private to commercial but not the other way around. Just trying to plan for longer term in the event driving uber doesn't suit me.

2) Does uber really required to register for sole proprietorship and not pte ltd? If pte ltd, can charge maintenance and servicing to company expense and not taxable but sole proprietor cannot... and with car usage exponentially increased I guess maybe need twice maintenance/servicing per year.

3) For those of you driving uber full time and using own car instead of rental car, what are your considerations when making this decision?

 

[Benares]

Hi Bros,

Really need some advice... I have my own car and am thinking of using it to drive uber.

1)
>Previously when I checked, only NTUC / AXA / Great Eastern offers commercial insurance for Uber. The latter 2 allows you to transfer NCD back for private motor car.

2)
>Did not do much research on the s.p vs p.l, but based on requirements by Uber, s.p is necessary.

3) For those of you driving uber full time and using own car instead of rental car, what are your considerations when making this decision?
>I got 'tired' of Uber after a month into driving with them. In general, the company is adjusting every little thing along the way to get a better balance for both consumer and drivers.
a) back then there wasn't a helpline to call
b) rates were pathethic - at least they are doing something to slowly rectify things now (e.g trips champion)
c) high excess risk due to commercial insurance coverage; an accident with another car with passengers will easily set you back (#of passengers + #cars - owncar)x$1500 excess if you are in the fault...

Think the last 1 is more than enough to put anybody off...

 

[Ethan_]

The new referral scheme, meaning earn while refer to uber and also to car rental? Any current driver offering?

 

[Ethan_]

Can know how the relief driver system or procedure work? Just agree on rental and exchange?

 

[ducky_88]

Hi everybody. I wanted to register my dad hiace with grab car. How's the demand and supply?

Appreciate it. Thanks!

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[24thchromosome]

Hi Bros,

Really need some advice... I have my own car and am thinking of using it to drive uber.

1)
>Previously when I checked, only NTUC / AXA / Great Eastern offers commercial insurance for Uber. The latter 2 allows you to transfer NCD back for private motor car.

2)
>Did not do much research on the s.p vs p.l, but based on requirements by Uber, s.p is necessary.

3) For those of you driving uber full time and using own car instead of rental car, what are your considerations when making this decision?
>I got 'tired' of Uber after a month into driving with them. In general, the company is adjusting every little thing along the way to get a better balance for both consumer and drivers.
a) back then there wasn't a helpline to call
b) rates were pathethic - at least they are doing something to slowly rectify things now (e.g trips champion)
c) high excess risk due to commercial insurance coverage; an accident with another car with passengers will easily set you back (#of passengers + #cars - owncar)x$1500 excess if you are in the fault...

Think the last 1 is more than enough to put anybody off...

Thanks bro!!

 

[caniggia]

Get a proper job la KNN.

very true. so many 20+ becoming full time self employed driver. Next time cpf no money buy house will be too late.

sad...

 

[k8118k]

AVOID LCR , if you are unlucky got a problem car.
Its on your time to help them to fix it even you just pick up the car less than 24 hours.