On April 1, 2019, I came across a video vlog posted by Rideshare Revolution, a driver for the company Uber, a transportation network company (TNC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. In his detailed video, he reveals how the rideshare giant is taking advantage of its clients (passengers) and drivers providing a service to the company.
The company charges a passenger an additional fee if there are not enough drivers nearby. The company calls it “surge”. Uber, by contract with the drivers, is supposed to share an additional fee with the lucky driver who gets the “surge ride”. Turns out, this is no longer true…
As the Rideshare Revolution vlogger reveals in his video, showing well-documented proof of how the popular company is scamming its estimated 100 million worldwide users, Uber is charging its additional “surge” fee for not having a sufficient amount of drivers on the road in the area. If a rider decides to use Uber’s service, the company hides the additional fees from drivers, who are, in fact, in the zone of interest. The company does not pay them any of this additional fee and keeps the money for themselves.
So either there is a sufficient amount of drivers in the area and the company is lying to passengers and ripping them off, or there are not enough drivers, but the company has chosen to hide this information from drivers so they don’t have to pay them in accordance with the agreements the driver made with Uber. Both scenarios are criminal because they are an infringement of the Terms of Service. This is called THEFT.
So if you use Uber, think twice before you order your next ride and make sure that you are not being robbed. On the other hand, if you are a driver or want to sign up to become a driver for Uber, think twice if you want to work for a dishonest company that is not transparent, like Uber of San Francisco, California.
See original video posted by Rideshare Revolution on
April 1, 2019 on YouTube here.