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| Line up taxi waiting for customer. |
The world of public transport has changed since
the introduction of Uber and then followed by Grab. These two transportation
systems that utilized the usage of new technologies making life more easer and
opening chances to millions of drivers to make an extra incomes from their investment
on their vehicles. The success of the system proofs that the conventional taxi
need to be changed.
The introduction of Uber already steer controversial
when many taxi drivers protested its usage by damaging the driver’s cars. These
incidents occurred in all major cities in the world where Uber is used. Despite
of the protest, Grab had been introduced showing the changes is totally inevitable.
For the drivers itself both Uber and Grab bring
them new hope to earn extra cash to help them with their monthly bills includes
to pay the car loan itself. The chances by the way never come easy when you are
not born as driver to commute the busy city traffics. So here we are going to
see what make successful Uber and Grab drivers to achieving their dreams – earn
more money!
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| Waiting for customer should be thing in the pass. |
Part Time Driver
This is the largest group of drivers both for
Uber and Grab, as many tries their best to earn extra money. Drivers who spend
few hours a day to drive around and bring strangers to earn extra money. Some
of these drivers drive when they think it is right to go out and nothing to do
in their daily schedule.
This type of drivers mostly will stop after few
months while some of them will keep on continuing for longer period. Most of
these drivers already have good daily jobs while some of them looking for extra
cash to gain more in order to support the burden of their expenses.
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| Uber with its research car for driver-less car. |
Full Time Driver
Full time driver are more aggressive. While
some of them really find it become their daily job, while most of them return
to their daily job before they became an Uber or Grab Driver. It is not easy to
change the lifestyles – to be a fulltime driver as this will be the main source
of income.
The full time driver need to understand that their
new life will be mostly on the road with busy traffics and they also need to face
different characters of their customers. Being a fulltime drivers mean more
time to spend on driving instead of time for themselves (it also become their
new dedicated job where they need to manage it by themselves). Without proper
time management and good attitude the fulltime driver will never achieves their
target and their dreams.
Tips and Tricks
Whether it is for fulltime or just for fun, driving
to earn money come with disciplines, motivations, good attitudes and love for
the job that you do. Still there are many things to learn in order to successfully
achieving the short term and long term goals as everyday will be a new challenging
day in life.
Time management – time management is very
important to make sure this new commitment not changing what is really
important (the daily job itself). While for those who decide to make it as a
fulltime job need to speed their time as much how they spend it for their daily
job – at least!
Attitudes – good attitudes toward your job.
Yes, this is your job that you can control in your hands so be responsible. Shows
good driving practices, make sure your car is safe, fasten your own seat belt
and remind your customers too, use the phone holder if you need to use the GPS
navigation, avoid too loud music, and give attention to your customers.
Motivation – be serious with your daily target
whether in the form of how many hours you should drive, or how much money you
should make per day. Always remember, every day is different – so do as much
you can while you can.
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| Remember to use the phone holder to assist your driving. |
Learn the tricks – use GPS, avoid congestion
roads, accidents, new routes and so on with navigating apps. Most of the
drivers using it, but make sure to use it effectively. Some drivers go out
early to avoid traffic congestions where there’s also less drivers available.
Weekend also another good time to get more customers.
Explore and enjoy – enjoy your driving, explore
the edges of the city where you never went to. Driving for customer is the only
opportunity for you to reach these parts. Most of the time you will discover
new places and probably things that you are looking for.
Improve your skills – learn everything that
helps. It might sounds funny, but learning will helps you communicate better
with your customers. Broad knowledge will allow you to share many things with
your customers when you need too. Sometimes it can helps you in different ways as
in learning for time management and managing your income.
Uber/Grab or Conventional
Taxi
There are many benefits of being Uber/Grab
driver, instead of conventional taxi driver. By harnessing the technologies,
this mode of transport get more customers compared the regular taxi that
hanging around waiting for the customers in specific places.
Uber/Grab allows customers to book their ride
with few clicks on their phone together with the payment deducted from their
debit or credit cards – and it comes together with their bill sent to their
email. These built in features will be an extra cost for conventional taxi
driver. Usually Uber/Grab driver will get a new booked before they drop their
passenger.
Customers gain more trust to the system with
fix prices and no haggling on the price that already fix by the system. There’s
no way for driver to add an extra cost for Grab system (as in Uber the price
can be changed at the end of the journey).
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| Using the phone technology to booked for ride. |
How to be Uber driver link
How to be Grab driver link
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| Fast and easy, get a taxi and drop customer almost anywhere. |
Uber/Grab providing new opportunity to every car
owner who decide to earn extra cash or those who are willing to do it as their
fulltime job. This opportunity however not necessarily applied to every one of
us – not all of us born to be a driver – especially when you cannot tolerate
with fussy customers. So think it carefully before your decide to do it as your
fulltime job. At least we know, there’s always an opportunity for us to earn an
extra cash when you need it.
