November 2019 Uber/Bolt Earnings

28 Oct – 4 Nov 2019 | Uber £728.39| Bolt £274.75|Cash Tips £6| Total £1009.14

Building on the success of last week, I managed to hit my target of £1000 again.

The plan going forward is to make the £1000 a week consistent, to make it a habit and then build from there. Im currently just simply trying to build a solid foundation where the £1000 becomes the norm and then plan on increasing it incrementally.

Currently I am working the appropriate hours needed to reach my target with no clear strategy. I appreciate that we should be working smarter not harder, but as I am still new to full time driving, I’m still going out there and seeing what is possible with just hard work.

It’s not possible to see how many hours I am online now I am using Uber and Bolt and I am not even logging them, but I am not putting crazy shifts in. Because my days and nights are broken up with school runs and the kids night time activities I am working shorter shifts spread over 7 days.

This week, I was in the car with the Uber and Bolt apps on by 5am and logging off by 2. After 10 am though it goes deadly quiet so I will be logging of sooner from next week. My nights are busier with family commitments so I am only putting in a few hours where possible.

This week I didn’t work weekend nights but tried out starting early morning and working the days. Although it was nice to not be stuck in traffic, It wasn’t as busy as I thought it would be and would have made more money working friday and saturday night.

I also avoided central London as much as I could and stayed as local as I could to North London avoiding as much heavy congestion as possible. My thinking is to not get stuck in traffic just to pick up a surge job but to rather stay away from the traffic and keep the car moving with constant pickups.

Picking up surge jobs are always good but spending hours in traffic is equally as bad, and its important that you keep the job enjoyable. I am not saying that its a full proof strategy but it worked out well this week.

I also took advantage of the uber bonuses for 3 consecutive trips and earned an extra £57 and £7 from Bolt which was £1 extra for every first trip of the day.

4 Nov – 11 Nov 2019 | Uber £650.58| Bolt £112.10|Cash Tips £2| Total £764.68

Not much to report this week. In general it has felt very quiet with long waits in between jobs. Bolt especially has had a big drop off which could be down to all the initial promos for new riders ending but I am just speculating.

I have spoken to other fellow Uber and Bolt drivers and they also have mentioned that it has been a slow week so its probably just the time of the year.

This week I was feeling ill with a bit of a cold which wiped me out and although I tried to push through it, I had to concede defeat this week and couldn’t push to try and hit my target.

Saturday night after I dropped of a passenger, I ended up parking up and nodding off so I decided to call it a night, get some rest to hopefully recover and get back on track next week.

11 Nov – 18 Nov 2019 | Uber £780.95| Bolt £215.90| Total £996.85

Back on track this week and only missed out on the £1000 target by £3.15. Considering it still felt a bit slow, I am happy with the way the week went.

As you can see, Uber is still king and I’m starting to think that my theory on Bolt getting quieter because of the rider promos ending might be true.

Still £215.90 with Bolt is not to be sniffed at and it definitely helps to be running the second app to fill in the gaps.

This week, I took advantage of the Uber promo of 3 consecutive trips and earned an extra £81 which combined with £22 worth of toll and £11 in app tips, I earned an extra £114 this week of free money from Uber.

18 Nov – 25 Nov 2019 | Uber £849.66| Bolt £96.78| Cash Tips £5 |Total £951.44

Another good week despite just missing out on my weekly target of £1000. I spent Sunday day at home with the family and headed out at 6pm with a target of £70 to hit my weekly target, but it was deadly quiet so decided to call it a night and get a good night’s sleep.

In a week which was slow with drivers continuing to complain online that the game is dead, I still managed to earn over £950 so don’t believe everything you read or hear.

You need to continuously be improving and working on your game and trying out new strategies. This could be trying out new areas to work in, different times to drive, taking different days off, taking no days off. If it’s not quite working for you then dont carry on doing the same thing, That was Einstein’s definition of insanity.

One thing I have played around with this week a lot is using destination filters to keep me in a localised area to be able to rack up the Uber bonuses. Doing many small local trips within the bonus zone meant that I was able earn multiple bonuses per day which resulted in me earning an extra £71 this week.

This was my first full month as full time private hire driver and despite not quite hitting my target of £1000 every week, I wasn’t far off with a total of £3722.11 for the month. If it wasn’t for me getting ill last week I think I would have easily hit the 4K.

Although I am working a lot more than I was in just my full time job, I am actually working less that I was working full time plus part time Uber. I am also a lot happier being a full time rideshare driver than I ever was as an employee so I don’t mind working 7 days a week. It doesn’t feel like work at all and I now have the ability to work around my life as opposed to working my life around my work.

After my first full month of full time driving, I would still recommend joining the gig economy but only if your a real go getter and have a strong work ethic. It’s not for everyone, but if you can make it work, in my opinion it’s a better alternative to the traditional 9-5.

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