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How I Saved Over $20,000 Using Stride Health

This post is sponsored by Stride and as always, all opinions are our own. We’re proud to partner with Stride, because as rideshare drivers, we know it’s important to have reliable health insurance. We’ve found Stride to be affordable and reliable – two important keys to good health insurance!

If you are like many of us working as rideshare drivers in the big beautiful gig economy, you have struggled with getting health insurance.  It is complicated and can be expensive!  Unlike our corporate/government-working brothers and sisters who are given a health care plan as part of their benefits program, we are left to our own devices to research, choose and pay for a health plan.

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Choosing the right insurance for you can be a daunting task since there are so many companies to choose from, each with a seemingly endless array of options.  We see terms like: deductible, co-pay, primary physician, out of pocket, specialist, gold, silver, and bronze plans.  It can be overwhelming.

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What You Need to Know About Uber’s New Terms of Service Agreement

Recently, drivers received another update to the Uber Terms of Service (TOS) agreement. Senior RSG Contributor Sergio Avedian decided to read all 27 pages of it, and in this comprehensive article he will explain what it means when you sign this agreement.

Like many others, I tried to go online to drive with Uber last week and was greeted with a pop-up notification about a new Terms of Service (TOS) agreement. As with previous updates, we were asked to read it carefully and electronically sign it if we want to continue to use the app and earn a living. Most drivers probably instantly signed it without reading, since I’m sure they wanted to go online and make money, but I decided to dig deep and read all 27 pages of it, partially because I wanted to and most importantly because we need to know what we are agreeing to as drivers!

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Earn Extra Money By Helping People Pass Their Driver Exams

If you ask RSG contributor Gabe Ets-Hokin what happened to his Rideshare earnings in 2019, he will take you to the nearest cliff and point down. Oversaturation of drivers and massive reductions of bonuses as well as the regular fare cuts have made it harder to earn the decent hourly rate he enjoyed the previous five years. How did he work harder, not smarter and help keep his income up? Find out below!

2019 has been pretty rough for me professionally. Like a lot of gig workers – and I’ve been a gig worker on and off since the 1990s – the arrangements you build for yourself work… until they don’t. And so once again I have to reinvent myself, applying my skills and experiences to find some other way to keep my income growing – or at least steady.

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Is Uber Bringing Back The Original Surge Multiplier?

During his usual early morning shift, senior RSG contributor Sergio Avedian has discovered that some of his Uber rides had the old surge multiplier attached. He wrote extensively about the Penny Surge (Uber Flat Rate Surge) in his previous article and explained some of his new strategies. Let’s take a deeper look at this new phenomenon of Uber possibly bringing back the old surge multiplier and sharing the wealth with their drivers.

Over the past year, I have started driving less and less for Uber and Lyft (fewer than 20 hours a week total) and we all can guess what the reason is. Rate reductions (last one in March of 2019 in Los Angeles to the tune of 10%) have taken a toll on my pocketbook. Even with all the strategies I deploy, I can’t duplicate the good old days of averaging over $40-45 per app on hour.

That said, I still manage to crack the $30 barrier easily. I am a surge only/mostly driver, always have been, and Uber is still my preferred rideshare company when I decide to get on the road and drive over Lyft. The following screenshots are from Monday, November 18, 2019!

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