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Here’s What I Did at the End of My Rideshare Lease

What happens when your rideshare lease is over? Should you purchase the car, move on, or try something else? Senior RSG contributor Jay Cradeur shares his experience with ending a rideshare lease.

There are a few key items on which a rideshare driver must focus.  First is the skill required to maximize your revenue.  I am talking about your driving strategy: when to drive, where to drive, which bonus to go for, etc.

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The second key item is keeping your expenses as low as possible.  To that end, how you handle your decision about your car will dramatically impact your bottom line.

Recently I had a decision to make about my 2013 Toyota Prius.  The 3-year lease was up.  I could buy the car, or, I could let the car go and secure a new car.  This article will look at the various factors that all rideshare drivers should consider when it comes to car selection.

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Here’s What It Was Like to Rent an Electric Car From Maven Gig for Rideshare Driving

One barrier to entry into the gig economy is that you need a car if you want to drive for Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Grubhub or the other services. And not just any car: it must be economical, reliable and meet the platform requirements. If you’re considering renting a car for rideshare, RSG contributor Gabe Ets-Hokin shares his experience using GM’s Maven Gig.

Rideshare driving isn’t for everybody, so I don’t try to recruit every person I meet. But when I do (very occasionally) try to turn a passenger into a driver (with my referral code, of course), they frequently tell me they don’t have a car. I tell them they don’t need one; in fact, as Harry’s recent podcast guest points out, it’s a bad idea to buy a new car for gig work, as most new workers quit in the first six months.

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Is Your Car Too Small? Lyft Bans Subcompact Cars

For many drivers, subcompact vehicles are their vehicle of choice due to their usually reasonable gas consumption and maneuverability. However, drivers ability to choose some of the subcompacts may be changing when it comes to Lyft’s new policy. Why did Lyft alter its policy? What does it mean for current drivers of subcompacts? RSG contributor Gabe Ets-Hokin dives in.

Recently, Lyft drivers have started to notice an important change in policy at the newly public company. The company is banning subcompact cars but if you’re already driving with a subcompact car, you will be grandfathered in.

“To provide a comfortable rider experience, certain subcompact vehicles are not eligible on the Lyft platform as of February 25, 2019. Subcompact vehicles typically have an interior combined passenger and cargo volume index of less than 100 cubic feet, which makes for a tight space for passengers.”

Gobsmacked, readers reached out to RSG, having discovered a mishmash list of banned vehicles that seemingly made no sense.

So what was behind this change? And should you be worried?

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Fair vs. HyreCar vs Hertz: Battle of the Rideshare Rental Programs

There are many reasons why drivers nowadays are looking to rent or lease a vehicle vs. using their own for rideshare: to avoid putting miles on their car, to be able to drive while their car is in the shop, or because their vehicle doesn’t qualify to drive for Uber/Lyft. But how do you know which rental program is right for you? Today we have a guest post from Steve Johnson, a full time rideshare driver for the last 6 years, on how the different rental programs stack up for drivers.

For a full list of vehicle options, check out our Uber Vehicle Marketplace.

Whether you are new to driving rideshare or a veteran driver, you may at some point need to use one of the various rental options available to drivers.  I’ve found that there are currently three key players in the ‘rideshare rental game’ that work with Uber and Lyft, each of them are very unique in bonuses and cost per week.

I have been driving for Uber and Lyft for almost 6 years now, and I have used all three of these programs.  Hertz is probably the most commonly used and has been around the longest.  Fair and Hyrecar are two newer options that have both become popular all over the country.

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11 Best Car Rental Options For Uber, etc. – Get a Car (FAST)

Best Uber Car Rental & Lyft Car Rental Options

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There aren’t a lot of requirements to become an Uber or Lyft driver, but one thing that holds a lot of people back is an eligible vehicle.

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If you’d like to become a rideshare driver, learn about the Uber new driver bonus, Uber Eats, Lyft new driver bonus, Postmates, and DoorDash.

In most cities, Uber requires a 2002 or newer 4 door sedan in order to drive on UberX while Lyft requires a 2004 or newer vehicle:

But for those without an eligible vehicle or even a vehicle at all, there are a whole host of options available: everything from buying and leasing programs to daily and hourly rentals. As Uber and Lyft have exploded in popularity, so have these vehicle start-ups, and many of them are specifically tailored to a rideshare driver’s needs.

They’re not even just limited to Uber and Lyft anymore. Some of the options below extend to cover package and food delivery companies like postmates, doordash, grubhub, amazon flex, instacart, and more. If you need a car lease/rental for an on demand or gig economy job, you’re in the right place.

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