Download or read book The Life of an Uber Driver written by Danny B and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life Of An Uber Driver is a ride (book) you won't want to miss. This book is an all access, all inclusive shared experience into an array of personalities and walks of life that enter an Uber ride. From your Grandpa to the boardroom executive, to the drunk late Friday night texts, to the sappy love stories, to the strippers and everything in between, you'll never guess what's coming next. The Author is just like you, living and breathing on this great planet we call Earth. The hope of the Author is that you read The Life Of An Uber Driver without knowing any further information about them. Instead, without any pre-conceived notions of them or the passengers, that you get to know everyone intimately. You might even find yourself amongst the pages. Riveting| Raw| Revealing

Download or read book Ubered 2 written by Evan Kail and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The following is an account of my continued life as an Uber and Lyft driver in the Twin Cities metro area, starting December of 2015 and stretching all the way through 2018. Rideshare services vary considerably from market to market, and at no point throughout this book did my market offer the 'pool' service. Finally, it should be noted this book is a sequel to Ubered : my life as a rideshare driver. If you have not read my first installment, I would strongly urge you to stop right here and read that first." --

Download or read book Tfud written by Gary Bruno and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TFUD (TALES FROM an UBER DRIVER) is a hilarious collection of very short stories about life as an Uber driver. Experience the sometimes surprising, sometimes shocking, sometimes crazy, occasionally stammering, and almost always funny conversations that take place between Uber passengers and this Bucks County, PA part-time Uber driver.Names have been changed to protect the guilty so, fear not. If you read about yourself, your friends will never know. Just sit back and enjoy the ride!

Download or read book Confessions of an Uber Driver written by John Dillingham and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicled during the spring and summer of 2016 in Tampa Bay, Florida, these are the true stories and confessions of John Dillingham.

Download or read book Uberland written by Alex Rosenblat and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber’s outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat’s firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.

Download or read book Tales Confessions of an Atlanta Uber Driver written by Mitchell Jay R. Lankford and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell "Jay- R" Lankford recently came home form doing 18 years in a New York State Prison, got paroled to Atlanta, Georgia and turned driving for Uber into an ultimate hustle! He was one of the top 5 Uber drivers in Atlanta and driving for Uber ultimately saved his life. Jay began making $1,300 - $1,500 a week by driving around some of the City's Hottest Rappers, Porn Stars, Doctors, Lawyers, Police Officers, as well as NBA Basketball Players. This is a must read book that includes an exclusive Tupac picture, hand written letter from Prodigy (of Mobb Deep R.I.P.), and great stories and experiences from the saddest Uber ride to the greatest rides ever!

Download or read book The Big Rig written by Steve Viscelli and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

Download or read book Take the Ride of Your Life with The Uber Groover written by M. J. Manley and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of how an Uber driver experienced face-to-face fear from drug dealers, gang bangers and criminals as a taxi driver for Uber. Mitchell Martinez, the Uber-Groover, gives his account of driving for the taxi service Uber, with over 1,000 passengers who experienced the rides of their lives in cities from San Diego to San Francisco. A “Jerry Springer saga on wheels,” Mitchell Martinez gives his true confession and documentshis experience of driving for Uber while coping with a war-time injury he incurred while serving in the United States Army during the Iraq war. Shocked and disappointed to discover that the German word “uber”is defined as superior; above from the Deutschland dictionary and devastated that he drives for a mobile sweatshop on wheels, Martinez dismantles the Uber organization by filing a class action lawsuit for benefits and fair wages. Uber, the word, lives up to its name that means in the German language: Slavery for Profit!

Download or read book The Joy of Uber Driving written by Yamini Redewill and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yamini Redewill is an Uber driver in San Francisco—one of a growing number of rideshare drivers around the world. What makes her unique is that she’s a seventy-nine-year-old single woman who views her Uber driving as a form of spiritual practice! The Joy of Uber Driving chronicles the unexpected corkscrew twists and turns Redewill encounters on the road to love and happiness. How could she know that all those fabulous dreams she cherished as a younger woman were just illusions on the way to reality and would vanish like dust in the wind? But ultimately, her wild ride through life—which includes obsessive love on Catalina; sex, drugs, and alcohol in Hollywood; eleven years of celibacy in Buddhism, and Tantric sex and spirituality in India—helps her wend her way to her authentic self and to creative fulfillment in the winter of her life. In The Joy of Uber Driving, Redewill shares the wisdom that comes from living a full life of heart-centered passion, as well as the self-awareness that has allowed her to be the happy, confident, creative, and young “old broad” she now finds herself to be.

Download or read book Wild Ride written by Adam Lashinsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uber is one of the most fascinating and controversial businesses in the world, both beloved for its elegant ride-hailing concept and heady growth, and condemned for CEO Travis Kalanick's ruthless pursuit of success at all cost. In 'Wild Ride', Adam Lashinsky, veteran Fortune writer and author of 'Inside Apple', traces the story of Uber's meteoric rise: from its murky origins to its plans for expansion into radically different industries.

Download or read book Uberville St Louis Uber Stories written by Gregory Triefenbach and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uberville is one of the funniest, contemporary books written today. The element of surprise at the behaviors of real people caught in late night slices of their lives jumps out at you on every page. Even more amazing is the fact that nothing is fabricated-all of it is a laser look at the inhabitants of after hours St. Louis. The narrator drives you with him on each Uber trip and leads you from one hysterical adventure to another. When the ride finally comes to an end, you find yourself wanting more! Tell me more Greg! What happened next?

Download or read book You Don t Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement written by Marc Lichtenfeld and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the 2019 Investment and Retirement Planning "Book of the Year" by the Institute for Financial Literacy It’s never too late to start planning for retirement You Don’t Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement is a survival guide for your golden years, and a lifeline for those entering the Retirement Crisis unprepared. Roughly 45 percent of Americans have zero dollars saved for retirement—but the average retiree will spend $154,000 in out-of-pocket health care costs alone. We need to figure out how to generate more income, even in retirement, and spend less. How do we boost our retirement income? Is investing the way to go? How much do we need, anyway? This book does more than just answer the important questions—it gives you real-world tips to help you reach your financial goals. Yes, it is possible to increase your income in or as you approach retirement. These guidelines will help you optimize your assets and put away more money for the years you’ll need it most. Planning for retirement does not mean holding off on fun today; there are many ways the average American can reduce everyday costs of living without living like a pauper. This book will help you take stock of what you have and what you’ll need, and show you how to bridge the gap. Maximize your savings while minimizing the lifestyle impact Unique ways for generating a meaningful amount of income, that don’t require you to get a job Learn just how much you’ll need for a comfortable retirement Adopt new everyday strategies that will help you bolster your funds Add new income streams, optimize your portfolio, and learn to spend less without living less—these are the key factors in making your golden years truly golden. You Don’t Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement is an important resource and insightful guide for those hoping to one day leave the workforce—in comfort.

Download or read book Driven written by Marcello Di Cintio and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.

Download or read book The Rideshare Guide written by Harry Campbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An industry leader's guide to making Lyft and Uber work for you. In less than five years, ridesharing has grown from nonexistence into a billion dollar industry. Uber now has two million drivers in the United States, Lyft has seven hundred thousand, and both show no signs of slowing down. Despite the large number of drivers, Uber and Lyft provide little in the way of help for new drivers, who complain that there is a lack of guidance when starting out. Harry Campbell, founder and director of The Rideshare Guy blog and podcast and a driver himself, can help. The Rideshare Guide offers a comprehensive and engaging handbook for current and prospective rideshare drivers. Learn how to: Decide between Uber and Lyft Maximize passengers and profits Maintain a five-star rating Keep safe and interact appropriately with passengers Navigate legal matters and tax codes Campbell explains these and much more, also including funny, shocking, and bizarre tales from the road. Whether you are thinking about becoming a driver or a veteran wondering about UberPool and tax help, The Rideshare Guide by the Rideshare Guy has the answers.

Download or read book Life in a Ride written by Mark Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trials and tribulations of a Los Angeles Uber Driver as he navigates not only the streets, but also a fledgling acting career, taking care of his ailing mom, and life in general.

Download or read book Confessions of a Late Night Uber Driver written by Matt Pridgen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HEY, UBER DRIVER! DO YOU THINK MY FRIEND SHOULD GO HOME WITH THIS GUY?" My rider blurted out the question without my prompting. I kept my mouth shut and my eyes on the road. "We just met him tonight...but he bought us hotdogs and drinks." Pop music from a local radio station played softly in the background as I began to process her statement. I AM A LATE NIGHT UBER DRIVER. Well, actually I'm a stay-at-home dad trying to earn a few extra bucks on the weekends. Driving the night shift in a college town, I was originally enticed by the surge fares and 2 a.m. bar rush, but I soon discovered something far more valuable than an extra boost of income. I found that the young people I drive around need more than just a safe ride home-they need to know that there is still hope in this crazy world. JOIN ME AS I SHARE MY TALES OF LATE NIGHTS on the Uber circuit-the good, the bad and the ugly. And stick around to discover the answer to the one question everyone always wants to know: "Has anyone ever puked in your car?"

Download or read book Uber and Out written by Walter Dinteman and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uber & Out is a compilation of stories gathered from experience driving for Uber mainly in North Carolina, but also containing information of general interest regarding ride-sharing.