My usual hours are OK money. Getting better, but not great.
Graveyards are fantastic money, but as I mentioned in an earlier reply, Wollongong 5am-8am is also pretty good. Aged care nurses are often unwilling to drive on Australian roads, and there's no public transport for them. They're often late for work as there just aren't any uber cars to get them to work either. Anyway, if I feel rested enough after a power nap after the graveyard, I'll do another few hours to get them around, and then sleep all day.
Last weekend was a tiny bit better than usual:
Thursday night in Wollongong (on my way to Sydney): 2h18m. 4 trips. Earnings were $81
Friday night/graveyard in Sydney (mostly Sutho Shire): 7h55m. 21 trips. Earnings were $441
Saturday night in Wollongong (on my way home): 5h19m. 9 trips. Earnings were $336
Earnings include commission and a whopping $14 in tips. You need to subtract GST from earnings (so dock 1/11th of the earnings, but re-add any GST you paid on legitimate expenses). You also need to subtract on-road expenses such as car payments, tyres, charging, and the 55 cent barf bag that a rider soiled late Saturday night in Wollongong. That was barf #6 in 24½ months - so that's a really good run in the Tesla, especially since only 1/6 required any actual in-car cleaning. The same sort of graveyard hours earned me three barfs a month in my old Toyota. I still buy the barf bags in bulk and leave them in the door bins, the centre console, plus spares in the boot. You also need to keep some cash aside for income tax at the end of the financial year - though if your accountant is any good at all, your expenses plus depreciation (at the business use percentage, over a six year writeoff for a luxury car used for rideshare) will offset most of that.
Times don't include breaks, charging time, or time spent getting to the charger (though I usually charge after 4-5 hours if a ride lands me near enough to a charger - even though I could get 6 hours to a charge in my SR+ if I pushed it).
Thankfully rapid Charging isn't much of a time-waster these days. Thursday night's charge time coincided with watching Tesla Tom's Youtube stream. Friday afternoon's charging coincided with shopping. Friday night was my only real time-waster of the week, and that was just half an hour at the Kirrawee Supercharger at 11:30pm. Saturday afternoon's charging was while getting lunch at Cabramatta while running unrelated errands. Saturday night's charging was an hour while I was at the gym at Wollongong's Innovation Campus, and then a 4 hour (oops!) power nap at Berry after I signed out, while I was driving home. At least I woke up after I charged, to unplug the car and move out of the charging bay! And the scenic route home via Nerriga is beautiful, if a bit flood-damaged.
Graveyards are fantastic money, but as I mentioned in an earlier reply, Wollongong 5am-8am is also pretty good. Aged care nurses are often unwilling to drive on Australian roads, and there's no public transport for them. They're often late for work as there just aren't any uber cars to get them to work either. Anyway, if I feel rested enough after a power nap after the graveyard, I'll do another few hours to get them around, and then sleep all day.
Last weekend was a tiny bit better than usual:
Thursday night in Wollongong (on my way to Sydney): 2h18m. 4 trips. Earnings were $81
Friday night/graveyard in Sydney (mostly Sutho Shire): 7h55m. 21 trips. Earnings were $441
Saturday night in Wollongong (on my way home): 5h19m. 9 trips. Earnings were $336
Earnings include commission and a whopping $14 in tips. You need to subtract GST from earnings (so dock 1/11th of the earnings, but re-add any GST you paid on legitimate expenses). You also need to subtract on-road expenses such as car payments, tyres, charging, and the 55 cent barf bag that a rider soiled late Saturday night in Wollongong. That was barf #6 in 24½ months - so that's a really good run in the Tesla, especially since only 1/6 required any actual in-car cleaning. The same sort of graveyard hours earned me three barfs a month in my old Toyota. I still buy the barf bags in bulk and leave them in the door bins, the centre console, plus spares in the boot. You also need to keep some cash aside for income tax at the end of the financial year - though if your accountant is any good at all, your expenses plus depreciation (at the business use percentage, over a six year writeoff for a luxury car used for rideshare) will offset most of that.
Times don't include breaks, charging time, or time spent getting to the charger (though I usually charge after 4-5 hours if a ride lands me near enough to a charger - even though I could get 6 hours to a charge in my SR+ if I pushed it).
Thankfully rapid Charging isn't much of a time-waster these days. Thursday night's charge time coincided with watching Tesla Tom's Youtube stream. Friday afternoon's charging coincided with shopping. Friday night was my only real time-waster of the week, and that was just half an hour at the Kirrawee Supercharger at 11:30pm. Saturday afternoon's charging was while getting lunch at Cabramatta while running unrelated errands. Saturday night's charging was an hour while I was at the gym at Wollongong's Innovation Campus, and then a 4 hour (oops!) power nap at Berry after I signed out, while I was driving home. At least I woke up after I charged, to unplug the car and move out of the charging bay! And the scenic route home via Nerriga is beautiful, if a bit flood-damaged.
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