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| Petronas Bandar Selesa Jaya, Skudai. 2017. |
Monday, 20 Nov 2017.
Dear diary, after driving Proton Preve for Uber for two weeks in KL, I reckon that it's not worth it, especially on the high fuel consumption. To use my son's Proton Saga FLX is feasible, but he's working in Pengerang now and the harsh working environment over there will damage my beloved other car, cikputih if I wanted to exchange between the two cars. So, after discussing with wife, she let me use the family car, Toyota Innova for UberXL. So this is my first experience on using cik Jnulekasnova for the first time in JB for Uber.
Starting the car engine at 6.43am and the odometer reads at 57,900km.
Trip no. 1.
6.55am, 8min 4.4km to pickup a lone minachi VML at Flat Tasek but she put the wrong location inside the Maya Heights terrace houses. Later I sent her to Klinik Pasir Gudang which she also just typing the pin location at the general 'Pasir Gudang' which is nearer. At the drop off, the Uber apps hang and while waiting for the apps calculating the fare, madam VML gave the fare of RM13 as she told me that it's the upfront fare on her apps. I took it and when I drove out and the Uber apps finally showed me the final fare of rm17.88, I decided to return back to collect extra rm4 from her. She was furious but eventually gave in to pay me the extra fare with rm100 note. Later, I wrote a report to Uber about the fare discrepancies which I got the answer instantly.
Trip no. 2.
7.45am, 13min 8.2km NRL and her friend waiting at far far away BSN Masai and the apps showed me the long trip 35min+. When pickep up, I saw they already waiting with many small small bags as they wanted to go to Flex LTD Senai, not the airport as I was expecting earlier. Aiyah. It was a long drive, about one hour.
9.52am, under tree canopies at Masjid Senai Airport, I decided to call Uber customer service (CS) to set up my apps only to pick up UberXL trips. Ref: 1-800-81-8459. The pinoy lady talked to me and professionally processed my application. She later told me that my application will be ready in 24 to 48 hours, and 70 hours the most. I requested the same for my Uber KL account. But later I reckon, all my ping are UberXL trips. Yeay!
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| Masjid Senai Airport 2017. |
Trip no. 3.
10.27am, 9min 9.4km to pickup AAA, 6 pax of young local chinese 2 boys and 4 girls with their vacation luggages at McD Saleng. When I arrived I thought he ordered uberX, I scolded him to request UberX with more than 4 pax. But later when I checked on the apps, it was indeed UberXL. Aiyah, so embarrasing, but I apologised to him (AAA)! I asked them to go in the mpv and sent them to Larkin Sentral. The surging rate was 1.6x. The boy who sat next to me looks very langsi to me, but he's the one who paid me the fare. Luckily the final calculated fare is right bcoz no traffic jam.
Trip no. 4.
11.28am, a lone MKS at the same Larkin Sentral waiting at the teksi stand which I told him not to do it again next time because the abam teksi kept honking me just now. MKS said "xper xper." But I told him again that it's not nice and pity to the abam teksi there. This young man likes to talk too. He said, he commutes from Kluang to Larkin Sentral everyday by bus. That's mean, he's wasting 4 hourse of sitting inside the bus. Walawehh. It's more saving, he said, "dulu saya sewa bilik rm450 sebulan - byk mahal!" I sent him to Olympia College JB.
Trip no. 5.
12.24pm, SSN 10min 5.7km ping me to pickup her sick husband at Pusat Dialisis Johor Jaya. I sent him to Block N Permas 7.
Trip no. 6.
1.10pm, SHK a lone Nepal guy at kedai Taman Rinting, alone and I sent him to Masai bus station. I told this guy, next time please use UberX, after he's grumbling about the high fare.
Noon break, go HOME and noon nap.
Trip no. 7.
4.28pm, 14min 12.8km far far away at Aeon Tebrau to pickup 6 young amois. I sent them to nearby Austin Heights Adventure and Water parks. The surging rate was 1.7x. Good lah.
Trip no. 8.
5.02pm, 9min 3.6km to pickup May and her family of 5 adults and 1 baby at the same Aeon Tebrau City. I sent them to far far away Jalan Silat Gayung Bandar Selesa Jaya. The journey was about one hour including the infamous traffic jam at Highway Pasir Gudang. Madam May paid me the upfront fare, but I told her that the upfront fare she gave me not include conditions of traffic jam and other distance which may occur during the trip. She nodded. Later at the drop off, she paid me extra rm2 as per Uber apps.
6.09pm, break at Petronas Bandar Selesa Jaya. Pee and pray.
6.33pm, still no ping I moved on to Aeon Bukit Indah.
6.55pm, Petronas Bukit Indah. Pee and pray.
No ping, I drove on to JB CS using Jalan Pantai.
Trip no. 9.
7.19pm, 12min 12.3km 1.3x to pickup TYY and his 5 workers at Shell Paradigm Mall (a new shopping mall, old: abandoned Kemayan City mall). I sent them to McD Jalan Tun Fatimah, TUTA.
The last trip, no. 10.
8.05pm, 5min 1.6km to pickup KLV, 6 pax (5 male 1 female) Singaporean and local chinese at nearby restaurant Jalan Pendekar 2. I sent them to JB City Square. Ironically, the Uber apps and the Waze showing me the trip is going to be a one hour journey which I doubted it.
Wife already calling calling to pickup my son at his tuition center. I set the destination to HOME sweet HOME. As expected, no ping all the way HOME. Buy satay before pickup my son.
Dear diary, today I completed only 10 trips in 10hr 25min, and all of them are long trips with surging rate. I like it compare to normal UberX. But the most thing I like about driving UberXL, I dont need to bother entertaining cheapskate trips with promo codes with stingy riders paying only rm1.20 or rm2.58 or free rides. #bcukurje
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| After first day of driving UberXL JB. 2017. |
