Uber changes form of billing and drivers threaten to strike

With the new billing system, Uber will pay drivers 1.05 per kilometer rounded and 0.19 cents per minute São Paulo, which, according to the company, ensures that obstacles and traffic, bring bigger driver gains. Previously, Uber deducted 25% of the total value of the race, regardless of the distance traveled.

According to the company, the firm's 25% fixed rate after-tax and fixed price did not provide flexibility for track changes or unforeseen changes.

In the examples published by Uber the EXAME, the price of a same trip may result in charges of 15% to 35% for the driver, depending on the duration, route and distances conditions of time and traffic. In this same trip, the user paid 40 reais and the driver received between 26 reais and 34 reais.

In these same examples indicated by the Uber, journeys with more traffic and adversity will now better pay drivers. "

" If the expected price for the pbadenger considered 5 kilometers and 15 minutes, but in the end, the trip had 5.5 kilometers and 20 minutes, the driver will receive by the 5.5 kilometers and 20 minutes ", has said Uber in a statement. "On the other hand, if the trip has 4.5 kilometers and 12 minutes, the driver will receive at that time and distance taken. In addition, the driver's gain continues to be the minimum travel price and, where applicable, the dynamic price multiplier. "

All drivers do not agree with the new form of pricing, mainly because, according to them, the application no longer relates the total value of the race paid by the user (The user continues to have access to price information.) Many are unhappy with the new model and a strike is even scheduled for August 1 in the city of São Paulo.

According to Cleiton Freitas, driver of the platform and organizer of the strike, there are several collection errors and a lack of information between the price of the pbadenger and that of the informed driver. "The firm price of Uber is with the pbadenger. In a race of 100 reais, for example, Uber charges for the pbadenger, but pbades a different percentage of the race to the driver, "he says.

Uber executives claim that the drivers consulted consider the change positive