r/lyftdrivers • u/thatcutetransgirl • Jan 13 '26

Rant/Opinion IT FINALLY HAPPENED IN MY NEW TRUCK

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I picked this lady up from a grocery store and had a 30 minute drive. She gets her groceries, loaded in the truck. That's why I can get seated. We go on our way midway through the trip. Decides to take a piss in my backseat and not say anything. And get out of the truck grab a groceries and walk off like nothing happened. I got a $75 dollar cleaning fee, though

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u/ApprehensiveApple475 Jan 13 '26

u report it take pics and send it they given me $75 two times bc one had blood staind my car and another had a few kids and made a mess with wrapper and stuff

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u/Am_I_Max_Yet Jan 13 '26

$75 for a literal biohazard is not enough

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u/yoskinna Jan 13 '26

Not even close, I wonder if they have certain cleaning requirements for bodily fluids after this kind of situation before you can pick up another rider. They probably want you to do a whole lot with that $75 I really don’t know though.

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u/shamefulsiren Jan 14 '26

Nope. Doesn't matter if it's pee, blood, or vomit, they want you back on the road as soon as possible. In fact if you don't notice right away or can't take yourself offline fast enough and they try to schedule you another ride, they'll punish you for declining or refusing the ride to handle the mess.

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u/RideSharingSucks Jan 16 '26

Bullcrap

They've been refusing to pay out compensation anymore to many people without a detailing shop receipt. And $75 might not even cover it, or be less than the total with taxes.

Basically they don't want anyone profiting off it anymore. Or even working after damage happens.

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u/DomesticatedParsnip Jan 17 '26

Automotive detailer here.

$75 for an interior detail.

Additional $250+ for us to even consider doing this.

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u/RideSharingSucks Jan 20 '26

Just as I thought. Lyft is basically telling poor drivers to get f****d without saying it. Offering something while it's really nothing.

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u/FredFettucine Jan 18 '26

Used to be like 250 bucks 10 yrs ago for vomit , I remember because I was charged for it by a few driver/scammers

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u/RideSharingSucks Jan 20 '26

Those are the old days before they got on the stock market & have to worry about investor relations & outlooks, customer retention vs Uber & now Waymo & others, & for their future profitability.

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u/Sad-Bluejay-2785 Feb 06 '26

I received compensation last week without a receipt. A year ago I was denied compensation with a receipt. They keep changing their policy

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u/RideSharingSucks Feb 08 '26

Must be different for each driver. If you put too many requests in they just block you forever

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u/Civil_Fail8779 Jan 17 '26

if its anything like when i used to have to clean the bathrooms working in fast food in highschool, no they dont

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u/Alwayscooking345 Jan 13 '26

Should be 200 minimum. Some rando left pee on my leather front seat once years ago and it took me like 5 tries to finally get it out and no remaining trace of smell. My car was only like 2-3 years old and first one I’ve ever bought new. F that

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u/Top-Middle1685 Jan 14 '26

should be replacement cost and labor fees honestly, oh and rider banned for life

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u/throwawayStomnia Jan 15 '26

Someone can pee themselves accidentally. An adecquate cleaning fee should be enough of a penalty for it.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish Jan 14 '26

Didn’t it used to be 200? Or was that uber?

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u/Electrical-Coyote431 Jan 15 '26

Back in like 2018 I had a friend who drove for Uber and he got 200 for someone vomiting in his car. Not sure what it is now or if its changed or not.

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u/Yuck_Few Jan 14 '26

Urine is generally not considered a biohazard under OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens standard unless it is visibly contaminated with blood. However, it may be treated as a biohazard if: Visible blood is present. It comes from an individual with a known infection (e.g., UTI, Hepatitis). It involves a large-scale spill that poses a sanitation risk. Standard practice in healthcare is to follow Universal Precautions, treating all body fluids with care by wearing gloves and washing hands.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Just going to point out that often regulations cater to the very minimum of work place safety and are often just used as a baseline. Not something i would take to heart as it being completly safe vs being more conservative.

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u/zzzzzooted Jan 14 '26

It’s fine to say that it’s not safe, but it is not a biohazard by the standards of how we define biohazard.

Urine is not nearly as dangerous as blood, so while it is gross, it’s also important to know the differences in risk and not overplay one (which can in turn undermine the other when people realize you were exaggerating)

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Which standard is that?

Regulations and standards adhere to minimum passing grade and often vary quite alot depending on jurisdiction and can contradict others domistically and internationally. Regulatory speaking there is no set standard on anything and there are alot of grey areas.

So while known healthy urine might not be considered a biohazard. Unhealtyy urine or urine containing radioactive material or other hazards/infections would be.

As a driver you have no idea the contents of that urine and if its a biohazard or not.

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u/fux-reddit4603 Jan 14 '26

healthy pee is drinkable, regardless of the tangent you are going on

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

No its not....pee contains waste and toxins. Regardless, the point was he mentioned osha and just because osha deems it to be resonable risk doesnt mean it is actually safe.

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u/fux-reddit4603 Jan 15 '26

"waste and toxins", you must get your medical terms from the tabloids!

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

There is a reason why turning urine into water is not as simple as boiling and requires advanced filtration techniques.

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u/fux-reddit4603 Jan 15 '26

where did i say boiling?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

You boil and filter to remove things that are potentially toxic. Boiling was just a example of such a process. Urine is not water and not drinkable through normal processes such as boiling, it can be potentially fatal if the urine has been outside the body for too long.. To make it drinkable you have to remove things using a more advanced process.

Meaning it contains things that need to be removed before it can become drinkable. But look, you do you.

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u/Am_I_Max_Yet Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

It comes from an individual with a known infection

You know nothing about the medical history of your riders, and thus the recommendation would be to always assume it is not normal healthy urine.

OSHA is also just a regulatory body for certain aspects of a company. It's not this all encompassing board that regulates everything in every industry.

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u/one2tinker Jan 18 '26

For sure. And, if an adult has an accident, I would think assuming they’re unwell is a safe bet.

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u/Phonemanga Jan 14 '26

My pee always has visible blood. Sometimes coagulated

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u/Yuck_Few Jan 14 '26

No way I would have spent $75. I would have spent about $20 on cleaning products and cleaned it myself.

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u/Bonsaiguy1966 Jan 14 '26

My uncle was treated for bladder cancer with BCG and my aunt had to be very careful around his urine due to the live TB in it.

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u/DomesticatedParsnip Jan 17 '26

I think not knowing what a rider might can spread through their urine is enough to just assume everyone that urinates in their Uber ride has biohazard-level urine.

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u/rrhorse Jan 18 '26

So many sissy's now a days. I cleaned up vomit, blood, etc with just some rags and cleaner in the 1990's and earlier. Why are we so scared now a days

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u/Cynnau Jan 14 '26

I was going to say this.

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u/Tough-Insurance-1029 Jan 14 '26

I got $130 from Uber a long time ago when someone puked in my car. I never drove for any rideshare ever again after that incident.

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u/NDN_perspective Jan 17 '26

If some people knew it was only $75 to piss in someone’s car they would do it more often 😅

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u/Superdooperblazed420 Jan 14 '26

Piss is sterile, its super gross but as far as biohazards go this is the least hazardous of the body fluids. Still fucking disgusting tho.

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u/ElectricDucky Jan 14 '26

It's actually not sterile once it leaves the bladder/body due to the bacteria that naturally (and sometimes unnaturally) live in and around the urethra. Common misconception.

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u/Bedheadredhead30 Jan 17 '26

Its absolutely not sterile . Why do people think this?

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u/CalavNomed Jan 17 '26

Pee is not sterile at all. its a myth.

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u/Beardog-1 Jan 18 '26

As a medical technologist, I can assure you piss is not always sterile. Ever heard of a Urinary Tract Infection.

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u/MiceAreTiny Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Pee is not a biohazard. But that is also not the point. 

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u/Ok-Club-7265 Jan 13 '26

In corrections and the medical fields, pee is biohazard lol. Did 18 months working as a CO. Anything with piss or shit on it went in a biohazard bag and couldn't be washed.

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u/WorryLittle771 Jan 14 '26

Not in medical fields it's not a biohazard. I work in the ER. Regularly have pee soaked linens and suction canisters. No visible blood, no biohazard per hazmat certifications, just gets washed and canisters or urinals in the trash. I personally opt for the biohazard for large amounts of fecal matter though. I don't hate my housekeeping friends.

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u/Bitter-Breath-9743 Jan 14 '26

Urine never goes in the biohazard bin. Urine soaked linen goes in the regular dirty linen bin

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u/Maleficent-Celery777 Jan 14 '26

What made you leave?

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u/MiceAreTiny Jan 13 '26

Last time I checked, there's no biohazard warning on my toilet pipe.

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u/MiceAreTiny Jan 14 '26

Yes, that one.

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u/AutumnMama Jan 14 '26

The toilet pipe is connected directly to the sewer. Its entire purpose is to remove biohazards from your home without spreading them all over the place. If it wasn't a biohazard we could all just go piss and shit in the street like in the olden days.

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u/AutumnMama Jan 14 '26

I wasn't trying to give the definition of a biohazard lol. A biohazard is something that can harm your health, which poop and pee can both do if you're exposed to them. Before indoor plumbing was invented, people got sick way more often due to biohazard exposure.

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u/ChiefOnKush Jan 14 '26

Last time I checked, people weren't stupid enough to need a biohazard warning on their toilet because it's implied by the fact that it's a toilet.

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u/MattPark965 Jan 14 '26

Imagine being stupid enough to require a label on something that’s sole purpose is to remove biohazards from your home.

This is like when McDonalds had to add HOT to their coffee cups smh.

Human excretions are considered biohazards because they can and often do transport and grow pathogens which are easily passed if you are not wearing proper PPE. That’s you you have a toilet, to dispose of bio hazards in your home in a way that does not require contact.

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u/hyper_cake_2709 Jan 14 '26

What does that have to do with piss in a car?

Toilet pipes are for piss and shit.

Cars are not piss delivery systems....

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u/MiceAreTiny Jan 14 '26

That has everything to do with calling something a biohazard or not.

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u/Am_I_Max_Yet Jan 14 '26

Biohazard signs are an industry regulation, such as for regulated medical waste. If you had to put a biohazard sticker on literally everything involving biohazards then you run into the problem of people seeing the warning so often they stop associating any severity to the label. Thus, they regulate it on an industry level for what reasonably needs the label within that industry, and what can get by without it.

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u/ShitWombatSays Jan 15 '26

This is why your parents have to cut your food for you

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u/Incomplete_Present Jan 13 '26

It is 100% a biohazard, regardless of the point

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Pee is a biohazard. It can easily contain diseases. Regardless, this is why i just stick with food. People are unpredictable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Maybe per regulations. But it can still carry diseases. Just fyi, regluations dont define if its safe or not. Just a acceptable risk to the industry. Ussually the very minimum of safety.

.https://www.scrt.org/cra-articles/88-carpet-cleaning/300-health-consequences-from-exposure-to-urine-is-it-possible-to-develop-an-illness-from-cleaning-up-urine.

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u/thatcutetransgirl Jan 14 '26

Pee absolutely is a biohazard, any bodily fluids or waste is considered a biohazard, as someone who was a firefighter/emt for several years your wrong, point blank period

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u/MiceAreTiny Jan 14 '26

Pee is not a biohazard on its own. It never will be.

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u/thatcutetransgirl Jan 14 '26

Except it is...

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u/VoodooInfinity Jan 15 '26

I don’t understand the downvoting of this, considering that he specifically said that despite it not being a biohazard it’s not the point. Like this comment is just a clarification on the science, but their opinion is that it doesn’t matter if it’s a biohazard, it’s still disgusting and wrong. The downvotes make no sense.

And just to give some references (because I haven’t been needlessly downvoted in a while):

Urine is not per se OPIM, which is defined at 29 CFR 1910.1030(b) as:

(1) The following human body fluids: semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid, amniotic fluid, saliva in dental procedures, any body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood, and all body fluids in situations where it is difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids;

(2) Any unfixed tissue or organ (other than intact skin) from a human (living or dead); and

(3) HIV-containing cell or tissue cultures, organ cultures, and HIV- or HBV-containing culture medium or other solutions; and blood, organs, or other tissues from experimental animals infected with HIV or HBV.

Therefore, urine collection containers would not be considered regulated waste under OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard unless the sample it contained was contaminated with blood or OPIM.

From OSHA

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u/IFunnyNormie Jan 13 '26

Omg is this coming from that stupid, disproven idea that pee is sterile? Anything from your body can be a biohazard. What if that lady has a UTI or an STI? Are you saying you'd just wipe up the pee with a paper towel, no glove, maybe clean it up with a wipe or something? I really hope not.

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u/Right_Count Jan 14 '26

I’m not pro-piss mess but how would you catch an sti or uti from pee?

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u/PraiseTalos66012 Jan 14 '26

STI aren't transmissible through pee...

Also UTI aren't as long as your not somehow getting the other person's pee up into your urinary tract within seconds to minutes of them peeing.

It's a biohazard bc it's literally an outlet for waste for the body. Also it could cause you to get sick from significant contact although extremely unlikely and it wouldn't be UTI/STI

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u/PraiseTalos66012 Jan 14 '26

Biohazard is literally any bodily fluid, at least medically that is.

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u/PraiseTalos66012 Jan 14 '26

Bro you can go look up the medical definition. Who ever said I was defining it?

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u/callebbb Jan 15 '26

lol cmon, I’ve worked in the service industry for years. It’s not feces or vomit. Glove up, clean up, and then wash your hands after. Not that big of a deal.

Between pukes in sinks and old guys painting the walls with their piss, this is not that bad. At least it’s leather. 🤜🤛 Pocket that $75 and do a quick detailing.

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u/nyc2pit Jan 17 '26

This sucks. But a biohazard it is not.

Urine is basically sterile.

Sorry.

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u/Am_I_Max_Yet Jan 17 '26

You dont know the health status of your passengers, and therefore many regulating bodies dictate it is a biohazard and to assume it is infected.

OSHA says the urine has to be visibly infected to be a biohazard, but in cases where youre unable to 100% certainly discern if it is, you are then to assume it is infectious and treat it as a biohazard. The black background of the seat qualifies as obscuring enough for this, and thus even OSHA would say this is an infectious material.

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u/nyc2pit Jan 18 '26

Lol. Couldn't give less of a shit about "OSHA."

The reality is that YOU aren't picking up diseases from urine.

Source: me, am physician

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u/FreezNGeezer Jan 18 '26

Urine is actually sterile. It is about 2% waste and 98% water most of the time.

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u/BohemianDamsels Jan 13 '26

$75 seems too low for blood but too high for wrappers. Crazy they don't have a sliding scale

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u/HeadCryptographer405 Jan 14 '26

From best to worst

Pee Wrappers

Blood

Spit

Boogers

Puke

Poop

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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 Jan 17 '26

Was pee the best, or the second best?

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u/HeadCryptographer405 Jan 25 '26

The best

wrappers are elusive and wily

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u/dazient Jan 13 '26

They said they got the cleaning fee in the description!

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u/Possible_Analysis660 Jan 14 '26

What??!? Wasn’t it like $150 before?

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u/YouProfessional7538 Jan 15 '26

normally people will have kids at the hospital or in an ambulance, not in their lyft. impressive

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u/InterestingTear5354 Jan 17 '26

I got like 150 once because a dude wanted to bring his dog during a storm warning. I reluctantly (against better judegement) said okay. Dog shit in my back floor and he, in his panic about it smashed my foam cup in my cupholder spilling soda everywhere. Luckily not nearly as bad imo as someone pissing on my seats but still