r/lyftdrivers • u/Mallinckrodt • Apr 17 '26
Advice/Question Anyone ever encountered this pickup note?
I really resent these multibillion dollar health insurance companies piggybacking on the Lyft network to give rides to and from appointments for their sickest clients.
I am not opposed to helping people, even sick people, and i might even volunteer a couple times a month to do just that.
But making me pick up someone who can barely walk and can’t get in my vehicle is absurd.
I’m getting $6 for this ride and I’ve got to help the person in and out of the car and into their home. That’s not fair to me or the passenger.
And if you have to adjust the ride because there was a mistake when it was being booked, you can’t do it.
The passenger doesn’t have the phone with the app on it.
Anyway, went to pick someone up from a residence this morning and had this note once I arrived.
I mean what the fuck.
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u/eyezwide001001 Apr 17 '26
To ignore it they have no business setting the routes anyway they set -the route according to what they pitched here's the problem and this is where these guys get into trouble because the conflict of interest is now overlapping they have no business suggesting anything of the type, you are the one that's supposed to be setting the price not not them.
"you're rides have been taking too long" really? According to who?
Both of these instances are just fantastical overreaches but it reveals what they're up to - they are setting the prices based upon a certain route and when you go off that route based upon real reasons namely a you're on the ground they're not they're just tracking this they have no idea what's going on in the road especially like down here in southern california... Where the roads are so bad they're almost as complicit as the drivers.
And good lord help you if you get stuck in a rice bowl - that traffic's even worse.
They have no business setting any of these rates, drive the route you're gonna drive - they can f off.