Welcome to The Rideshare Guy
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I’m Harry, the owner and founder of The Rideshare Guy. I used to be a full-time engineer but in 2015, I quit my day job to run the blog full-time! My team and I write about what it’s really like to be a driver for Uber, Lyft and lots of other gig services. My goal is to educate drivers and help them earn more money by working smarter, not harder. I started driving for Uber and Lyft all the way back in 2014 and after a year of part-time driving, I left my job as an aerospace engineer to cover the industry full-time through my blog The Rideshare Guy. When I first got started driving, I quickly realized that there’s actually a lot more to this job than just getting people safely from Point A to Point B. After my first weekend of driving, I sat down at my computer and started looking for blogs, resources or online communities of rideshare drivers. I couldn’t find a single one! There was nothing other than a few Facebook groups that had a bunch of newbies like myself asking all the same questions! After a week or so of hopelessly searching for information, I decided to take matters into my own hands and The Rideshare Guy was born. I knew that there were lots of drivers with the same questions I had and I figured that if I could provide an authoritative resource with good information, I would be able to help out a few of my fellow drivers. But I had no idea just how many people needed help! I often joke that one of the reasons why my site has grown so quickly is because the TNCs (Uber, Lyft, etc) are so bad at communication, training and helping out their drivers. And even though my first weekend of driving was a lot of fun, I still felt like I was all alone out there. A lot of these companies are so focused on growth and getting bigger, they literally throw drivers to the wind and expect them to figure things out all on their own. I wanted to create a place where drivers could get all of their questions answered from someone who knew what they were talking about. Over the years, I’ve driven for Uber and Lyft and delivered food for Postmates and Doordash and charged scooters for Bird. It would be very difficult for me to tell drivers what it’s like out on the roads if I hadn’t done it myself and as I’ve spent more time on the blog and less driving, I’ve been fortunate to hire a number of contributors around the country to provide additional perspectives. In early 2015, I took a huge leap and actually left my day job as an engineer with Boeing to work on this site full time. If people thought I was crazy for driving part-time for Uber, imagine what they thought when I told them I left my well-paying, stable career to become a rideshare blogger! But for me, it was kind of a no brainer. I wouldn’t be making nearly as much blogging as I was when I was an engineer, but I would be doing something that I am extremely passionate about. I didn’t start this site with the intention of making money or so I could leave my day job, but both kind of ended up just happening. I saw an opportunity that I was passionate about and I wanted to help people. At the time, The Rideshare Guy was reaching and ‘helping’ over 100,000 drivers a month and for me, that was an amazing feeling. Selfishly, I liked getting e-mails, tweets and comments from people telling me how much my site has helped them. Whether it was a tip to make make more money, advice on being a better driver or just advice on how to enjoy what they do a little more, this site has helped a lot of people and my goal is to continue helping as many people as I can. Although I now employ a part time staff of writers, assistants and web designers, I still respond to each and every single e-mail that I get. Sometimes I spend half my day communicating with drivers, but I think that’s also one of the things that makes this site unique. I definitely recommend that you take some time to go through all the content, resources and community we’ve created. Looking back, it’s truly astonishing how much work we’ve put into the site and the crazy thing is, there’s still so much more that needs to be done! So in addition to hearing from me, you’ll also hear from full-time drivers with tens of thousands of trips under their belt, female drivers, part-time surge only drivers, food delivery experts and more! ⭐️Sign up for our email newsletter to learn the secrets of the gig economy and make the most profits: https://therideshareguy.com/email-sig... ⭐️Want to sponsor a video? Email us and see what we can workout: https://therideshareguy.com/contact/ ✔ The Rideshare Guy Website: https://www.therideshareguy.com ✔ Sign up to drive for Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and more: https://therideshareguy.com/sign-up-b... ✔ Join hundreds of other drivers who are maximizing their rideshare profits with our video course: http://www.therideshareguy.com/mrp
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The Rideshare Guy Podcast is a show dedicated to the rideshare industry and interviews everyone from drivers for Uber and Lyft to CEOs of rideshare companies and academic researchers. Harry Campbell started driving for Uber and Lyft in 2014, and offers a blog, podcast, Youtube channel and video training course to rideshare drivers. We'll cover all of the most popular TNC topics from taxes and insurance to maximizing your profitability and even saving some gas. Whether you drive for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash or Postmates, we'll cover it all! This playlist contains the video log of the episodes of the podcast.
Every driver has their own story and reasons why they are driving rideshare and/or food delivery. Many drivers have also been able to take the concepts and strategies and turn them into profit when driving. Check out different drivers from around the country and see what they are doing and enjoy while driving to make them more money, better tips and overall maximizing themselves.
Rideshare as a industry is always changing and adapting. This playlist is a collection of the major changes that has been made to the Uber and/or Lyft platform within the last 90 days.