Some drivers in San Diego have even gotten special approval and licensing from Uber to make trips across the border down into Mexico. An Uber representative that I spoke with let me know that drivers are free to drop off in any state as long as the trip originates in the driver's home market. So while drivers seem to overwhelmingly prefer longer rides, is there a limit to how far your Uber driver will take you? According to Uber's company policy, there isn't. That seemed to be a common gripe amongst the drivers I talked to. Zane is referring to the fact that after the $1 safe ride fee and 20% Uber cut is taken out, drivers only end up with $2.40 from a minimum fare of $4. Zane stated, 'there is a much higher cost for shorter trips that earn as little as $2.40 (after Trust & Safety fee and the TNC cut) in the Dallas market.' One common complaint from drivers was that Uber's cut can actually be as high as 40% on a $4 minimum fare (instead of the advertised 20%). And as someone that also owns a sales focused business, I feel this is great time to further practice the art of selling.' I greatly enjoy the time to learn about their career, family, visit, which restaurants they dined at, etc. Sam Rubin, a driver out of Park City, Utah, also noted that, 'Since most of my rides are 35 miles+ to the airport, I have close to 45 minutes to chat with my passengers. It is the nature of the business that some rides will be long and some will be short and the law of large numbers will shake it out.'

Bradley Zane, a driver out of Dallas, Texas, told me that, 'I prefer long trips, but not to the extent that I would lower myself to the cab driver mentality where I would refuse short trips. Most drivers that I talked to still prefer long rides over short ones though and for some reasons you might not expect. There are some features like Lyft Line's destination filter (and Sidecar's drop-off radius) that allows drivers to target riders headed in the same general direction as them but those features haven't really caught on yet. Drivers actually make more money too on longer rides but since there's no way to control the destination, they could be forced to do a return trip empty handed.

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