Today we're going to talk about a new program which Uber has just recently unveiled and it's called Uber Pro which is a system of classifying drivers based on how much you drive and how well you drive. There are rewards and benefits if you drive more and you do a better job than other drivers. And stick around at the end of the video I'm going to share with you what I think is the best feature of the Uber Pro program. So everybody this is Jay Crater with the ride share guy and today we're going to talk about Uber Pro. So before we jump right into Uber Pro let me tell you what happened. I was privileged that I got to listen to a Uber presentation where they shared with me what the Uber Pro was and why they created this system. And basically Uber feels there's three areas of concern or critiques that drivers have with being a driver. Now the first one they said is that drivers don't feel recognized and brothers and sisters I can completely agree with that. We don't get recognized as I wrote in the blog post we are like chattel. We just do our jobs and take our money but not a lot of recognition especially if you do a lot of rides you're a full-time driver you got a high rating not much coming out as. So that was the first thing they said. The second thing they mentioned was that drivers want to earn more money and that seems like a no-brainer. Of course we want to earn more money and if we do a good job we should earn more than other drivers. And every other sales organization that I've ever been a part of if you did a good job you got exponentially more money. You were rewarded for your performance. The third thing they said that over half the drivers express an entrepreneurial spirit that they have something they want to build or something they want to create or some other business they want to start. And they wanted to create a program that would allow them to support drivers who have those kinds of feelings within them. Those kind of dreams and visions of their future. So what did they come up with? Well they came up with Uber Pro. So Uber Pro is a classification system where you are four there's four levels to it. The first is called partner so anyone who starts driving for Uber and hasn't done anything they're called a partner. The next level up is called gold. Then from gold we go to platinum and then the highest level is called diamond. Now the way that you achieve these different levels is based on how much you drive and maintaining a certain rating and a certain cancellation rate. And you put those all together and every city's going to have its own little formula but suffice it to say if you drive a lot and you do a good job and you don't cancel on a lot of people you're going to be able to get to that that highest level. Now based on what level you are then you get a whole bunch of different rewards. So we're going to go to a screenshot here and break this down. So you can see here across the top partner gold platinum and diamond and then on the left are the different perks. So Uber starts off with what I think is the most important which is earn up to 6% extra on time and distance rates. So let's go straight to the diamond. 6% so let's say you average a thousand dollars in earnings a week. This means that you would be getting an extra 60 dollars per week. If you're someone like a like me who drives full time and I get about 2000 a week that means I'm going to make an extra 120 dollars. So let's stick with a thousand dollars per week example. So you're making an extra 60 dollars and let's say you drive 50 weeks that's an extra three thousand dollars that Uber is just giving you for doing a good job. So I think that is great. We'll go down next it says 5% cash back at gas stations. So if you use one of Uber's debit cards they can keep track of when you buy gas and every time you buy gas you can get up to 5% off. So you can go to any gas station at all. It doesn't have to be a specific gas station and get 5% off. If you happen to go to an ex-honor mobile you can get up to 6.5%. Some other things I want to show you is see it says see trip duration and direction. So if you're gold platinum or diamond right gold it'll it'll give you that indication on long trips but platinum and diamond it'll give it to you for all trips. So what that basically means is when you get your ping it's going to let you know the trip you're going to take is say 10 minutes long and it's heading north right. So you can immediately determine if that's a ride that you want to take. Up until now it's been very difficult to know what kind of ride you're going to get with Uber because you don't get any information until you start the ride and that's usually with the passenger in the car which makes canceling rather indelicate at best. So I think this is another really huge benefit and puts them on par with a lift and being able to see what kind of trip you're going to be taking before the passenger gets into the car. You'll see some other things here priority support. Here it says 100% tuition coverage and I'm going to cover that a little bit later. Faster pickups at the airports so you'll get priority ranking. So if you are a diamond driver and you get to the airport and you just drop somebody off or you're just in the queue you will people hold it right to the front of the line. So during the presentation that I heard Uber was very enthusiastic about this this free tuition. So they've worked out in arrangement with Arizona State University and accredited university so that people who reach the highest levels which are the platinum and the diamond they can get free tuition so they can take online classes and learn and you actually get a degree all on Uber just for driving for Uber and maintaining maintaining those levels. So that's pretty great and if you as a driver can't use that then you can give that to say a child of yours or a spouse of yours somebody who's in your family. So that's pretty great. I think that's a really good idea on Uber's part and I'll be really curious to see how many people take them up on that. They also said for a lot of about a third of their drivers that English is their second language. So through this ASU program you can also take English as a second language and improve your English skills. Now before you get too excited about this there's going to be eight markets in which this is going to be trialed tested so you'll see those listed on the screen there and Uber has said that once they've worked out the bugs then they plan to as soon as they can roll it out nationally. So I said I tell you what I think is the biggest plus the biggest benefit of this program and I would say it is the money to get a 6% increase in your pay for achieving a certain level I think is significant and I think that for me really helps to win me over and there's a lot of other little things but overall I would say show me the money and if you show us the money drivers will become loyal and stick around. So I hope you enjoy this little evaluation of Uber Pro. I'm curious to hear how everybody likes it once it comes into your market. 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