You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules.
Remember when Uber was giving back to back rides to drivers that had Lyft driver app installed so they couldn't effectively drive for both? That doesn't sound like freelance work to me.
Much of the pay structure is based on hitting a certain number of rides per week. So to get "decent" pay rate you need to work a certain number of hours.
Sometimes the company even owns your car and leases it to you contingent on doing a certain number of rides.
And you have no input on which rides you get once you go online.
It's nothing like traditional freelance work. It's more like high tech pizza delivery driver. And those workers are all considered employees.
You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules.
Remember when Uber was giving back to back rides to drivers that had Lyft driver app installed so they couldn't effectively drive for both? That doesn't sound like freelance work to me.
Much of the pay structure is based on hitting a certain number of rides per week. So to get "decent" pay rate you need to work a certain number of hours.
Sometimes the company even owns your car and leases it to you contingent on doing a certain number of rides.
And you have no input on which rides you get once you go online.
It's nothing like traditional freelance work. It's more like high tech pizza delivery driver. And those workers are all considered employees.