A lyft driver can have the uber and lyft apps on at the same time during the phase when you don't have a passenger in the car. This is basic driver strategy 101. It's generally good etiquette to turn it off when you get pinged for a passenger, but that doesn't always happen[0], and for sure I have seen drivers flip the other one back on towards the end of their ride. This is critical question for employment law because: how do you calculate minimum wage hours?
[0] I did this once, uber had a really stupid and un-thought-out halloween weekend bonus on a weekend where halloween fell on a friday night (people don't party hard on saturday night of a halloween weekend like that), and pink mustache copied with their own equally asinine bonus. So I went out to a place within the service area where I knew I would not get very many uber or lyft rides, and left both apps on for hours while reading inside a Denny's. I did happen to get ONE ride, and I left the other service on to rack up bonus time on it. I was definitely nervous as hell though, which in retrospect, was unnecessary.
A lyft driver can have the uber and lyft apps on at the same time during the phase when you don't have a passenger in the car.
I'm well aware of this. If you look in my comment history, you'll see that I drove for Uber and Lyft, too.
But the point stands — You can't earn money from both at the same time, just like someone can't earn money from waiting tables at two different restaurants at the same time.
uber had a really stupid and un-thought-out halloween weekend bonus
Ick. Don't get me started about Uber's promotional games. Like making everyone sign up for a big promotion during a big event, and then there are no qualifying rides.
