After seeing another thread about drivers going offline to force a surge it got me thinking of a way to perfect the process, and it seemed to have worked.



I've inly been driving 6 weeks but tge highest surge I've seen in hudson county was 2.8x but then we got a text yesterday saying that because of the Super Bowl it may reach 3.5x and it did for a few minutes.



Thus morning at about 6am it was surging at 3.5x again but once a few drivers got there it went down to 1.6x



I immediately went offline. And then I went into my rider app and started requesting rides. When I would match with another driver I would text him the following:



"Go off-line for five minutes so we can bring the surge back up"



And then I'd immediately cancel. I would continue doing this constantly changing my pin location to target other drivers. I then modified the text to:



"I am an uber driver too!!

Go off-line for five minutes so we can bring the surge back up"



And then I settled on:



"I am an uber driver too. We are currently staging a protest and forcing a 3.5x surge and it has been working. Here's what you need to do:

Log off the driver app for 5 minutes. While you are logged off, request rides through the passenger app and send this message to the other drivers.

And keep on requesting till it goes back up. You guys are all awesome! We are doing this! It's working!!!!"



And as I was doing this I noticed it working. Guys actually were logging off and jamming uber with requests. So much so that the surge would go back up, but we kept at it until it hit 3.5x and then we all magically appeared.



in the end i dont think it was worth it though because i spent so much time trying to manipulate it that i ended up doing only 4-5 rides whereas normally i couldve done 10-15