Americans spend 42 hours on average sitting in congestion every year,
costing each driver roughly $ 1,400, and last week the American Roads & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) reported that more than 54,000 of the country's 612,677 bridges are rated «structurally deficient.»
Not exact matches
The ruling ordered Uber to reimburse Barbara Ann Berwick $ 4,152.20 in expenses and other
costs for the
roughly eight weeks she worked as an Uber
driver last year.
At these companies, our sample
driver paid
roughly $ 379 more than the state average, which equated to a 29 % higher
cost.
The average
cost for good
drivers among the three cheapest companies was $ 1,034 per year, or
roughly $ 86 a month.
For instance, a male
driver under 24 must pay an average of around $ 2,000 for a six - month insurance premium, while the same insurance policy will
cost roughly half as much if the insured
driver is between 25 and 29 years old, according to CarsDirect.
Eliminating the considerable overhead represented by the
roughly 600,000
drivers it contracts in the U.S. alone may be the company's best path to profitability: It could help Uber reduce
costs enough to stop subsidizing the cheap, on - demand rides that helped build up its enormous market share.