Ever since Uber began letting folks see their Uber scores, it has been a little bit of a badge of honour to get one shut to 5 stars.
Clearly, this analysis cuts to the core of who you might be as an individual – whether or not you at all times wore a masks when it was obligatory, whether or not you slammed the automobile doorways or whether or not you or a buddy (admit it) ever puked within the again seat.
It’s fairly onerous to convey your common near the large 5 – however not for driver Michael Quinn.
The 73-year-old has been named the very best rated driver on the app, after racking up over 67,000 journeys (which additionally makes him essentially the most prolific for country-wide journeys).
He has been recognised for his achievement at a ceremony in London final week the place he was given an Uber Hero Award.
Michael, who was born in Liverpool however has spent most of his life in Manchester, claimed the title forward of 85,000 different drivers throughout the UK.
He stated the key to his success is a optimistic perspective and preserving his automobile clear.
And he’s not one to rant about politics whereas passengers nod alongside, advising different drivers to ‘communicate each time that you must communicate or what have you ever, but it surely’s primarily to make it possible for individual will get to the place they're going from A to B as quickly as doable and as comfortably as doable’.
He has labored for Uber for seven and a half years, and has obtained essentially the most five-star scores of any driver throughout the UK.
Most of his journeys are your customary pick-up and drop-off, however some had been rather more memorable – corresponding to a current journey the place he rushed a college pupil who had suffered a suspected coronary heart assault to hospital when it emerged an ambulance might take as much as 45 minutes.
He stated in addition to simply driving, he additionally tried to maintain the younger man calm ‘as a result of he actually was so nervous and panicking’.
Michael stated he was capable of hold the younger man settled earlier than safely seeing him into the palms of hospital employees at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
His journeys have additionally featured moments of ‘magnificence’ which he stated have stayed with him.
‘I at all times keep in mind this couple I picked up a very long time in the past now, a really younger couple that had simply gone to the chippy,’ Michael stated.
‘It was a Saturday night time about eight o’clock, and their night was going to be in entrance of the fireplace with their fish and chips, and one another.
‘It’s at all times been with me, that have… how stunning to see – they'd nothing, however they'd one another.’
He now averages roughly 200 journeys in his six-day working week, beginning at 6am and ending round 8pm.
Michael, who lives alone 10 minutes exterior Manchester metropolis centre and beforehand labored as a taxi driver, stated getting the award was ‘a really proud time in my life’.
He was honoured as Uber celebrated 10 years because it first launched in London – when simply 69 drivers labored for the corporate.
Alongside knowledge on essentially the most journeys and highest scores during the last decade, Uber’s busiest day within the UK was revealed – December 14 2019 when over a million rides had been accomplished in 24 hours.
The app’s high visited locations and cities within the UK embody New Station Avenue in Leeds, London King’s Cross, Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Avenue and Victoria Station, London.
Uber additionally confirmed its longest journey taken by a passenger – a six-hour, 438-kilometre journey from Heathrow Airport to Loch Lomond in Scotland.
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