Uber, Lyft and the on-demand economy from the workers perspective - all topics that The Rideshare Guy covers on his website, in his podcasts, and through his YouTube videos.

If you're driving for Uber, Lyft or a food delivery service like Postmates then you probably know of and subscribe-to Harry Campbell's variety of media channels. If you're not a subscriber then you should be, because Harry is the real deal.

As an engineer at Boeing, he started rideshare driving in his free time.  Then he started blogging about it and was immediately buried in requests for all sorts of info about the ins and outs of driving for Uber and Lyft. So Harry quit his job at Boeing to blog about driving for Uber, Lyft and the like fulltime.

In this iDriveSoCal podcast Harry shares, why he made such a drastic career change, why ridesharing definitely isn't helping traffic congestion in LA and a bunch of other topics where iDriveSoCal and The Rideshare Guy intersect.

(The beginning of this podcast has a little echo - sorry!  Hang-tight through it and it will subside.)

***Transcription***

Recording date – October 18, 2018, in Culver City, CA

The Rideshare Guy Joins the iDSC Podcast

Harry Campbell: We're covering the rideshare industry, everything from how to sign up and get started with Uber and Lyft to what's going on in the industry.  And, how some of these trends and mobility are changing things.

Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States Southern California. Tom Smith here, and I am joined, I'm excited to be joined by Harry Campbell. Many of you may know of Harry as his AKA alternative moniker, The Rideshare Guy.

Harry Campbell: I'm here. I'm ready. Thanks for having me on, Tom.

Tom Smith: Harry, thanks for joining me. I reached out to you, jeez, I don't know, a month or two ago, a couple months, summer, I guess, as we're recording this in ... We both have young sons, and I don't know if you're like me, but I lose the track of time pretty easily.

"We're covering the rideshare industry, everything from how to sign up and get started with Uber and Lyft to what's going on in the industry."

Harry Campbell: Well, I think I know today's date because it's also my son's nine-month birthday, so I do remember today's date, but every day here is summer here in SoCal, so ...

Tom Smith: Right? Right? Exactly. But I reached out to Harry a couple months ago. We're sitting here in mid-October, and we finally had the opportunity to connect Harry. Well, Harry, why don't you describe yourself, what you do as The Rideshare Guy.

Harry Campbell: Sure. So, yeah, that is my nickname. Basically, I run a blog, podcast, YouTube channel, book, and course for Uber and Lyft drivers, so creating lots of various content on all the different platforms, basically helping anyone interested in working for Uber and Lyft, delivering food for Postmates, DoorDash, charging scooters for Bird.

On-Demand [Economny] Focused Media

We really cover a lot of the on-demand economy, but it's a media business focused on the workers, so anyone working on these platforms day-to-day basis, and we're covering the rideshare industry.

Specifically, everything from how to sign up and get started with Uber and Lyft to what's going on in the industry, and how some of these trends and mobility are changing things, so pretty wide-ranging, but it always kind of circles back to that perspective of the worker.

Tom Smith: Yeah, and so our universes intersect. I mean, iDriveSoCal, all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, we cover a lot, right?

We'll cover the electric aircraft, electric scooter startup company out of Silicon Beach or the LA....