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What if the money you earned actually stayed in your pocket â and your community?
I hope you're doing well â and by "well" I mean not currently sitting in your car calculating exactly how many rides it takes to break even this week. Because if you are, keep reading. This letter was basically written for that moment.
I've been building something called LC Rides, and when I asked myself "who would actually get this?" â your name came up immediately. You've driven for both Uber and Lyft, which means you've had a front-row seat to the beautiful tradition of working hard while a corporation quietly helps itself to a third of everything you make.
But I think those days can be over â if you're interested.
The name is intentionally flexible. LC Rides can mean whatever makes the most sense for the community running it.
For a driver or operator rooted in Valdosta and the surrounding area â this is home-court branding. Everyone knows where they are and who they're riding with.
Coastal communities from Georgia to South Carolina have a strong sense of regional identity. LC Rides fits right in â local, laid-back, built for the people who actually live there.
For the more expansion-minded operator, this frames it as a movement â a closed loop of local riders and drivers keeping dollars cycling through their own community.
Because at the end of the day, that's exactly what it is. No surge pricing, no commission cuts, no mystery fees. Just affordable, fair rides for everyone.
The app can be named whatever fits your market best. The technology is the same everywhere. The identity belongs to you and your community.
A rider in your city needs a lift. They open an app built by a company in San Francisco. That company charges a surge fee, takes 25â30% off the top from the driver, routes the money through a payment processor in who-knows-where, and deposits what's left into your account a couple of days later. Meanwhile, the corporation posts another record quarter.
LC Rides was built on one stubborn idea: local money should stay local. A rider in your town books a trip, a local driver completes it, and the fare stays right there in the community. No middleman in a glass tower. No algorithm deciding your worth. Just people taking care of people.
Drivers pay a flat monthly membership fee to access the platform â and that's it. Every dollar a rider pays for a trip goes directly to the driver. No commission, no percentage taken, no sharing with a corporation that didn't drive a single mile.
Riders pay a small membership fee to access the system â keeping the platform private, trusted, and free of surge pricing. Members are vetted. Everyone knows who they're riding with. It's not a public free-for-all; it's a community.
Payments happen outside the app â directly between rider and driver. No platform middleman processing your money. Each driver sets up their own preferred payment methods.
This isn't just a basic ride-hailing app. LC Rides is built for real life â the kind of trips people actually need.
Book a ride right now at a set price â fast and simple, no negotiation needed.
Rider and driver agree on a price together. Fair for everyone, no algorithm required.
Hire a driver by the hour or distance â your personal driver for the day.
Moving something? Rent a truck or van with driver by distance or hours.
Need to get somewhere far? Long distance trips are fully supported.
Set flat fares to Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Tallahassee. No surprises, ever.
Drivers post return trips and set their own price. A smart way to earn on every mile driven.
iOS and Android. Rider app and driver app. Everything works everywhere.
Operated by a local leader who knows drivers by name and understands that Friday night at midnight is a completely different animal than Tuesday at 2pm. Decisions made by real people, for the community â not an algorithm that's never been within 500 miles of your zip code.
Drivers and riders are members, not users to be monetized and discarded. They have a stake in the platform. They have a voice. It's almost like a community. Because it is one.
A private membership club. Members are vetted and known. Drivers know who they're picking up. Riders know who's coming. Everyone relaxes a little.
Every dollar a rider pays goes straight to the driver. No corporate skimming, no mystery fees. Drivers earn more. Riders pay less. The whole thing makes more sense for everyone â except maybe Uber, but they'll survive.
With a flat monthly membership that most drivers cover in one solid day of driving, the math flips completely. Day two? That's yours. Day three? Also yours. The rest of the month? All yours. No cuts, no surprises, no sharing with a corporation that didn't drive a single mile.
Real screens from the LC Rides platform â swipe to explore.
Rider App
I'm looking for a capable local leader to run the community and operations side of LC Rides â someone who knows drivers, understands riders, and can build genuine trust that no app update can manufacture.
Based on your experience â and the fact that you've survived both major platforms with your sanity apparently intact â I believe that person is you.
Equal partners. One visible, one silent. Both invested in making this work. The specifics â revenue, responsibilities, decision-making â we figure out together, at whatever pace feels right.
I want to be honest with you about something personal, because I think you deserve to understand the why â not just the business logic of it.
My husband Larry is 87 years old. He is the love of my life, and my loyalty to him comes before everything else. We travel together as much as we can, and those trips are sacred to me. Nothing about this will ever change that.
But I am also a woman who is quietly, carefully thinking about her future. Building something now, while I can, is my way of taking care of myself the way I've always taken care of everyone else. Larry considers this my hobby, and I'm comfortable leaving it at that for now.
So when I say I need to stay 100% incognito, I mean it completely. Only you know who I am. That trust is not something I offer lightly, and not something I'll ever take back once given.
I've attached the Business Proposal for your review â it covers the membership model, pricing, and why both drivers and riders come out ahead. But before you read it, here's who you'd be partnering with:
Best, and very much looking forward to this â
If building something fair, local, and genuinely better for drivers sounds like your kind of thing â let's talk.
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