Grab Malaysia Launches ‘Better 365′ For Better Driver-Partner Experience

Driving all day or all night can be taxing and stressful and as such Grab, the leading ride-hailing service in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, has started a campaign to improve its driver-partner welfare, its most valuable asset. Dubbed ‘Better 365′, it is aimed to provide better support, increase earnings, provide better tools and improve its sense of community among its driver-partners.

This ‘Better 365’ campaign is Grab’s commitment to improve the quality of its driver-partners’ work environment, every day of the year. Drivers who are less stressed will provide better and friendlier service, and probably drive better too.

“At Grab, our driver-partners are at the heart of our shared vision to improve the way people travel and bring people closer to things that matter to them. We want to ensure our driver-partners’ hard work pays off and that they have the right tools to make their jobs easier and increase their income. Through these new initiatives, Grab is working to make mobility safe and accessible for all its users, especially our driver-partners who are not only driving Grab as a source of income, but are a fundamental piece of our service,” said Sean Goh, Country Head of Grab Malaysia.

In a survey published in June 2017, Grab’s driver-partners earn 32% more income on a per-hour
basis compared with average worker wages across all of Grab’s markets. Currently, there are more than 1.8 million driver-partners who drive for the Grab service as their main source of income.

As part of this campaign, Grab has introduced a series of features and community events to support its  driver-partners and enhance driver relations, like:

• Trip rating: Grab drivers can now provide feedback about their overall trip experience and passengers as “positive” or “negative” and then select multiple reasons for their ratings, including location/route, payments and passenger with additional reasons for more details. The trip rating aims to improve Grab’s driver-partners’ safety and driving experience.

  

  

• Simplified driver incentives: A refreshed, simplified screen featuring incentive progress bars, which makes it easier for driver-partners to track their efforts of meeting their incentive targets while driving at flexible hours and locations.
• In-app Help Centre for drivers: A new set of in-app self-service tools to assist drivers to manage their account and obtain answers to their most frequent questions without having to call the Grab support line. With this new feature, Grab drivers are able to free up their time to maximize their earnings through the platform.
• GrabAllStars: A driver loyalty programme that enables drivers to benefit from offers and discounts by various electronic, food, fuel and retail brands such as PETRONAS, Tesco Malaysia, Celcom, Texas Chicken Malaysia, Poliklinik Lourdes, Maxx ’N Go and Shopee Malaysia.
• Grab Driver Centres: One-stop support centres to cater to enquiries, registration and training sessions for drivers.
• Town hall and teh-tarik sessions: Beginning this year, Grab kicked off a series of meet-the- drivers and teh-tarik sessions to engage and have an open dialogue session with drivers.

Moving forward, Grab will also roll out the following features under the ‘Better 365’ campaign:

• In-app training videos for driver-partners: Videos within the Grab app will enable our driver- partners to have access to training videos and basic tips at their fingertips, so that they are better informed about the processes.
• My Destination: An in-app feature that helps driver-partners log their final destination for the day and pick up a few rides on the way to their final location.
• Daily cash-out: Drivers will benefit from a faster payout for their bookings as opposed to waiting till end of the week to cash out their incentives.
• Selfie authentication: An easy way to authenticate partner-drivers, ensure safety and prevent fraud via a selfie.

As the number one on-demand transport platform in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, Grab currently serves more than 3 million customers every day with a market share of 95% in third-party taxi-hailing and 72% in private-vehicle hailing. Grab currently operates in 132 cities in 7 countries.