Stealth100:
Okay, so I just walked up to a site labourer at Ajah and asked how much they earn daily. Guess what? 3k.

So if this guy leaves his labourer work that let's him take home 3k for uber that gives the same or slightly higher take home, is he wise or foolish?

Personally, I would stay on the labourer job and learn from the bricklayers how to build properly, maybe in two years I could graduate from labourer to bricklayer.

Driving uber for two years stagnates your personal growth for two years. No valuable skill learned for two years, no reasonable experience gathered in two years. No real prospect for growth even if you save 3k/day.

Just me thinking out loud sha.

Xneg:


But jesusson or whatever you call yourself, is this fair? So you used your partbers vehicle anyhow since you can always ask him to fix the vehicle else you jump to the other.

Stealth100:


Because I'm yet to patronize your oil, doesn't mean I never will. Just that someone currently sells at a walking distance from me. Abi you will do free delivery?

dru23:


What is the difference between them and graduates out their with no job . What about bank manager? Where is the personal growth there? How much are they making ... if you want any personal growth, start a business or grow a business.. Own something. .. To me that is personal growth.. To work for a company for the rest of a person life is not personal growth.. But we can't all be business owners. But at least we can own something to pass down to our children

jesusson2020:


I have good records for the past 5 months no single dent, same car. I love this car as if it's mine.

I only do Uber meaning I can't drive more than 12 hours a day. So tell me how I'm killing owners car.

What am I trying to explain to the frustrated men here is.

Car owner invest millions to buy a car, me I brought nothing but my phone and energy. And I make 3k, car owner make 5k.my own 3k I take it home and use it for myself only. Car owner will still bring his 5k back for fixing. Who should be more frustrated? Of course car owner.

But the Gentlelife50 and Co feel they are more frustrated.

I read about oga dru23, how he struggle after initial investment, then came back replan. And now doing much better.

God will deliver all of you... from Gentlelife50, pope191 Xneg, Stealth100, Tyche, darmilolah, mrsage, Chuwaa, eherbal, QuitNotice.

For Stealth100 that advise me to remain a laborer. My broda let me tell you my target.

I'm a future pastor, this is the part God reveal to me to follow. If I can achieve my own car via Uber leave the rest for God.

GidiWoodsMan:


99% of the ladies who ride uber/taxify are danfo people who have never owned a car in their lives. You can deduce this from the way they slam the door getting in and out, yet they still talk down at uber drivers as if they are relating with their domestic staff. The olosho among them are the worst

dru23:


You miss my point.. Nigerians will not patronise each other. They feel they too smart, like at OGATAXI .. How many of you guys patronise them? This is a local business ,maybe if people decides to patronise ogataxi, uber will sit up and do better and make it competing for everyone to enjoy... what about ivonson car manufacture company ? How many of you guys buy their cars? Even Ghana and other countries buy from them

Stealth100:


I can't trade places with the guy earning 10k, that was me when I was 17yrs old doing phone call business. How he ended up earning 10k/month is his sole responsibility.

The ehailing industry is well established in Nigeria already. People are so accustomed to it especially the riders. There will be more than enough alternatives to uber, they will not even be missed one bit.

Stealth100:


Bro there is no emotion or sentiments in business. If ogataxi want to go mainstream, they need to position themselves better and invest more. For now, they are just doing copy and paste. Uber invested heavily on promo, bonuses for drivers and riders, referral bonus etc. If ogataxi put in half the effort, they will get a large share of the market as well.
And people and naija govt buy innosson. Abi how else have they stayed in business for about four years now?

Scholar212:
Anyone here who does fleet management, A friend wants to put up his Honda accord 2010 model for uber, lives in Benin so someone who is reliable with uber or taxify is needed.
NB: the car will be moved down to lag once everything works out well as planned.. Taxify is not yet viable in Benin here

dru23:
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As long as uber is in Nigeria. And the Nigerian government does not kick them out .. Uber will continue to be number 1 in Nigeria. Or better yet unless we Nigerians as a whole start to religiously patronise local apps like ogataxi etc .. They will be no alternative to uber ..

Stealth100:
Okay, so I just walked up to a site labourer at Ajah and asked how much they earn daily. Guess what? 3k.

So if this guy leaves his labourer work that let's him take home 3k for uber that gives the same or slightly higher take home, is he wise or foolish?

Personally, I would stay on the labourer job and learn from the bricklayers how to build properly, maybe in two years I could graduate from labourer to bricklayer.

Driving uber for two years stagnates your personal growth for two years. No valuable skill learned for two years, no reasonable experience gathered in two years. No real prospect for growth even if you save 3k/day.

Just me thinking out loud sha.

Stealth100:


Bro there is no emotion or sentiments in business. If ogataxi want to go mainstream, they need to position themselves better and invest more. For now, they are just doing copy and paste. Uber invested heavily on promo, bonuses for drivers and riders, referral bonus etc. If ogataxi put in half the effort, they will get a large share of the market as well.
And people and naija govt buy innosson. Abi how else have they stayed in business for about four years now?

jesusson2020:


Car owner invest millions to buy a car, me I brought nothing but my phone and energy. And I make 3k, car owner make 5k.my own 3k I take it home and use it for myself only. Car owner will still bring his 5k back for fixing. Who should be more frustrated? Of course car owner.

izzou:


There's is a place in Oshodi that wasn't a one-way before, but it's now a one way. If you're trying to connect Agege motor road from Oshodi via Anthony, youll see some touts there

I was about to pass it weeks back when my rider told me that the uber guy she used yesterday was caught by those touts. Na so I swerve enter the immediate exit

jarkbauer:


So now how do you navigate to Agege motor road from Anthony

What I meant was while coming from Anthony to Oshodi and then navigating to Agege motor road through Church street and Bolade

No vex. I no type the engriss well

mrsage:



This explains why the white man was able to take our people out to Europe as Slaves through Badagry. Some people just have the wrong mindset.

Young man, your mindset is so wrong.

Stealth100:


I kinda like the new dru. With all due respect bro, you sound even wiser now.

A bank manager with all that experience can easily get a job abroad and travel out. Same as our doctors and engineers.
What can someone with 5years uber driving experience do with it? That's what I mean by personal growth.

Also, a real graduate can easily get a teaching job while he/she search for a better one. Teachers earn real good now, with extra lesson income after school hours. And with enough time to read and further your studies if you desire. And the experience of a teaching job can always boost your CV. Again, what do you do with ehailing experience? A smart and brilliant graduate will hardly be jobless. But we all know the quality of graduates we produce in 9ja.

Stealth100:


Bro there is no emotion or sentiments in business. If ogataxi want to go mainstream, they need to position themselves better and invest more. For now, they are just doing copy and paste. Uber invested heavily on promo, bonuses for drivers and riders, referral bonus etc. If ogataxi put in half the effort, they will get a large share of the market as well.
And people and naija govt buy innosson. Abi how else have they stayed in business for about four years now?

Stealth100:


What about forcing uber to adjust through industrial action? They don't have to leave, that's not the objective. But until drivers say NO, we will keep getting tossed around.

dru23:


Well in that case ,maybe you should trade places with the guy that makes 10k a month. At the end of the day ,if uber decides to park up ,that will be at least give or take 2k jobs lost .. So what will now happen? If I decide to create my own app now like uber with better price and uber standard. Will you now patronise me ? Even the oil that I am selling, I market it to you and said you go buy, that was over two years ago .. Now my point is that Nigerians feel that they know too much and they can't make another man rich ontop their own money.. Nigerians hate to see other Nigerians grow ... ..that been said I respectfully and aggressively disagree with your point.

dru23:


The car should not be having shaft issues at all . Especially if it is tokunbo.. My 2003 civic that I sold recently ,never had shaft or leg issue at all .. And the car was on uber for more than two years ... maybe corolla are not strong as what people make it to be ..

dru23:


You miss my point.. Nigerians will not patronise each other. They feel they too smart, like at OGATAXI .. How many of you guys patronise them? This is a local business ,maybe if people decides to patronise ogataxi, uber will sit up and do better and make it competing for everyone to enjoy... what about ivonson car manufacture company ? How many of you guys buy their cars? Even Ghana and other countries buy from them

Tyche:


You have revealed yourself as a low-life scum, with moral scruples worse than that of a gutter dwelling piq.

You always regale us with stories of Uber profitability, and your weekly savings, little did we know that you also eat up the weekly remittance of the partner. The truth always has a way of coming out.

Your type can't take care of any car entrusted to you, and will not think twice before driving through flooded areas, as long as you meet your target, after all, the patner makes 5k daily and you can call on him for repair.

This thread has seen a good number of scumbags and morally branckupt lepers like you. You will always go the way of others

Tyche:

WTF!!! Kindly quote the right person mbok

jesusson2020:


I have good records for the past 5 months no single dent, same car. I love this car as if it's mine.

I only do Uber meaning I can't drive more than 12 hours a day. So tell me how I'm killing owners car.

What am I trying to explain to the frustrated men here is.

Car owner invest millions to buy a car, me I brought nothing but my phone and energy. And I make 3k, car owner make 5k.my own 3k I take it home and use it for myself only. Car owner will still bring his 5k back for fixing. Who should be more frustrated? Of course car owner.

But the Gentlelife50 and Co feel they are more frustrated.

I read about oga dru23, how he struggle after initial investment, then came back replan. And now doing much better.

God will deliver all of you... from Gentlelife50, pope191 Xneg, Stealth100, Tyche, darmilolah, mrsage, Chuwaa, eherbal, QuitNotice.


For Stealth100 that advise me to remain a laborer. My broda let me tell you my target.

I'm a future pastor, this is the part God reveal to me to follow. If I can achieve my own car via Uber leave the rest for God.

maczig:
I really do not understand what u guys are trying to say here. So why can't the shaft pull or is the car damage proof? Dont you know the state of our roads and style of driving. A car that is being driven on these very bad roads at least 10hours/7 days a week will definitely develop one problem or the other and shaft is not exempted. Why do you people believe so much in tokunbos like this. A car that is over 14yrs old on the road before landing in Nigeria.

Dru23 you also mentioned that ur civic was driven on this same roads we ply everyday for two good years without any leg issue not even minor. So you want to tell us that during those times the civic was driven on these Lagos roads that no linkage, absorber pad, bushings, low arm or even brake pad sef wasn't replaced in the vehicle?

maczig:
What you have just outlined in the foregoing should start from you. Why don't you set the ball rolling by buying all your ehailing cars from innoson instead of running after oyinbo civic. Be the first to do it at least you won't die

maczig:
I really do not understand what u guys are trying to say here. So why can't the shaft pull or is the car damage proof? Dont you know the state of our roads and style of driving. A car that is being driven on these very bad roads at least 10hours/7 days a week will definitely develop one problem or the other and shaft is not exempted. Why do you people believe so much in tokunbos like this. A car that is over 14yrs old on the road before landing in Nigeria.

Dru23 you also mentioned that ur civic was driven on this same roads we ply everyday for two good years without any leg issue not even minor. So you want to tell us that during those times the civic was driven on these Lagos roads that no linkage, absorber pad, bushings, low arm or even brake pad sef wasn't replaced in the vehicle? You lie too much and it's unhealthy.

Stealth100:


And have you checked uber's ultimate goal? To develop driverless cars that will eliminate the need for them to partner with car owners/drivers. In other words, to eliminate drivers completely.

So the current model is just a means to an end. Drivers in America know this and the basis of their last strike was for them to be made full time employees of uber with health and retirement benefits instead of just partners, since uber sets all the condition.

The result of the protest and lawsuit? Uber committed $20million in bonus and special packages for their drivers in America just so they can go PLC.

Even this does not assure there will be no further law suits challenging their business model. In 9ja, we are sleeping hard. Even the slightest request, we can not make from these companies when we have so much collective power.