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There are usually bad eggs in every profession.
But Drs are usually held to a higher standard and most meet that standard.
I think there are more cases of nurses and female patients throwing themselves at doctors and harrasing them than the reverse.

BloomingDale:
Women should please remember selective breeding so we can reduce the number of men.

You know very well you can't stand each other.
You need men to create the structures by which you can have a meaningful existence.

Everything is wrong with the gender bill.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is an evil on its own.
It's not different from the quota system which is based in ethnicity rather than competency.
Quota system should only be used when scarce resources should be distributed.
But when it comes to doing a job the best and most capable hands should be employed.
People should earn what they have in life based on their competency and how hard they are ready to work to be selected out of several competent people.
No position in politics is given to anybody on a silver platter.
If the women want anything then let them do what the men do to and outdo them to get it.
Men and women should be given equal opportunities, but the outcomes should purely be based on ability and competence.

ReadaDream:
Stay on the Mainland or Avoid going past Chevron if you are on the island.

Please don't let that discourage you.
There are good and bad days. From what I see on the map, there have been better days but it's not so bad.
No route to earning a living is easy.

Felicity0001:
Nice idea but let me counter.

If we adapt this home zone idea who then will do trips within and to places luke satalight town, ojo, ikorodu, sango ota and other places... Mind you the app is not meant for Lagos alone so take for instance states like Edo State. Who will work in places like Epkoma, Ekhenwhan, and other inner places?

Though the home zone idea is great but should be limited to maybe once weekly or 2hrs in every 24hrs.

You may have a client that wants you to be within their drop off zone so you can easily go back to pickup after a particular time. because if you allow every driver to set a zone to work who do you think would want to work in ikorodu? Mower, Ojo LGA??

To me night trips should be more expensive, say all trips should c9me with 1.5xsurge to encourage and also to discourage night work and movement respectively.

Thanks for your comment.
If you go through the write up you will realize that every concern you just listed was addressed.
1 the home zone is based on a drivers home address.
It's not very likely that there isn't at least one driver living in an area covered by a circle of 15 km

diameter in fact there will surely be overlaps.
But in the rare case of there being no drivers within the homezone in which a request originates,
the nearest drivers from other homezones will be sent the request with a surge factor added to it to encourage them to take it.
Infact the size of the home zone can be made larger or smaller based on the state of operation.

Reason for homezone is some drivers are not used to some areas.
Like I am not very used to ikorodu and alimosho areas.
I don't even live near.
Cos of that I will be very unwilling to accept requests to those areas at night.
In such cases knowledge of routes and terrain is very essential, i most likely will be stranded if one has car trouble, medical or other emergencies.

But within Sangotedo, Ogidan, Awoyaya and Abijo and environs where I live i know how to move in most emergencies, I even know certain places to park my car if I have to come back next day with a mechanic.

streetsoldier1:
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I appreciate that you are keying into this driver owned app.
Some of us will want to introduce a feature called a home zone.
Which will be an area enclosed by a certain radius say 15kilometers around a drivers address.
(Within the home zone it is assumed that the driver is familiar with most routes and the activities of law and traffic enforcement officers and know how to navigate around obstacles within homezones.
Within his homezone it will be assumed he knows how to move and handle emergencies like car troubles, location of nearest mechanic and other useful facilities.)
Drivers will be scored based on the amount of ride request they accept that originate and end within their home zones.
Any request that sends them outside of the home zone should not be mandatory and should incur a surge tarrif to encourage drivers to accept it and should be treated like an indriver request where all drivers see the request and compete to accept it.
After the first trip outside his home zone drivers can opt to continue receiving request outside his zone or be forewarded requests that take him back to his zone.
Towards night, drivers should automatically start receiving requests towards their homezone unless they opt to continue outside their homezones.
If enough drivers are not nearby to satisfy a given request then it should be treated like an indriver trip with surge factor added where all the nearest available drivers outside that area will see it and compete for it .

2 pickups longer than 5 kilometers will have the extra kilometers billed along with the trip or another mode of compensation worked out where the rider is not unfairly billed.
This is important cos it's easy for drivers to lose money on long pickups.


3 Minimum.fare should be N800

4 One inspection should be done yearly.

That's my 2 cents for now.
The last one is actually a quality control issue.

IgiveLadiesBj:
Wahala for bolt drivers



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Let her go and book a journey with baba ibadan at the motor park and tell him to switch on his A.C.
They don't know when they have it good.
Useless entitled lady.

northbird:
D ehailing companies benefit from the disunity amongst drivers.They know there won't be a quorum.

Imagine 75% compliance on today's strike . Bolt will make a drastic you turn.

Thats because there is hunger in the land.
Some drivers are owing mechanics, house rent, school fees etc.
News of strike no settle with them at all.
This is what companies like bolt capitalize on.
They need you poor to control, take advantage and worsen your situation.

If you want to know how evil and wicked people can be then put them in an environment where they won't be held accountable for their actions,
That is the entitlement bolt gives it's riders on every trip they force us to accept.

I still think the best we can do as a group is pay developers to create our own app, which will be the default app for drivers in this business nationwide.

That way a strike against any of the other companies will be more effective as it doesn't cut into our income.

If every driver moves to the app riders will have to do so because the demand for the service will still be there.

We will need to have some good management and quality control also to balance drivers welfare with passengers needs.

With an ehailing drivers population of more than 10000 drivers. I think this will be easily achievable in a short time with good leadership.

BAZ001:
My brother nobody will answer you ooh.
From experience people will join the strike from their keyboard but will be driving codedly.

I just need a confirmation from all the whatsapp group if the strike is still holding or just mind my business?

Any update from any telegram and whatsapp groups

Even if anybody answers I doubt it will be taken seriously.
We lack leadership with integrity and internal organization.
Those are issues that need to be addressed first.
By nature we really don't know ourselves or how many we are.
I am sure a large number of us don't visit nairaland.
So it will be difficult to actually disseminate information.
Some have already taken to the roads before 5am this morning not knowing anything about a planned strike.
We first of all need to find a way to know ourselves our numbers and a means for identifying genuine bolt drivers, after which we can organise ourselves into groups by zones, lga, states, etc.
Then we get leadership in each of these units and find a way to disseminate information securely for purposes like this.

ReadaDream:
New one. Lol

These bolt guys are full of lies nothing is being passed on to the rider.
They have increased their commissions.
There is an amount of fuel that I buy that used to consistently give me gross returns of 20000 naira and a bit above.
Now it barely gives me 18000.
Even the mileage no longer tallies.

Sagay212:
Some people just need to understand that certain jobs or businesses isn't for everybody . You have all sorts of crazy people wanting to drive with uber or bolt, touts, greedy goats and people with all sorts of lousy attitude. You see some begging online that they need a car for uber/bolt and when they get the car, they start complaining about not making enough money to deliver.
They don't make enough money because they are greedy touts who would turn down trips because they think the money will be too small. Some of them are so annoyingly rude to riders, asking all sorts of stu.pid questions when you order a ride and still call them because they'll refuse to call. You order a ride and call the driver's number and the phone is switched off. You can see that driver has arrived on the app, but you can't reach him and he won't call. Some will accumulate so much poor rating due to nasty attitude and then get blocked by bolt/uber. Then they come online to complain and lie about how they were unjustly blocked. They won't be able to deliver to the car owner because they are always turning down orders due to greed and overcalculation.
These are the types that create threads everywhere complaining about bolt/uber while other people doing same business are cashing out because they are well behaved, patient and know how to relate professionally. Some are so good that have met customers who hire them on offline trips and pay well.
When you hear about certain jobs or businesses, don't just jump into it. You need to use your head and look out for the qualities to posses to do such jobs or business. People generally need to learn how to be well behaved and this nonsense is very common with bolt drivers especially. Very nasty behaviour.

Ur not being very fair to the drivers.
They are the operators but they get treated like trash.
They take all the risks.
Even on your worst, most dangerous and high stress trips that damage your car bolt makes profit.
What's is bolts driver welfare policy?
They don't have any.
So on any journey you accept ur on your own.
With the added stress of threading on eggshells around entitled, and outright rude and nasty riders who use your upholstery to wipe their hands after eating.
You can't correct them so they don't rate you low.
Multiple times a day we drive on roads that so bad even animals avoid them, just to fulfil a ride.
I once took a rider tthrough a bad road around igbo efon.
The road was heavily flooded and the rocks on the road where so sharp they could tear your tyres.
I was wondering how someone could put another person's car through this,when I heard rider telling the person he was going to visit on the phone that because the road is bad he took a bolt so as not to destroy his car.
Yet bolt expects your car to be in tip top shape after every 4 months.
We all know that we are disposable to them as the country has high employment and poverty rates, these are what the E hailing companies especially bolt capitalize on .
They keep you busy pursuing peanuts to survive till they replace you.
How much does Uche or other bolt staff earn compared to drivers who actually do the work?
Let's face it driving under conditions giving by Bolt is stress and I am sure more than eighty percent of the divers on the platform will leave if a less stressful way of making 200k a month presents itself.
Most if us are in it till our exit plan materializes, let's not act as if the working conditions are comparable to google.
So allow those who want to complain to do so, it's the easiest way they can release stress by mouthing off and getting encouraged by others who go through the same thing but have found a way to live with it.

MoonlightDrive:
Do you know the pot of obnoxious soup, uber is already brewing for you?

They have been more consistent than bolt. Its only wise to have them as backup as bolt is now asking drivers to make bricks without straw.

YeyeGbami:
Doings!

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At this point I think it's time for us e hailing drivers to build our own app and support it unanimously.
Bolt is taking drivers for granted with their new policies.
Cos when bad routes destroy your cars and leave you stranded in unknown territory, they will still collect their commissions and register new drivers to replace you.
Non of their new policies put the drivers welfare into consideration.
It's always about their pockets.
In the meantime convert as much of your bolt client to offline clients and move en mass to uber and Indriver.
Till the new app owned and operated by ehailing drivers is ready.

pope191:
My people will say "it's in turbulence time, we know people who are with us". A homely bird does not jolly with one in good times and desert them, when things are not forthcoming.

Sorry but none of those companies are loyal to you.
Especially bolt.
They are only loyal to their money.
Riders enter your car and become bosses that can rate you low and get you deplatformed for not destroying your car for them.
Riders will be acting as they like in a car and giving you attitude and you will just be like a mumu
praying for the ride to quickly end so the rider can leave your car in peace and good rating.
Do they compensate you anytime they send you to bad roads that spoil your ac compressor or tyres?
Abeg every body in this hustle, both drivers and e hailing companies are only loyal to themselves and their money.

Funnyandviral:
A life was lost, and this is all you could say. Where in the post did the op talk about East you tribalistic mortherfuker.

So, his death is now an achievement to you guy, you can now boast that same thing is happening in the south west, idiot.

Ojukwu led you 2 million people to their death, then later came out to say the fight was not necessary, why didn't he die with them, that why an average Nigerian is a fool, a rich man or politician will come out and cause division, and people like you will be ready to die for them. Don't blame your leaders, be consoling them with the bad things that is happening elsewhere, idiot

Please ignore, as giving attention to such statements can distract from the mood of the thread.
Not everyone has good timing on when to bring up a subject.
May his soul rest in peace.

Good morning,
are there any appropriate areas to drop and pickup passengers in Lagos Island?
Especially on roads like Marina, Broad street, Tinubu square, TBS, UBA etc.?
I usually avoid such areas due to over-vigilant latsma officials.
I have been stopped by them twice for just tapping my phone to accept a request.
But I was lucky, the road ahead was clear each time so I just took off.
But there are times i get mostly requests going to those areas especially when I am in V.I or Ikoyi.
Any tips will be appreciated.

Felicity0001:
Let me see if I can help you.

First answer these questions:

What type of phone do you use?
What the inbuilt capacity and space?

What type of car do you driver
What's the engine size?

Where do you live
What time do you usually leave the house?
Do you leave your house with a request or without a request?

What time do you close work,
Stop going home empty, make use of the set destination feature in your app
Explain to me how you make use of it.

How is you daily routine like?
Do you just accept and go on every trip requests you accept?

Do you always do trips with lot of stops over or change of destination?
Do you usually wait for riders above 7min to come out b4 starting a ride?

Are your long trips always to traffic zones? E.g lekki to ikorodu or lekki to Egbeda around 4pm... Such trips can retire you to you bed because they can last approximately 4-5hrs espe that of lekki to Egbeda.

Lastly, which app do you drive with? Uber, Bolt or indriver?
You can't work 12hrs daily and have a weekly gross of 100k... No na? Talk of net yes I can say its fine but gross? Nna men... You're not trying at all...

Will answer ur questions as best I can.
I use a vivo y12 with octocore processor.
I drive a Toyota Camry 2003. 2.4l engine.
I stay just before Abijo but I leave my house between 6and8am.
And I put on my bolt driver's app while driving out of my house till I get to skymall where I wait for my first request.
I sometimes get a request b4 then.
I try to accept and deliver on every request before 5pm. After which I start driving towards the island and set my destination towards my house.
It doesn't work all the time.
Sometimes I get to ikoyi or vi without a ride towards my house and I release the lock and free it accepting only one or two short rides.
Evening traffic usually is bad on the island.
But every once in a while I get one or two good request going towards my house.
For long trips I can accept pick ups of up to 10minutes.
And wait for about 5 minutes.
There are times the riders changed their minds while on a long trip but it's not often.
The major fault is that the average time inbetween conclusion of a ride and getting a new request is too long.
Especially in areas with surge.
It reduces at night.
Hope u can help with the info supplied.

Pearl1910:
Something is wrong somewhere.
U can not work for 12 hours/day 6days a week and not gross 100k a week.
Where do u go and wait for trips?. Hope not in computer village at 8am

Ha ha,
I stay after Sangotedo.
But I wait at skymall for my 1st ride.
The problem is recently I wait a long time in between rides b4 I get another request.
Even in areas painted red with surge.
The only thing I haven't done is to switch to mtn for data.
Maybe that's the problem.

ReadaDream:
In what city do you drive?

Lagos

Godfather10:
Kanuisgoat was able to make more then 2m last year and he thanked me for it, l don’t see why you cannot do it, just give each day 12hrs, til January 3rd, it’s tiring but that what l intend to do, just put relaxation or laziness aside for this 3 months of Nov and Dec., it can be done folks

Please show me how.
I already average 12 hrs a day + the occasional 2hrs driving home empty.
I barely meet 100k gross a week.
The request are not frequent even in surge areas.
I can move around in an area with surge for between 45minutes to 1hr 30 minutes before getting a request.
If there is something I am missing or have to learn please let me know.

Good morning dear Colleagues,
Recently I noticedon bolt that I will be in an area with surge and still not get a request for more than an hour.
Does anybody know what causes this?

I am interested in the moringa seeds.
Whats your location.?

Good morning,
They are really rugged.

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Good day Nairalanders, bolt has been telling me my inspection is due.
So I took some time about 4 days to work on some issues with the car.
I was through yesterday.
Out of curiosity I switched on my driver's app and found out that I was still active.
Is this normal as I am 4 days overdue for inspection?
Please can anyone give me the location to their inspection center along lekki- Epe expressway?
Thanks

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