₦airaland Forum

Pearl1910:
Yea...it pains me when people insult drivers, I will not lie. And u must be very childish and brainless to do that on this platform. Grow up and give yourself some brains.

Oh so sorry, quite obvious you have grown up already!
You see ehn, insult and curse words like this, you won't find me there, only pigs does, are you a pig?

Pearl1910:
Exactly, and the fellow that brought the post here has similar mentality as those girls.

E be like say the thing pain you specially, wondering why, abi you are the one?

BAZ001:
Dav1002 hope you don increase your rental ?
It’s now 45k per week and people are paying it
Pope191 says the hustle is better now
Over 500k every month easily.

If ur driver partner is in the telegram of 10am to 4am, pls increase it to 50k dts 1 day earning.


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After making 80k from 10am to 4am...

GeneralZodd:
😂. The deed has been done


I will now use 50k to buy full tank to make how much ?

It's well with ehailing business.

Nah just change your gear, you should be in gear 3 now, just work harder and change to gear 4 and you will even make more money...the higher the fuel price, the more money you make as a driver..... I have Increase my weekly payment to 35k....
My driver don drop car, Corolla that is not up to a year o...
I dey see 1 million per month, 3 million in 3 month and yet you can't pay 35*3= 105,000 in 3 month...haba nitori olorun....pity owner nah .. next na 40k....the higher the fuel price, the higher the return....ECN 101.

BAZ001:
Pope we are saying the same thing no need of stones.

You mean driver now gross over 500k every month that’s average of 150k every week ? ?
It’s interesting to know thanks cos According to pearl it’s 40k per day (30days = 1.2 million )
But u don clarify now

Any driver that complains or ask for urgent 10k is a lazy criminal.

Emmnnn but what about those asking for wheel spanner, jumpstart cable, extra tire, and gear oil everyday on indriver, abi riders no dey pay those ones? 1.2 million monthly, ah time to shit on my MDs head oooo lol

Two of you should CONTINUE pricing yourself...dey play

Glithronix:
Indrive blocked you for Hackney permit?
Hope no be for something else, boss?
Much respect, baba.

Yea that's it ....they ask me to complete my profile b4 I can take ride, and na only hackney permit remain..I later had a chat with their agent and she confirms it

dapotemi:
Abeg who get sure plug for hackney permit and the cost...indriver block me for it.

Abeg any sure plug for hackney permit pls

Abeg who get sure plug for hackney permit and the cost...indriver block me for it.

pope191:
Last week Friday by this time I came out to see if I can do 15k and back home by 11pm. So I zero down on island 6500 and got back to yaba 3500. 10k down 5k to go. Got 3k to Cubana. 10:30pm. I was getting Berger for 3k, but seeing the traffic? Fear won't let me. I kept updating till 1am, nothing nothing... that was how Pope slept inside the car. No b me go enter that traffic at 488/ L

Saturday morning, I say make I go house nah, inside car sleep and bed are two wide margin. Pick a trip going to Magodo 1 for 3800. I use express, no way, turn to Amara Olu and spent 2 hours between there to second gate. Rider gave me option of 2500 or we continue the ride. Smh I better pick this option and let her go. Gently find my way to Ogba from wemco road. Bath, eat and took nap at a friends place. Enter road again as target is in view. Saturday night I was around Magodo phase 2 around 11pm, set destination as I accept my fate of passing the night again inside the car. 2 days on the row

That was how request beeped. Going to Magodo phase 1 from phase 2. As much as I long to go home. Me to rider, Oga! You are mean ooo, are you asking me to go enter that Berger traffic, haba! Rider goes like pls, don't worry I'll give you 5k swallow spit hmm! 5k? Haaaa! The traffic, ohk, no wahala, lemmi just try.

Got to rider, study map well and noticed from Allen to wemco or Ogba route gets free with time, while the express is always on lock 24/7. I just use Allen to connect wemco, from wemco use alternative route straight for those that understand to Berger round about. Rider was happy with extra 2k thank u.


The thing about that route now is one have to wait till 12 or 1am. Home now with the tots of going out at night, but when I tot of what I went through last week and the routes when I check the map from Yaba to berger. Nah! I ain't doing that sh*t today. Damn! How did I get into this from the person that hang out once in awhile to workaholic. Even when I try to rest, all my head will be banging like request in hitting me. Sudden turuturu will sound like rider just cancel trip on me

I dedicate Cheerfulgiver to ya'll. I was just seeing guys popping into Cubana last Friday. Won't be a bad idea if I was that guy hopping out of that Benz with that Monalisa. E no good make suffer head master person we move on 50k target tomorrow sha.

Wow you guys are working really really hard. May Almighty bless and reward this hardwork...I just dey shake my head dey read all this...it is well...it will be a story one day. A story we will relate with when we are in a much better place... Gracias.

ganisucks:
And so it begins. After the meeting with Grey beard, Baba Lagos declared war on the cabal.

Made Ribadu the NSA chief. What an insult. A police DIG to command military generals.

I laff😅🤣😂

You miss a salient point. Ribadu will not be address as national security adviser but rather SPECIAL ADVISER- Security.
It's a tactical move to avoid the insult..See, every C in C needs people he can TRUST .Loyalty is paramount here.
The new I.G was tinubus ADC when he was Governor In Lagos .
If you become the governor today, am not sure you will be looking for new friends to head your Security...

Itsrm:
This may interest you

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Jarus na old time paddy and mentor from Oando days..He's a great guy and very calculative..

Larry1960:
When I was a salary earner I hardly chop food for fast food but as I don become a free Lancer na Fast food I dey chop everyday[center][/center]
Something wey I no dey fit do when I be salary earner Bleep salary work now I dey chop and Bleep pussies

I dey Bleep pussy 40k a night something wey I dey fear to do when I be salary earner

To hell with salary work

I dey osadebey way Asaba come join me[size=8pt][/size]

CONGRATULATIONS and am not referring to YOU!

Glithronix:
I talk am.
Shey una see what that Bonny Camp roundabout don turn to?
Comming from Walter Carrington towards Bonny Camp (Ozumba Mbadiwe), una see wetin the road don turn to?
Make dem continue dey ignore roads. Until everything spoil finish before we go get sense in this country.

I was out of Lagos on Wednesday. My flight was to Enugu, finished my assignment and later took a ride to AWKA, then to Onitsha. Yesterday I was at asaba and today am in warri. I'll be in bayelsa tomorrow and back to warri on Monday to connect a flight to Lagos.. I notice alot of improvement on road infrastructure to be honest and I give it PMB administration. Even the bad roads I notice where mostly road under construction..Lagos somehow is overrated and there is no much federal presence in terms of road construction..I did not see a single pothole from asaba to warri...
By the way, this trip will give me nothing less than 500k as add-on, after all expenses, with all the 'igbadun' that usually comes with official trips like this...Some of you have been so tortured in the labour market that when you hear salary job, you think we all have to wait till 31st to get 100k! I think that is the reason for all the bad mouth I see here but we can understand...To the new cat, I beg you, if you're a graduate, get a CAREER....Be patience, CLIMB the ladder...Let me ask you, what do you think an Uber driver will be after 10 years of driving? Still an Uber driver right? I don't want that for you! If you're JOBLESS now, then maybe you should drive but don't sleep on it, don't let anyone tells you it's the BEST for you! I beg you!

Glithronix:

If this should happen, next is to give up.
Abi how you see am?
Much respect, boss.

Nah you make more money when fuel prices soar...Just wake up everyday and pray that fuel price should continue to rise then watch your pocket rise with it..Thank you.

I drove round to some part of Lagos today...It seems the road is generally free, understandably so. ..If you, as a driver thinks you're making 5k in an hour now, I think you should just wait and let things settle down b4 you celebrate...All the people who are not driving now will eventually hit the road and the usually traffic begins....All in all, it is not looking good for everyone..Whatever increment the app guys will add can't be more than 35%.Bolt already did a coded email to drivers...The only winner in this na the ehailing coy.

There are a lot of issues drivers battle with. Some of them out of desperation took unreasonable HP and rental offers. They have to work round the clock to meet up.

The problem with this is, the car may not be able to withstand the kind of stress they subject it to. Week after week it's one problem or the other.

Those who drive their own cars obviously will fare better. I personally don't think e-hailing is as bad as is sometimes being portrayed. I believe those who drive their own cars can live decently on earnings from it.(earnings before the recent price increase)[/quote]

pope191:
How do one get to all these stupid riders that book double trips. One did it to me last night, I was so pained that I placed curse on both her and her families out of character. I just couldn't control my anger to the point of rushing down to pick up if I can find her.

Got a request 10 mins and somewhat tot it was going to be the last trip for the day. I don't call on indrive, but leave messages, so they don't deduct. As I zoom off to pick up, 8 mins away, as I was approachin her, I place call to prep her.

Me : God your request, I am almost there after greetings.

Rider : Where are you? Wait let me check something

As I was answering her, another voice from the background asked her. Did you order for another ride?

Rider : yes as alternative incase the uber guy did not come on time, but I think he's outside now.

Disconnect call and end trip.

Call and call her she didn't pick, until I shoot her insults. Still on her case and don't think I'll let her off anytime soon. The thing pain me I have been thro this a lot, but for her to tell me to wait over the phone and be saying it boldy she booked as alternative inside this 488? I must torment her life.

I understand this feeling..It's quite common... Sometimes not even booking as alternative but just outright cancellation without any reason..

Crvrider:
Let 90% of drivers down tools for 1week and let's see if the app companies will not dance to your tunes. Continue to allow yourselves to be deceived that the app companies don't care. Without a doubt they know drivers are the life blood of the business.

You guys that are on this hustle FULL TIME should continue to have this conversation/negotiations... Unfortunately, many Nigerians are bad at having conversations; I think it's also made them awful at negotiations. At the end when they get the short end of the stick, some of them resort to cheating or delivering shitty services... Redemption song by Bob Marley readily comes to mind "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind!!!

Viking07:
The strike has been a tremendous success. Almighty bolt increased their fares 3 times under 7 days. Uber increased their own for the 2nd time today. This is despite the very “hardworking” Nairaland drivers who always claim to make profit. 😆 But sane drivers protested and we’re making progress. Even though the prices are still unbalanced.

The next push is a total reduction of commission to 10% on all apps in Nigeria. We’d continue pressing their neck on Monday. I was at the protest ground today and the number of Corollas I saw, I’ve never seen it in my life. 😁

Kudos to all those who stood on the side of truth and made their voices heard on different platforms. From Lagos to Abuja to Kano to Delta, Ibadan, Kwara etc. Una well done . 🙌✌️


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God bless you and all those who made this work....This is how to create a fair, balance and equitable society...When they push you, then you PUSH back...if not for anything then for posterity...you guys made a mark, and it will be felt across all board. Even those who are making millions daily now can see their earning turn to billions, daily!!!..I did not drive either, I just decided to use this period to fix all the pending work on my car..Doing some upgrade...Much love!

Pls I need advice on an issue.
I gave a plumbing work to a plumber, I am to pay him 160k go both first stage and the second stage where he will have to install all the accessories (WC, heater, etc)..workmanship = 160k
Now the guy had done first stage and he got 60k, time to come ad finish second stage, to install all the accessories and he's been posting me..For over a month now, one excuse to the other, I will come today, I will come tomorrow.
Pls, can I get another plumber and let him finish the work and negotiate and pay the new plumber? Can this plumber come to start disturbing tomorrow?

XGhost:
I've said it countless times here, I'll still say it now, Do what works for you. Our realities, orientations and aspirations/expectations are different. So what I may abide someone else may forbid. Also because we have different realities truth becomes relative to perspective.

Nobody can say he's not spending more to buy fuel but even though it's still early days, I can also state that one is fairly guaranteed to make more than before.
Bottom line for me is that whatever happens,
My aspiration is to take home double what I spent on fuel or worst case scenario take home 20k after deducting fuel money. That's 20k nobody is dashing me. What that means is, if I can maintain that pace, I'll be earning give or take 500k a month. Not bad.

January last year, my bolt inspection expired, I no send. I used Uber exclusively till December. Pearl on the other hand can die on that bolt Hill. December last year, I say make I enter that period with backup in case of incasity, I got bolt back, I hardly used it, now I don't even have the app on my phone.
Cheerful told me about Rida and InDrive, I registered Rida no InDrive but that's his beautiful bride and it's working for him.
I think uber is great, pearl thinks his own, cheerful too but I won't knock any of them because my reality with those apps are different.

Do what works for you, that's the moral of my story

Very correct sir..I was listening to Nig info on radio today and the anchor, Mr Sheriff was asking what the people needs from govt to cushion the effect of this subsidy removal..A woman called and said if govt can give her one big bag of rice, a big bag of beans and a bag of garri, she'll be very okay..At first, Sheriff was trying to convince her that she needs MORE but she was adamant..I was seriously laughing while driving to work...On a second thought and after a deeper reflection, she was right and the man that says she needed more was absolutely right, in their own way..Your write up seems to resonate with my thought! You see, our realities are diff, our NEEDS and WANTS will always be diff...While some decided to drive to solve generational prob, others drive to fulfill basic needs..Your reality is someone's dream and vice versa..I may decide to sit in an air condition office and do some brain tasking work to get 2k per day but I won't leave it and go and dig a borehole for 2,500 per day..One is good for me, the other might be good for you...You might be seeing the extra 500 naira and be thinking of all the prob you can solve with it, I might be looking at you as a lunatic, not because I cant dig a borehole but because I can't do it for less than 20k!Those who decided to park, survey and those who feels the future of the biz is not bright are not fools and those that think this is the time to catch out, well might be okay.
But one thing is not right, the insult, curse, using obscene language against people you don't know, whom you may never see, is absurd..Pls, let's end it, it drives normal people away from here, leaving only lunatic...Don't be the last man standing in a psychiatric ward!

Gentlelife50:
Bro that's why I said it the other day, let's keep deceiving ourselves that all is well.
Some even claim they make more now sef, wahala.
Make I no talk too much before I discourage people that wants to join the hustle.

While we encourage one another to greater height, it is VERY IMPORTANT that we don't lie.....I have ask myself more than once, to what end? Pls I beg you, especially the veteran here, STOP LIEING....Nobody is going home with MORE MONEY in this hustle as it stand TODAY, until there is a significant increase in fare (I have just checked again, ogudu to Ikeja still dey give me 1,800, 2k, and 2100 to ogba), and drivers still dey pick am, well I understand that they probably don't have a choice. Now if I pick ogudu to Alausa for 1800, even if the trip took 15 mins as cheerfulgiver always seems to concentrate on TIME to measure success, it still doesn't make sense to me honestly. Won't I , atleast budget a litre of fuel (500), and about 10% commission (180-indriver), I have just about 1,100. If I am on rental then my enemy is doom. Ogudu bus stop to Alausa na 300 naira nau I can just pick 4 passenger and give agbero 100 naira and make the 1100..Atleast nobody will tell me ON AC, increase radio volume, and I won't have to wait for transfer endlessly. The diff btw Uber and picking ride on the street is very close now, in terms of renumeration. Yes, they will go home with more money, some extra token. Whoever is telling you they go home with something tangible is a BIG LIE. Well, tangible is relative sha o.

ReadaDream:
Minimum of 75k gross with #9500 fuel? How 🤔

Make una no they whine us for here o.

Let's even breaking down. If 1k fuel gross 6k at most, that means 10k fuel will gross 60k. How are you grossing 75k minimum on #9500 of old price?

P.S Before you say I drive a C_Class, I used to drive a Corolla, a sound one at that.

You CAN NEVER gross 6k consecutively with 1k fuel...sometimes you get lucky and you just get this lovely trip, so you gross 6k with 1k.. it's not something that happen often unless ALL your pick up na 1 mins.....We sef dey drive..The lie here is TOO MUCH! I wonder what am still doing here!!!!!!!

carzeem1:
Level 10 in can't be more than 130k. Level 16 like 350k. Only perm sec and directors enjoy good salaries and few agencies with pay thier own pay structure.

This is an insider...My brother e no even reach 130k..Sanwo don promise small increase recently tho..we wait.

davit:
Well, I don't know the Alausa you re referring to. If it is the House of Assembly, as level 10 officer, you take home at least 300k per month with all the committees here and there coupled with other allowances. If it is training period, you can imagine take home. Training alone will give you around 150k for that month. Still asking me?

Good..Now you're talking about other benefit and pecks of office, positioning...Pls go to the ministry, ask level 10 in lastma, LASHMA, etc what they take home! On a second thought, someone in LASTMA can make 1 million a month tho, but e go be from elsewhere, lol. But am talking about the alert you receive every month from ORACLE.

Itsrm:
Someone with a salary of 208,000 only pays 36,000 on car loan for 5 years. Which one is what will be left after they remove car loan?

Sometimes most of the argument here are from a place of ignorance.

Honestly, and I repeat it, most of our friends here have left the office for too long.
Let me give you a recent scenerio..My head of operations official car na RX 350; last year he relocated to Canada..Car was retrieve and passed to CFO, not as an official car because he already has one. He's going to pay 3 million for it, duration is 3 years.. His net is almost 2M.
No, office is bad, driving round Lagos is the best! Dey play.
There are loads and loads of benefit..Does it come easy, No.
Again, I'll repeat it, UNLESS there is a significant change in fare, YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE IT!!! If you enter filling station fill Corolla for 23k, e go enter your bone marrow...I am still seeing 900 trip on indriver, na person 3.5 million Corolla go carry am too...Don't sugarcoat this tragedy.

davit:
Level 10 in Alausa goes home every month with nothing less than 300k. Forget about the basic salary they display. Other benefits are available. Don't ask me how I know.

Hahahah, just STOP IT PLS...No be only 300k.....if you say kickback, maybe and that depends on alot of factors and who and where you belong...Level 15 go be like 700k then...just dey play

Pearl1910:
Might be car loan or official car

NO SIR...it will only take time...many of you have left the office for too long..We get OTHER BENEFIT..I think that is what gentlelife is trying to point out....I have not spent a Kobo on health for my self, wife, kids and parent in 5 yrs...My wife CS earlier this year was 650k, I paid no kobo..what would an Uber driver do if he get an hospital bill of 650k today, he would probably just commit suicide or start bambialla, no joke, just fact!

Gentlelife50:
I just take something here, salary about 180k and 70% drive thier cars.

Drivers that are netting 40k everyday, according to the dashboard I see here are still on rental. How many of them can pay 2.5 million for a naija used Corolla.. Something is not right and that is what we should be discussing, not acting as if everything is FINE and be saying people will even make more money.

northbird:
The labour guys are just acting a script.. Don't believe them.

I agree with you but note that the issue on ground is one of survival...What is the average salary of a civil servant Minimum wage is 30k but even till now most state cannot afford it and they can't pay..The problem is, even the civil servant won't be able to go to work..Level 10 in Alausa don't even earn up to 100k.. imagine same person using 1500 for TP everyday..So even if it's a script, how would that person survive...My HR is talking about hybrid now, the truth is it will be difficult to increase salary immediately but what other options do we have. Can we do hybrid, work 3 days a week, two from home, or a week in the office, the second week from home..Next week will be tough in my office...This is where entry level net is about 180k and more than 70% drives their car .....

northbird:
To every driver, if this is the new Bolt tariff, if you drive on Bolt,you will run @ a loss. Bolt has done nothing so far.

Let's look at the numbers.

Average fuel per full work day- 25 litres. @ 185- #4,625

Average fuel- @ 488 - #12,200.

Diff in fuel cost- # 7,575.

7,575
-------- * 100% = 163.7%
4,625


That means your fuel cost has increased by 163.7%

Let's look @ fare increase.

Bolt old price - 104/km. Not sure
Bolt new price - 130/km

130 -104 = 26 naira increase in fares

26
---- * 100 = 25% increase in fares.
104

163.7% increase in cost to driver but only 25% increase on fares.

163.7% of driver versus 25% of Bolt.


Bolt cares only about their 25%. At the former old price template,Bolt's business objectives will be met. So there's no real motivation to increase fares. Driving does not make you dumb.

Be guided.

Gods blessing to you sir..This is the type of analysis we should be doing here. I have spent a couple of hour cracking my head around the whole thing and to be honest, drivers will be at the receiving end! I did some trip earlier today and to be honest, my eyes were just gazed on my fuel stick on the dashboard. Looking at the way the thing dey drop and the stupid fares am getting, nah it doesn't commensurate...I would probably just work and refuel, then maybe eat, go home with few token that WILL NEVER equal to the number of hours I have invested, not even close.
Alapere to Ikeja usually is 2k b4 now am seeing 2200/2300 at most..That increase does not address current realities..If you have a car on rental, WITHDRAW it now and wait make road clear small...no emotion, just biz!

MoonlightDrive:
Driving was a last resort, so dont rub it in.

Nah it's number one now o!