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Y1nka:
Sir dru23, I always respect my elders, regardless of opinion, but here ehn.... I don’t know what to say sir.


I just stated a harmless fact about Bolt gross and eventualities (which is true by the way), and instead of you helping us with other means of achieving it , or telling where I get it wrong, you automatically concluded sir, that I am a “poor” oriented Uber driver. Wawu sir.


Well, I’m a realist, and not a motivational speaker sir, I will believe what is real , either it correlates with my ideology or not.


Also, I have another job, I am actually working with a tourism firm, and I must tell u, part time drivers are the best to see a balance or best reality about this job, a drowning man (full time driver) will clutch at a straw!


Lastly, my response to poor mind and rich mind, well sir, Through offline trips and dedication on ehail, I have some nice take home, but everything goes to me (cos I drive my car).

However, I’m putting myself in the shoe of a driver that makes a net of 40-50k a week , and has to deliver 30-35k.


My question is, is my observation stupid, or not realistic? I don’t think so.

Good morning sir

Y1nka:
And base on the respect I have for u sir, please don’t shade me or give some motivational talk, just state obvious and help the platform....


Plus I hope you are still driving on the platform, cos I speak neither as a car owner nor driver , but rather as BOTH.

Thank you

Chuwaa:
I like your strong passion and zeal even with dwindling revenues. Making long term investments does not remove realities. Business is not about emotions, but about figures and projections. I wonder what your projections for this business is. We've seen weekly remittances going steadily lower. As of this time last year, some were still remitting 40k and Uber keep crashing their price.

Anyway i know Nokia, Kodak, yahoo and co all denied the facts till they were swallowed. I like your passion sha and may you succeed big.

Chuwaa:
To burst your bubble, I am not an uber driver. I drove my own car for just three months last year while waiting. It was more of past time. And it's such part time drivers that break even!

Chuwaa:
I like your strong passion and zeal even with dwindling revenues. Making long term investments does not remove realities. Business is not about emotions, but about figures and projections. I wonder what your projections for this business is. We've seen weekly remittances going steadily lower. As of this time last year, some were still remitting 40k and Uber keep crashing their price.

Anyway i know Nokia, Kodak, yahoo and co all denied the facts till they were swallowed. I like your passion sha and may you succeed big.

Ipodisacriminal:
1.6m last not negotiable

donfortune48:
Finally, our female driver have retired.

adsmaster:
But these babe wey dey collect 40k per night men these there hustle dey pay well oh. These life it's information(on opportunities and right skill set,service to offer) and hanging out with the right people naaa him person dey take blow oh.

I took one of my rider to eko hotel,she had a client that booked for a massage with her agency because the way it works they register with the agency and client call these agency that they need a massage and the agency sends them to go do the job. As I drop her waited for an hour the babe came down with tip of up to 30k plus the 50k they paid to her agency. Crazy local man has to be on the road for 12hrs to hit 15k.

Also do you know they have those that do massage with happy ending that one naa 100k them dey pay

Chuwaa:
Why won't they invest in it, when Dru and Jesusson2020 are their financial advisers on UBER matter

I remember how they wanted to crucify you months back.
I think it's only a few that still invest in this, most new vehicles are spare vehicles at home where they think they can make extra money with it but the reality is 3-4months profits gets wiped out at a major repair.

Very soon the reality will 'heat' everyone and only car owners will survive. Christmas period is here, time to make money, but many car owners are planning to get a bit of the juice this season. It might not be so rosy like other Decembers.

Y1nka:
The car owner ideology is :big fish swallow little ones. They try to enslave fellow mainland person into picking a used car and paying high weekly for rental. Imagine a man telling someone I referred to him to pay 32k weekly on the platform. And the worse part is that he also is a driver.


Now On the driver side, most of them are naive and ignorant, they hear the “make 60k weekly on Uber” and fall for it. So after getting into an agreement , they find out how bad they f***d up. And want to f**k up their bosses back... breach of agreement .


Gbas Gbo’s every where.



Like I always say.... the highest rental should be 25k weekly.

If someone still dey give u 100k a month on the platform with your car in good shape. It’s bether than 30-35k, with car written off, and fights after.

Chuwaa:
Why won't they invest in it, when Dru and Jesusson2020 are their financial advisers on UBER matter

I remember how they wanted to crucify you months back.
I think it's only a few that still invest in this, most new vehicles are spare vehicles at home where they think they can make extra money with it but the reality is 3-4months profits gets wiped out at a major repair.

Very soon the reality will 'heat' everyone and only car owners will survive. Christmas period is here, time to make money, but many car owners are planning to get a bit of the juice this season. It might not be so rosy like other Decembers.

Y1nka:
Oga Dru23, you are an elder in this thread sir!

If dashboard shows 70k earnings on Bolt (which is really good right)?

Commission is : 14000

And as owner you collect :30k

As some car mpg calculations done here: at least 10k (on some of the most fuel efficient cars, or depending on the trip to arrive at such).

And we didn’t calculate that most of those rides would have gone through Lekki toll : let’s say just 10 times to Lekki : 10 to and fro equals (4,000)


In total :

30k
14k
10k
5k.

That’s 59k sir . If car is in good condition and no much unforeseen circumstances.

And 11k for driving Lagos bad roads and traffic for a week, dealing with different attitude and keeeping calm still behind that wheel. The physical and psychological requirements for this job is not that price sir, person wey sabi go sabi.

Even if he was eating sand and drinking the wind...does 11k seem fair sir?!! No disrespect sir o!

Just giving my opinion..


And I stand to be corrected, on other facts!

Y1nka:
The car owner ideology is :big fish swallow little ones. They try to enslave fellow mainland person into picking a used car and paying high weekly for rental. Imagine a man telling someone I referred to him to pay 32k weekly on the platform. And the worse part is that he also is a driver.


Now On the driver side, most of them are naive and ignorant, they hear the “make 60k weekly on Uber” and fall for it. So after getting into an agreement , they find out how bad they f***d up. And want to f**k up their bosses back... breach of agreement .


Gbas Gbo’s every where.



Like I always say.... the highest rental should be 25k weekly.

If someone still dey give u 100k a month on the platform with your car in good shape. It’s bether than 30-35k, with car written off, and fights after.

Kingsdave:
Can I use Mobil 1 5w30 USA high mileage on my car have been using Nigerian Mobil 1 the green cap... Will it affect the car.... my mileage is 180k

radautoworks:
Don't laugh but my head was badly burnt by fake relaxer from trade Fair. I got excited to see my usual brand there without having to import and bought... never again.

jarkbauer:
The first Mobil 1 I ever bought was from trade fair. It is super fake. The oil did not burn one drop in my 2AZ Camry engine. The moment I bought the original Mobil 1 from dealer here on nairaland I had to top 1 quart before the next 5000 miles. The mpg was horrible compared to what original Mobil1 gave me. My wife used to buy body cream from there. Her skin was getting even drier and horrible until we imported same brand of cream from US. Babanla fake depots for everything.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM TRADE FAIR.

thebigkendo:
Dru & his brother...
Fake mobile one with same container & label
The fake oil..k Is it extended performance, high mileage or the regular?

jarkbauer:
The first Mobil 1 I ever bought was from trade fair. It is super fake. The oil did not burn one drop in my 2AZ Camry engine. The moment I bought the original Mobil 1 from dealer here on nairaland I had to top 1 quart before the next 5000 miles. The mpg was horrible compared to what original Mobil1 gave me. My wife used to buy body cream from there. Her skin was getting even drier and horrible until we imported same brand of cream from US. Babanla fake depots for everything.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM TRADE FAIR.

charlesadeoye:
We need update on the arrival of the ow20... you didnt update the castrol 5w30 thread after its arrival but i still got to buy 2 from your representative in lagos.... i even thought i was calling you when i picked the number to call... i was suprised she was a woman.
she came to deliver them to me at ladipo/fatai atere axis...

greggng:
But Gazzuz has this oil too....how come you are the only one selling original?

thebigkendo:
You did not answer my question sir..
Was it fake extended performance or high mileage?

dicksonadams:
Genuine original oil... Look no other place

thebigkendo:
Dru & his brother...
Fake mobile one with same container & label
The fake oil.. Is it extended performance, high mileage or the regular?

adsmaster:
I want to share a story about a guy who does uber for a living like us. These guy came into Lagos last year, a pastor and was assigned as my zonal leade and I was to work directly under him.. He needed a place to stay a few weeks later reached out to me and I said sure you can move in with me.. He was struggling for a while, till he completed his DL registration and started these uber hustle. These was last year around August.
These guy has a wife a d daughter who are in the UK, he was there too with them briefly before he was sent back home because of fake papers that one so call agent did for him, he didn't know. He was to stay away for 10yrs before he can re-aply. It's over six years now and the little daughter he left behind in the UK is now over 6years old, when he left they just gave birth to her.

With these hustle he diligently gave his all, I watch him pay half of his school fees for Rome business school(2500€) pay hostel accommodation 550€, pay 250k to a financial or loan shark to lodge 5M in his account for a month, bought plane ticket, all with these uber hustle. It took a year plus to achieve these with these same hustle that people look with disdain.

These job is like a cash cow, that can be fattened(by putting more time, energy, into it) and slaughtered or milked when the time is right.


Now we have folks like izzou and others who are gradually pushing there's. Let's not be discourage brov, no matter the challenge, keep your eyes on the goal.......

ziddy:
Please don't be telling people this! Most armed robbery and kidnapping cases are solved because the majority of Nigerian criminals still don't know this....

adsmaster:
So am at one fleet management company where I went to have a meeting with one of the manager and the driver I want to take over the car he is driving. What I saw gave me a chill down my spin on the situation of the country bro...... They are having interview for drivers mass, men there is over supply of drivers and under supply of cars to drive. What am seeing in the atmosphere is the employee employer mindset, it's suppose to be a driver car owner partnership under the facilitation of the fleet management company..its a though terrain put here. God please help me to qui

PS.. I just drop or return the corolla that I was complaining bitter about, after hanging on for as much as I could- what broke the camel back was when car owner refuse to replace two tires that have twisted, with bomps(coco) and the wires already showing.

Dovehorizon:
Bruv, read that link again and tell where me Egypt is ranked first as culled by you in your previous post.
From same link, u can see Southafrica and Kenya are the only two countries ahead of Nigeria while Ghana is directly beneath us.
I am not here to argue though, just highlighting the mistake on what you said about Egypt bin number one.

Dovehorizon:
Bruv, read that link again and tell where me Egypt is ranked first as culled by you in your previous post.
From same link, u can see Southafrica and Kenya are the only two countries ahead of Nigeria while Ghana is directly beneath us.
I am not here to argue though, just highlighting the mistake on what you said about Egypt bin number one.

Dovehorizon:
Dru, Nigeria is ranked amongst the top 3... the Egypt u mentioned is beneath us.
The aim of every investor is to grow (largely acceptable), losing one out of your top 3 stronghold should make u sit up and yes losing Nigeria is a big deal to them.

peeps4u:
I know, just as bolt came around, there are investors lurking around to break in as soon as uber leaves. The fact is that uber will not leave because they are here to make money and not doing anyone favour. They will always protect drivers/Riders interest.