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WareLogMan:
Watch your speed

Gentlelife50:
Thanks for sharing these vital information, I am going to Jijj to check if you got the pictures of the car there.
😂

pope191:
All these ones doesn’t even pain me. At least we know them for who they are. Ordinary Nigerian will help push car off the road and wait behind. Before you know, they will get stone, ask if you want water, by the time they name their bill. I don’t want to say humanity is far from us, but it just have to do with poverty sha. We have a poor mindset and reasoning. Every situation is a chance to take advantage of one another.

fk001:
I also once got help from police around Villa Gate Abuja, I mistakenly hit the sideways ramp and my tyre got punctured, they saw how the tyre was giving me a hard time so two of them came over rolled up their sleeve and changed my tyre, after they are done I tried giving them tip but they declined. I thanked them and left.


We also have good cops in Nigeria.

Felicity0001:
You too don japa?

But this hands na oyinbo hands na not 9ja hands

Well done

olamilarks:
This is the humanity we've lost as a nation. Hell, people even find it hard give detailed help on an anonymous forum (Compare threads on Reddit with Nairaland) without dishing out insults.

Aren't you risking a driving ticket with the one handed driving? I wonder if most Naija uber drivers can ever outgrow the "one hand on wheel, the other on phone" driving style?

Omoapena:
Please, let’s make our comments shorter, this long long epistle is too much and no time to read everything….

Hamachi:
COPIED

okey4reel:
All these places you avoid on week days, if we are to remove them from Lagos, what is left then, so pls kindly tell me the places you go on weekdays if u don't mind

Ghost1994:
Raining season is here again. I’ll share my little experience.

1. Avoid alpha beach road patapata during heavy rain

2. Don’t ever try to enter down orchid road no.

3. Try as much as possible to let your pointers, wipers and your dim light working perfectly before jetting out.

4. Avoid places you don’t really know their flood level.

5. During the heavy rain, find somewhere safe to park if you’ve not gotten a trip yet park your car, relax for about 25-40 minutes after the rain Lagos gutters would’ve been cleared a bit to proceed for hustle.

6. Community road Akoka is a death trap. Keep that at the back of your map.

7. It’s a season to make money but then you have to apply wisdom because rider that’s paying x2 of the money would want you to satisfy them by dropping them at their doorstep. But if by the way(s) you suspect the area is prone to flood, sharply end the trip at the beginning of the street offer a rider 100-200naira for his/her bike/keke fare.

8. Try as much as possible to work within the Circe/areas you know too well.

9. Don’t do 80-100klm during heavy. Abeg if you don’t love yourself we do. Why? Brake doesn’t work well when it’s rainy just a simple logic.

10. Off your car ac when you sight heavy flood in a street or on any road. Why? Because most of our cars are above 10yrs ago and there are some components in which water must not get into on your compressor it’ll damage your compressor quickly.

11. Work smart. Yes work smart— don’t work late start early close early. Because you can’t know all the whole roads in Lagos no matter how many decades you’ve been driving on Lagos road. Working late sometimes is a death trap to damage your vehicle because so many bad potholes you might not be able to see are trap to damage your shocks, tyre etc.

12. If you miss your turn, maybe you didn’t calculate well or map malfunctioning, don’t ever bother to reverse never ever think of that. No matter how much rider pressurize you just be calm and let him or her know you’ll remove some money out of his/her bills for compensation. 200-500 naira is Better to let go than loosing your car to accident or road lions (Lastma/Taskforce)

13. Never drag road with trailer or tankers. Those people doesn’t see on a normal day not to talk of rainy days. Be wise don’t let rider sweet talk you to be saying they’re late blablabla you’re not the cause of their lateness.

I’ll share my own work ethics

- I work basically on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday it’s a rushing day.

- I take Thursday off to relax and focus on my course

- Friday yes and Saturday I start working around 2pm why? Well I feel like that’s when the people started rushing out.

- I work on Sunday but I avoid island ajah,Lekki and the rest once it’s 1pm why? When you notice your app you’ll see it’ll all white once is getting to 2pm because riders don Dey house but on like mainland there are many churches. It’s a wisdom.

- routes I avoid on week days are:- 1. Egbeda, Ikeja in the morning is dead, ikotun igando, ekoro road, command road, Iyana ipaja, aboru, lasu, okoko, festac, mile 2, oshodi, Ikorodu never, sangotedo hell no, I can only drop a worthy trip at the airport and jet out immediately I avoid siting and waiting for unrealistic trips in airport unless I’m lucky if I’m driving out and I get a trip.

After Opic Berger I always avoid any trip going after Berger.

How do I cancel? Bolt shows me where I’m going so whenever I’m sure the area is part of my listed dead zone, I click on arrived, passenger phone is not working or passenger ask me to cancel. It’s work like magic on iPhone but not with androids. It’s help me avoiding any conversations with rider.

Note:- I accept every trips coming to my phone no matter how dead it is but I cancel once I feel is not safe for me and my car.

I try as much as possible to select the trip(s) above 1500. How will you know a trip coming to your phone is more than 1500? Any trip be it surge or no surge above 8klm is practically more than 1,500. Note I don’t care how much you collect because of bonus but all I know is that the money is above 1500.

I don’t rush myself any day anytime my target as a car owner per day is 5k for savings 3k to start hustle next day and 2k for feeding/dropping at home.

Why 5k? It’s my logic and it’s been helping save maturely. I used to make x3-4 of my savings sometimes but then it’s just my saving culture I’ll still save all have made. I’ll just called it discipline.

How did you manage cash savings? I store my cash savings somewhere in my living room where I don’t tell anyone and on Thursday Whenever I dropped my son in school, I head straight to bank and deposit to account I don’t have atm or internet banking.

How did you manage your car(s) to serve you well? I avoid most Lagos mechanics 90%. Whatsoever happened to my car like for example let’s say shocks is bad, I will drive my car to market park and pay 5hundred naira I’ll go and get my new shocks, I know how much is leakage, shocks, brake pads, thyroids, fluid, bulbs etc. all I need is to change I don’t manage.

What can make a car to last in these hustle? Cars are like human being, you have to maintain them. I Do a daily routine before I jet out in the morning because I’ll be off sometimes on 9-12 hours on wheel. I check everything I needed to check before jetting out.

I make sure I avoid anything bad route. I don’t carry loads that doesn’t fit in my car trunk. My car is design to carry 4 and yes mini 4 not heavy make ups madams going to party and try to squeeze themselves in my mini sedan no! I don’t carry them I don’t want wahala.

Also, anyday mechanic is fixing one thing or two in my car, I always make sure we do it together. I don’t supervise but we handle it together because mechanic are humans too they might forget to tighten 1 bolt which I’m not perfect either but 2-4 heads is better than 1.

How do you manage a rider whose street is bad and you consider picking him/her? Well the logic i used is straightforward. Many of dead streets have alternative like bike and keke. I’ll put a call through:-

Me: Sir/ma good morning this is the Uber ride you ordered
Rider: Good morning I’ll be expecting you.
M: sir/ma I’m sorry getting to the street now, my car has hit the ground severally it’s a low Corolla/Honda please I don’t mind since you don’t have load I’ll pay for your bike or marwa.

Reasonable rider who value life and property will agreed and even said don’t worry just give me few mins. But i manage if it’s elderly person or rider mentions she’s pregnant I’ll go BUT if rider acting somehow I won’t go.

How can someone makes more saving in this hustle?
1st is Gods grace, 2 is your car is your tools once she doesn’t give you any problem(s) you’ll make savings.

Advice to newbie:- never allow rider to sweet talk you to drop him or her at unreasonable location. Avoid airport just drop off only. Never follow one way or brt lane even if you’re carrying buhari daughter, don’t try to reverse on the highway if you miss your way yes rider will shout but keep calm, make sure you confirm your credit alert before allowing rider off in your car, if you don’t have change offer to transfer airtime as their balance some will say yes and some will tell you to keep the change but remember it’s their money, use rider app to calculate the estimated price of the route you’re heading-it’ll help you determine if the route worth it coupled with the traffic, never fight physically with your rider some are walking ghosts, pay your commission once it’s getting above threshold, read signs, ask riders questions if the map is malfunctioning, join Facebook/WhatsApp/telegram groups to learn more about people’s day to day experiences. Last but first pray to God and follow your instincts.

PLAN FOR FUTURE AND REMEMBER THE HUSTLE SHOULDNT BE FOR A VERY LONG TIME ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN B.

Bye for now

God will continue to help us all
Ghost1994

sofiscatedmoron:
Ina go still vote APC, come here dey yarn dust
Make una vote am again

SamuelTaiw0:
Automech 101;
When you have issues with your car, the first thing you must do is to RUN A SCAN don't let Kaseem be doing guess work for you.

You won't spend more than 5k and they will interprete the codes for you that's if you can't interpret yourself. Sometimes it could just be a simple electric fault. Then you will now cause more damage because you never ran a scan. Pls find a technician that knows what he's doing.

nuel101:
Good morning everyone here …
Please I recently just got a Camry 2011 with venza engine … when I got it I didn’t check the transmission oil and stuff … but recently the we found out that it was empty and it couldn’t enter gear … now we bought a the oil [WS oil] but it’s still not working …

A mechanic said we have to change the brain box , another said we need to buy a new gear

Please I’m confused it’s my first car … who can offer professional advice here … please??

goldtechltd:
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BAZ001:
I use Boss Revolution

northbird:
Watsap

AgentXxx:
Yolla..

pope191:
@Ghost1994

The questionable lady paid my money yesterday. So! We all good. Thanks to everyone.

pope191:
All I ask her since morning is to send receipt of payment. Either the money drop or not, I'll look away.

pope191:
Olosho don run Pope street... last night my GT app couldnt come up. This girl say her phone was acting up, restart and restart and even promise to call for offline. She promised i will see it as her phone was hanging and mine app was not opening. Took it in good faith and left as I have another trip. Up till now she has refused to pick my call. Brand influencer

Abeg 3k big oo... make una help me fire her

+2347066649542

pope191:
Tojahh give us link nah abeg, see as Ghost1994 dey enter us like this... drive for 6 years can't go Ghana.

SamuelTaiw0:
Pls don't take offense my Oga, some memories just popped up as I saw your post. I'm not in anyway mocking you.. It's just that drivers need to be smart to do well on this ehailing apps.

Sometimes in 2019, I had someone who was a bit close who had a rental for Uber. It was complains each time I asked him about the hustle. It was when I saw this thread I began to see the reasons he was always complaining. Man was not smart with the job at all. It was anywhere belle face.

Cheerful giver has pointed a lot of ways to gross more on indriver but not everyone has his kind of strength. Thing is a lot of people will want to do copy and paste forgetting that not all factors are the same. My own take is for people to take what they think is useful to them from his strategies and drop the ones they can't, think through, experiment and come with their own best personal strategy. Who knows, they may make more money than cheerful giver. Meanwhile, this hustle for me is only a temporary thing. There's a kind of money you can never smell not to talk of have driving on ehailing.

Peace out!