₦airaland Forum

Johnchrix:
Chairman, I will be done this month, I still need 42k. I was tempted to stake game for it yesterday but I said no, so I won't loss. Pls I still need the go fund me.

SamuelTaiw0:
Congrats bro. You're a legend here. You sold your car?

ksmart027:
Ghost1994 Don japa from naija.

yinks008:
Can u do 1m

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

Johnchrix:
Abeg make person open go fund me for me Sapa don hold me, na beg I de beg.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Y'all can now rest..shame on those who used vile words at me..

Ghost1994:
E-hailing HMMM
Around 2019 I screenshot few rides from mainland to the island and thank God the date and everything is still intact.

Dollar rates was there too. Up till this moment, since 2019 till this very moment, the fare is still the same price oh.

No increment at all everything is just same but you know what? Uber/bolt/inDrivers ‘’drivers’’ never ready to see what’s really going on.

You’ll see ridiculous dashboard earnings and at the end of the month(s) you’ll be looking for who to borrow you 1 thing or 2 to fix your car. Who to blame? The government and inflation of course.

Someone rightly saying there are other jobs one could take that’s better than ehaling but if you ask the person, which job is it? He or she will run and never come to comment on your post ever again.

seun289:
Hello, a friend of mine needs this honds civic spec for the hustle... how can you be of assistance in getting a good one.. do reply asap

dTransporter:
Appreciate your feedback.

Thing is, I want to be sure I'm getting the right one, hence me going there with the car so that they can loose n change it sharply. Plus I dont want my mechanic to be the one to get them for me.

I actually intend going there on Saturday being tomorrow all things being equal.

confusedworld17:
Can you please tell my friend who wants to join the biz, roughly how many hours a day and how many days a week he has to put in on the average to make 240k a month as income ? He wants to know if nah wetin he fit do or not.

rukz:
bro which do u recommend between driving school and learning from someone?

morning

Felicity001:
Don't blame the people blame the system cos they allowed it.

Since indriver don't have a base in Nigeria I don't see any way they will ever improve in their fares.

In a country where everybody is any opportunist and oppressor the society will continue to degregrate and submerge in corruption, crimes, imbalance and lawlessness will be the order of the day.

Nigerians that are known to not having a good conscience or behavior you then gave them the right and exposure to will n power, what then do you expect? They'll use it without any form of consciousness to intimate and misbehave.

The only time indriver's riders offer a good fare is when they're In a desperate condition then they'll even offer higher than what other apps will offer.

I don't blame the drivers who accept these poor fare offers, most of them have no other options because they've been blocked and they have to pay either rent or hp and have other bills to see through. Their hands are tied.
But I see them as fools because they can't think with their brain, it's only cost at most 35k to get another license, this is Nigeria or I'd rather load Abule Egba to Ajah early in the morning, the return trip must have given me at least 14k with just 2k fuel, no AC just be smart about where you drop passengers and pick up.

2 trips a day to n fro is enough for any hard working driver to sustain ur expenses, your shocks will be ok, your car won't experience any form of flood because it's a route trip.
Or you go to the airport and source for passengers manually. 5 trips from airport to within ikeja should net at least 10k...
Or you go to Berger and source for passenger coming into Lagos no be everybody get app to request ride.

But they won't because their brain is not working to think outside the box and they've allowed their brain to be clouded with the believe that indriver gives them freedom. What freedom exactly? Do you have any other job apart from e-hailing? Oga you've been brainwashed colonatically... synanimous to modern day slavery.
You've just being lucky to get good offers of ride request at the moment from the few desperate riders talked about earlier, soon you'll run out of luck.

This hustle used to be very lucrative especially during festive seasons but it started losing it value since indriver came onboard.

If you think I lie, how many drivers where able to net up to a million naira last December? i.e from 1st to 31st oh... This was a piece of cake b4 indriver came onboard.

Yes competition is good for business but this type is killing and drivers are at the receiving end and we are still the once encouraging it.
Take for instance see Uber, despite the new regulations and bonuses and even a reduction in commission yet they're still struggling to get riders back to the system because most drivers and riders have jumped ship but drivers fail to see the detriment in it and benefits driving and paying commission with Uber and Bolt even though bolt is a criminal app it still far better of that stupid indriver app.

Let's wake up guys.

northbird:
There are 2 oil seals for a corrolla. There's one by the pulley, and there's a back one between the gear and the engine (flywheel).

He probably meant bringing down the gear. and not the engine. Anyways, it's a more tasking seal (back one) to replace.

drmikeadams:
...no vex, my oil seal is Leaking ,mechanic say him go bring down engine...how much is OK to pay him...?

BAZ001:
Omg
Which one be original author again
I give up


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microlincoln:
Please if you have anyone or a plug that wants to sell, asking for a friend

obinoral1179:
Baba how far our Civic matter now?