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Dailyparrot:
Can Rida please shut up with their ride hailing price suggestion.

A trip came in on Rida and I saw the ride hailing price as 2800, and the rider reduced the price further to 2500.

I decided to check the price on Bolt and I saw it's between 3600 to 4400.

I checked Google maps, it was saying 1 hour, 14 minutes estimated time of arrival. What this implies is that the probability of the ride ending close or more than the maximum range on Bolt is higher considering the traffic condition.

Now, someone will take this trip for 2800 and be jubilating that he isn't paying commission, whereas he could have earned more doing the same trip on Bolt even with the 25 percent commission.

Unfortunately, riders would continue reducing fare prices. Same as they do on indrive. It is in their blood and we don't have control over that.
Na inexperienced and greedy drivers go pick those kinda fares without increasing the prices from their own end, and it will end in tears for them.
When traffic dey plenty, many passengers go switch to indrive and start proposing yéyé prices, cos dey know say some scapegoats go sha pick am ni. Awón alakóri.
This driver below is one the 'brained' drivers that know what they're doing.
Much respect, baba.

ReadaDream:
Wetin they happen for Lagos tonight?

Normal normal, if I see a thing like this and I never meet my target, I go just park somewhere and wait for the normal time the traffic go die down in the night and go back online, but yesterday own, person go just wait till kingdom come cos even as at 1mindnight, e still red.
It was really a cash out day for bolt drivers.
Just stay on the island and set your destination to Arepo, in the end, at least, 15k+ suppose come out of such trip.
We indrive drivers suffered yesterday.
It was a huge loss, no gain.

ReadaDream:
They play 4hrs20min of congestion but I will arrive in 1hr58mins

Google map they mad

Baba, yesterday was a nightmare to never be experienced twice.
From freedom way to Ikeja, started trip 15mins past 6pm, I found myself at passenger's destination @11:30pm. Trip of 6.5k
Na bolt drivers go smile yesterday for sure.
I dey house like this and I'm planning to sleep cos I no dey in mood to work today at all.
Even as at 1midnight, come see traffic,
I pitied people going to ojodu Berger and beyond.
I friend of mine who had a trip from surulere to ogudu said he spent over 4hrs inside traffic alone on ikorodu road.
Omoh, they need to hasten up the Berger express way. Cos that's where the traffic devil resides now.
Omoh, it was really a nightmare.
Much respect, boss.

HonourablePomk:
Thanks for the reply. I really don’t have opportunity to meet drivers offline. If you have experience how do you go about it please?

Concerning where not to go, from this thread I’ve been told to avoid festac, satellite town, mile 2, ikorodu. Although I don’t know those places but when I see them on app I don’t bother.

Please I will appreciate your contribution

In this kind of hustle, experience is always the best teacher.
Avoid those areas mentioned, but if you want to have something to say about those areas, I mean, if you want to be able to lecture people about those areas, you need to go through those places and have the experience.
All drivers here will lecture you on the areas you're advised to avoid because they have been there. As dem dey tell you to avoid those areas, you self fit put head and see for yourself, that's where you will know which and which areas you go put on your red list.
There are other places worse than the aforementioned areas, but na as you dey hustle dey go, na there u go gather the necessary experience and you go become your own boss in area selections.
As you've been advised on avoidable areas, if you find yourself there, just be extra cautious.
The most important aspect of this is to ensure you avoid anything one-way. I repeat, avoid anything one-way.
As I keep saying, lecturing new drivers would not give them ALL they need to know, na the driving movement go give them the experience.
Much respect, boss.

ReadaDream:
Meet with drivers offline, let them show you how to go about it.

Mind you, you can't be too selective on areas to work as a newbie. Your first and second month should take you almost round Lagos, by the end of the second month, you would have marked your no go areas.[

100% fact.
This is how new drivers would get experience and learn.
Much respect, boss.

Donphilex:
Mail sent boss

I've responded.
Much respect, baba.

Donphilex:
@glithronix abeg how do I contact you need some info please

Okay, sir.
generalabtronics@yahoo.com
Much respect, boss.

SeyiJay:
Nice tip, oga Glith...! I 'gbadun' it!

Ahhh! Inside life.
Much respect, boss.

Omoapena:
Lolz, I trust my Nigerian people, if the overdraft is upto 10k like bolt own, they will purposely owe that and register with another number to avoid paying the outstanding...

Yesterday, I tried to see the limit of the negative allowance on indrive, it wasn't up to 3k self. I was restricted from taking orders when my negative balance hit about 2k+, can't remember. But it wasn't up to 3k.
I think the only adjustment indrive made was that they stretched it to allow you take order on negative balance, unlike before that once you have even N2 naira negative, you would be restricted from taking orders.
So, those who intended to take advantage of it should know now.
Much respect, boss.

easytig:
Nigerian used Kia Rio 2014 ,abort mission,besides Hyundai accent and Kia Rio compressor can't withstand round the clock usage,also the parts are very pricey, ordinary brain box of accent /Rio of 2012 - 2015 models is over 150k market.

By the way opay is bae , seeing transfer in split secs, thank glithtronix for opening my 👀,the difference between opay and Nigerian banks is like comparing 5G to 2g.

Much respect, boss.

ReadaDream:

How do I tell this girl I'm no longer going? And she has paid already

Kikikikikiiiii.
You know why I hate Monday's hustle?
Na this kind of stuff meehnnn.
Though na so e dey be on week days but Monday's own dey get muscle, cos na full force people dey take come out on Monday's because na the beginning of the week and it is believed that Mondays na money day/hustle day, so people come out with full rush from the weekend spent.
This is why I don't hustle on Monday (and I'm sure I'm not the only one).
And this is where bolt app comes to play.
Before I drive out, or park somewhere after a trip, I would check bolt app to see all the angles that have traffic, na that one I dey take judge the kind of orders I pick on indrive.
Once I see where traffic plenty on bolt app, I already know my movements and destinations.
Hope you enjoyed your ride sha?
And hope it "worthed" it?
Double respect, boss.

ReadaDream:
The matter tire me pass Wetin I fit explain.

Pope191, Glithronix abeg make una show

No doubt, fares on indrive have truly been annoying lately.
Na so so 1k/1.2k./1.5k/2k fares person dey see up and down. And me that hate all those low fare trips before, I stay out later than I used to to hit my target.
Some passengers self still dey reduce the fare prices that even the original amount dey vex person.
I go just sit down dey watch their nonsense.
Some of them go use their hands increase the fare price when they see that nobody is picking. Very wicked set of people.
I no blame them sha, things have not been the same ever since the naira redesigning stuff all the way up till after election wey come worse pass.
Shey na the post-election effects we go call am abi wetin?
It has really been annoying on indrive.
It only extends the time I spend outside. Cos I don't like going home if I no hit my target.
But we still move sha.
Much respect, boss.

Pearl1910:
Lolz...u dey fear to quote who you dey talk to?

Anything wahala, I no dey near am.
Much respect, boss.

Just dey play, dey play ohh
Just dey play oh.

SeyiJay:
@ Oga Glithronix... just for more clarification, i understand these two items (number 4 point highlighted in your response below): LASDRI & LASRRA are basically required for Bolt. Are they also compulsory for InDrive and any other e-hailing app?

Indrive doesn't require all those stuff, I don't know about other e-hailing app.
Much respect, boss.

@HonourablePomk
1) you can skip incoming orders on bolt but your acceptance rates + driver's score will suffer it and you would have to do extra job to regain those two back. You can't ignore on bolt as much as you do on indrive.

2) when you register as a new driver on bolt, you have a free trial period which is what you're enjoying now, you still need to go do physical inspection to become a verified driver. I don't know for how long the free trial lasts though

3) Mobile filling station @Obanikoro, they have inspection center there.

4) yes, you go need LASDRI and LASRRA.
For LASDRI, go to road safety office at oshodi. Take a bus going to oshodi and tell the conductor you're dropping at road safety, it's very close to that oshodi bus terminal.
For LASRRA, go to any local government office around you. I did mine at ogudu, across from Area H police station - very popular.

5) concerning asking passengers for direction to island, just follow your map, bro.
Map would take you to anywhere on the island, plus island has a very good and straight road directions that you would not even have to sweat following your map. Na mainland fit dey somehow, not island.
You won't get lost using map on the island. The more you frequent island, the more you get familiar with it.
All you need on the island is getting familiar with the area. That's all. Just avoid anything one-way and do not move around without using your map until you have gathered experience and know all the areas.
Them bosses fit add more to what I've put up here for you.
Much respect, boss.

Omoapena:
Very insightful


But as for me when I started, I didn't even join any group or ask for experience, I just followed my instincts and guts....

I didn't even know many places in Lagos back then but today, I can proudly say google map is in my head, I only make use of the map to check traffic routes, sometimes, my rider will ask me do I know where they are going cuz I don't check map, I just glance through it and see where to avoid and where to take...

All I know is, within your 1st 2 months, your mind should tell you whether you can cope with the hustle or not, and if your mind tell you, you can't cope, pls kindly exit the hustle...

We learn differently.
And yeah, the hustle isn't for everybody.
Much respect, boss. 🙌

Omoapena:
Lolz, I trust my Nigerian people, if the overdraft is upto 10k like bolt own, they will purposely owe that and register with another number to avoid paying the outstanding...

Na naija way be that.

Omoapena:
Lol,

Nice analysis but not needed when there's Google map, Google map is the best to avoid traffic route...

Yes, boss. Map is best for route movement.
I use G-map on the move, but I use bolt to see the whole picture while I'm parked somewhere or when I dey house.
Much respect, boss.

Omoapena:
Who told you they are using police van. They make use of danfo busses but the busses are being escorted by police...

Baba, me I just dey joke ni ohhh.

pope191:
my oga sha INEC officials no go need ride today?

Police vans dey available for their transitions.
Some aboki go even dey on ground with wheelbarrows, Dem no go even pay shishi.
Much respect, boss.

obinoral1179:
How do you check traffic on bolt?

Scrutinize the screenshot attached, the red lines on the roads show where there's traffic.
You see that Oworonshoki part, look closely, you will see that beside the long red line is another green line on the left close to it: the green line means free road while any line that you see a paint of red is traffic, the red one that intersects it from the left line shows people coming from Gbagada express way going to merger onto the same way as people coming from 3rd mainland bridge going to iyana ifako-iyana ogudu-alapere-tollgate-berger directions. When you see a situation like that, my brother, just find another way or give up if you're using indrive, cos na bolt go increase your money inside such mad lock-head traffic.
On that 3rd mainland bridge (Oworonshoki), red line on the right means there's huge traffic coming from island to mainland, while the green line beside it means free road for people climbing 3rd mainland going to island.
You see that ojodu Berger side, na no go area. You go regret going there. Both sides of the road are red lines, means going and coming na war.
Bolt app is perfect in that aspect, cos even if you navigate your screen to Ibadan, Ogun state or anywhere in the country, you would see free roads (green lines) and traffic (red lines).
Anywhere you see thick red, it's traffic.
There's some orange color that indicates bad roads and not traffic, mostly inside streets, not major roads.
Those red dey always dey thicker sometimes, anywhere you see am, just know say na mad traffic on a wide road.
If you see red lines beside each other, it means there's traffic on both sides of the road (going and coming).
Na the bolt app I dey take see all areas where there's traffic.
Much respect, boss.

Edonna:
But u can see real time traffic on gmap na

Sure, I can.
But I like using bolt app.
Tell them make dem no vex and bring it back. They should continue being useful to humanity as they used to.
Much respect, boss.

I'm not seeing traffic situations on bolt app again.
Is it only me or it's everywhere?
Cos I've updated the app like 3 days ago.
Ahhhh, Abi bolt no want dey useful to humanity again ni?
Make dem no vex nah, their app dey useful to dey see road.
I like bolt for that, you will see everywhere there's traffic.

SeyiJay:
Very nice and helpful tip boss! Quite true based on personal experience some years back. Seriously considering a return to this hustling tho'.

Return with full force, baba.
Indrive is here for us all.
Much respect, boss. 🙌

pope191:
No be say I no like house, but the thing they chop money. 2 : 20pm 16k don go... if I they hustle, surely won't have spent up to 5k today. Election do and go oo

It is well.
God no go shame us. ✌
Much respect, boss. ✊

pope191:
Make unable help me... I no see trip.

Cheerful ooo

A whole pope? Ahhh. Make we scatter area for you, boss?
I ain't driving today, I dey house relaxing my system.
I just checked my indrive app, no order is showing despite roaming on 15km.
But everybody suppose dey house today naah.
Omoh, maybe na because me I be lazy driver sha.
I just dey house resting jare. Till next week Tuesday.
Much respect, boss.

It popped up on my screen yesterday.
I think indrive really means business.
Heheheheheee.
But still, I prefer crediting my account without having any pending negative balance.
Indrive already made that easy.
Much respect, bosses.

HonourablePomk:
Hello guys. I own a Corrola and decided to give e hailing a trial base on current situations as money is needed. My first trip was 1,700 naira but it looks like a loss to me as before I picked passenger I was in traffic for about 30mins. She had to use bike to meet me to start trip. I was paid via transfer. And I am only registered on Indrive. My questions are below.

1. How much is indrive Commision and how do they get it? Because I was paid via transfer off the app.

2. I found it easier to register on indrive. I want to register for bolt. Do you think it’s worth it? Because I realize majority of drivers here talk down on bolt and also which other e hailing app should I register on?

3. Please very important, which routes should I avoid In Lagos state? I’m only familiar with ojodu and ogba area of Lagos state. In fact I don’t know my way to the island. Please I need advice on google map and areas to avoid.

4. I noticed riders don’t accept my ride if I click on the highest amount. Is it that all drivers go with the riders amount request or there’s a way around it?

I await your replies and if there’s a WhatsApp group please I will like to be added.

1) Indrive commission is 9.99% (just say 10%).

2) As a new person in the hustle, I go advise you register on bolt and make bolt your main cruise for probably a month. Though, bolt is not worth it as per say their commission is 25% of your earning. But bolt will take you to where you no know and that's where you will gather experience on your number (3) question.
In this hustle, lecturing won't teach you all you should know, experience is the best teacher.

3)...

4) don't click on a different price other than what the passenger proposes. If you see a ride with 2k, accept the 2k like that and don't negotiate. With that, you will get rides.
If you feel the amount is not reasonable considering the destination of the passenger, just ignore it and wait for more rides you can go with.

Additionally:
Yeah, there are routes you should avoid, but I know that it will depend on your judgement as later on.
When I started new, there's no where bolt didn't take me to.
E remain small dem for take me to sambisa forest. Ah! Bolt showed me shege and me being a newbie, na every ride I dey accept until I start to dey gather experience and picking from the experiences of the bosses on this platform.
So, you might need to register on bolt and use it for a while, so that you go know road well well and the places you should avoid.
Na the experience you gather on bolt is what will be your handpack to run indrive.
What you should be very concerned about is avoiding anything that will get you in the hands of LASTMA and those area boys.
Avoid anything one-way and illegal parking.
Well, with time, you will be able to identify the avoidable.
As someone said, avoid Ikorodu, Festac/Okota/Ago Palace environs.
You can only find me in those areas on Sundays (only) and the amount must worth it, and na once in a blue moon self. Sunday is always free of congestion and people move around for church fellowship - that's the reason.
You Wey never know your way to island heheheheeee, abeg avoid those areas.
The major armor of an experienced driver in this hustle is knowing all roads and locations, then other things follow.
The more you hustle, the more you know.
Please avoid driving at night till you gather enough experience that gives you confidence.
Much respect, honourable.

northbird:
@ Glithronix.. it was just a matter of time. One thing I can deduce is Bolt revenues nosedived seriously, that's why they cut staff.You can't make more and still cut staff,
Entrance of new players- Lagride, indrive, Rida,Anayer,Roosca etc.
Previously, at least 60% of all the riders and drivers on these new apps would have been remitting steadily to Bolt. But that's not possible again.

Shebi dem dey carry shoulder up before ni.
And pride won't let dem amend their ways so as not to appear that they bow to pressure.
Too late for dem.

northbird:
E haling cpys are not left out in this downsizing of a thing. Bolt just laid off 17 of its staff in Nigeria. That's like 24% work force reduction. That's huge o. and getting 1 or 2 months as severance pay...
It means their revenues did not really appreciate especially 2022..

Bolt is dead and na dem used their own hands to kill themselves.
E sure for me say almost every bolt drivers on this platform Don dey use indrive on a coded level and they can see the difference.
Shebi na 17 staff dey cut off, dem go soon pack up completely.
Much respect, boss.

easytig:
By the way,am I the only one having issues with credit and debit alerts for today,abi na my bank gt to be precise, network no correct today.customers transfer money,no credit alert,I pay commission with bank card , buy data online ,no debit alerts.na wa

Baba, you still dey live in 2022?
Go download Opay/Palmpay and have peace of mind.
I've been using these 2 apps since last month and they never disappoint.
Receiving money is within 5 secs (almost instantly).
After closing at night, I move all the money into my main bank account.
That's how I do it everyday.
Bank apps will frustrate you.
All drivers should go and be using either of the 2 apps.
Much respect, boss.