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Eazilyfe:
My boss learn how to use Indrive before bolt makes you go insane.

Like someone always say here, THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU WANT TO MAKE ON BOLT THAT YOU CANT MAKE ON INDRIVE WITH PEACE OF MIND

With indrive you must understand the the art of war patience to thrive.

PuZZyNegro:
None of the prices is fair. The purpose of my post is not to compare prices from both apps but to tell you how ridiculous the price can be that Bolt wants to force drivers to take.

On Indrive, you have the choice not to take the trip, but Bolt is forcing drivers to take the trip whether the condition is fair to the driver or not

Such prices may be manageable if you are able to get the Bolt campaign bonuses.

Eazilyfe:
The last lady dey cry like LAST BORN... the driver really traumatised her.

Indrive jst dey use riders & drivers head nack each other

After all their moaning, they will still order indrive, psychologist call this fatal attraction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnu9grFb_NA&t=81s

let the blame game continue

chidifrank:
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Okay , continue posting your income nah . Why the sudden pause

You are accusing the wrong person, i do not support drivers posting their earnings.

TUBLEZ:
This work is becoming more stressful
CNG is even making it worse 😢

CNG is the least of our problems, some drivers have the CNG is their booth, but no gas. We simply have too many drivers with respect to dwindling passengers, so therefore prices will fall.

philsbaba:
I actually think we passengers need to do better, uber drivers deserve respect too

I blame this lack of respect of drivers squarely on Bolt and indrive.

TUBLEZ:
one called me that she’s carrying 4 bags of rice, I appreciate her for calling and I told her she should fear God now and hire korope she hiss and cut phone 😂

She will report you to bolt for gender discrimination. Na automatic blocking,

Shimmaa:
I took my offline rider to liasu road ikotun and decided to look for a ride back to Ojodu on indrive. I eventually saw 1 with a very very very ridiculous price to ogunnusi road from egbeda bus stop and highest bid was 6300. I decided to do it to cover for fuel only for the rider to tell me it’s delivery, I asked for picture of the goods and he sent picture of 4 big boxes with a small fridge, i just vex cancel the ride begin dey drive home.

This work can test someone’s patience and tolerance now

Happy you canceled, because if you did not, don't be surprised if you end up with a 1 star after the trip.

Even if passengers do not know about vehicle maintenance cost, at least bolt and indrive should.

Eazilyfe:
Regardless of the price, there are people/companies who still use Bolt. Now it takes forever to get a ride on bolt because drivers and riders have left them. For their peace of mind they use Lagride.

Carried this lady at 1004 VI last week in the evening and she was begging me not to cancel because it tooj hours before she can get a ride. Some dont like the bargain & poorly maintained Indrive cars coming to pick them.

I give them 1-2yrs max they will fold up if they dont make amends.

i avoid all those very long trips, i have gotten similar offers on indrive, but i was not moved to bid for it, short, medium or long trips to hot zones is what i prefer.

on the issue of poorly maintained vehicles on indrive, bolt also suffers such, lets us be frank, Uber came with brand new vehicles, the cars where being serviced by top notch auto workshops, like autofast and others, uber rates was higher than bolt and indrive, passengers ran away from uber, bolt and indrive got a surge in demand, people preferred to pay cheap, when you pay cheap, keeping a vehicle in pristine conditions becomes quite difficult, except you want drivers to be given passengers subsidies.

Shimmaa:
I took my offline rider to liasu road ikotun and decided to look for a ride back to Ojodu on indrive. I eventually saw 1 with a very very very ridiculous price to ogunnusi road from egbeda bus stop and highest bid was 6300. I decided to do it to cover for fuel only for the rider to tell me it’s delivery, I asked for picture of the goods and he sent picture of 4 big boxes with a small fridge, i just vex cancel the ride begin dey drive home.

This work can test someone’s patience and tolerance now

i recently had similar experience from Akoka to Ejigbo, at about 10pm, told myself once it is 10:15pm, i am driving back home empty, the risk of night driving is not worth it, night driving should attract the highest fare, if you have issues, nobody to help you push your car to a safe spot, no mechanic to offer palliative solutions, the list of challenges is endless, yet night driving attracts the lowest fare possible.
i finally got an offer for N7k, from Akoka to Ejigbo we dragged for over 20mins, at a point i thought the trip was taking, the offer came, i still put the maximum possible price, N9k, the passenger finally agreed to N9k, got to pick up point waited for another 15mins for her royal highness, no apologies, got into my car, the next thing, put on your ac, told her no ac, so you wanted an ac car to drive you for N7k from Akoka to Ejigbo. Before the trip, i asked her is your road, graded, she said it is ok, that was a red flag, it was one of those extreme terrible roads in Ejigbo, i just knew i would not be driving out the next day, and while on the terrible road, my prayer was for my tyre not to pick up a nail or any sharp object, imagine paying vulcanizer N2k for tyre puncture. We must continue to hope for better days.

Glithronix:
Some rides are better to be left hanging.
I'd rather drive home empty than picking that ride.


Much respect, baba.

Driving that length of distance back home is not easy, especially for those on rental, you might consider it as a trip just to contribute to your fuel repurchase.

owobloww:
statics which has more customers and drivers between bolt and indrive

Bolt has more customers and drivers than inDrive in Nigeria.
• Market Share: Industry tracking data (such as StatiSense and Sensor Tower reports) places Bolt as the leading e-hailing platform in Nigeria, holding roughly 66% of the ride-hailing market share compared to inDrive and other competitors.
• City Footprint: Bolt operates in over 30 Nigerian cities (including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, and Benin City), giving it a broader geographic reach and larger customer base than inDrive.
• Driver Network: Bolt maintains a much larger registered driver and partner base, and recently experienced a massive 92% surge in weekly driver registrations following Uber's exit from the Nigerian market in September 2026.
• Earnings Scale: In performance reports, Bolt's top-earning drivers consistently record higher average earnings than inDrive's top drivers (e.g., Bolt's top 50 drivers averaged ₦9.6 million in H1 2025 compared to ₦7.6 million for inDrive

Bolt offering passenger low price and drivers huge bonuses, to defend market share, is it actually sustainable in lagos, time will tell.

Eazilyfe:
Yes boss, they know what will eventually happen to them when Indrive completely takes over the market.

I know some of the team are reading this and note their end is near since they refused to hold up standard.

Bro, what standard are you talking about, this is an alliance of brutal price cutting syndicates. First uber came in and priced out yellow cab, airport taxi and private cab operators out of the market, then Bolt said two can play the game, and Bolt showed uber, that it is a learner in the price cutting model, then came the baba of them all, Indrive, uber could no longer stand the heat in the kitchen, and zoomed off with their Moove.
It is obvious that indrive pricing model is primed for a society with shrinking disposable income. Indrive will not bother you about some ambiguous car inspection exercise, is the torture of obtaining a road worthiness certificate not enough, indrive believe passengers ratings and comments will expose drivers with bad cars. I have never been blocked by indrive, bolt has severally blocked me without even given me an opportunity to defend myself (i guess my 4.8+ rating means nothing to them). Honestly the economics looks bad for Bolt, unless they urgently reduce their commission.

chidifrank:
That reminds me, all those drivers here uploading income dashboard as of last year , showing off how much they are making , why the sudden mute ? You guys should continue uploading your dashboard oo so we see how much you are making. I will never blame Bolt nor indrive because drivers are the problem . You kept on showing millions you are making monthly forgetting those Bolt and indrive workers and agents are here watching . Now they have succeeded in limiting your incomes una don begin join protest. Rubbish

I beg to disagree, whether drivers post their earnings or not, bolt, indrive, opay, palmpay, moniepoint etc have a solid data of how much you make from e-hailing. The problem is the sharp rise in fuel cost, that is the real elephant in the room.

Shimmaa:
InDrive has reduced fair price negotiation offer to 2. Who noticed?

You invest millions to acquire a car, only to be treated with such disdain, it is well oohh.

Eazilyfe:
This was fair price but still 3 price options. Dem dey on & off am maybe.

Bolt calls their own dynamic pricing, so we can tag indrive version as dynamic negotiation.
Whatever way you colour it, the app companies have only and only one priority, maximising their commission even at the detriment of drivers welfare.

Shimmaa:
See uber price for Canada o 🙆🏻🙆🏻🙆🏻
27k in naira for 1hr+

I did N14k for 2hr+ on indrive.
You forgot to add the beautiful roads, little or no traffic jam and not needing to worry about picking up nails or the road.
I wanted to tranfer N1.5k to my vulcanizer, he said it is now N2k to fix one tyre puncture,

vivalavida:
Is this true?

Can some one please urgently propose to Moove, the use of CNG.... I come in peace.

Eazilyfe:
When i still dey use my S22 Ultra do Hotspot for car android still on Navigation and apps with almost 24/7 screen on. Phone no gree charge as i plug am until e cool, it went on and on until one day i was going to pick a sweet ride naso phone off rider cancelled as she couldnt reach me. Next day i went to MTN office to get Mifi and all my problems was resolved.

Are you vouching for the effectiveness of mifi over wifi

Glithronix:
Hope you no dey among those people running around without AC.
Just asking ni oh. 😸



Much respect, chief.

if your ride request price deserves a/c you will surely get, if not, we will both enjoy the hot breeze.

TUBLEZ:
Uber no even give me shishi, don’t know why sef

Are you a union member?

Shimmaa:
Person like pearl no go pray for that one o

All i know is that if it happens, the severance package, Pearl will give all his drivers will be much more better than what uber paid.

SHOOPSYN:
Your submission here, simply mean there is no solution and as such, Glith stance is the only temporary way forward. Mentioning govt as intervention in this case is even scary. My Nigeria govt. . Expecting Nigeria govt intervention as way forward is simply building castile in the air.
But whichever way, that is life, some of us will continue to dance azonto, while some will not. At the end, everything will reset again and everyone will still survive one way or the other.
Right now, we need healthy competitions.

The so called healthy competitions, has lead to poor fares, what we probably need is a Dangote solution See how the price of cement is rising, regardless of the poor state of the economy. But will a monopolist model work for E-hailing, honestly i am not even sure of that.

On the mention of Government intervention, online loan sharks laughing their hearts out!

I recently paid all my outstanding amount that i owed uber, for almost 2 years. The reason why i stopped using the app, was my iphone ios was out of date, i was not ready to get a new phone,.
I am a firm believer one good turn deserves another, Uber truly meant well for E-hailing in Nigeria, but it was a fight, that even almighty uber was destined to lose, unless they compromise on their standards. Good bye Uber and happy independence days to you all.

Nelochukwu:
As in u get. Na even e hailing drivers suppose chop life pass all dese people wey u talk. D people wey I dey talk about dey dis very group. Dey believe dis hustle na for slaves Imagine u dey work dey look urself as slave y app no go dey reason slave price.

Men no know say transport na very big bizness ANYWHERE IN D WORLD na Nigeria come be like say we dey jonze.

Anyway me wey dey talk now before u no Dem go ask me if I don recover my cng money forgetting na another economy cng dey operate but I lm fighting for d love of this craft no be just about making money. Now we have extremely entitled riders that can't even afford cars even d ones that have, have parked at home due to high Maintenance

Iz well

We can lament all day long, this a multi billon dollar industry, drivers sadly are the pawns. The app company in America, Europe are even trying to remove the "entitled pawns", by rolling out more driverless cars.

On the CNG issue, imagine if every Nigerian motorist, install CNG, what happens in the future when a cheaper alternative comes on board, how do you safely dispose such amount of cylinder in an environmentally friendly manner, ultimately who bears the cost of the disposal? Honestly in our desperation for short term gains, we sometimes forget to look at the bigger pictures, mother nature always bear the cost.

I don't honestly mind entitled passengers, note not disrespectful passenger if they are actually paying the right fare for a trip. Imagine a trip from Ejigbo to Iponri estate, for less than N10k, and the passenger was lamenting... upon how much she is paying, i am not putting on my AC, i calmly told her lots of traffic and fuel is almost N1,400 per litre.

obacasmir:
Before indrive 10k trip turn into 2 hours..

Truly the sad reality of this business, i experienced such on indrive. Meanwhile an oil change of less than 30mins will net that amount, hope you know the 2 hours plus journey is your gross fare on indrive. remove fuel, maintenance, commission, before you know it you will start humming to your passenger... which way Nigeria in Sonny Okosun voice.

Pearl1910:
So basically they should provide the lowest rides fares to riders through discounts, vouchers and reduced fares while giving drivers the highest earning possible through bonus and lowest commissions.

All for what? When and how are they gonna make this money back? Cos d moment they start increasing commissions we will all shout. And if they increase the fares back Riders will leave them.

For me more apps coming to compete in this space will only drag d price further down. The current App companies should collaborate or govt should regulate them to standardize the fares.

If I where in govt I would force Indrive and Bolt to have comparable prices with Lagride so as to make them desirable. Right now they hardly get customers cos the difference in price between Lagride and Bolt/Indrive is like night and day.

All over the world, Germany, UK, Spain, China, even Kenya and Tanzania, the govt regulates prices and fixes minimum fares to ensure a decent earning for the Industry players and protest the jobs of regular taxis.

To be honest, how would u feel if u were a yellow taxi operator after Uber and Bolt came into Nigeria? Bolt especially crashed trips of 5k to less than 2k.

You are spot on, see what uber, bolt and indrive did to yellow taxi cab operators, honestly did any one of us here feel empathy to the Yellow taxi cab operators. Perhaps the saying what goes around comes around is now applying to all of us, lets see how it all plays out.

uber in time past gave generous bonuses, to get drivers loyalty, it never worked out. So in E-hailing there is no loyalty, but we are trying to exploit each other from app company, drivers to passengers. No passenger is loyal to any app company, they are always on the look out for the cheapest ride.

The only suggestion i could give to government, is that let Bolt and indrive employ a minimum of 50 drivers each as permanent staff, let us see whether they will be able to push out the prices they expect us to accept from passengers.

NaughtyBrainiac:
What's now the way to getting the dream fare?😩

With out sincere government intervention, no way for now.
Let us just be contented with the reality fare, which itself is not guaranteed! After the hustle and bustle of the day, when you get home, you are free to experience all the dream fare, in your dream!

NaughtyBrainiac:
Na only God sabi when Naija Government go fit do that kind thing. When there are several major things they are yet to attend to. Hmmmm

I believe the government does not classify E-hailing as an essential service in the transport ecosystem, so you are OYO.

tojahh:
Make I no talk sha... But seem there will be another Azonto Dancing soon. 😂

The earlier you realize protest can't give you anything in this line of business the better for you. You can't protest your way to your dream fare.

But what do I know?

As they say has any protest against the Cabal ever worked in this country.

[quote author=NaughtyBrainiac post=140730023]Good morning Brothers,

Thank you for keeping the thread alive, may the Lord bless your hustles and elevate you all.

I am going through some challenges, so I decided to relocate to Abuja. The main thing I intend to do there will start around June 2027, but I just want to go ahead and familiarise myself with a lot of things there(I have never lived in Abuja).

I cannot just go there and be doing nothing for 9 months. Consequently, I decided to go with a car and start e-hailing. I have read a lot of discouraging things about the current state of this venture. However, I am hoping I could still give it a tey since it is not something I want to do for too long.

The car I intend to use is a Toyota Camry 2010/2011. The car is in good condition.

Please note that I am not an expert expert driver. I have learnt driving since 2010, but I don't drive regularly. However, I have done some interstate travels of 1hour, 2 hours before.

What advice do you have for me please?

Thank you.


I am not based in Abuja, but i have read enough on this forum that most drivers in Abuja do not put on their A/C for their customers, if so driving a car with a functional A/C will give you an added advantage over others. There are time after dropping a passenger, the passengers will now ask can i wait for 20mins or more to take him/her to another destination, i suspect, i may be wrong that it has a lot do with the fact that i usually put on my A/C for my clients, when requested.
In short, neat car, good shocks, working A/C, careful driving, will also lead you to getting more off line clients, who are ready to pay more for premium services. Best wishes.