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Gentlelife50:
I tell you.
One thing is certain it's not easy to drive especially in this Lagos.
I am listening to a program on radio this moment and the anchor said something. He said when he told his dad he wants to start driving the Dad asked him a question that he has never forgotten up till this day.
The Dad asked him do you know that anybody holding steering is close to his grave.
And that's the truth, I had my first accident when I started ehailing.
If nobody praise me I praise myself jare

medd422:
U don’t have a problem, I have done this before at iyana oworo bustop. It was early in d morning, I was trying to get some passengers to ajah to make up for my fuel but a particular policeman forced his way into my car and told me to park. He started demanding for my key. He said if I don’t give him d key, he won’t listen to me. I stylishly removed the car key from d bunch of keys while I was still pleading with him and gave him d rest. The foolish guy just left me there to go arrest another car. In his mind, he’s impounded my car. I just enter my car and drove off. Na my house key I give am

pope191:
Completely low, and one person will b requesting from 10mins, only to buy bread at a short distance... The kind swear I dash such rider, in fact I've been off uber for some time now. Thanks to some offline stuff, like on Friday while i was dropping someone at d airport on offline trip, one of my sure business partner requested I get some stuff from him from Ikeja and bring it to Oregun d next day... I billed him 20k and he agree to pay 18k, the way I park the car in front of the office, its like I use stone to shock the 4 legs, enter inside the office and slept off while I wait for dem to process what I came for. There is a need to pay attention to pricing in this business if they really wish drivers well, cos on their part, its more of soldier come, soldier go, its not only the car that will suffer, even the sun is not friendly to the body.

dru23:
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The real story is that a lot of partners give out dead cars.. And also from my experience maintenance is one of the real issues.. One thing I couldn't understand is the use of water instead of coolant.. So what do u expect, there will be a lot partners cashing out ...bad manager has a lot to do with partners cashing out ...to me personally the business is still very good if you have the following.
1. Good drivers
2. Alive cars , I heard one particular partner gives out dead cars.
3. If you don't have good maintenance culture, you have no business in the uber business.
4. A trust worthy mechanic.. Have spend so much money on one of my gear box..this problem has been going on for months and months... I got a new mechanic and within a week he fix it .. Because of the new mechanic, I have a new lease in the business.. So this is the major reasons partners are cashing out.. And I pray that they continue to cash out .. So that I can continue doing the business.. All my advice fell on deaf ears ,so please partners continue cashing out ..in the mist of their cashing out ,if I can get at least 5 to 10 solid drivers I will be grateful.. And not all drivers are bad, sometimes you will need to kiss a few frogs before you find your Mr. Prince

Phranex:
drivers sha... u give 30k to car owner.

deedee44:
We are our own enemies, as long as we refuse to unite under one umbrella we cannot have one voice, we cannot have any voice at all sef and drivers will continue to be handled with little regard.

radautoworks:
After stumbling on this thread and reading about some of your challenges, I wanted to know if you guys would be interested in some sort of annual maintenance package for your cars. Maybe something like 6 oil changes, wiper blades, a brake pad change and fluids for your vehicle for one flat annual price? How much do you think would be fair/affordable for something like this you in your line? Do the math and let me know what you think and if it gains traction, I'll make it happen for Uber drivers only. When you have maintenance you just make an appointment and done.

ifyeez:
Taxify needs to explain how dey dish out request,
I ve been waiting for request for the pass 20min, another driver came to join me, we started gistin not more than 5min request entered his phone, he told me bros we go see later, immediately the person cancelled we checked nd saw the person was going to Lekki, I told him to calm down it will enter again, 2min same request came back, me am still waiting for request I done vex na to go house.

GAZZUZZ:
surge trip 1.9 to ladipo from my workshop, no flood, just traffic @ oshodi, but 1.9surge Haba!

YorubaEmir:
I said you should share a link or number I can join with not picture o

YorubaEmir:
What am I supposed to do with it?

YorubaEmir:
Can I get a link ?

YorubaEmir:
I'm creating a whatsapp group comprising of uber/Taxify drivers/partners ONLY. No advertisers please. Send me a hi on whatsapp and I'll add you up. 07068097535

Carshopper:
I have been working out change of narrative ver2.0 update. I have come to see some pictures clearer and understand that your first year is really about putting initial capital back to good use.

Your ROI as we have come to understand starts when your capital is back in your hands. In achieving that you must build on the value of your investment and not really what the market is saying. There will always be crash in pricing system and you need to see it before it happens.

The first 13weeks is 85% smooth... less of worry on car efficiency assuming its a toks vehicle (note all things being equal). starting from the 14th week efficiency of vehicle will drop 10% - 20% depending on the handler, you start to hear things like AC not cooling, oga I dey hear one sound for back leg, boss when I am in traffic, the vehicle jerks.. to accommodate this we look again at the true value of the vehicle at this stage THEN we drop rental fee again to match the true value. Sometimes you may be lucky to find those complaints in 24th week... but my brother prepare for war in the time of peace o.

So we systematically drop rental fee as car efficiency drops according to value at that point in time e.g after 26weeks what you have gotten from the vehicle is your Earned Value. so if you were to sell off at 26weeks, you do be selling off @ 50% + people taste + demand.

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BRB ... i wan shake something

omonla10:
U guys have turned this thread to a boring oil thread..the last 3 pages filled with oil oil oil.. Always look forward to reading updates from partners and drivers about their daily escapades.. Last drove on taxify around May due to my job but this thread ensures I never miss anything new. Or we create another thread to argue our oil ish

Dru23
Carshopper
And others

Abeg pipe down small.

jayooh:
This man, how you do am? Are u on lite or taxify? Are requests still bubbling?
I'm just returning to the streets, been off 2weeks

chucsmoore:
Na so bro. As an driver entrepreneur, one has to be very smart and sharp. No dulling at all, “Ji Masun”. I don dey use the Taxi Lamp tey tey. It pays real good especially when request dey somehow. I will advice you use it near Hotels, Churches, Events, Birthday and so on. You go see customer quick quick. But beware of police and law enforcement agencies there is a license for it.

100% Loyal to Taxify. No matter d circumstance

dru23:
Now avaliable for sale... all extended performance 17500k ..free delivery five or more pieces ...contact dru23@hotmail.com ..large quantities...

Tgiirl:
Call to let the driver know where your are and not where the driver is. It is the driver coming to pick you up and not the other way round. Then simply ask how many mins it will take him to get to you.

slamstanlee:
Uber to dash 5k for completing 20trips. Info in d app

taxiappguy:
They can still form checking for fraud and disqualify a few trips.
Congrats on winning the jackpot to the winner. Nice hustle.

GAZZUZZ:
Never had need for it. It was purely to win and make profit

taxiappguy:
I personally believe Uber and Taxify are not doing enough to get customers in Nigeria.
And this is the beginning of all stakeholder's woes.
Granted, everyday; new riders are starting to use ride share as their preferred means of transportation. But also, a lot of drivers and owners have heard you can make some money on ride share, and they are signing up by the thousands monthly.
I don't know what revenue figures these companies are posting (although I have a feeling profits are increasing), but what I do know is that ever since the inception of ride share in Nigeria, earnings have been on a steady decline.

Initially it was that you could make 100,000 per week. Of course a good percentage of this was some sort of incentive or the other.
Requests were easier to find for drivers, this was not because there were so many riders but because the ratio of riders to vehicles was much lower than it is now.

When Uber came to Nigeria, there was a loud bang. Even though everybody heard of Uber at the same time; obviously riders got a head start on Partner-drivers. Think about this, for a rider to begin to use the app, all he had to do was download it and start using the service. A Partner-Driver on the other hand had to buy/own a duly registered vehicle, do an inspection, go through a training session and a test before they could start to use the app. Riders had a 1000 Naira entrance threshold into using the app, that same threshold was about 2,000,000 Naira for Partner-Drivers.

So very quickly, rider numbers swelled, and when partner-drivers began using the app the riders were waiting.
At that time Uber was all over the blogs, it was new so it was on everybody's social media timeline. People wanted to be the first to tell their friends about rideshare. The cool new way to get around.
But the novelty has long since worn off now, in fact in some cases, rideshare is beginning to get a bad rap among riders. You can go on social media to see how many negative reviews are starting to creep up on Uber and Taxify, despite their usually excellent service.

and, it's almost beginning to feel like demand is starting to out weigh supply.
When Uber first came, they had great programs for getting new users on board. There was the Uber brand ambassador program, there was their partner referral program, there were all sorts of incentives. He'll, everybody was talking about it. "Make 400,000 Naira per month with your car, signup on Uber!"
I still remember those days with a warm smile.
Uber stopped almost all of these except for partner referrals and one or two scattered incentives here and there that seem more like plastic gimmicks than true incentives.

No customer acquisition programs, no ads. Just a boring "Get 500 Naira discount upon registration" that nobody knows about.

Thankfully, I have begun seeing and hearing Uber adverts in Nigeria now. I still think they are missing that human, word-of-mouth feel that their old programs gave them, where your friends and family wanted you to use an Uber. But what do I know.
Please Uber especially (because you take 25% and hence should have a bigger marketing budget) a lot of us are depending on you getting your act right.

We are waaaaay more heavily invested in this than you are, we need the the realities to reflect this. You need to reinvest more of that money into customer acquisition. We need to see you actively trying to get us more customers.

You all need to pay extra focus on getting new riders especially if you insist on taking 25%(and 15%). There are too many vehicles on the platform and too little riders. If you do not work on getting new riders for your investors to feed on. It's your 25% they will start looking at next, and if they can't get a part of it, they will go to a platform that offers them more riders/earnings, Taxify, take note with your 15%.

If you all don't invest in more programs that will get us stakeholders more riders, someone else will.
This is not a shade or a sub, it's a piece of advice.

miliki777:
Driver needed urgently for a clean toyota Matrix 04 tokumbo.
must reside around ogba, ojota, ojodu berger nd environs. 
must stay in a gated apartment, 
Evidence of previous wrk done.
N35k weekly.
Verifiable guarantor 
Assurance of 1 week rental is a must.

Owner does all repair.

note that if the above is met you can start immediately. 

call me on +2348072038153