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casperuk:
Na, the RHD system won’t be a problem. Na wa ooo, Information that a friend gave me is that I can make 20k daily if i work hard on the job in Lagos. He lives in Benin and drives for Bolt platform. He told me he makes 10k daily

Your friend sold you a lie. You can't make 20k daily in Lagos.

" Make" or "keep" , words that are quite ambiguous for some people.

If you mean after fuel expenses, you will be left wt 20k. NO.

Some days you cud make more while some days you make less,

so we are looking @ averages and not picking the best day ( wat ur friend did)in the month and using that as a yardstick to project for the whole month.

But it will b substantial, but not d way your friend is hyping it.


But be prepared to drive. Sometimes my butt aches ( right side) and my lower right leg with my waist after a lung day.

At that tym, wen im just thinking of how im damaging my body for this, uche will send msg again saying let's move Lagos. I will b lyk

izzou:


[color=royalblue]Brown and Church Streets

The headquarters of Oloshos in Oshodi [/color]

I'm not always comfortable around DT axis , most of d trips wet dey always enter na ikorodu, ayobo, festac n MUSHIN

slamstanlee:
Yea but sometimes when you see ikeja, try and still ask for destination. One ikeja request landed me in ogba and another one in oshodi

That shit has happened twice .one on weekend evening, d oda Friday in d evening too. App says Ikeja , but na brown street for oshodi we go end up.

Thank God say na against traffic both movt dey

izzou:
[color=royalblue] Unnecessary panic/fear?
I'm not even sure you understood what I typed sef

Now, Uber drivers carry people from Point A to Point B. The moment there is a decline in the movement of people, it will take a toll on driver's earnings

From Monday, schools will probably be shut.This week, large church gatherings will be suspended.This is not to even talk about offices that have sent memos for some workers to work from home. Or do you think it's only bankers they carry on Uber?

I did not raise panic about the virus. I only said "If you know you won't make your rental payments because of the pandemic, give your partner his car until you feel the sphere is conducive"..

How is this panic, sir?[/color]

Izzou is right o...

I mean I was @ Eric Moore towers for over an hour yesterday, no bhing bhing.

WC is very unusual for such an area. Very hot spot for requests. I don't stay 10 mins wtout request around bode Thomas.

People were reluctant to go out yestday.

A disease all d way from Asia, locking down economic activities in Nigeria.

pope191:
Just got to the isolation centre, funny bitter sweet experience, nothing to really b scared about as everyone is walking freely. Spent some time are to observe d situation out here

Pope but you know come down o.

You just lock up inside car.

samobaba4u:
This is what I've been telling people that the 5% is a scam. All bolt do is to add 5% back to your earnings which simply means you're paying 15% but people don't know.
Don't ever compare 30% of Uber with whatever % bolt displays on your app in that regards, Uber is far Better

Have you been on 5% before? It's pretty straight forward.

Take this scenario.

V. I to ikeja @ 5%
Fee- ₦3,000
Bolt-₦150
Your earnings - 2850


But I said bolt app by default deducts 20%

So you have something like this

In app payment - : ₦3,000
Bonus (15%). + ₦. 450
Bolt commision - . ₦ 600

Balance. ₦2850

This does not include the bla Bla bla you received.

Hope you catch d drift

Olayetan:
5% Commission or 5% Commission bonus?

Have you observed after meeting up with the trip requirement to activate the commission, your subsequent trips gets bonus that would be added to your earnings.
What does that bonus mean to you?


This people are scamming us with confused grammar.


Literally, what they mean with 5% commission bonus is, you get 5% commission on every trip fare you embark which to be added to your earnings while they remove their own normal 20% commission so meaning you are paying 15% commission on your trips after meeting up with their requirements....



If you are doubting, try to do calculations when you hit the number of trips required to activate it then note your 1st subsequent trip after meeting up and calculate 5% of that trip, you will notice its that amount that is added as bonus to your earnings and also calculate the 20% of that same trip and you will notice the 20% is what is added to their outstanding commission....

Nope Baba you are d one dt misconstrued d whole concept.
5% commission after no of trips. Means dy deduct only 5%.

By default app deducts 20%. So if you get to d particular threshold of trips say 40.

It opens up another column for " bonus'

So app deducts 20% but adds 15% under bonus. Just plus n minus to help account reconciliation from their end.

Felicity0001:
Did you say you earn more driving with bolt? I dont think i would want to agree with you on this.

The other day Romoe3 said one can groose 35k daily driving with bolt, na so my longerthroat long and since I didn't work Mon-Wed that particular week I said let me give bolt a try as my 3% after 20 trips on uber would be like a waste of energy.
Thursday all tru I did bolt, continued friday. 12noon I checked my pocket na only 3k dey, fuel in tank was below half I just dey vex... Switched over to uber immidiately, b4 Saturday 4pm the next day I'd already completed my 20 trips. Monday the following week uber credited my account with about 10k.
I was able to pay my 25k weekly rental just within 12noon Friday and still had some money left to spend for myself and family.

Now Tell me, would I had met up my target with bolt within this short period? Obviously NO!

You c money on your dashboard driving with bolt but you truly can't account for it but with uber its totally difference.

Kindly throw more light on No.3 because I really don't understand what you mean by 40% cancellation allawee.

Then you're right with your other submit. I givebthem 100% on those.

Nevertheless, I still believe uber is way better when compare to bolt.

Uber temporarily axed my acct @ 13% cancelation. and they carry over ur cancelations.

Bolt, for every 40 trips you get, you are allowed to complete 18-20 trips, you are fine.

On Monday morning, you start afresh as regards cancelation issues.


Wateva suits you. Like I said. Knowing d intended destination is non negotiable for me.

As long as I can see where I'm heading to. Bolt is the king.

tunlapapa:
This is about doing what suits you.
I have an active bolt account but stopped working with it after making enumerations of the disadvantages attached to working on bolt, I decided to work only with the app that gives a peace of the mind.
I can't display what I make here but I believe there are people who work smartly and not running around the whole state believing they are moving lagos. The highest surge on taxify is 1.9 while I have taken 3.~ severally on Uber, and an average surge I chase on Uber is 2 and above.

How can you compare 5% with 3% that has been making several killing right from Tuesday to Sunday (count it and see that's a whole 5 days of lesser stress).
You also said bolt fares are higher?
Riders claim bolt is cheaper while drivers say bolt pays higher, now tell me who is the serpent deceiving both parties and that is one of the reasons (bolt is deceitful) I dumped them.
Surge only makes their fares defer but same when no surge.
( Uber: 11/min, 60/km, 200 base fare) (bolt: 10/min, 65/km, 200km base fare). I would like to know the difference on a 20km trip.


Like I said earlier that it is whatever rocks your boat.

Assuming 1hr trip duration.
Bolt. 1680
Uber 1545

Difference. Bolt operator gets ₦135 more.

Seems pretty insignificant @ dis point, but if we look at 12 trips at same rate.

You have covered about 10 litres of fuel cost, which in my opinion is pretty good.

Felicity0001:
I'm still trying to figure out why drivers still prefer driving with bolt even when they have an active uber account.

A lot of reasons.

1. You get to see intended destination.

2. 20% commission. You earn more on bolt. Drivers only earn on uber wen ders surge.

3.. 40% cancelation allowance

4.Leniency of the bolt team. Except you are really fraudulent., if the app yanks you off cos of rating. If you go to their lekki office n state your case, you will be absorbed back. Though it mite take some tym.


I CNT joke. Wt No1.


5.
In addition: Bolt's destination feature is more responsive than Uber.

UBER lacks all of the above mentioned points.

kodred:

Can you also suggest d correlation BTW isheri oke and V.I?

kodred:
You are matched with people going towards your destination. Mushin is towards VI lol

If you HV never experienced the mismatch before, you need to use d app more n see things for urself...

kodred:
You are matched with people going towards your destination. Mushin is towards VI lol

From ogba, pls show me

deedee44:
You see the difference? Even if deep down they want drivers to keep working, they made sure they didn't directly or indirectly encourage drivers to keep driving. Useless bolt said it directly and even laid emphasis on how they wish to get paid

From time, uche n his gang has always been about the money.

Even d app was tweaked by d Estonian programmers to make money @ any cost.

At times, I set destination to V.I. ,then phone beeps n I see MUSHIN.

I'm lyk Uche, CNT your app be straightforward for once. Is der a correlation BTW Mushin n V.I

Felicity0001:
@ radautoworks, @GAZZUZZ and others who can assist please its urgent.

My Honda civic 03 trips off most times while on motion, sometimes before it goes off the car will jerk and then goes off or it won't go off but the next thing engine check light check light comes on. This happens like 2-3 times daily.

Some times when I switch off the engine maybe on traffic engine does hard start before it starts.

I carried out a scan on the car and the code within came up.

Changed the camshaft sensor but this code keeps coming up

Just my opinion, have ur rewire clean the fuel filter in the tank with petrol. He shd wash very well wt petrol

Or he could replace the filter ( not pump) and try and see if it goes off on motion again.
I hope your fuel tank is not dirty.

Luxurydriverng:
Yes oh, but it pains me when I get trips of 400 naira, like it psychologically drains my energy.

Rider will now be like, increase the AC

One of d reasons I dumped uber. How can I take you on a distance of like 4- 5km n I had to do like 1.8-2km again to pick you up.

I end trip n I see #300. For God's sake, wat is #300 again.

No. I can't cope wt DT kind of pricing abeg.

sofdoc1:
I actually have 35. The issue is I am not sure how to use a dual sim phone on uber and not get caught.
Apparently its against their policies.

Forget that bullcrap Uber is saying.

Y6 is dual sim n I use it for Uber. No issues at all.

Romeo3:
you talk too much with them. You can be very professional without opening your mouth. Only speak when spoken to. Your rating on bolt is an average of your last 40 trips

I don't think cos he conversed wt d clients DTS y d rating is low.

A lot of riders don't really know how to use the bolt app. So wen it com's to rating you, some genuinely intend to give you 5 star, but you know dy start ticking from d 1st star, ( the app wants you to do the rating quickly)

the prompt goes off n maybe d rider has only imputed 3 stars.

Imagine a case of 10 riders like that.

Riders don't HV d kind of orientation drivers had wt d app wt d so called " training "

DTS wat I concluded after picking a couple of newbie riders

@ op , pls Where are you based? Lagos?

All in all. Roads in Lagos won't support des kind of cars.

If it was in Abuja, I wud HV said okay.

If you get to some roads even in Victoria island n ikoyi. You wud b lyk. "Even here bad roads dey".

A 2018 corrolla plying Alagbole - Akute road is looking for trouble.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The advert is very clear na

AS LOW AS......

For you to pay 23k a week, maybe your bank statement would be having transaction records of over 200k every week, not to talk of guarantors and areas of residence

If you address is something like Plot 8a, Africa lane, Lekki phase 1, then you may be entitled to apply for 23k a week.

But if your address na

Take a bike to No 141, Mumuni Ogunsakin street, cross to the other side take a bike to CAC, off Alhj Nofisat Olodumare crescent. Look for the white house with grey roof, and ask for Mr Tojahh
If your address be like this, sorry for you


In all, it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for one to get a 2017 corolla for 23k a week.[/color]

The mumuni part n look for white house wt grey roof ( ijust make me burst into laughter

Monkeyprick:
As seen on Twitter

From the background, I noticed the Eko cabs are Nissan primera, wagon, primera is not too good on AC in traffic.

Moreover, regardless of how u package a bad product, it's still a bad product.

The average Lagos taxi driver (the personnel dy will use) won't be comfortable wt ₦65/ km or ₦8 per min.

So except dy wanna bring deir customers from the thin air. I don't see how dy want to compete with the " Pay as You Go" model

bolabiyi:
ikorodu

Have you been able to solve it? Sorry about that.

Did you park on the road or wat?

Cos where is d fine of 50k coming from.

That's why I don't like enforcement agents in Lagos. Always trying to exploit you.

Vision2045:
Pls house Dana air ..Lagos to Abuja na MMA2 local abi?

MM2

[quote author=sofdoc1 post=87311246][/quote]Ur budget first.

If you HV 40k. try hauwei y6. Brand new. Phone calculates price well. No spoofingol of GPS.

Felicity0001:
Hi guys hope your week is starting in a good note.

Guys how do you handle riders who always want to eat in the car, I'm finding it very difficult to handle most riders in this. Most of them feel it's normal to eat in the car and most say I'm the first uber driver to call their attention on that.

One among the 3guys I carried last night around 2am says "after all its my right, I'm paying so I can do anything I like..." I just ended trip then asked them to come down of my vehicle, "i wont pay you".
Me: no problem about that
"I'll rate you low"
Me: i dont give a Bleep about rating. please come down I've close for the day this is a destination trip thats y I on my bolt app.

Las las his other friend who was cool headed was now trying to calm the situation and was begging I drop them. They knew it will be diffixult for them to get a ride home they now calm down. Yet the most stubborn one among them still did eat quietly behind.

I need clue in how beat to handle such riders please.

The "eating thing" beats me, I mean how will a full grown adult eat in a stranger's car n be damn comfortable about it.

They eat n litter wt particles / crumbs everywhere, I'm like if all the riders ate in this manner, you won't be comfortable sitting in that same seat.

Shame on some riders.

Pls urgent. Where does DANA operate. MM2 or GAT.

deedee44:
I met some drivers 3 days ago where I parked to have a little rest. As we were gisting about the challenges we face on this job, one of them said he drove a girl from ikeja gra to lekki and fare was 5200. The girl's boyfriend (who made the request I think) did a failed transfer . To cut long story short it's over 3 weeks now and the man just kept posting him. I told him to give me proof, that I know people who can help him get it if they want to.
Below is his most recent conversation with the man as at March 5 when we met, I also called the driver few minutes for updates and he said the man doesn't pick his calls anymore.
Here is the debtor's number if the panel if judges gives a green light 07015896166

The creditor, is he with the girl's number cos I'm sure he called her or she called him at one point in time before the pickup.

If d girl is dragged, the money WL come out.,its not ethical, but from d look of things, that's d fastest way to pressure d dude to pay his girlfriend's fare.

Godfather10:
so you think he just became rich like that ko, listen and learn no walk is easy.
Don’t let jealousy kill you, pray you will even do better then him.

Always derailing the purpose of d thread,

I mean d media gave you wrong info, you are saying somtin else.

Chairman has always been reclusive from inception. so d media just gave you all that sensational stuff to make you guys enjoy d reading.

Yèyé was an established wealthy business woman of repute as far back as d 70's wt strong ties wt d ijebu royalty.

Once again, you just saying wat d media wants you to know.

Godfather10:
He was a cab driver in America and struggled to pay his university fee

That's the hogwash the media fed you.

dru23:
According to an article I read on nairaland. Mike Adenuga, wakes up early and does not leave his office till 1 a.m. the next day.. And the man is close to 60 years old at least. I wonder how is blood pressure is .....

Does he also drive during dose periods.?

@ DT level, he makes decisions .

I'm sure he goes on vacations / breaks too.

So stop the comparison.

Godfather10:
The secret to success in this business is how you plan your time, and make your driving fun, don’t sit on your Brain always use it.

What igboman painted, is the real situation about earnings.

Like I said, wat planning are you talking about.

This biz revolves around people moving.

The only time you wudnt face any serious traffic in Lagos is BTW 11pm - 5am.

and if you work arnd DT tym, its a big risk to work @ nite for crumbs. Have you wondered why dere is always SOJI arnd 10pm upwards.

Cos few drivers work @ nite cos of d risk.

And if you are in traffic, you don't earn. In fact, you are losing.

You are not in the game, all you HV is second hand info. Don't discount wat igboman said up there.