₦airaland Forum

segzyndpep:
Just uber for now..looking at taxify nextweek..uber alone is too stressful,driving all town empty,d suffer much

Your first day and it seems u have seen all... Brace up! In as much as I hate to say this, they are days you will give up, drive straight home with d mindset of calling it off, but wake the next the and find yourself driving again

Chae:
House my motor is dancing alingo if I speed upto 60km

Your motor is sobold skool, change it to zanku

MoonlightDrive:
NEVER EVER LISTEN TO THE RADIO
Please let me clarify do not listen to traffic report on the radio while carrying your passenger!
Play instead some soft calypso or just tune in to sound city fm.
Some days ago i had agreed to be back at home by 6:00pm., so when i got a request taking me to Adeola odeku, i was cool with that but as soon as i dropped off my rider, around 3:00p.m i just set destination to Ikeja.. and then the praying and confessing start you know this business is not as it used to be...
Then i got a trip request going towards my destination, i picked her up and i realized she was going within 1km radius of my crib.. This is just fantastic so i thought.
I left the radio on and there was a traffic report on 98.10 Nigeria info, traffic was actually pretty bad on the island, it was bumper to bumper, by the time we got to Awolowo road our wonderful OAP, Hauwa AND Mazino on the Smooth Drive show where doing their thing.. Mazino just kept on yapping, "i have never seen such bloodied sign, this traffic was even worse than yesterday, bla, bla, bla, everywhere is on locked down even on the mainland", they had convinced my rider to change her final destination, she now said the traffic report is just too bad even on the mainland and she would like to stop at Surulere... had to put a plastic smile on my face for some seconds, and told her no problem.
I had to drop her off at surulere and after waiting like 30 minutes with no request towards my destination, had to drive into the traffic , got home pretty late.
Never listen to traffic report when carrying a rider, it gets the rider agitated and they may likely change their mind about their final destination, and sometimes the traffic report may not even be a reflection of the true situation on ground, when in traffic just play some soothing R & B songs...

Rider that will jump byke, will still jump byke inside traffic that's when u will here do you have gokada?
The one that piss me off the most r riders that will b seeing where they are going like this inside bad traffic, but they will refuse to walk, probably one can turn and use an exit. But such is life, I was so down yesterday on my last destination trip to ketu from akoka, inside light traffic Taxify estimated 1100 for 8.4km (I use the google map at some point), everything happened so fast that I have to exhaust my last energy inside redeem traffic.

chucsmoore:
Lol. I can only go there daytime. Evening/Night time never!!!. Thick bush and forest everywhere. That place is fuuucking scary.

Lol! Dat was my first nd last time

Chae:
na ikorodu ooo, con take epe enter, d money weh I charge nahim I take buy fuel no gain, i didn't no d route is long Loki dat, I counted lik 20 villages before ikorodu

Abeg how much u charge, its learning process

sharpk007:
bros dats d right song.. I remember one night i took a trip to FESTac around 12 midnight (Surge 2.3) from Lekki.. MY Broda dat night i licensed my self to hit any thin dat crossed my part... blew empty back to Surulere and i was Happy i went dere

Nah so, its worth it, just use okota enter lere

Gentlelife50:
Yes ooo, that ogombo na bad area for night. Anytime somebody says ajah I always ask where in ajah gor gor? They know drivers always decline trips going towards that side so they will just say ajah side. But me I know their tricks so they hardly get me

Ogombo was where rider took me to ard 1am and then, they just stabbed a driver I meet on his neck on that road, as narrow and bad the road was, I had to do bwt 80 & 100. I was just rephrasing a song on my mind "Anything on my way, is gone"

KakiP:
Same here, around 1am I was heading back home from the island to ikeja on approaching apongbon I got a from inside lagos island. I cancel straight, japa enter ikeja. Nobody go tell you.

If I wrap up my mind about going home, it will take grace to honour any trip

Niiade:
Better safe than sorry, you talk anyhow or behave funny the way I go take turn enter police station, officers gan go run

easy o

Phori:
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Please are there unsafe pickup points.. If yes Wat are they.... I'm seriously thinking of going into this biz. Thanks

Safety wasn't the reason for not taking the trip, the rider may request I end the trip on getting to his destination and there is nothing I can do about that. Are there unsafe pickup points? Yes! Where? Follow ur instinct and discretion. My early days and d most scaring trip I ever took was ard 1am, I don't ever know my way, I was just depending on her direction from beach till we got to A Adesanya, she ask me to take d first exit and head straight down.... I was just seeing bushes on both side like I'm using ore - Benin road, picking her from the beach, compound me fear and she asking me not to worry but to reduce my speed made it worst. So, when you see 2 or 3 men, from 8pm requestioning from a bus stop, let your spirit lead you, no body really knows, its just grace.

GAZZUZZ:
you suspect a 1way trip right?

Yes Boss!

dhavydo:
I don't think anyone can stop you from picking up someone in a fuel station... I think you missed a 5-6k trip

Sure I understand, I did other trips ever after.

chucsmoore:
not a trap bro. I ve done trips like that many times

Not in negative sense boss, just felt it may not b a return trip... That was how I picked a guy from Ikeja to his aladura/fetish doctor house, initially the trip was heading somewhere else, until he had a change of mind and ask if I can go to ajah and bring him back to Ikeja ard 3pm. , that can of trip that will make one to smile , we got pass Ajah, sangotedo heading towards eleko. I asked him, hope he's not going to stay long, he replied, just 5 mins most. We got there, he went in and came back, requesting I should end the trip, he's going to stay up to 30 mins, I said no problem, I'll end the trip and park well, time is not a problem for me atall. Maybe we can do an offline as return... 2 mins later, he came back and request to pay me off he may spend an hour or more, I was just looking straight like that. But such is life, got a trip back to palms from dia anyway.

franksam2009:
sorry but I thought filling stations are safe pickup zones

Sure! 7:30PM, dats rush hour, he may have been getting NO from drivers and choose to add the return flavour to entice... I only think through the possible outcome of blowing back empty.

chucsmoore:
The Era of back to back trip is gone. Except festive periods or surging days. forget it bro. Except taxify wan bless u. Like last week Friday was awesome, made 25k online + offline of 7k. Taxify just dey knack me long distance trip. I did Ikeja to Lekki, lekki to Ikeja 3times. Taxify really put smile on face that day.

Hmm and I just reject long trip to ikorudu from yaba now, the rider said I'll bring him back... But his position is at a filling station, sometin just tell me this is a trap

franksam2009:
lolz this is funny Sha, which one be na hustle I dey? Is it a crime to be single and searching, who knows,, she might be the lucky woman

human being who is supposed to b lucky here.. He or she?

franksam2009:
I can't text everything here Sha, 08036316170, WhatsApp me 4 further explanation of how car engine works,. I have had similar experience in d past

Bros, its about time someone remind you... You are not on uber platform or Taxify, not as a driver or owner, you don deh pass boundary. Like for real? Were u expecting her to text u? I deh sure say u still deh write love letter I yam flabbergasted by d approach you are trying to use a Stone to k*ll 2 birds

Continue... Nah hustle u deh

mistadayo:
Na wa o. No request on taxify since

He no easy, just finish one trip on uber since 10 & its even on promo, it is well.

chucsmoore:
. Bro nothing dey happen, Andrew liversalt dey my pigeon hole

Ohk! I just imagine if d tin deh drop with chilling A/c

chucsmoore:
Afternoon Brunch. Ewa Agoyin and Agege bread with chilled Fanta. If u haven't eaten this before, you are not a true Lagosian. U re still an "Ajiamu"

Chai! I pity for the next rider

Chae:
Then what's d way out

Is already up here boss... Lekki surging, chai! Should I blow empty to island

U can't go online on Uber, just tried Taxify to check and request entered immediately. App pass app

darmilolah:
This should be a good lesson for you. Don't trust anything cheap.

I pray I do

mistadayo:
So what will you use

I use direction, but don't start it... It may be my phone or a myth, but it work for me.

julietromeo:
That's not true.

In as much as I won't like to dispute anything, I can only share my experience. I use S5 and when I started out, my heart beat anytime I'm on taxify trip, I realise it was because I always start the google map, so I stop starting it, but use the direction trace only and it work for me (Tried it over & over nd I was right about it). The few failed trip I got lately was somewhat my fault, I saw MTN advert of 2000 for 2.5g and 2500 naira talk time, that was how I let go of etisalat for MTN, the 2500 self I don't know if it is 500 naira per mins (it's just callingonniown), Network! Is like one IT student is using it to do practical, I'll on trip nd I won't see the network again, within me I'll just resign to fate, whatever the outcome.

darmilolah:
To all the newbies...

Get a good smart phone. If it's Android. The Android version should Not, I repeat should Not be less than 6.0.

Use 9MOBILE for data and maybe other network for backup in other areas that data is weak.

So why 9mobile?
All other mobile network timeout too often. But 9mobile is more stable.

Why not smile or spectanet?
They don't have wide coverage like 9mobile. You can be on trip an might have left the smile or spectanet coverage zone and you won't know. The end will be failed trip.

Don't use your main line to do data. Get a new line for your data. Put your main line in a small phone or another. This is because data will cut off when you are receiving call(s) and your trip will fail.

For Taxify. Once you are ou of data network for around 2-4mins. The app will shut down.

Let me stop here

More light to this, try not to use Google map on taxify app, it always result to fail trip

mistadayo:
Baba share akinalabi code na for this weekend

Taxify app

Niiade:
Near Femi Okunnu

App error... Yesterday, I picked someone from Louis Solomon to Kilo, #500 without traffic, I didn't bother reviewing, just told the woman to give me 1500. She said, she's going to pay #1300, just smh and manage the 1300. Uber fees seems like they have programmed it to 1k, so I give more attention to shaky shaky taxify app, I sha know say one day it will bring 100k, my ticket do enter b dat, Akin Alabi must pay me, no story.

Niiade:
How much you dey expect, I blow Circle Mall to Ojodu Berger he give me 1700 plus toll.

Which of the circle mall boss

GAZZUZZ:
this guy don waste my time....

Pay back time I guess...

Oluwabengz:
Guy, na Camry, Big Daddy u dey drive?

Nah

pooozeee:
I also made this choice, millions of people travelled before the election was postponed and they have not come back yet

Somewhat I agree with you, but I feel people are yet to recover from the expenses/bills they have to pay in January... House rent, school fee's, some religious body even take first fruit of the year, election wahala all this put together make things come slow.