₦airaland Forum

eyinola:
many times i hv taken a more higher fare on indriver than bolt , one day I was even wondering why abi this guy wan use indriver run me street he offered 5400 when i checked on bolt it was 4500-5200 and am paying less than 10% in comission, sometimes most indriver riders already has the mind set of surge on bolt so they just booked on indriver for peace of mind and to avoid BP ;Datkwast they already know what they are paying , and most times the correct ones will do ur transfer like 15mins to destination sef

adolphus08:
Sorry but none of those companies are loyal to you.
Especially bolt.
They are only loyal to their money.
Riders enter your car and become bosses that can rate you low and get you deplatformed for not destroying your car for them.
Riders will be acting as they like in a car and giving you attitude and you will just be like a mumu
praying for the ride to quickly end so the rider can leave your car in peace and good rating.
Do they compensate you anytime they send you to bad roads that spoil your ac compressor or tyres?
Abeg every body in this hustle, both drivers and e hailing companies are only loyal to themselves and their money.

davit:
Now I know why you have not moved back to Bolt. FYI, I'm back with Indriver too. Bolt cannot come and be doing me anyhow.

Djdamian:
Are 2007-2010 models of Toyota camry a good choice for E-hailing ?

GeneralZodd:
Naaah bro! ...On a surge of 1.9 all through d day your 15k is my 30k. I drive on INdrive too I know what is obtainable.

BAZ001:
Mbok where you take by fuel easily day in day out ?
Give us strategy plsss
Small thing queue don reach mainland

Lindodo20:
Here's the basis: one billion litres of adulterated fuel was imported in the past month or so, by the usual suspects. It has only just begun to show up in the pumps and vehicles are being damaged by it. So retail marketers i.e. fuel stations are refusing to load it from the depots, because they know once word gets round their fuel has water inside they wont be able to sell...this scarcity might last for much longer than you imagine.

GeneralZodd:
The Beauty of INdrive is Freedom and Fair Rating, but you can't compare it to BOLT when there is surge. Bolt is better. You make X2

eyinola:
if drivers can be u united and boycott this apps especially this useless bolt new policy for one week aswear they will loose millions and maybe by then they will know their livelihood is in drivers hand.. just imagine for the ant drivers that can makes 200K in a week bolt will take a whooping 50K as commission now tell me if those drivers can boycott the app do u know how many millions they will loose that week? By the time they can't pay rent in lekki and pay staffs again just maybe thier senses will bounce back.. some people will come here and say is not by force to drive , bolt is not forcing anyone bla bla , agreed but this is called partnership, they gave me app and i make money for them I do a trip of 1,000 naira they takes 250 am left with 750 if I deduct fuel on dat trip and cost of maintenance how much do i hv left for mysef as if that was not enough now conditioning drivers to take all trips, I hv same issue one day a stupid guy request came in and I was already driving to pu voom he cancelled I was like hahaaa because i was like 2 mins away , he kept requesting and canceling in my mind I was like shay this person requesting know me b4 ni and doesn't wants me to come pick him ..I left uber since November but now am ready to come back and abandon bolt for now till dey hv sense uber and indriver combo for now

MoonlightDrive:
With indriver model you can truly consider yourself as an independent contractor, there are no consequences for rejecting unfavorable bids from your pax. You can also quote the price you are willing to do the job Uber/bolt want us to he their employees without enjoying any form of employment benefits. This is just exploitation, this is simply the most crude and savage form of capitalism.

GeneralZodd:
small small e go reach your area. Scarcity just dey start.

Started from the Island on Saturday, e don reach some part of mainland today. By weekend everywhere in Lagos go dey find fuel to buy.

chillex8:
Tank filled. Waiting for surge.
No surge, no work.

73O9:
These all boil down to, "drivers are crumbies, so we don't need them to make policies ".

To all that think they are independent employees, no you ain't!

tojahh:
Baz001

Barbiturate:
Since I've been doing this hustle, I've not been able to save 500k.

Last week I spent almost 50k fixing one thing or the other, in my car

3RNEST:
Did u read his post So to u it's not side hustle?

davit:
It is still side hustle to some of us though.

ameristu:
What people are failling ro realize is that this side hustle would not make you rich or be able to buy an house, it would be able to buy you beer, pay dstv subscription and child's school fee, for other pertinent issues like rent and getting married, this hustle is not for that.

If you want to buy land or build house, this is not where you can make that type of money.

Anyone saying this business is not sustainable, it doesn't make sense, this is something you do for spare change and you shouldn't even be thinking you want to re-coup the money you used in buying the car, if you get the money fine, if you don't keep it moving.

Lindodo20:
How can you drive for twelve hours and call it a 'side-hustle' what time have you got to do anything else?

Even bolt knows you can only make useful money if you drive for the whole day, that's why they entice you with bonuses tied to long hours online....side hustle indeed.

Dailyparrot:
Opposite of progression is not regression but retrogression.

Now you know

Felicity001:
I don exclude the guy from our re-union already... Lol

kanuisagoat:
Yes, I have always maintained that no one should drive forever. It should be a step to greater heights.

I do admit that I miss it though. I was making more when I was driving myself than I'm making now with three vehicles on rentals and it's now looking like a waste of funds.

I'm planning to sell off all the vehicles and divest into okada business(not in Lagos) but I'm being careful and taking my time.

eyinola:
Na wa person come use her business logo register for bolt and why indriver drivers dey always vex now

GeneralZodd:
INdriver has started paying Tax to Lagos State Government, after the incidence of Task Force arresting drivers happened. I noticed some changes on their dashboard earnings, V.A.T is now included with commission.

So any arrest by law enforcement agencies regarding you using inDriver as illegal, Resist the arrest.

Havertz10:
drafting it out will be hard but its fundamentals are feasible, sustainable and with growth potential for all parties

let me give you some context for starters, uber doesnt make money, they provide customers with very cheap prices, guess the idea was to adjust it at scale but it hasnt scaled like expected thats due to so many factors but i think the main reason is because people look at the venture as a risky investment, thats why autonomous driving is the new buzz word for the future of the business model because the truth is you need plenty drivers for the system to work well

whats the roi for 2.5m using uber? considering the risk that your driver has to face and degradation to the car, and the drivers in particular are seriously missing out, the only way uber works is at scale and to get uber to scale you need customers, the problem here is while you need more customers enticed by cheap prices, you also need your percentage of drivers to increase to make the entire business model solvent, fewer drivers and cheap customers, means that the drivers arent earning enough and the business model will struggle cause it's not a worthwhile investment for drivers

for every 10k you make you are causing ~4k worth of passive damage to that car, and with more than 200,000 moving parts, those errors can escalate real quick, if we factor other variables, the odds are stacked against you as a driver or company owner, that's why social mobility is very low in its current form, logistics is a very profitable business model but it requires scale to work, if you dont scale it properly, it wouldnt work, what i propose is a method to the madness, orderliness in the system and a process that allows pricing to be defined by supply and demand




customer drop a location and time for the trip and its shared to various drivers that are in that proximity and they all pick a price that is favorable to them for instance, ajah to v.i can have a range of between 3000 and 5000, a driver can propose 2500 maybe he is heading home and such a trip is bearly an inconvenience, if not then it's 5000 but each trip must have a guaranty of profit for the driver, you can avoid saturation within various hot spots with cost benefit features for drivers, take a particular figure every month for insurance and people can actually build a life with such investments

you asked for an example

Let me use the ride sharing cause I personality think that there is money in that space, one thing that I noticed was that after work hours, most people drive their cars empty and its not because they cant share the ride, there isn’t a good system to link prospective riders to prospective customers, think about how many people will get home quicker, limiting traffic congestions, if more cars on the roads assisted in carrying passengers, a driver can be going to Ajah by 4pm, he advertises his route and people that will be along his path can book rides to meet up along the expressway for a fee, instead of driving empty, a driver can carry 3 passenger or more depending on how many you want to accommodate and also the preference of the passengers, if you want to share with less people the price increases, people can make serious money while doing it, this can happen anywhere in lagos on any route, based of the way Nigerian society stigmatize certain things, you can give it a name that doesn’t paint the driver in a bad light and makes such services appear hip like “carpooling ride shares”

if you are working in vi and you stay at Ajax, you can find ride shares that will leave when you close for a price that is slightly more that you would have paid using a bus and also provide comfort

I haven’t even factored the societal good that it will bring, if its properly regulated and maintained, with strict guidelines, and top class customer service because people need to understand that you care about them, if you have cars on the road doing this everyday, some can use it to fuel their car home from work each day, some will bond, others will build relationships, business ideas and you can even provide a monthly service at a discount for riders that transverse a particular route everyday and can collectively share a ride, you give random drivers the jobs and charge the riders a monthly fee for the service

davit:
werey somebody

BAZ001:
Pope stop posting short man in-front of ladies chest and mentioning me.
Fk001, see what Pope is posting.
Is that not nude ?
Warn Pope too naah...

eyinola:
If u like no get side hustle..learn from felicity01

SHOOPSYN:
@BAZ001, who is next on your archive list for cruise Can you combine Uche Pearl, Pop and deedee or something. We want informative, educative and lamba kind of cruise.

Havertz10:
I have had this idea for a while but I didn't know who to give it to but here is it basically

Uber is a service, and there should be flexibility

I think you guys should bang together and form your own service, it will be an annual membership scheme, each passenger will pay money per trip in small doses like 40 naira to cover insurance cost for all drivers for damages based on the quality of the car, then add a flexible price per kilometer based on location + time and send the proposals to drivers in that zone, they will propose a price to the rider based on their experience traversing that route and how much they want the job

Like all things, riders will pick based on price offered and rating

Everything can be decentralized and only a small change can be removed per transaction like 20naira for service maintenance and other benefits

For those drivers that like to hug urban areas, you can put various features like 5 trips per area, but you have encourage them to drive in areas that they are more accustomed to, preferably where they live, little intuitive features like that to keep everybody happy and the service solvent


Add ride sharing, the passenger will book a destination at a time and if a driver is close, he picks them and they share the ride cheaply, social media people will love it, at a fair price it will drag with public transportation, billions of naira on offer, particularly if you have broad participation, Nigerians have stigma issues so you can call that service another name and any driver that does bad once is removed, people will meet and socialize, it will be a trending habit, too many empty cars on the road




I feel for you guys, if you have a union and band together, you can make a good living if you love driving while getting good money

There can be loans and credit facilities, insurance for it's drivers, even pensions, even car damage and maintenance insurance, the options are endless, social mobility is very possible in your industry, you people just need to realize that you are more important than the middle man

Muhammadson2020:
Pope any update on Task Force arresting inDrivers, to ON the App dey fear me especially around Ikeja Axis