₦airaland Forum

Jacksonfire:
Let pick a random person here and bless him with 300,000 naira each with prove of debit alert, if you send fake prove I go still catch you. I know say u go ask your illicit gay paramours for support behind close door.. if you Re ready for the task , let start now...

Come down to his level 10k

300k go far for someone who sits in the corner listening to beer parlour talks

Nelochukwu:
Boss I have worked in a corporate work. Pressure. Na pressure. Olosho sef get target marketer get police men get politician get pastor get d list is endless

Love what u do and have fun while doing it cause u will do it anyway and it has its own stress why add to it by not loving it?

may God send real helpers to our ways. Pressure pass pressure..

dav1002:
Get the point bro
Is 149k daily possible?
Yes!
Is it consistent?
No!
Time spent to achieve this and Fuelling cost not mentioned!

A newbie will see this and jump and collect car tomorrow he will see the reality and cry

Na from newbie person go learn, one thing i know about the job be say if you put in the time, the payout will be high. Person wey start from 5AM till midnight on weekends can make 150K easily in Lagos.

If no be high cost of fuel, ehailing na cool gig if you sabi run am

Nelochukwu:
Baba this thing wey u talk no be for only be for only new bie. Anyone who want to make something from this thing must make fun of driving. Gratefulness not being bitter with the way some complain and lament I can't even imagine sitting in the same car as a rider. Dem go use frustration wounjure rider. Bitterness negativity..etc.

Make everyone do wetin dey make dem snore for night abeg. Respect bro

You and your riders would rarely have issues. I admire your thinking, in this line of work you can’t be grumpy and expect to make money or even enjoy it.

Anyday wey i wan drive, i don make up my mind say nothing fit vex me. I go first chop belleful con enter road

Na the money wey you wan gimme dey my head, if you wan start drama i don cancel move onto the next trip. Some riders i go tell them On my way!, they no go see me cos i don sense some negative vibes.

Na service we dey offer, if it is worth doing then do it well. I dey help rider load and offload, if rider get kids i will go down to assist them. If na elder i will go assist them. Not for tip but na my job and i need to do it well.

YeyeGbami:
As in e b lyke say corner no wan make boiz chop o.

Corner don fall hands

pope191:
Car usage do matter for real and ehailling may ruin your car pending on your driving ability and places you choose to go. The most important factor here is understanding you can’t have it all. Back to economics of fixed and variable costs. You know the function of machine input, the question should be how you maintain it and if they brings any returns. Those guys leaning tech today buy laptop as far as millions. People in block industries or pure water, buy trucks and factor fixing into it. So please don’t compare your car to private. That’s your office and headquarter… the basic thing is growth. Exit when necessary. Foreign folks do this a lot… they know when to enter and leave a business. Zain, econet, buddies and co.

When you talk about car in USA, it’s like pure water. Nigerians don’t have sense, sorry to say. I have been following the argument here and I am just laughing. Aside usa, do UK or China, Japan use fancy cars like Nigeria? The essence of car is to make life easier, but nah for this country you go see person wey go take loan to buy Benz. Take a look at their housing mortgage system. Th system and insurance make things easy for them. Cars in USA is like times 3 here, if not more. Accident happens anyhow and their insurance companies are there for them, tho they may pay thro their noise, but they have a good system.

The engine of my car is 400. Half engine 250… how mucg did Xghost post again? I know we are apprehensive about tomorrow, because we don’t know what bala blu is up too, that attitude of always complaining is not the answer boss. We need to find way to always beat the odds as well.

I have read your epistles sir, I get your points but let's not shy away from saying the truth.
Anywhere you are cars like u said are machines and they depreciate with time and may fall apart faster if they enter the wrong hands.
So I was surprised when they said using car frequently won't affect it in any way, that's a big lie and misleading.
The more the usage the more it's depreciating, you can only prolong the lifespan if you do the necessary things that needs to be done promptly,
Ehailing is car wrecker!
You can only help ur car if you're good in maintenance, but then you will spend.

dav1002:
Get the point bro
Is 149k daily possible?
Yes!
Is it consistent?
No!
Time spent to achieve this and Fuelling cost not mentioned!

A newbie will see this and jump and collect car tomorrow he will see the reality and cry

A newbie would pay 40 or 50k weekly after collecting the car. If he can't do that and have some in his pocket maybe he should apply himself elsewhere

YeyeGbami:
Na from newbie person go learn, one thing i know about the job be say if you put in the time, the payout will be high. Person wey start from 5AM till midnight on weekends can make 150K easily in Lagos.

If no be high cost of fuel, ehailing na cool gig if you sabi run am

The truth is even with high cost of fuel, you can still make it if you put in the time and car doesn't disappoint.

Breakdown

Fuel 148k
Data 1k
Airtime to call riders 200
Feeding 100
Net 433

XGhost:
Breakdown

Fuel 148k
Data 1k
Airtime to call riders 200
Feeding 100
Net 433

Someone said it here, the major issue many people have is the general perception Nigerians have of blue collar work. Your mechanics, carpenters, plumbers, drivers etc. are generally looked down on so on one hand I understand where folks here get their attitude.

However it behoves you to rise above such shortsightedness and see the big picture. From conversations here some would rather a 300k salary than 500k driving bolt. If that's what floats your raft, it's great too but you must forgive me for thinking different and you must accept that it's ok too.

You and I don't drive the same car, we don't use the same app, heck, we aren't even in the same city but you want me to have an opinion in your affairs? HOW?
when I post here, I state it clearly that it's Uber, because I can't speak on bolt or indrive, I no de use them so I no fit talk about them.

Same goes for everything else. It's ok to say "I don't know enough about abc" or say "in my opinion". You can't be making categorical statements about what's happening in my own neck of the woods, you're either delusional or schizophrenic.

kanuisagoat:
Uncle Tojahh. It's common sense. Every engine no matter how careful you maintain it has a lifespan. The more you drive, the faster you reach the lifespan. This is especially so for high mileage cars imported into the country.

Apart from that, vehicles used on ehailing have a tendency of being abused. That's the reason the great and late gazzuzz will not go near a vehicle that has been previously used on ehaling when sourcing for cars for his clients.

Well said. The great Gazzuzz would not even go near ehaling cars for repairs.

Awesome to see you here again bro. Trust you good.

XGhost:
Breakdown

Fuel 148k
Data 1k
Airtime to call riders 200
Feeding 100
Net 433

Tiri gbosa for you

Na now you come 🙄

dav1002:
This up there has always been my line of argument.
There is was money in ehailing, but the running cost takes a large chunk of the money

It has gotten to the point where calculator should be added to the work tools of a driver cos for every trip you take, it needs to be well calculated if not na loss dey wait for you for front

These days every movement with the car needs to be paid for. if you get personal waka, you have to pray you see a trip towards that area unless your fuel don short and you may end up hustling just the money you spent on fuel with nothing ontop

Ehailing made it worse, Suzuki, Yaris, city, corolla, civic, Kia Rio, Micras all have the same fare with Camry, accord, sonata and they expect the owners of the big engines to smile, not convert trips to offline, sell their cars and buy a smaller one et al.

The truth is no matter how you claim to love driving, when you start, nigga you go loose the zeal over time

For now I work only when there's surge and when there isn't I don't bother myself cos I know say na suffer head

at the bolded is a very valid point to be considered, if a person wants to get a car solely for e-hailing, there is no point buying a state of the art car that would tear pockets.
my advice before the surge in prices of cars has always been to buy a car not more than 1million and tune up to about 200k, this would enable driver recoup capital quickly and make profit also.
choice of car also is another critical aspect to consider in this business due to the cost of parts. i remember buying tokumbo shocks for my car 5k-7k, lower arm was around 3k-4k, shaft was 5k, hub 7k etc.
my car shares the same part with passat and Volkswagen

XGhost:
Breakdown

Fuel 148k
Data 1k
Airtime to call riders 200
Feeding 100
Net 433

My brother u gallant. People wey dey find breakdown as per auditor general. O boy u owe no one nada. Mehn wey understand understand already. No long talk. Keep the hustle real

YeyeGbami:
You and your riders would rarely have issues. I admire your thinking, in this line of work you can’t be grumpy and expect to make money or even enjoy it.

Anyday wey i wan drive, i don make up my mind say nothing fit vex me. I go first chop belleful con enter road

Na the money wey you wan gimme dey my head, if you wan start drama i don cancel move onto the next trip. Some riders i go tell them On my way!, they no go see me cos i don sense some negative vibes.

Na service we dey offer, if it is worth doing then do it well. I dey help rider load and offload, if rider get kids i will go down to assist them. If na elder i will go assist them. Not for tip but na my job and i need to do it well.

Boss I learnt to think like that after rider don mess with my mental health. Indrive and werey riders so wen I saw wetin village people wan do me that is to say make I run mad for lagos na so I change my thinking so as to confuse village people

@ eating belleful before u comot go hustle. Na real truth ooo. Cause if u hungry do this job u go vent extra. Now nothing fix vex me. Me and rider no ever dey get issue and wen I pick the monitoring spirits from vollage poeple I just ignore while they talk and cry me a river. The thing dey pain dem ehhh

tojahh:
Please Pope191 if you know you're not cursing or throwing jabs please always make your comment brief!

I can't be reading economics and statistics while I am looking for insults and counter insults. I have always been watching you, you're fond of doing that.

Take correction.

All of una wey Dey look for insults no well 😂

Yesterday was my highest trips since I been dey use indrive. I bought 30k fuel say today, I must hit 13 trips to chop the bonus.
13 trips were hell of a too much movement for me based on say I wanted to chop their bonus (11.9k).
I did lazy work on Friday & Saturday cos I was attending to some stuff.
Indrive gave me 26 trips to chop the bonus and I only did 13 trips on Friday - Saturday, and yesterday (Sunday) was the deadline.
Omoh, na yesterday I know say I picked trips of 3k plus, me wey I be long trips picker.
Well, I have the bonus sitting in my wallet, till weekend.


Much respect, bosses.

davit:
Well said. The great Gazzuzz would not even go near ehaling cars for repairs.

Awesome to see you here again bro. Trust you good.

I think the question should be can ehailing drivers afford his service? There’s an aspect to this, if we weigh all factors.

dav1002:
This up there has always been my line of argument.
There is was money in ehailing, but the running cost takes a large chunk of the money

It has gotten to the point where calculator should be added to the work tools of a driver cos for every trip you take, it needs to be well calculated if not na loss dey wait for you for front

These days every movement with the car needs to be paid for. if you get personal waka, you have to pray you see a trip towards that area unless your fuel don short and you may end up hustling just the money you spent on fuel with nothing ontop

Ehailing made it worse, Suzuki, Yaris, city, corolla, civic, Kia Rio, Micras all have the same fare with Camry, accord, sonata and they expect the owners of the big engines to smile, not convert trips to offline, sell their cars and buy a smaller one et al.

The truth is no matter how you claim to love driving, when you start, nigga you go loose the zeal over time

For now I work only when there's surge and when there isn't I don't bother myself cos I know say na suffer head

In everything you apply your energies to, if you don't have the right attitude, forget it. Without contentment, forget it too. You'll always be looking at the next man thinking "oh, they're doing better than me, oh, that should be me".

Every week I map out what I need to do and I work towards it. Nothing concern me with another man own.

When they say oya pay so and so or family say we De contribute 1 naira for this or that I stand well, that's what's most important.

I was in Accra sometime last year for a small break, na all those small small hatchback guys de use run the hustle in that place. In all the rides we took only one Suzuki espresso guy use AC and only 1 was a Corolla. They have all manner of hatchbacks there, some models I'd never seen or heard of

Glithronix:
Yesterday was my highest trips since I been dey use indrive. I bought 30k fuel say today, I must hit 13k trips to chop the bonus.
13 trips were hell of a too much movement for me based on say I wanted to chop their bonus (11.9k).
I did lazy work on Friday & Saturday cos I was attending to some stuff.
Indrive gave me 26 trips to chop the bonus and I only did 13 trips on Friday - Saturday, and yesterday (Sunday) was the deadline.
Omoh, na yesterday I know say I picked trips of 3k plus, me wey I be long trips picker.
Well, I have the bonus sitting in my wallet, till weekend.


Much respect, bosses.

my highest ever too, and also my first time of eating their bonus...the surge was good yesterday, i even parked to watch barca's match by after 4pm. much respect to you boss

Gentlelife50:
I have read your epistles sir, I get your points but let's not shy away from saying the truth.
Anywhere you are cars like u said are machines and they depreciate with time and may fall apart faster if they enter the wrong hands.
So I was surprised when they said using car frequently won't affect it in any way, that's a big lie and misleading.
The more the usage the more it's depreciating, you can only prolong the lifespan if you do the necessary things that needs to be done promptly,
Ehailing is car wrecker!
You can only help ur car if you're good in maintenance, but then you will spend.

I never said ehailling don’t wreak cars. To make it short for you. I have my personal car and I have ehailling car. Not smart abi… well I bought my ehailling car for 850. Have I made the money back, you sum it up. Maintenance nko? How much is your cost of transportation to work each day. Let’s say 4k that’s 80k monthly. What about if you take Uber? Forget about that. How much is your wardrobe allowance and tithe monthly? Put all these together and tell me if there’s any route you won’t spend.

I am not saying e hailing is the best. We are all in these together. As I deh now nah la vida loca Dey my eyes. Complain? No, that’s not me. Way out? Necessary!

.

Welz:
my highest ever too, and also my first time of eating their bonus...the surge was good yesterday, i even parked to watch barca's match by after 4pm. much respect to you boss

You did well, boss.
Damn, I salute those drivers working longer hours ooh. Some drivers cover 20+ trips a day, omoh, I no fit.
@the bold.
I set out around past 10am and got home by 10:30pm after my last trip.
I would have done 100k plus yesterday but I experienced a challenge on indrive. I was unable to fund my account. I mean, the column to credit my account disappeared when I was left with 2 trips to hit the bonus target.
Omoh, for almost 2 hours.
I even thought indrive wanted to play a fast one on me so as not to get the bonus.
My mind just tell me make I restart my phone. Na so the crediting column come up.
Na wetin keep me late yesterday be that.

Much respect, sir.

pope191:
I think the question should be can ehailing drivers afford his service? There’s an aspect to this, if we weigh all factors.

Exactly! This is why I said let me kuku agree with Kanuisagoat the last time. Gazzuzz wouldn't touch an ehail car because he always keep it close to his heat that you can't pay for EOM parts not to talk of using original oil to service. He will advise you, as far as you're using it for ehail, don't use expensive parts because of it fails, you might not have recouped your money. And na true. Who go buy ordinary fan belt EOM for 65k here and use the belt for ehail?

For Civic, he complained there's almost no space in the engine bay for mechanics to actually work on it comfortably.

Na person wey dey repair my car when I dey use Honda City 2006 in 2017.

Glithronix:
Damn, I salute those drivers working longer hours ooh. Some drivers cover 20+ trips a day, omoh, I no fit.
@the bold.
I set out around past 10am and got home by 10:30pm after my last trip.
I would have done 100k plus yesterday but I experienced a challenge on indrive. I was unable to fund my account. I mean, the column to credit my account disappeared when I was left with 2 trips to hit the bonus target.
Omoh, for almost 2 hours.
I even thought indrive wanted to play a fast one on me so as not to get the bonus.
My mind just tell me make I restart my phone. Na so the crediting column come up.
Na wetin keep me late yesterday be that.
My reserve this morning.

Much respect, sir.

I started by 8:30am in the morning...my bonus requirement was 20 trips in 3 days to get 9,430..I had done 13 already...I closed by 10pm to make up for the 2hours of watching football .. I worked 5 days altogether..this week will be just weekends.

Welz:
I started by 8:30am in the morning...my bonus requirement was 20 trips in 3 days to get 9,430..I had done 13 already...I closed by 10pm to make up for the 2hours of watching football .. I worked 5 days altogether..this week will be just weekends.

Nice

Welz:
I started by 8:30am in the morning...my bonus requirement was 20 trips in 3 days to get 9,430..I had done 13 already...I closed by 10pm to make up for the 2hours of watching football .. I worked 5 days altogether..this week will be just weekends.

This is something drivers also need to understand. Pacing themselves. Take breaks between trips and take at least 1 day off completely. Some days you have a hot hand, you may wish to push more but also be wise with trip selection.
CHOP THAT BONUS, I can't stress this enough, stop leaving money on the table.

pope191:
I never said ehailling don’t wreak cars. To make it short for you. I have my personal car and I have ehailling car. Not smart abi… well I bought my ehailling car for 850. Have I made the money back, you sum it up. Maintenance nko? How much is your cost of transportation to work each day. Let’s say 4k that’s 80k monthly. What about if you take Uber? Forget about that. How much is your wardrobe allowance and tithe monthly? Put all these together and tell me if there’s any route you won’t spend.

I am not saying e hailing is the best. We are all in these together. As I deh now nah la vida loca Dey my eyes. Complain? No, that’s not me. Way out? Necessary!

Okay, no problem boss.
At least the impression have been corrected, God will hlep us all las las.

XGhost:
This is something drivers also need to understand. Pacing themselves. Take breaks between trips and take at least 1 day off completely. Some days you have a hot hand, you may wish to push more but also be wise with trip selection.
CHOP THAT BONUS, I can't stress this enough, stop leaving money on the table.

very important @ the bolded...if you don't take breaks to rest, your body will take the break for you

Welz:
I started by 8:30am in the morning...my bonus requirement was 20 trips in 3 days to get 9,430..I had done 13 already...I closed by 10pm to make up for the 2hours of watching football .. I worked 5 days altogether..this week will be just weekends.

Legend. 🙌

Glithronix:
Yesterday was my highest trips since I been dey use indrive. I bought 30k fuel say today, I must hit 13 trips to chop the bonus.
13 trips were hell of a too much movement for me based on say I wanted to chop their bonus (11.9k).
I did lazy work on Friday & Saturday cos I was attending to some stuff.
Indrive gave me 26 trips to chop the bonus and I only did 13 trips on Friday - Saturday, and yesterday (Sunday) was the deadline.
Omoh, na yesterday I know say I picked trips of 3k plus, me wey I be long trips picker.
Well, I have the bonus sitting in my wallet, till weekend.


Much respect, bosses.

That's 44k net in a day.
It's fair.