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Before this juicy or would I say atleast better trips came, they tossed ridiculous trips which i calmly ignored, despite not having much time on my side, I still wasn't willing to accept the ridiculous trips. One thing driver's must understand especially newbies, not every trips you must accept, the riders or let me say the system would adjust itself and the prices becomes better. Having seeing that the prices have slightly improved, I am hitting the road tomorrow, Make God help us.

Pearl1910:
This analysis is funny,
How can the trips be useless and worthless if they made u go home with more money?
Better drop this kain mentality, u go out to work and make money not to be sentimental and emotional.
I understand ur point that u rather sit tight and wait for good trips than go for rubbish trips, but we have to be careful that in selecting good trips, we are not being greedy or foolishly ignoring "okay" trips.
Sometimes two average trips are better than one good long trip. E.g Ojodu to Ikeja 4k, Ikeja to Yaba 4k, Yaba to VI 4k. These are average trips but I am sure to many people, a perfect trip would be Ojodu to VI 8k.

The point is, all other things being equal, any set of trips that gives me more money take home is no longer useless and worthless.

Oga u always like to talk like you know it all. What is average to you is useless to some one else. We all use different tools(cars) for this job so what is good for u might not be okay for me. That being said. If u read with understanding you would have understood what I meant. Ojodu to Ikeja of 4000 is average according to u but isn't same ojodu to Ikeja for 1500 a useless trip . Didn't it add extra 1500 to ur pocket but is that a trip worth taking? Isn't it better and wait for a better trip.

Now someone else might not take that ur average trip cause it's poor and he waits for ojodu to Ikeja 6k does that mean his dumb. Oga face ur business abeg what I said is not bad if u read it with ur brain not just with ur eyes.

Someone even posted his dashboard explaining my point so what is ur point?

Pearl1910:
The prices are so poor even Keke fares are better, it's time we talk less and make a strong statement to the app companies. Afteral, trips are even scarce cos of the fasting this period. Maybe we should strike for 3days
Everybody should send mails to the Bolt, Uber and InDrive,
Strike should be threatened maybe they will change.

Secondly, if u are still picking nonsense trips on Indrive, u are a f**l.
If u are still using Economy Category of Bolt when u have the option of Bolt Category u are a f**l. When some people are strictly doing Comfort and Priority, u are still shamelessly putting on Economy like a bambiala, nature will punish u.
If Riders don't find who will carry them on the cheap fares they will increase it. If they don't find any driver on Economy they will pick Bolt. Somehow the App companies are giving us what we deserve. Cos how will u be doing Economy trips without surge? Even d Bolt Category is so cheap I will be wondering whats going on, I just switch to Comfort for my sanity.
This is not a matter of CNG or Suzuki, there are many other things that can spoil in a car that will need hundreds of thousands of naira to fix and I am hundred percent sure none of these f**lish drivers have 200k in their account.

So how can we be self destructing?

As they say the devil is in the details. People are now more concerned about ensuring a roof on their head. Cheaper transport alternatives now becomes a priority.

https://nairametrics.com/2026/02/23/when-rent-eats-the-economy-lagos-and-the-macroeconomic-cost-of-unaffordable-housing/

Shimmaa:
Just know the price is truly ridiculous if pearl can say this

... maybe somebody hacked his account. 😀
The lamentations of car owners tells us the state of ehailing. If car owners are now wailing, what can we say about drivers on weekly remittances.

Kindly enlighten

I had issue of overheating rhat almost burnt gasket last week but unfortunately, I didn't remember to go offline during the melee. Now bolt suspended my account because I didn't respond to all the request sent.

How long does their suspension last though I have sent mail to explain my issue with pictures.

cyif2003:
I get ur anger but one tin u shud know about gears is dat different gears have different prices when it comes to fixing by a mechanic. Some are more problematic.. besides I can't just give any random gear person to fix my gear. Gear people and a.c are in d same WhatsApp group..... U can't buy parts for Dem.... Ok let's assume I was there he changedbd parts and gave me my own bad one. And e start to dey leak again no b still d same tin. He gave me a guarantee.... I have called him and I am taking it back to him. He has to find a solution.

Bro, regardless you still need to be there like you dey follow up on Car maintenance.

because ur absence means you over trust them and that could be one of the reasons you dont have a permanent fix yet.

For example, when i was having gear issue last year, Car dey jack if i dey go for road. The gear guy charged me 25K to fix it, when i reach there go monitor am i discover say e no do any repair and my gear issue na mere blocked filter which e changed and bought new oil and problem solved. So next time i no fit make that mistake again of giving him 25K

Eazilyfe:
If dem comot am, dem fit dash you 2 extra problems join

Solve one get 2 free

You are spot on. I remembered taking my car to my local Kazeem, because I noticed a coolant leaking to the floor, one of the advantages of using coolant instead of water, he did the necessary checks and said no leaks... I had to put the issue to Google Ai gave 3 to 4 likely reasons, one was failing water pump, he was adamant, I insisted he remove the water pump low and behold we saw drops of coolant, we got a new water pump and no problem. About 6 months later, I had packed my car at mobil filling station, wanted to buy engine oil, walking back to my car I noticed coolant on the floor, drove to my mechanic, he did all the checks hoses, radiator, water pump and he said no leak spotted. I will not drive the car out, get me a new water pump, a new water pump was installed and just when I was about to drive out, he said oga I see a leakage, a hose underneath the engine he fixed it. I was like you did all the hose checks, why did you miss it.
Our local mechanics are one of the reasons why ehailing has become increasingly challenging.

So when drivers post great monthly earnings consistently, they should please and please add the name of their mechanics.

Eazilyfe:
Bro, regardless you still need to be there like you dey follow up on Car maintenance.

because ur absence means you over trust them and that could be one of the reasons you dont have a permanent fix yet.

For example, when i was having gear issue last year, Car dey jack if i dey go for road. The gear guy charged me 25K to fix it, when i reach there go monitor am i discover say e no do any repair and my gear issue na mere blocked filter which e changed and bought new oil and problem solved. So next time i no fit make that mistake again of giving him 25K

I am also in the process of finding a final and lasting solution to my gear problem. One gear master charged me 160k and I will pick up my car in 4 days, that he will need to drop my gear from the engine. I will rather buy a toks gear, than leave my car engine in the hand of a gear master that I have never had any history of dealing with. A new gear master I just met said N20k, to service filter and valve body, and he will only accept payment after the problem his resolved. May God guide us to good technicians.

Eazilyfe:
Bro, regardless you still need to be there like you dey follow up on Car maintenance.

because ur absence means you over trust them and that could be one of the reasons you dont have a permanent fix yet.

For example, when i was having gear issue last year, Car dey jack if i dey go for road. The gear guy charged me 25K to fix it, when i reach there go monitor am i discover say e no do any repair and my gear issue na mere blocked filter which e changed and bought new oil and problem solved. So next time i no fit make that mistake again of giving him 25K

Bro be grateful for his honesty, you met a gear master with a good conscience!

Kaymax2222:
how is 8k from ojodu to VI good trip?

My point is people will rush this trip both on Bolt, Uber and Indrive. If u snooze, it's gone.
But u will still be seeing the 4k to ikeja trip ringing over and over again. Most people just like long distance trip whether e pay abi e no pay. Even from VI/Lekki u will see Gbagada 5,500 and will want to insult the Rider, before u know, the trip has been taken by another Driver. Haaa.
Which drivers be this abeg

MoonlightDrive:
You are spot on. I remembered taking my car to my local Kazeem, because I noticed a coolant leaking to the floor, one of the advantages of using coolant instead of water, he did the necessary checks and said no leaks... I had to put the issue to Google Ai gave 3 to 4 likely reasons, one was failing water pump, he was adamant, I insisted he remove the water pump low and behold we saw drops of coolant, we got a new water pump and no problem. About 6 months later, I had packed my car at mobil filling station, wanted to buy engine oil, walking back to my car I noticed coolant on the floor, drove to my mechanic, he did all the checks hoses, radiator, water pump and he said no leak spotted. I will not drive the car out, get me a new water pump, a new water pump was installed niand just when I was about to drive out, he said oga I see a leakage, a hose underneath the engine he fixed it. I was like you did all the hose checks, why did you miss it.
Our local mechanics are one of the reasons why ehailing has become increasingly challenging.

So when drivers post great monthly earnings consistently, they should please and please add the name of their mechanics.

since I change oil pump , my car has been shorting oil like mad and no leakages anywhere

cyif2003:
My gear na 22pin. I cant top d oil from e engine part. I can't even gauge it. U have to remove d tyre of the driver's side to unbolt d bolt to top oil

Then stick with the first guy, for the second time. Make sure u stay with him while doing it and see if he even changes anything. Definitely u will not spend up to 150k again cos it's return job and he himself would know what will not work since he has tried something already d first time.
These guys are also learning on the jobs that we give them, they also are being duped by parts sellers, maybe that's d first time he has worked in ur type of gear, so d second time he will be better.
Instead of going to a new person entirely stick with one person u know knows the job.
And staying with mechanic when they are working on ur car cannot be over emphasized. Whether u understand what they are doing or not, just be there looking at them.

Shimmaa:
This aren't even better trips, ojodu to ikeja should be nothing less than 6k, Ikeja to yaba to should be 6k while yaba to VI should be 7k and for the straight trip of ojodu berger to VI, it shouldn't be less than 13k

Reason being that short trips waste more time while long trips safe time. The time you will spend on those short trip before getting to VI will be longer than the time you will spend on 1 single trip from berger to VI

Whas d proportion of short trips to long trips?
d probability of getting a long trip is smaller than the probability of getting a short trip.

Yes long trips save time but in scarcity like now, if u are looking for only long trips u may wait out the time u have gained before u do another trip . So u that got Ojodu to VI will go n wait in VI while the person doing 3 short trips will come and meet you and continue his short trips while u are still waiting. Eventually, d person doing those short trips will go home with more money than u, meanwhile u worked the same hours.

My point is, don't be waiting for a perfect trip while missing "okay" trips, sometimes d time lost may not be recovered. How can someone do one trip at 9am and waited till 2pm before doing another trip.

Jegheter:
Oga u always like to talk like you know it all. What is average to you is useless to some one else. We all use different tools(cars) for this job so what is good for u might not be okay for me. That being said. If u read with understanding you would have understood what I meant. Ojodu to Ikeja of 4000 is average according to u but isn't same ojodu to Ikeja for 1500 a useless trip . Didn't it add extra 1500 to ur pocket but is that a trip worth taking? Isn't it better and wait for a better trip.

Now someone else might not take that ur average trip cause it's poor and he waits for ojodu to Ikeja 6k does that mean his dumb. Oga face ur business abeg what I said is not bad if u read it with ur brain not just with ur eyes.

Someone even posted his dashboard explaining my point so what is ur point?

U see, its comments like this that makes me go full throttle to change it for u.
I will let is slide today.

U clearly said something based on ur own determination of trip that is good and poor which is unique to u and your tools. U said u would rather take home 40k than do poor trips and go home with 70k please help me make sense out of this statement.

What makes a bad trip bad (in regards to fares) is because u will not make a lot from it, either because the fare is poor, or d fare is good but u will drive long to pickup, or u will drive a long distance after drop off back to civilization. A combination of price, pick up distance, destination and route.

So ur statement can't be true in any sense of it, because poor trips can't give u higher take home, if u had higher take home then d trips weren't poor after all.
Ur example of 1500 instead of 4k to ikeja can't give u higher take home at the end of the day so it doesn't quit explain what u were trying to say.

Instead of attack me personally, why not rephrase ur statement or explain what u meant better.

Shimmaa:
Just know the price is truly ridiculous if pearl can say this

Lol

MoonlightDrive:
I am also in the process of finding a final and lasting solution to my gear problem. One gear master charged me 160k and I will pick up my car in 4 days, that he will need to drop my gear from the engine. I will rather buy a toks gear, than leave my car engine in the hand of a gear master that I have never had any history of dealing with. A new gear master I just met said N20k, to service filter and valve body, and he will only accept payment after the problem his resolved. May God guide us to good technicians.

Even if na 2K e wan collect, i will stay with him till he finish. If e no finish i go resume with am second day.

This guy said he will service the gear and valve body, i reach there next day only for him to change only oil because he discovered it was blocked filter causing the issue. I just dey vex dat day day i dash person money to change oil.

All those electric cars they wrote Cabzero and so are they also e-hailing cabs?

Ehen naa

TUBLEZ:
All those electric cars they wrote Cabzero and so are they also e-hailing cabs?

I believe productivity beats activities at the end of the day...
You might do a higher number of trips and still not make more money than someone who did fewer trips.

I have someone who works from morning till night, his daily Target used to be 30k...

I only worked daily from 6am till 10am, then 6pm till around 10pm at night , I made more...
You know what he does?
He picks all kind of orders especially short trips, at the end of the day z he would have done about 12 trips while I don't do.more than 5 or 6 yet I make more..

Activity doesn't always make sense if it doesn't commensurate with your earning.



[quote author=Pearl1910 post=138582902]Whas d proportion of short trips to long trips?
d probability of getting a long trip is smaller than the probability of getting a short trip.

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Pearl1910:
This analysis is funny,
How can the trips be useless and worthless if they made u go home with more money?
Better drop this kain mentality, u go out to work and make money not to be sentimental and emotional.
I understand ur point that u rather sit tight and wait for good trips than go for rubbish trips, but we have to be careful that in selecting good trips, we are not being greedy or foolishly ignoring "okay" trips.
Sometimes two average trips are better than one good long trip. E.g Ojodu to Ikeja 4k, Ikeja to Yaba 4k, Yaba to VI 4k. These are average trips but I am sure to many people, a perfect trip would be Ojodu to VI 8k.

The point is, all other things being equal, any set of trips that gives me more money take home is no longer useless and worthless.

This was my argument but someone said they should school me.

Any waiting that makes me go home with lesser amount, simply because I was waiting for the perfect trip is a wasted time.

It is the end that justifies the means. A lost one hour waiting for the perfect trip can only be compensated by an extra one hour from your normal closing time.

No guarantee that the perfect trip will even come.

Debayoibk:
I believe productivity beats activities at the end of the day...
You might do a higher number of trips and still not make more money than someone who did fewer trips.

I have someone who works from morning till night, his daily Target used to be 30k...

I only worked daily from 6am till 10am, then 6pm till around 10am at night , I made more...
You know what he does?
He picks all kind of orders especially short trips, at the end of the day z he would have done about 12 trips while I don't do.more than 5 or 6 yet I make more..

Activity doesn't always make sense if it doesn't commensurate with your earning.

This is a different argument.
Your friend was actually picking rubbish trips.
The argument is between perfect trips and average trips.

DEGREE2466:
This was my argument but someone said they should school me.

Any waiting that makes me go home with lesser amount, simply because I was waiting for the perfect trip is a wasted time.

It is the end that justifies the means. A lost one hour waiting for the perfect trip can only be compensated by an extra one hour from your normal closing time.

No guarantee that the perfect trip will even come.

Next week God willing, I'll run a full tank taking 'ok to dumb' trips, let me see how it goes, I'll share the results here.... So that everybody will see whether 'always busy' is better than selective busy.


One thing we should bear in mind is, is not only fuel money you should be concerned about, whatever you end the day with as profit, you should factor in maintenance..... Being busy throughout the day taking 'ok' trips is just more wear and tear on ur parts, God help you if you live in the mainland with far more terrible roads... You'll be just one trip to the mechanic to be back to ground zero. Let's not twist it up, of course you'll make 'profit' by taking ok to mediocre trips, but you'll be running ur business into the ground slowly, seeing only today without looking at tomorrow is a trap... You gotta make enough profit to cushion for expensive repairs which will INEVITABLY come in this line of work, many are forced to borrow. My opinion is, only take 'ok' trips when you need to leave a dead area(like vi). The trip below is heartbreaking, how bad things have got, last year, this same trip will be nothing short of 14k, but today look... May God help us, so does this fall under 'ok' trips or? Where is the line.?

Kumuyiii:
Next week God willing, I'll run a full tank taking 'ok to dumb' trips, let me see how it goes, I'll share the results here.... So that everybody will see whether 'always busy' is better than selective busy.


One thing we should bear in mind is, is not only fuel money you should be concerned about, whatever you end the day with as profit, you should factor in maintenance..... Being busy throughout the day taking 'ok' trips is just more wear and tear on ur parts, God help you if you live in the mainland with far more terrible roads... You'll be just one trip to the mechanic to be back to ground zero. Let's not twist it up, of course you'll make 'profit' by taking ok to mediocre trips, but you'll be running ur business into the ground slowly, seeing only today without looking at tomorrow is a trap... You gotta make enough profit to cushion for expensive repairs which will INEVITABLY come in this line of work, many are forced to borrow. My opinion is, only take 'ok' trips when you need to leave a dead area(like vi). The trip below is heartbreaking, how bad things have got, last year, this same trip will be nothing short of 14k, but today look... May God help us, so does this fall under 'ok' trips or? Where is the line.?

how many naira/km do you guys consider "ok" and "Good" trips

U sef chill na. 14k for 15km trip. We all no dat ehalling companies increased their prices during d festive period.... But it can never b 14k on a normal basis

Kumuyiii:
Next week God willing, I'll run a full tank taking 'ok to dumb' trips, let me see how it goes, I'll share the results here.... So that everybody will see whether 'always busy' is better than selective busy.


One thing we should bear in mind is, is not only fuel money you should be concerned about, whatever you end the day with as profit, you should factor in maintenance..... Being busy throughout the day taking 'ok' trips is just more wear and tear on ur parts, God help you if you live in the mainland with far more terrible roads... You'll be just one trip to the mechanic to be back to ground zero. Let's not twist it up, of course you'll make 'profit' by taking ok to mediocre trips, but you'll be running ur business into the ground slowly, seeing only today without looking at tomorrow is a trap... You gotta make enough profit to cushion for expensive repairs which will INEVITABLY come in this line of work, many are forced to borrow. My opinion is, only take 'ok' trips when you need to leave a dead area(like vi). The trip below is heartbreaking, how bad things have got, last year, this same trip will be nothing short of 14k, but today look... May God help us, so does this fall under 'ok' trips or? Where is the line.?

Greetings house.
I need a car (for ehailing) to work with please.
It could be rental or drive to own scheme.
I can do between 60k to 70k weekly.

I can be reached on 09071549126
Oluwatosin.
Thank you.

cyif2003:
U sef chill na. 14k for 15km trip. We all no dat ehalling companies increased their prices during d festive period.... But it can never b 14k on a normal basis

Say what you know, don't say what you don't know... This period last year, that was my normal price, sometimes 19k to ikoyi.... Festive period was 18-25k, i don even carry 30k to lekki Phase 1....our reality no be the same. As bad as edy now sef, i don't make that trip for less than 12k... I don't leave my house till i see it.. When i was praying for coastal road closure early last month, make traffic dey, you think say na becus say traffic dey sweet me? Minimum i dey use go from ajah to lekki or vi was 14k 15k...minimum, at a point i felt i was losing sef, so i started dividing it, 9 to 10 Chevron or inside orchid or Agungi, then another 10 to vi/cms... I was OKAY. I drove 4hrs max a day, and was still soft.... To me difference wasn't much between normal months and festive cus i was always on the roll, traffic was the key.... If i had driven morning till night like most drivers, my gains would have been ungodly.

Debayoibk:
Greetings house.
I need a car (for ehailing) to work with please.
It could be rental or drive to own scheme.
I can do between 60k to 70k weekly.

I can be reached on 09071549126
Oluwatosin.
Thank you.

70k weekly, oya na, Goodluck

60k is there too now ..
I'm tired of staying idle..
It's 3 months..
Savings all gone..

Kumuyiii:
70k weekly, oya na, Goodluck

Kumuyiii:
70k weekly, oya na, Goodluck

You dey fortunate say you get car na im make you dey feel like say you know all.

Why not give your car to am and ask for 30 weekly

Debayoibk:
60k is there too now ..
I'm tired of staying idle..
It's 3 months..
Savings all gone..

Sorry bro, God will make a way

Kumuyiii:
70k weekly, oya na, Goodluck

a dedicated driver can make 70k before weekend.

Amen.
Thank you.

Eazilyfe:
Sorry bro, God will make a way