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they're still having the meeting huh. must be a long agenda

This is hilarious..

Krucifax: LMAO....i really don't mean to be rude buddy,but you are clearly a JJC in this matters. Let me tell you why your suggestion below won't work.It is highly impractical!. Okay let me pose scenarios to show you how useless a tracker would be.

Scenario 1.Your driver goes on his daily runs,you check the tracker and he is moving fine. But it doesn't tell you he is actually carrying cement bags and doing construction runs instead of carrying passengers. Reason he does this is because carrying load pays big bucks(which you won't see by the way) then he can take most of the day off claiming mechanical problem. Also carrying such heavy loads drastically reduces the life span of your Danfo and damages the shock absorber.
Question= How will a tracker tell you what he is carrying?

Scenario 2.Your driver goes on his daily runs,you check the tracker and he is moving fine. He comes and tells you at the end of the day that Police collected money because of traffic infringment on the drivers part that could have meant seizure of the vehicle(if he had not bribed with the whole days money).
Question = How will a tracker tell you if he is telling the truth or not?

Scenario 3.Your driver goes on his daily runs,you check the tracker and he is moving fine. He comes and tells you he spent half of the day's earnings on a new tokunbo tyre. When in reality he planned with his vulcanizer friend who had a tyre lying around to swap theirs with yours (that had no problem) andchop the money way.
Question = How will a tracker tell you what he was doing at each point he stopped in his route and how will a tracker determine the truth of the story?

Scenario 4. Mr Tracker owner,how many times will you be checking the tracker in the day? The driver leaves around 5:30am - 6:00am and is back around 8:00 - 9:00pm.
Question = Will you be looking at the tracker at all those hours every day the bus leaves your presence? If not then it's pointless. And even if you were that jobless,it still will not help in any of the scenarios i mentioned.

I've posted this not to discourage anyone but b'cos i've done this biz myself first hand i want to offer this insight to anyone considering the biz who may be reading this. Besides my first million (in naira) was made via an idea i read from a foreign blog in London.

Mr poster it's a potentially well paying biz,but the pitfalls are very many,read what i posted above and try and deal with them as they arise. In Danfo biz there is no month of the calendar that you will ever make your projected earnings complete = FACT!. If you accept this and are not discouraged then you might succeed. Good luck and God Speed!

Your post is so funny, and reflects all that is wrong with the Nigerian entrepreneurial mind state. Rather than focusing on solutions, you expend time and energy doing the opposite.
Every point you made is exactly like saying.. "hey, don't drink water, you can choke and die in the process if it sips into your windpipe". It's called RISK.

That said, i'll address your points.
1. Almost all trackers over $80 have an audio monitoring device, and in some advanced cases; video monitoring.
With this tool installed, and the driver fully aware of this, what are the odds he will be willing to play those games with you.

2. Refer to 1 above ^^.

3. You sound quite desperate to discredit a solution. The tracker is a 'tracking and monitoring' device, not a lie detector.
Hence, it resolves issues arising from that, and not EVERYthing related to the business.

4. If the business is important to you, maybe you would. Then again, YOU DON"T HAVE TO. There is something called a 'breadcrumb trail'
and based on your frequency setting options you get a report showing either on a map or in text form, every place the vehicle traveled to throughout the day, complete with street names, vehicle speed, timestamps and all. If you have the time and wish to monitor it in real-time, you have the option to.

Advise to you and others like you: Reinvest the time you designate finding 100 reasons a business would fail, and put it towards finding 1 solid reason it would succeed, and go for it.
GO HARD OR GO HOME.

[quote author=eagle,eye]@Ramalot, I have made enquiry about the tracking device and was told that it is about 45k. Hope to get a tracker of the 15k you quoted. But only a few people are in the tracking biz in the east and they don't advertise... if you or anyone reading this know of a company that can equip my car with a tracker in the east, I will be grateful. At least it's another angle of corroborating your driverks story.[/quote]The 15k (about $100) is based off the price of a standard unit here in the US. There are more expensive ones, but a basic one will get the job done. I don't sell trackers, but i'm sure u can find someone to help you order one from ebay or amazon.

As with any business, it is never what you do, but how it's done.
DO NOT listen to the failures, detractors and no-ambition-having crowd here. Only a few have offered sensible plugs to possible loop-holes and challenges.
Everyone knows someone who has failed at something, and are quick to tell it. As Jay-Z (a business Mogul) said, " I can't base what i'm gonna be off of what everybody isn't".

Everyone knows the public transport business in Nigeria has major challenges, but nevertheless, they are manageable if you are innovative and think outside the box.

For instance, one of the major set-backs for this business is the fact that drivers have been notorious for plying the routes all day, making cash, but only remitting lies of being tied up at the workshop all day, or haven being arrested and the many other tales. Since you're not there with them you have no choice but to accept the story right?? .. WRONG!

Here is your fix for that: If you are going to invest significant amounts into a vehicle for business, there is no reason you cannot invest an additional 15k Naira into a GPS/GPRS tracking device. With this you can see or read exactly where your vehicle is at all times either on a PC or on your phone. Install this at an undisclosed area of the vehicle.

Before hiring a driver, disclose to the potential driver that the vehicle is equipped with said device. plus its movement can and will be effectively monitored throughout the day.
If the individual had no prior plans of being honest with the job, he will retract and fade away instantly. If he goes ahead with it, he has committed to being accountable for his movement (whether he likes it or not)

Again, like any business, it has to be planned and effectively managed to attain success. While i have offered a solution to just one major aspect, every other aspect also has a solution, you just need to dig it out.

Idriswhite: People go to university to study a course in hope of future amelioration. However,most of the many courses that used to be hot cake in time past are whitewashed with the influx of many people who just learn the course outside university in a matter of months.Going to university to study the following courses many deem to be a waste of time.The courses are:
Computer Science-countless number of people are in the known in this field.
Theatre Arts/Music- Theatre arts is a free entry and exit field.Most people in the industry have no degree in the field.
Animal Science-The course isn't marketable in a country like ours where people give no value to the life of animals.
Philosophy-This course is more valuable in the olden days where people appreciate the thinkers not in our present time.The situation of the country makes everybody a thinker to survive in this country.
Political Science:Spending years studying this course is a waste of time and resources.People are procedure conscious when it comes to politics.how many political scientists are in position of power to regulate the politics of our country.

Which course do you also think is a waste of time that you can not study as well as your family?

You sound illiterate, your thought process is faulty, and flawed. You're not exactly the ideal academic adviser.

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OP needs help

[quote author=cammy jr.]Nice Move, buh that country is expensive sha.[/quote]Tell me bout it. Just got back from toronto on a quick 2 day trip over xmas. Expensive is putting it nicely. Ish is ridiculous out there.
On the bright side, they accept US dollars, so i didn't have to change much of mine, hence shortchanging them a penny to the dollar per transaction . . BOO YA! (1 usd = .99 cad)

Chubby davido. His voice has been husky since then

REALITY101: Fuuvking Nigerians acting fool over a rich white man who apparently don't give a Bleep about them are their coursed country. Most Americans don't know where in the map Nigeria is located at, some do because once you type "Ni" before the completion of "geria" all you gonna see is scam, scam, fraud and shit. Ya Obama won the election simply because majority of the American people couldn't get their head off of their asses, Hispanics winning 4 more years of free everything "baby making machine"under tax payers money at the same time hoping for amnesty. Congrats Obama and happy 4 more years of sucking leadership and hurray on food stamp. Definitely gonna dunk more debt on our heads.

Coherence please.

UmericanGirl: I pray I wake up and this is a dream.
This is bad bad news for families like mine.

You mean families descended from Uncle Tom huh?

FREAKIN LOSER!

IS any one checking out the Romney Headquarters coverage? haa A bunch of sore losers.

They're right here in my city. I should go laugh at them or something. If only i wouldn't get mobbed.

UmericanGirl: I think Im going to puke

Nigeria, here I come!

SO LONG.. SUCKER!!

Romney did put up a solid fight though. Oya, Romney.. take chin chin.

obama shout out

blacksta: If i was white, i would support Mitt

Zombie mentality

obama shout out

Tolaaaaannni: California, hawaii, Washington?- Obama!

OMG HE WON!!! All we need now is Fl and OH

Wow! from all your posts i've seen here, you should get the award for "Most likely to be surprised at the most obvious things"

O: 228

R: 176

Time for the west coast Massacre!

Shollypopz: Why are they saying the poll is too close to call?? KAI!! What y'all do for ratings!

Ohio: Barack Obama 1,927,908; MittRomney 1,837,907 - 64% reporting.

If they call it, do u know how many folks will tune off? They have to hold u by the balls for as long as possible

NL

Did Nairaland just crash or something?

I have to give Romney props for running such a close race though. Although he is an inevitable LOSER!!

O: 162
R: 162