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GAZZUZZ:
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lol... One day i drop this proud rider. And i didn't have 300 change so i gave him one of the 500 notes he gave. He look at me with surprise. And said no, you take it... I laughed inside...

omonla10:
I get Bluetooth since day 1 and I just stopped the orbit thingy

Be nice always. When you open your booth, help put their loads/bring their loads out. If they got kids, be friendly with them. If they don't have change to give like 100 or 200 leave it for them. Before the end of the day some riders will dash you their change too....

ifyeez:
My brother you’re saying all this coz the person that stopped her is a chicken, don’t worry when she meets turkey she will beg. Visit LASMA office on ur own without being arrested, you will thank ur God ur coz met chicken on duty.

and i used similar lines at ilupeja bypass when i joined uber... The LASTMA was just looking at me like dundee. I told him oga leave my safety to the road safety men i am in a hurry abeg. Wait. So civil defense Corp will do the work of immigration in this country and you will keep quiet? LASTMA to seat belt? Ok

omonla10:
infinix hot 4 pro for me is the best.
Reasons...
1. Relatively cheap about 42k
2.has 4G on both Sims.. With speeds comparable to the spectranets and smiles of this world.
3. Uses 2 Sims.
4. GPS is near perfect..
5. Relatively Cheap parts incase of damage.
6. Good battery 4000mah


Pls I'm not an infinix marketer, just from what I've experienced..

go buy the Xiaomi note 5a or 5a pro. 38k and 45k respectively. Available on jumia.... Leave all this tecno and infinix with funny MTK chipset

ifyeez:
In Lagos state they all ve different charges for different authorities, Lasma once held me sometime last year, for seat belt offense, i ignored anything he said about negotiations, coz am like WTF, so bcoz of seat belt u want me to pay sort you in my street, the mistake I made was going to there office, on getting to there office, I was thinking it’s same price for FRSC this guy posted above, that’s seat belt offense 2k, LASMA own is 20k then you will go for training 10k then everyday ur car spends in there office you will pay 1k. Everything I paid was 35k, not to talk of time wasting, my car spent 3 days there, for 2k I could ve given the guy there and left, now I paid 35k since then no office again.

heheheh.... Dem don blow you cos you don't know their functions.... How can LASTMA charge u cos of seat belts? Wonders.
Ok... Before i started uber, me and my cousin where going to tejuosho market... Then she didn't want to use the seat belt again cos she was pressed. Ok LASTMA showed up.... He asked us to park. Then my coz ask why? He said why didn't she use the seat belt? My coz yelled at him- "is that ur job? Don't you know the meaning of LASTMA? Its lagos traffic management authority ok. Ur job is to make traffic flow. Are you road safety officer? You can't do the job thats not yours? Blah blah blah" ... I was just looking at how the LASTMA guy chickened out.. All he could say was "all these small small girls, if una don go school small na so una go dey claim right".

Romeo3:
Koboko on your dashboard would have saved you all the stress.
you think say I no get sense?

Koboko + 407 I drive.... dem never born you well ask me question.

I ask the questions. Yes, can I help You? or. Yes, is anything the matter?

my twin koboko and airforce sticker do the job. But i still shine my eyes to stay out of troubles. Bad as e bad i will tell dem the owner will come pick up the car himself the next day... Yes! That question ; can i help you? Is a sword too

chillex8:
Not particularly so.
This robot from Uber pairs riders to drivers randomly.
All the factors listed are feasible reasons for low request.

But the most important is that a rider that previously rated a driver 1star can never be paired to that driver.
Even if the driver has the highest activity score, ratings, best network, best GPs, ios 10 upwards.

P.S. This is for Uber.
Don't know how taxify operates their market.

on taxify i think closeness to the rider too matters. If i am in horizon estate with 85% activity rate, i would get the ride coming next and not the guy with 99% activity rate that is on the express way close to the estate

Romeo3:
You saw it because uber doesn't show you the amount of cars around you the way taxify does. But what you do not know is that there even more uber cars around you than taxify.

Maintaining a higher activity score gives you an edge over those around you. Have you ever asked yourself why the request goes to who it goes to, even though there are 10 drivers in that vicinity?

Activity score.

I am still skeptical about the activity score though. Mine is high anyway
Ok, there was this taxify driver i met at joel ogunaike where we park and chill. He ask me to request him. I ask for what? He said he was one trip away to qualify for the morning bonus and it was just 7 minutes to 10am then. But i didn't have the rider app then, so i couldn't. I just told him to wait, the next ride might come to him. Then i check his activity score: 92% mine then was 89%. So i believed he was going to get the next ride. Within 4 minutes while we were talking and waiting, my taxify app started screaming.... Oh f*ck! How come i got it. Chai he missed the bonus. cos i still delayed till like 2 minutes pat 10am before leaving there. Then i started wondering, was it just a random thing or activity score now? Or was it that taxify did ojoro so he wouldn't get that last ride at that die minute? Well i don't know sha

ifyeez:
Nigerians can be damn funny, was in festac, I got a request saying ragirasaki so I called the rider to confirm his location, he said he doesn’t knw why the gps is showing ragirasaki that his at Ago greenfield estate. I went straight to greenfield, rider entered no destination, I asked him where he was going to he said, his just going to greenfield gate to enter keke, I almost cried coz the bad road in that estate was madt, then driving that distance to meet him

one night i was at lekki conservation centre and i got a request. Asked the rider what her position was,she said domino pizza ajah. The one near thomas estate right? She said yes. Ok where are we going tonight. She said thomas estate. Wtf! Then i said thomas estate is just around u, u can just stroll in. She said it's not a trekable distance blah blah blah. I just told her: i cannot come, cos where you are is so far from me and i am considering the distance i would cover to reach you. Could you cancel and request again? A closer driver will com pick you. Ok, no problem she said.

Me i can't

Trip A
Rider: good afternoon bro, where are you?
Me : i am at ogudu GRA, i see you are at China Town. Could you confirm that?
Rider : yes, but bros that place you are is kinda far from me.
Me: i will be coming right away and possibly reach there within 7mins
Rider : No no no, drive to the ogudu road exit to the road that leads to 3rdmb.
Me: ok, on my way already

End trip. Paid extra 500

This kind of rider makes work easy for you.

Trip B
Rider: bros howfa
Me: cool good afternoon
Rider: na wa for you o bro, you have not even moved since you got my request.
Me: i was checking the fastest route to get to you, and was about to dial your number before you called.
Rider : what are you checking? The address is there. And why would you call? What are we going to be talking about.
Me; i have to confirm your exact pick up before moving. I am at adetokunbo ademola, i see you are at oko awo street is that correct?
Rider: yes.
(2mins later)
Rider : no wonder, you be big man na, 2 phones, see pimping, this is Ferrari corolla o. Anyway lets go. 5 star already.
(slept off and was snoring till we got to ikeja)

A very funny rider

Trip C
Rider: we are stopping at two places in surulere. Luth and akerele
Me: ok ma
Rider: you seem so calm, are you happy today?
Me: yes ma
(it was history about awolowo, azikiwe and the rest. I had to open my ears wide, and still concentrate on the driving. Would have been easier if she sat at the front)

Trip D
Rider: thank you so much, you can stop here. Let me get down and walk home. I don't want you to drive through that street so you don't damage your car. It's not really good.
Me : Ok ma, thank you and have a good nite.
Rider : it a card trip you know?
Me: yes ma
Rider: oh, just take this (200) and buy a bottle of coke.

Trip E
(somewhere is oworosoki. Really bad inner streets)
Me: can you see a red car? I think i am on the street.
Rider: keep coming down, i can see you, keep coming
Me: do cars pass here? I don't think my car will make it climbing the hill back. (cant be revving high, burning fuel to go up a rough elevation)
Rider: of course you can
Me: could you please join me here since i am close
(5mins later)
Rider: (breathing heavily) oh, you Stressed me.
Me: i am sorry, i just couldn't go down there. You know sometimes you have to help your driver. Some terrains are not motorable. You could have used bike to come up here.
Rider:well it ok. We can go. Unilag
Me: (with red eyes) Alright. Bariga will definitely be locked around that market. Should we use other routes, longer but faster though.
Rider: hope they won't charge me much? no no, lets still passed through bariga, i usually pay around 1k passing through bariga. We could be lucky, it could be free.
Me(chai) ok

Wasted about 70mins for a 5km ride. After traveling like 4km to pick him from gbagada


Today is Tuesday. Resting at home. Made 96k and 12k offline last week . Have a blessed week....

Haderbayor123:
Can anyone else pls confirm if taxify has reduced their bonuses, or it's only happening from my end.

same here

NLmotorentalz:
If you're giving a driver, don't expect more than 20k weekly

17500 actually

baxton25:
I want to register a Lexus es 330 2006 model on uber and taxify,and it's a 3.3ltr,please any advise on this?
It's a bit luxurious tho.

Dont

funshy75:
cnt actualy see the km covered buh i made 21,200 naira for both days and all trips only on uber.

chai...e dey drink fuel

bily:
What's the total number of km covered?

and the amount he made from the 17 trips?

mployer:
Uber is truly ridiculously cheap.

A distance that I had to beg kabukabu drivers for N1, 500 after clubbing is what I paid N650 for with Uber. In air conditioned toyota corolla.

yea, true. But that yellow taxi drivers wait or Hustle for passengers. But uber driver will chill in a strategic position and request comes in. Less stress. Then he gets more rides and covers the yellow taxi driver's earnings multiple times.

bily:
Better late than never.

On another topic...

Since we all know internet stability is usually a function of location in lagos.

Drivers please share your experience, which is the most consistent internet service provider that's stable in all parts of lagos and most suitable for e-hailing?

9mobile and Mtn. I have a dual sim tecno i put them, and serves as a modem. Which also serves as the call phone. All 4G LTE enabled. My Samsung is for the apps and navigation and social media. I switch between both lines depending on their responsiveness at different areas, especially when waiting for requests.

Hope y'all have linked ur bank card to ur uber partner account? 5th is deadline day

paroh137:
Bro about how much does it take to fix an issue like this? Plus is there any other damage below surface? i.e are there any long term repercussions?

NNPC chai... I love heyden and Total, if i am around ajah/vgc i go northwest station. But mobil, conoil and all those one man business petrol station dem fuel no dey complete for my eye, some burn quickly

omonla10:
A rider just absconded with my 4300 now.. Is there anyway taxify can refund me.. He went out to use the atm and vanished

OYO... Taxify dont have that kinda back up

Updated my app yesterday o, taxify. Everything going smoothly and jejely. Just now i dropped a rider at omole 11 from marina, ended the trip and the thing showed 1400. She was like wow! But there was traffic at oworosoki na? I said it's an app issue, she should pay thw 1400 and i will review the trip later, and see what's wrong. I was still at her gate doing the fare review. Then i click on the ride on the trips history, 2730 displayed. Immediately i called her and told her i just got the actual fare. She was inside already and ask me to send my account details so she do a transfer. Within 5mins it was done.... Make una warn taxify o, what nonsense

jayooh:
Is this your blue still available Mr. Slam?

nope

Daveonoja:
shine your eye too ooo Uber does not have transfer option ooo..cash &card...don't take promises..uber has told a driver that I know there are only 2options of payment...complete the outcome

i am not saying uber has transfer option. My point is; if the rider promise to do a transfer and eventually did not. I will just report to uber at the earliest possible time, telling them rider didn't pay and walked away. Uber handles that and faces the rider.. Shine ya eyes

ifyeez:
I have pleaded for them to stop so we can discuss something more important. like yesterday, a rider promised to do a transfer after trip, till now he hasn’t made any, I have been calling him, he picks and says his on it. . 2k ride and this guy stays in a mansion in Lekki, his number 08131000007

if you promise to do a transfer, i can let you go, but it has to be on uber, so if you failed to, uber pays and deals with it. For taxify, you have to transfer while in the car. And i have 3 means to confirm the payment: Gtbank App, Email or SMS alert. At least one reflects almost instantly.... Shine your eyes guys

omonla10:
same here, carried some guys from abulegba to badore ajah but discovered that their bill stopped reading towards the end of 3mb{cos I always checked the bill on motion to avoid stories that touch} told them immediately. It stopped reading on 3000 and refused to increase. Even 300 toll did not add.. I immediately renegotiated with them which we agreed 3k extra.. Lo and behold, they paid 3k and promised to send 3k since last Tuesday.. Till today I still get stories that touch each episode for each day.. Would ever try that again though.

your app lost it GPS connection... If it was uber you will get full payment after sending complaints

olaboy1:
Who says I see myself better and above anyone. I am the most humble person you would ever come across, if you go back the pages, there was a time I solicited for low working hours for drivers (8-10hrs max), but many people countered it citing the poor economic conditions in Nigeria cannot be compared with the west.

I look out for both drivers and partners. Drivers should earn decent income and partners should be able to break even on the invested capital.
Drivers are at risk on the job, so are partners. Some partners do 2-3 jobs abroad just to raise the capital for the business and rather than been grateful many drivers sound rather harsh and ungrateful.

How many jobs has Nigeria government created for you?
what’s the poverty level in the land?
What’s the average income of people with masters degree in Nigeria?

I say it again be grateful that investors are putting their money in the business to gainfully employ Nigerians.

Ok let me come out clean so you have an idea. I have several investments and brokers in 3 continents, and I can conveniently afford to put 200 cars on Uber. I can decide to leave my money on foreign soil, but when I visit Nigeria I feel so ashamed of the poverty level and want to contribute my own quota into nation building, but I am not going to do that if the terrain doesn’t protect my hard earned capital of 18yrs.

Now the question is am I losing anything by staking my capital abroad....absolutely NO. One of my British brokers knows the Nigerian terrain so much that I marvel at his business acumen.

I don’t see how partners have been greedy so far, when I see I will call them out also. But a driver thinking he can rake in major part of the money for himself only doesn’t sit down well with me.

i do 35k weekly, 30k for myself. But occasionally when i need extra, i sacrifice my comfort and get between 40-50k for myself. I don't joke with my sleep, anyhow. I dont understand the idea of who earns more or who erans less. The 35k rental is the only constant thing for me, provided the car is ok.
And yes, i have gone home with 15k before, one funny week like that..
Make una easy o, jeje!

Ifeanyimark:
Were paper signed, is there proof u gave them d money? If yes, visit d nearest sars offixe

Sars is supposed to be for robbery case

Daveonoja:
I ain't gonna say much even not been a full time driver I w'd let u see my last 2weeks earnings only...and on uber not even gonna add taxify. So u decide for ursef

impressive! Post screenshot of time online so e go clear for him(we) eyes

protocol:
On a lighter note, today all I med was 5k. This 5k includes 2 cancellation fees in Uber. I close my day around 4pm( my new yr closing time)
Put on my app by 5 am and my destination trip to d land that flows with milk and honey,till 5.45am nothing hmmm. I drove empty to my favorite spot. Got a request to marina from ajah. Upon dropping d rider another witch requested me to obalende.Got to d destination, d fare was 700. She gave me 1k and all I had on me was 200 naira. This lady insisted that I must complete her change. This took almost 1hr before she made away with the whole fare that I shld call her when I have d change. Hmmm I gently drove my car away from there.
I later found my self in Lekki phase 1 around 12pm, I decided to try Uber app, after like 2hrs I got a request from Ivvy. When I saw the name, I knew it was one of these ladies that don't go beyond their street and probably the next street. She called me to go and pick up three cakes in admirity way, take one to African lane, fola osibo and one other street hmmm. She was so nasty about this on phone. I tried asking some questions about the delivery and she was like while are u guys so dump That was how I cancelled the trip. She called and was so angry, I told her that she should try DHL. I am not a delivery man.
Traffic was building alrdy, so I started heading home after all tomorrow is another day.

one can be lucky some days... Yesterday only 6 trips,i did 3 each on taxify and uber, 4 long trips, including 1 trip of 1.6x boost and i got 20k plus. And i wasn't online all day. Last monday i woke up early, started by 5.30am... Did 13 trips and got 16k after working till past 9pm....

blackylola:
is bread and butter not pick ups and drop off lolsss. I do delivery on a regular basic and I don't see anything wrong with that but rider can't send me that kind of errand

i do delivery too... Drop cakes, flowers, wine or pick up an item and drop... But not buying bread and butter for you ooo. Chineke

protocol:
On a lighter note, today all I med was 5k. This 5k includes 2 cancellation fees in Uber. I close my day around 4pm( my new yr closing time)
Put on my app by 5 am and my destination trip to d land that flows with milk and honey,till 5.45am nothing hmmm. I drove empty to my favorite spot. Got a request to marina from ajah. Upon dropping d rider another witch requested me to obalende.Got to d destination, d fare was 700. She gave me 1k and all I had on me was 200 naira. This lady insisted that I must complete her change. This took almost 1hr before she made away with the whole fare that I shld call her when I have d change. Hmmm I gently drove my car away from there.
I later found my self in Lekki phase 1 around 12pm, I decided to try Uber app, after like 2hrs I got a request from Ivvy. When I saw the name, I knew it was one of these ladies that don't go beyond their street and probably the next street. She called me to go and pick up three cakes in admirity way, take one to African lane, fola osibo and one other street hmmm. She was so nasty about this on phone. I tried asking some questions about the delivery and she was like while are u guys so dump That was how I cancelled the trip. She called and was so angry, I told her that she should try DHL. I am not a delivery man.
Traffic was building alrdy, so I started heading home after all tomorrow is another day.

good one, if you sound rude or disrespectful on the phone even trying to confirm your exact position, i cancel immediately

mazinaija:
You are all getting wrong. When a police knows you are uber/taxify driver that's when he is quick to let you go as long as you have not committed any traffic offence;because he knows your papers are complete. He can only beg you for money.

with my airforce sticker only 1 out of 15 police check would bother to stop and search me... They always pass me, but the few i encountered when they ask me are you uber? I say no and they still pass me, no paper check, no nothing.