₦airaland Forum

Pearl1910:
Dead Driving is simply driving that doesn't fetch u money while u r on duty.

E.g
1. Repositioning to get another trip after u end a trip. Driving from Alakuko back to Ogba before u get a good trip.

Solution is to avoid going to areas u may likely not get a trip back from. Always go to areas that are within commercial zones and busy hubs to ensure u don't have to drive far before u get another trip.

2. Many short trips means u will drive considerable amount of time and distance multiple times to PU your Riders. All those distances can be significant when combined together over a period of a week.

Solution: avoid multiple or too much short trips.

3. Driving 3 to 5km to PU. That's a trip on its own. But u did it without earning, so that's fuel wasted.

Solution: avoid long distance PU except it's gonna be worth it.

You can also reduce your speed and rate of acceleration during pickups like these.

I drive real real slow during pickups, I try not to hit the brakes until absolutely necessary.

I even put on my hazards to mimic a car with problems so that others can zoom past me.

Please, I don’t know if Uber/Bolt accept bicycles?

It’s seats 4

Men? Is this end times? See queue in Mobil ozumba that has curled round the main road like snake.

Omo I have 2 bars petrol left out of 10 bars.

The way I drive now ehn, even bicycle is horning for me, chai!

Time yo go hang my jersey, till Nigeria gets it’s shhh together. This my remaining petrol is meant for only me abeg, before I follow surge and get stranded.

It’s this kind of time i wish I had an electric car.

I will just leave all this petrol struggles behind.

springer:
Those guys can't collect thier hereditary Toll-Gate Tickets Fees if vehicles are on fast drive. You must sacrifice your time to pay them.

Chai!

On a serious note though, imagine if they were still collecting toll, just so we can suffer.

Pay to suffer, imagine!

What pains me is how some were still supporting that they collect toll on that road, like why? That road has chaotic traffic and we should still pay?

They didn’t even build it from scratch.

My own is, can’t we solve this problem.

This kind of traffic everyday can make someone lose their mind.

When I complain about Lagos road users and lac of enforcement by police officers, people will think I’m just yanning or call me a wailer, or tell me to go back to my village.

Abeg, Nigerians seems to be among the daftest creatures on this planet.

Viking07:
The only new thing I did today was after accepting a request, I chat up the rider that I’m on my way. I dunno if the bolt algorithm counts those messages or something because apart from that na the same trips wey I dey take all these while I still carry today.

Guess it wouldn’t hurt to try that as well.

I’ve sent them a mail pouring out my anger abeg.

How can I get a request 600 meters away, then when it’s 50 meters left, passenger cancels and I get docked, like how is that even fair?

As I said before sha, I’ll drive till I get blocked.

It’s funny, I won’t get blocked for stealing or something else, I’d get blocked for passenger cancellation, chai!

Really another app that allows total driver freedom needs to come up.

No rubbish activity score, and simple transparent ratings. Just accept the trip you want and go, not all this activity score calculation and driver score giving someone a headache.

Viking07:
After today’s hustle my score increased to 88%. I don’t understand how it happened.

You are lucky, mine just dropping and dropping.

Got a request just now, drove to pick up, RIDER CANCELED, and I lost another driver score.

What the fvck is this shhhit??

I hope everyone can see how useless these ratings are, so if someone is telling you do this and that, it’s all bs abeg.

Just told some girls to get the F out of my car, just as we about to start driving. They were already so rude and all shouting.

If you see the way they slammed my doors in anger ehn

Yam power!!

This job is not easy sometimes abeg.

Pearl1910:
Apparently the Activity Score is still valid.
Watch out for the Percentage of Ignored trips

It definitely is, but now it’s called confirmation rate

GeneralZodd:
Read my article well and understand. I never mentioned reject trip.

Far distance request always show option of decline, I have declined so many times and it hasn't affected my driver score for once.

You said only accept trips you are willing to go for, which means rejecting trips you don’t want to go for right?

Cause I was doing the same and now my activity score is 76% and bolt is threatening to block me.

GeneralZodd:
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How to avoid Driver Score Dropping

1. Decline far distance request that provides you option to decline, it won't affect your driver score.

2.Do not accept any trip you don't intend doing, which you or rider might later cancel, only accept trips you are willing to do

3. When you accept trip make sure u call rider as fast as possible to verify pick up location and start driving immediately to their Pick up. Riders considers drivers like this to be more serious and professional. They hardly cancel request. Don't wait for them to call you.

4. When you slide arrive at riders Pick up location and delay is taking alot of time than usual, don't hesitate to cancel and indicate that client did not show. If Rider decides to cancel and not embark on the trip after waiting, it might affect your driver score. The maximum time I wait is 15mins, except rider begs me to wait.


5. Make sure your Car is neat and in good condition, provide good customers service.

Rating is now integrated in Driverscore

The lower your rating the lower your driver score

The higher your rating, the higher your driver score.


6. Avoid unnecessary argument and fight with rider. If they make complain about your service, that's a massive a drop on your driver score.

This is not correct.

If you reject trips you’d still get blocked for rejecting too many trips.

Also just now I got a guy that kept canceling and re odering. I just lost one driver point because of that guy

Anyways, we drive till we get blocked abeg

Anny505:
Someone can't plan a heist for months, achieve their goals and just abandon their loots just because of some hungry youths that were probably taking covers and peeing in their various homes.

I repeat even cultist and petty thieves won't make this kind of mistake.

This is a freaking military like well executed mission that won't be tracked in months to come

Another ediot, why are you putting sunglasses emoji?

Oh it was cool that these guys killed people and robbed banks ba?

I hate most of you Nigerians because you are so so wicked

okoroemeka:
this is a more believable story,I cannot and never believe that those Daredevil robbers that sacked a police station and sent military men hiding like rats under mama badejo table can be stopped by mere roadblock,this people are not dumb and stupid to follow a single road that doesn't have any branch off and your destination is predicted that an ambush can be laid, these boys simply stopped inside bush and everybody will carry the cash he can be able to carry and they simply left the remaining and the cars and escaped through the bush,but they should have buried the remaining cash to be collected when everything cools down

See this ediot Nigerian giving armed robbers advice.

Why not advice them on how to rob your house and hide till everything cools down.

Bastard!

I’m this doesn’t seem intentional to me though, looks like the tank lost control and went sliding in one direction with no hope of correction.

I could be wrong though

Viking07:
Until we all move to a better platform, Bolt no go send anybody. Despite all the nationwide protests, negative ratings etc, they’ve not changed a single thing.
If a rider cancels for whatever reason or driver cancels, your DS will drop immediately.
If you don’t respond to a request your activity score drops immediately. The funny thing is once these performance indicators drops e no dey increase unless you accept out of radius requests. If you like complete 100 normal trips- no increase.

I have never seen my driver score rise, neither has the new confirmation rate risen like the old one.

So is everyone now destined for a block

Driver score goes down daily.

I promised someone here that I would cross the “confirmation” river for them by rejecting all trips I didn’t want to do so that I only accept trips I am fully committed to, thereby increasing my driver score, but Bolt quickly sent me a message that I will soon be blocked for doing just that.

Now even when I click arrive, my driver score still drops after canceling, hmmm

chillex8:
A lot of advantages filling up your tank.

For me, it's the ease to drive about for about 3 days before visiting the gas station again.

I guess I just joined the club.

I am ready for Saturday and Sunday like this, in fact I may go to bed soon just so I have energy for this weekend.

Main Phone - charging
Power bank - charging
Spare phone - charging
Fuel tank - Full

Omo let the weekend begin!!

ReadaDream:
it's good to fill up or at least have 3/4. You work with peace of mind that way and also protect your car fuel pump and injector from lifting dirt when the fuel go too low.

Buying 1k here and there is shortchanging yourself. It also puts you at the risk of buying incomplete fuel or adulterated one.

I was also thinking that having low petrol will deter any car thief at night, as pa, I would be like

“bros, haba no petrol for this car wey u want steal ooo”

But overall we pray to God for protection and I am also making plans to have multiple car trackers.

gistmega:
Those sagacious elders talk as if they were born inside albert Einstein's laboratory.
What makes Russians different from Nigerians? They are the ones putting the black race down. When others theorize it, they call them racists. The Russians' body temperature remains 37 degrees Celsius. It is all about training. One aspect of the human body is adaptation.

Then how come na always Ethiopia dey win Lagos marathon

Something needs to be done.

Compare the traffic there at this time to that of third mainland bridge.

The challenges there to me are drivers unruly behaviors and some traffic lights not functioning.

When Ambode first turned the roundabouts to traffic lights, the traffic was eased by a huge margin, but it seems to be creeping back and getting worse and worse with each passing day.

There is so much chaos along that so called “express”-way and road users never get punished for wrong doings.

Danfo busses obstruct traffic at every stop, never using their own bus stop but instead blocking the roads.

I just don’t understand why we let things get very bad in this country without doing anything.

The lanes that used to be there have all faded away, it used to be a 3 lane road, but now it’s how ever many cars can squeeze in, so maybe 7 lanes, plus danfo driving on the bush path/service lane.

One time in Abuja I was shocked to see soldiers arresting everyone driving along the service lane like these unruly danfos do, but here not one person ever gets punished by police or lasma

If lasma can’t catch you on foot then they just let you go, no patrol bikes for either lasma or police to give chase.

There are solutions to these problems but they are never practiced.

I love it when they put lanes on roads.

We are not animals to be driving on roads without lane markings

See lekki epe traffic, my goodness!!

Drivers in the house, do you guys fill your tanks or do you just buy 1k here and there?

I have to admit, I have been buying 1k here and there partly due to my budget and partly to measure just how much I can make from a certain amount of petrol in the tank.

However, e be like say I vex today at Mobil and bought full tank.

Since my car has been jerking after buying from multiple petrol stations, I figured Mobil is a name I can trust, and since there was a queue, I just filled her up( that’s what she said).

It’s a good feeling seeing my gauge read full and knowing I won’t have to struggle to find petrol before a trip for a while, but spending that much at a time for petrol left a sour taste in my mouth, lol

mrvitalis:
Only a fool would believe Nigeria population is anything close to 120 million even

Are you so sure about that?

Do you see the amount of children that beg at almost every junction in Lagos?

That screams overpopulation to me.

Come to Lagos, you will see like 10 children at almost every junction, swarming cars left right and center.

QuotaSystem:
Indeed I agree it’s more rampant which could likely be attributed to less effective internal discipline mechanisms, as well as ignorance/insensitivity to human rights on this end.

When that is then mixed with a population that seems to give moral support to the proscribed terrorists killing such soldiers at will, then the tendency for abuses goes up a few notches.

Bottom line is that we need to do better, but when will that ever happen?

Our police don’t do drills. Even private companies do fire drills that they take seriously, yet our police don’t do any response drills. no drills to cut response times, No drills on how to blockade a part of town should the need arise. There are only so many roads people can use and with the right emergency blockade, you can effectively cordon off an area.

Anyways one can only keep on hoping for a better force, and a better country.

See Nigerians insulting Sowore, a guy that has fought and fought and fought for the betterment of the people.

Yet they will hail Buhari, a former dictator, and a Tinubu that had the guts to bring not one but two BULLION VANS TO HIS HOUSE IN BROD DAYLIGHT!

You Nigerians love your thieves and your backwardness.

Even Buhari was asking, How can Ganduje steal money in person, that Ganduje would have sent someone else to collect the money in his agbada.

Even bubu doesn’t understand that some thieves are now so bold because why not? Is it not the same Nigerians that will still support you?

Is it not the same Ganduje having praise singers?

What about Ibori, that his people did owambe for him when he came back from prison.

Admit it, you love your thieves and hate your own children.

Who cares if your children have water, or electricity, that is their own problem.

So let’s all go ahead and insult one of the few people fighting injustice daily, and let’s roll in the Bullion van.

Suffering and Smiling Nigerians, ASSEMBLE!

QuotaSystem:
Of course there are indisciplined deviants that abuse the vulnerable in every force, including the US Army.

Ever heard of waterboarding? Google the atrocities of US Soldiers in Guantanamo Bay.

I agree totally!

However, we all know that it is extremely rampant here in Nigeria.

Even I was almost a victim of soldier brutality in my own estate simply because I greeted soldiers “good evening”! Don’t have time to tell the whole story, but it was all because I said “good evening”.

At least those ones abroad get punished when caught.

See how the whole world was screaming George Flyods name, yet at the time, Nigerian police had murdered 22 Nigerians because of COVID curfew.

Yet NO ONE REMEMBERS THE NAMES OF THESE NIGERIANS!

QuotaSystem:
When the civilian population openly supports proscribed killer terrorists, then the line differentiating them becomes increasingly thinner.

Before even terrorist, soldiers still intimidated civilians.

Telling someone’s father to frog jump in front of his children for a simple traffic offense. Why not hand them over to a court to pay a fine?

Soldiers that have been telling civilians to swim in gutters.

Don’t act like Nigerian soldiers haven’t been this way since even your childhood.

Blitzerz:
Where this guy is stationed with camera is where policemen snipers guarding banks are supposed to be stationed.

Our security forces are not smart enough.

As in, bro! Perfect location to take them out one by one.

Police that doesn’t even have computer in their station, how do we expect them to be organized?

Yet some people are still saying, it’s a good thing police did not show, sigh my Country!

We have become so used to an ineffectual police force that we now say it’s okay if they don’t show up during a robbery.

The robbers can even take time to make breakfast, coffee and eggs and our police still would not show!

Kobicove:
Would you have advised a relative of yours to go challenge them knowing that the police is inadequately armed?

Another slowpoke!

It police can not face armed robbers then what are they really there for?

Some of you in this country have lost it completely