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kanuisagoat:
When a rider says, "stop at the junction, the road is bad" or "stop halfway, I'll take a bike to meet you there"

I will give the rider another 5-7 minutes without arriving. If they don't show up, then I'll arrive.

They have extended an olive branch by reducing the fuel I'll use to pick up or extending the service life of my suspension by not entering a bad road. The least I can do is to return the favour.

Oh I see and I agree with this to a large extent.
I also do this sometimes.

However, time is money, and I can’t be waiting so many kilometers away for a rider that may or may not show up.

If the rider wanted to be picked up at a different location, then enter that location. Don’t tell the driver to wait 2kms away that you are coming, and I would just park on the road without hitting arrive? God forbid!!

After she cancelled and my driver score dipped, the next request that came in was still her. I just said this time I am driving to the pickup, since I have already accepted, but I am going to cancel on her too. I mean what’s with all these riders playing with the app like it’s a video game.

I made sure to arrive at the exact point of pickup according to the bolt app, hit arrived and denied all her calls. After 4 minutes, she came and was trying to open my doors, I just drove off and quickly hit rider did not show, since she already cost me one driver score point.

I don’t know why all rides can’t just be straightforward; pick up at point A, dropoff at point B. Instead you accept a trip and rider calls and starts saying “yen yen yen, forget the app, I’m at so so so”, sigh, I just start shaking my head. Or, “please stop here and here and here...”

I try not to hit arrive until I’m at the riders door step or their estate gate(since I’m not gonna wait for you to call the gate), but if the road is bad and I can’t get there, and you decide to come out, it means I haven’t hit arrived yet anyway. Unless I’m canceling.

Also with this new driver score, aren’t you penalized when you drive to the wrong location? If they claim that you are not affected by rider cancellation when heading towards the rider, then what happens if a rider calls and tells you to head to a different pickup and then eventually cancels? It’s all so confusing abeg.

Has Bolt increased their commission to 26%?

I grossed 4,700 today out of which bolt took 1233.

1233/4700 * 100 = 26.2%

What is happening?

kanuisagoat:
When a rider offers me this kind of goodwill, I extend it by not arriving for 5-7 minutes.

I don’t understand

If you are the driver I just bashed, I am sorry once again.

My first mistake in months, chai!

All because I was trying to kill mosquitoe in my car

I’m sorry bro, and thanks for letting me go.

Another request and driver cancelled on my way and driver score reduced again

Hmmm

Mukah1234:
Okay bro. We need to be vigilant out there.

Definitely bro, and may Gods watch over us

Just got a ride request, passenger said she’ll meet me halfway, so I stopped and clicked arrived waiting for her.

She cancelled and my driver score reduced.

Na wa

Mukah1234:
Link please

https://mobile.twitter.com/Oksquid/status/1493845813121986561

There is another link, but can’t find it

A bolt driver just lost his life according to Twitter reports. May his soul Rest In Peace, amen!

Let’s all do our best to stay safe out there.

Bolt and other apps don’t care about anyone, left to them, you must do all trips, even if it is to kidnappers den, God forbid!

May God continue to guide and protect us in Jesus name, amen!

Pearl1910:
On d new system u will not be able to filter trips, so u r forced to accept and complete all trip requests u get. In d long run u will do many more trips than usual. Every single Rider will get a driver willing to go to all godforsaking destinations, so according to their plans, all things being equal, they will make more money.

Forced to complete all requests?

We are not robots na, lol.

So I will be in my city and someone will request me to Ibadan and I will just leave like that? Shooo

I was almost tempted today to request a driver to Katsina from lekki here, just to see what would happen, but I didn’t want to mess up some innocent drivers rating.

I was shocked that I could put Katsina on my rider app, like for real? and it showed me 5 mins. So all the preparation a driver needs to go to katsina from lekki is 5 minutes; Call your wife/gf and tell her you won’t be home for dinner, lol.

Anyways I still won’t go on trips that I can’t do, like mainland trips and so on... but the trips I can do, I do them to the best of my abilities with a clean car and a smile on my face.

I hope that would be enough to keep me from getting blocked, but only time will tell.

but I don’t understand sha

Is Bolt trying to make money or lose money?

So if I filter trips and say complete 10 trips, isn’t that a better commission than if I do only 2 trips for fear of getting blocked?

Anyways, I have no choice but to filter cause I can’t go to some places for the first time, with a rider and be missing my way or entering lasma traps.

Vision202:
Same thing in Ibadan too, I woke up with the picture I posted up there.

It was like magic to me too, I just ended a trip and by the time the home page came back, driver score was there, chai!!

I don’t know if I will last cause I filter trips, I don’t even go to mainland in Lagos.

YeyeGbami:
Bolt drivers after driver score

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I’m dying of laughter here, lol

So bolt now wants to force me to go to Ibadan, me that can’t even leave my city

Driver score don reach my side ooo

“Oga drive fast”

Drive fast for 600 naira fare?

Maybe they don’t understand basic energy principles

Shebi I am driving an airforce jet ba?

So I will rev my car high, dump so much petrol into the cylinders, just so I can stop again in 200 meters because of whatever road blockage, then I turn all that energy from dumping so much fuel to heat in my brakes. Energy lost, distance the same.

Then I end trip and see 400 naira, bolt will compensate you 100 naira

Some riders are entitled sha!

This one guy was telling me to run the traffic light, that shebi na Sunday!

I am so ashamed of myself I actually ran it, thinking this guy was in a hurry or something, but then I quickly came to my senses, may God forgive me.

On the next light on that ozumba, I stopped and was like guy, there is no way I’m not stopping.

If the guy had continued yanning I would have tossed him out of my car.

I had to go back that day and reflect on why I actually listened to a rider to run the lights. Was I scared of bad ratings? Maybe! But men, fvck that shhh, is it you that will bail me out if I get caught?

Men fvck that shhh

The same useless guy won’t even let the hotel security check his temperature, he was just shouting. The people are just trying to do their jobs for crying out loud.

Some people are just weird and they think they are all powerful maybe cause they have gotten a little change, mtcheew


Please don’t let any rider ever ever make you act out of character, even for a second.

But why do some riders bang someone’s door na?

E go be like say, they won throw shot put, with extra yam power!

I just hope one day my car window doesn’t shatter, cause it won’t be funny men!

Why can’t they close doors like normal humans?

kolnel:
this shows how very divided we are in this country.
I think its high time the different geographical zones parted ways.
at this era, we should be clamoring for the best candidate irrespective of the origin.
thats exactly how the mannequin in Aso rock was imposed on us.

It’s happening again.

See how all Nairalanders talk about the region the president will come from, from morning till night.

At the end we may be stuck with another dinosaur, because of tribe, and the masses continue to wail.

May God have mercy on us!

Left to me, Bolt should even get rid of activity score. It would be a much better experience for the riders.

If I decline a ride as a driver, the request should simply go to another driver.

Why make drivers play cancel games and waste everyone’s time?

ogbiwa:
Oh goodness what is this?!

But where is the OP?

Bro, that shhh made my skin crawl, like wtf??

All the pics on this thread are bad but that is like on another level of creepy and horrific.

I pray that we get it right in Nigeria like seriously.

Even drainage is still a problem everywhere in Naija in 2022. Here in Lagos, even the almighty VI, you will still see gutter open for people to throw stuff in.

Laws aren’t enforced, environments left to degrade. We are on such a downward slope in Naija men to tell you the truth.

Don’t argue with me blindly, just observe the simple things. In Lagos for instance, does police chase people who break traffic laws? So if that isn’t happening, what makes you think order is being enforced in other aspects of our society?

Why can’t we make things work for crying out loud?

See environmental, smh

Why put that in the road to be sharing space with motorists?

No town planning in Naija

This is what is so fascinating about the tribal hatred we have in Nigeria.

You hate them so much but you never want them to leave.

Igbos hate other tribes as well but at least they want to leave.

So how can you hate people sooooo much, like burning hatred, but you mock their desires to leave.

Can such mentality really solve problems?

So you have a problem, but never want that problem to leave?

You have COVID, but want to keep COVID forever.

You have malaria, but don’t want the malaria to be cured.

This thinking is so irrational.

omenkaLives:
Elections fast approaching, begging activated. We saw this in 2019 as well. Once they lose out, which of course they will, it's back to the trenches- hate and insults unlimited.

From the 2019 you mentioned till now, life has gotten exponentially harder for Nigerians, but you won’t mention that because all you care about is “Winning Election”!

Horllamideh:
You really don't get it. We are all hypocrites in Nigeria.... All the tribes, we really don't like one another. We are all tolerating one another. But the Igbos aren't that emotionally developed enough to hide their hatreds for others. You don't go all out spewing hate vituperations on other tribes and expect them to like you..... all the tribes have their flaws, so don't tell me you hate others cos your tribe is flawless.

Just noticed that Zoo and Zoogerians are no more common words on politics thread since about 4 months back. Na now una know say Naija no be zoo again when time for election reach bah. The indifferent body language of Igbo politicians to utterances and actions of IPOB is the cause of all these insults to Igbos.

I was watching an apocalyptic Hollywood movie scene, and they were complaining that there is no water and electricity has been shut down.

I thought to myself, this is everyday life in Naija, and yet there is no apocalyptic level event in the country.

Please is that not even worse than a zoo?

In 2022 you still don’t have water and you want to hide it to play politics. Nigeria is a terrible country, say the truth and it shall set you free abeg. Free enough to start working on the problems!

The black man seems to be inherently wicked, unorganized and demonic to his people.

Only a fool won’t be able to see the downward slope of Nigeria. It even keeps me up sometimes wondering, like how fast our currency is dying and how fast our purchasing power is reducing.

If you had 100k just a few years ago, that would have gotten you like 500 dollars, today, you won’t even get 200 dollars. So your savings have already died and we haven’t even talked about inflation further killing your savings.

Nigeria is dying, but the Nigerians continue to be stupid and wicked, almost like they made a pact with the devil, the great destroyer, to ensure the suffering of their children.

They brag about presidency like we don’t have a president today?

Take heart innocent Nigerians that want a better country, I know you are the few among an evil many. Continue to work hard and pray to God, and under his wings you will find refuge, amen!

One day they open threads about how government doesn’t care about the people, how people can hardly afford to eat 3 meals a day.

Go out on the streets and see multitudes of people begging for a meal.

Yet the average suffering and smiling Nigerian still doesn’t care.

I wonder how much suffering a Nigerian can really endure?

Foreigna2:
Igbos hate others. Others are simply paying Igbos back in their own coin.

Think about how the country is affecting you and your family.

Is this the type of country you want for tour children? Or would you send them abroad to better countries if you had money like Buhari, Tinubu, etc, while you continue to ensure the failure of your country?

I will keep saying how Nigerians are one of the most daft people ever.

Then nairaland pushes this sort of topic to front page?

Nigerians don’t want a better country, it’s a fact.

With all the suffering of today, high prices and failing currencies, the only respite the Nigerian has is to hate other tribes while the problems gets worse.

When dollar hits 1000, I hope Igbo hate would be enough for all to survive.

The hate for Igbo is more unifying than oil itself.

But remember that you still have to go to market and buy food like every other Nigerian.

Is it not the same Naija that people are trying to japa

The one with dollar almost at 600 naira?

Nigerians are funny

This thread is such a disgrace to humanity.

See grown men typing “vawulence”, like da Fvck?

I guess nothing works in black man country, even a simple thread designed to post ideas and experiences has been corrupted. Like leaders like followers.

One would think these are secondary school students shouting “vawulence”, sorry, I meant primary school students.

I can’t believe I thought I’d come here to update myself on any new info or things to watch out for. How naive of me, this is the Black man after all.

So irritating!