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Has anyone here tried driving on UberGo?

If so, please is there a way to select whether you want to drive on UberX or UberGo?

So today at the bolt inspection, I stepped inside a puddle of muddy disgusting water, so I was looking for clean water to rinse my feet.

I noticed there was a car wash guy using a pressure washer, so I approached him and asked if he could spray some water on my feet.

Guess what he said -

How much?

Some people in this life ehn! So you cannot spray water on my leg for free? I have to pay you again?

Gentlelife50:
Today is Saturday, just be trying sha.
But getting you activated should be faster on a working day.

I just finished Bolt inspection and they were kinda strict ooo, I wasn’t expecting that, cause when some Uber cars come to pick me up, they aren’t always that “sharp”.

Thank you so much bro! All that is left is for the year of the car to be changed. As it is now, I can go online, but that might be like fraud cause the year of the car is wrong, although it’s tempting to just go online for a first trip.

As you said, I’m sure by Monday, they would have corrected it.

Many many thanks bro

BAZ001:
Axe for what ?
Na battle field you dey go or hustle field.
You are battle ready bro... just go ahead.
I pray you don’t have to use any of them on rider cos u go right report tire.

If u ask rider to come down and she no gree Na to remove axe straight


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Wait, does this happen?

How will I tell someone to leave my car and they won’t? My car?

Not like I’m gonna ask anyone to leave, but if the situation called for it, how won’t someone leave MY CAR?

Gentlelife50:
Did they reply yet?

Yes, but it’s an automated response.

However though, I can now go online on Bolt, but still have to change the vehicle details on the app before I can drive.

Thanks a lot bro!

XGhost:
If this was some folks here, I can only imagine.
Is it upsetting? Yes.
However what exactly will firing back achieve

0 to a 100 Ni real quick

Real quick!

Gentlelife50:
Bolt, strictly WhatsApp

Thank you, I have added them to my WhatsApp

yommie007:
Admiralty beside Union bank i think... its a container
Kiosk office kinda...

Thanks yo! I’ve already done that phase at Petrocam, lekki yesterday.

FuckEveryday:
You won go hunting abi you dey go find money

You can never be too safe bro!

Actually, once I get approved, I’ll add a stun gun to my arsenal

BAZ001:
My brother, u dey quick vex?
if registration is frustrating you like this then warm of double when you start interacting with riders.
Don’t give up, just follow the process, u must have made mistake somewhere it’s not dis difficult.

100k weekly awaits you easily without frustration.

This guy is too funny men!

I’m vexing no be small. I’ve already paid money to fix my leather seats, also gonna pay to drop the oil dump for an oil change to wash the sludge off the engine pickup filter and so on, only for these apps to be pending...

My mind is already prepared for rider abuse sha, I have been reading and noting down the kind of ish you guys have to put up with from riders, so I’m ready for my “walking on hot coal” moment.

I even already have my pepper spray + knife ready, just in case. I have practiced spraying the pepper spray. Was thinking of carrying axe too, but that might be overkill.

Gentlelife50:
Try chatting them on this number on WhatsApp, they will attend to you faster there.
+234 906 298 1505

Is this bolt or Uber bro? Guess I will find out, cause I’m adding them NOW!

I give up abeg, both Uber and bolt are just too hard to register

Everything pending...

Can’t go online after taking the training now like 30 times

Mistakes in vehicle year...

Should it really be this difficult to put a car on one of these platforms?


Now I have been told on bolt to register a new vehicle simply because I or someone else got the date wrong. How difficult is it to change the year of a vehicle on a form field?

Maybe they don’t want more cars on their platform

This is what I’m still seeing on bolt and I thought these things were meant to be sophisticated and computerized. There isn’t even a link to ones account after taking the training quizzes, they just show you the result and then they want you to email them? That’s so 2002.

BAZ001:
Vaselinecrew u don make me laugh like mad man here.
Na by force to help you?
You don vex be that ooh...
U neva understand dt u don’t ask questions in d middle of gbas gbos ?
How Uber office take enter inside ocean naah?
Don’t give up on bolt but Uber office dey maryland.
Na u be real clown Ahn Ahn , u even sigh

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Hahahaha, oh my days! Una too dey argue for here.

I have found Uber inspection site at Petrocam lekki sha, there now, hope all goes well.

MrCarter577:
Try on your location and see.

Thanks for your response bro, yeah my location is on

Uber showing me inspection center inside the ocean, na wa

Can anyone please help me instead of arguing back and forth, sigh

Please does anyone know Uber inspection center in lekki?

I am searching using ubers location map and finding strange addresses with no business name

VaselineCrew:
Can someone please advice me, I can’t go online as a new bolt driver, it keeps telling me to do training which I have done about 20 times now.

I’ve already emailed help, and they responded very quickly yesterday telling me to wait, but I keep getting WhatsApp messages from bolt telling me my account is active and to go online and start a trip.

This is the message I see when I try to go online:

Anyone?

Can someone please advice me, I can’t go online as a new bolt driver, it keeps telling me to do training which I have done about 20 times now.

I’ve already emailed help, and they responded very quickly yesterday telling me to wait, but I keep getting WhatsApp messages from bolt telling me my account is active and to go online and start a trip.

This is the message I see when I try to go online:

pope191:
Lol, no one is asking u to change, let's just keep eyes on the goal without preaching hostility. I see folks here addressing another with disdain and to me it 's feel like, what's the difference btw the I have arrived drivers and the riders, like our ego is our only disease without a cure or what?

Yep u didn't mention me, but the essence of message is always to encode to decode and here is a public forum *smile*. Chucmoore is a good example that motivation can b passed without insults, but like u say, it's ur personality and good or bad is not really in my place to say.

Anyway: lost my mom this morning, kind of seeing the world from a whole new angle. Tempted to go drive, just to distract myself since I live alone, I don't even know what to do. So my nigga, it's really all peace from here.

Sorry for your loss, may her soul rest in perfect peace in Jesus name!!

BAZ001:
What Ambode tried to remove you are asking for more?
What is the job role of Traffic warden police?
of FRSC?
Or VIO?
Now you have Lastma, CBD, Taskforce, local govt tout doing same job but in a criminal way.
You still have LNSC neighborhood just their.
They are just using them to rake in money for Lagos govt.
see what it took a whole country to end SARS?
No let them hear this Abeg

Lol, exactly!

Travel to most sane countries of the world and all you have there is just POLICE and Firefighters. Police will even be the ones controlling traffic.

Come to Naija and you will have over 30 agencies on the road, lol, an exaggeration I know, but still, haba!

Now compare the results. See how law and order is holistically upheld for driving in those countries where there is just police in charge, juxtaposed to Nigeria where there is soooooo much chaos when it comes to driving, chai!!!

I once told some guy that it is illegal to change lanes without using your turn signal abroad and he was dumbfounded, he didn’t even know. How would he know though, when in Nigeria, NOT ONE PERSON HAS EVER BEEN PULLED OVER FOR NOT SIGNALING. In fact, do people get pulled over at all in Nigeria? I mean the official pull over we see in movies where the procedure is that once you see sirens behind you, you move over to the side of the road.

How would police just be sitting down at junctions and expect to have law and order on the roads? They don’t patrol, or rely on cameras, and even when they do patrol, they don’t enforce. Put those things together and that’s why you can have danfos stopping right in the middle of the roads, plus hawkers,....

Who born danfo to stop in the middle of the road in Dubai or Texas? All that gra gra na for their own pocket, cause it’s either they get tasered, or shot!

As a potential prospective e-hailer, I actually like the idea of this UberGo I’m just now hearing about. It does sound convenient for those that want to do this part-time and not have to drive too far.

The idea of driving within an area does sound cool, but I’m sure the customers would want to take advantage of it.

From a customers point of view when I open the Uber App, it seems implicit that the UberGo is meant for less than 4 passengers, while it’s explicitly stated that UberX is for 4 passengers. However, going by all the info on this thread of passenger privilege abuse, one could extrapolate to the case of this new UberGo, in the sense that riders might still want to pack themselves and load into a drivers vehicle, lol.

Why pay for an UberX, when for half the price, I and my buddies could roll with the UberGo?

I guess it would be up to the driver to set STRICT rules, with regards to the amount of passengers allowed in their vehicles, i.e, “riders < 4” + no load.

How can somebody not hate this country??

Conner44:

Hybrids are generally cheaper than Corolla in Nigeria today. Leave electric vehicles for now till our federal government repairs Nepa

I knew it!!!!

Too many unbelievers in Nigeria men!

Yet you are using your electric phone without stress of NEPA

It’s just the price men, but the efficiency is second to none; no hybrid, ice or hydrogen vehicle can compete EVERR!!!

Conner44:
I know I’d invest in ride share here one day soon either by driving by myself part time or leasing out a vehicle but I can never ever buy that corolla. See the vehicles on my wishlist for the job below:

Toyota prius
Honda Civic hybrid
Honda Insight

If you like call me crazy but highest id import parts from USA to change defective ones and sacrifice two weeks of downtime. The fuel utilization of these cars engines is out of this world tori-olorhun and as at today mechanics are working on hybrids in Lagos.

Nigerians naturally are a ‘crowd mentality‘ specie of human beings. Corolla was the norm everywhere until dru23 opened Nairaland guys eyes to civic then it became the new rave.

Bet me when I start using my future hybrid and give feedback here you’d see a mad rush for that kind of vehicle from Uber drivers starting from here on Nairaland

If only electric vehicles were cheap, I’m sure all the people driving on this thread would switch the SAME DAY!! Even the EV unbelievers

northbird:
He mentioned traffic light going to Akilo.
The only working traffic light on Acme road connecting Akilo is at the acme /metal box road intersection.

So I assumed if he was heading towards Akilo. He should be on the left lane since he is going straight.

Ok gotcha!! Had to study the map, though, I thought op said he was turning right to “somewhere”

FuckEveryday:
I swear bro, another major factor I love is the different options of different cars they have available for them. We can't even use Audi, which has some 1.8l engine models here, superb handling, semi luxury feel, e.t.c

Toyota Prius nkor? Why does it have to be a Corolla which costs a arm and a leg to buy?

Our country doesn't even enforce driver benefits on these platforms like they Do in the UK and US. We don't even have the luxury of Ride Sharing options except Uber / Bolt. All these combined with majority of the job based on the island. Even Abuja doesn't come close.


This country is beyond redemption. It's a sad truth everyone needs to accept. I just hope to leave sooner rather than later cus thinking about these things alone makes one sad.

The country is bad, but what is worse is how most Nigerians don’t see it or don’t care, else, why would they keep electing people that don’t care?

I’m sure if you or I were elected as governor, based on our shared hatred for bad roads, we would improve the road networks, but would the masses vote for the likes of us? No!!

Tribe over everything in this country, even reason.

No one cares about open gutters, no lanes on highways, hawkers everywhere, bad roads...

All they want to do is shout Tinubu 2023 or some other useless slogan.

I pray one day Nigerians will wake up, or the country breaks apart and the emerging nations wake up.

northbird:
@ agent x. Sorry about your ordeal. If you are on acme going to akilo. You must be on the left lane. Probably you were on the right lane.

It's a unwritten rule, always central lock. 247.
Windows slightly up. If you are on the mainland.

Isn’t that bad driving though? To turn right from the left lane? Shouldn’t one be on a right lane to turn right and left lane to turn left?

Dremca:
Have you tried applying to bolt with it.

No I haven’t bro, just Uber, maybe I’ll try the bolt app now, thanks.

Hi guys, thanks for all the prior information shared on this thread, it’s been really helpful.

I have a question, I tried submitting my temporary drivers license on Uber, but it was rejected.

I thought people here were able to submit a temporary license?

So I guess I have to wait for the plastic license to show up?

Just coming back again and the same ol story.

Chaos on the roads!

But how do other countries have such peaceful driving? With order, drivers in their lanes...

Everybody cannot “jabbor” to white man land for sanity now, haba...

I challenge us as black men and women to do better, I am sending mails to Lagos government as well to see if they can get their act together.


Everybody just goes on as if such chaotic driving should be normal.

Not one person ever gets Pulled over by police, in fact police are breaking driving laws with impunity.

There is no will power in leadership to do things right, Zero will power.

Even if you have all the money in the world, you can’t even enjoy it in Lagos, or Nigeria in fact, well Abuja might be a bit sane, but even there you still don’t have police pulling people over.


Soon that Rossiki dude will open another thread shouting how white man stole from us, mtcheew.

Over 60 years and you guys as black peoples can’t even organize fvking traffic?

Your children don’t even know what driving school is, or what it means to be pulled over by police, or what it means to stay in their lane and use signals when changing lanes, and why should they? Are there any consequences for bad driving in black man country?

I’ve never seen a society where people just drive like animals, without an ounce of consequence. Chai!

Whether you drive in your lane or not - no consequence

Whether you are danfo and stop right in the middle of the road - no consequence

Whether you drive on pedestrian walkways and almost bash them - no consequence

Black man!!!


Then you will all run to Europe and Dubai and be driving like human beings, because dem no born u well if you don’t.

Then you will start complaining again, rinse and repeat.

Something is really wrong with you people

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