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Posted here few days back - Here - about how my cousin's fleet loses 50k/month to highway police. Post got a lot of traction and I got a bunch of DMs from people sharing similar experiences.

Truckers, fleet owners, regular car and bike guys, auto drivers. Same story everywhere. Got stopped, didn't know rights, paid up, moved on.

One guy told me police seized his truck for 3 days over a document that was perfectly valid. Lost a client because of the delay. Another guy said he pays 2-3k every week on his Mumbai-Pune route and has just accepted it and given up.

What surprised me was how many people said they don't know a single lawyer. Like not one. So when they get stopped their only option is to pay or argue and hope for the best.

My cousin's drivers have been calling an advocate whenever they get stopped. It's been working for them for a while. Not perfect, but still. But someone in the comments on that post also mentioned something like why isn't there an app for this. And honestly that thought has been stuck in my head since.

Like what if you get stopped by police or get into an accident or any legal situation and you just open an app and a lawyer is on call within a few minutes. Not just for trucks but for anyone. Bikes, cars, autos. Even stuff like landlord issues or workplace problems. Pay 200-600 per call and the lawyer handles it.

I've been seriously thinking about building something like this. But before I go down that rabbit hole I just wanted to check — would you actually pay for something like that? Or is it one of those ideas that sounds good but nobody would actually use? I know this is difficult but I want to pick your thoughts.

Also if anyone still wants the advocate's contact from last time just DM me.

My cousin runs 8 trucks on the Delhi to Gujarat route. I was at his place last week and he was going through his monthly expenses. I casually asked him about his biggest headache and he just laughed and said "police." He said ". Agar khaki aur khadi sudhar jaye toh desh sudhar jayega" (If police and politicians improve, the country will improve)

I thought he was joking. Then he showed me the numbers. His drivers were paying ₹3,000 to ₹5,000 at checkpoints per trip. Per trip. Some trips they'd get stopped 3-4 times. Rajasthan border is the worst apparently. The officers don't even check the papers properly. They flip through them, find something to complain about, and then the negotiation starts.

The drivers never argue. They can't afford to. A detained truck means a delayed delivery means an angry client means a lost contract. So they pay. Every single time. It's basically a toll tax that goes directly into someone's pocket.

He told me one of his drivers got stopped last month and the officer said his fitness certificate was expired. It wasn't. The driver showed him the valid certificate on his phone. The officer said the digital copy is not acceptable and demanded ₹5,000. The driver paid ₹2,000 and left. Later my cousin checked — digital copies are perfectly valid under the new MV Act amendments.

When I did the rough math I was shocked. 8 trucks, 3 trips a week, average ₹3,000 per trip in bribes. That's over ₹50,000 a month. ₹6 lakh a year. For a small operator that's a massive chunk of profit just gone.

And the worst part is everyone just accepts it. It's baked into the business model. Transporters literally budget for bribes the way they budget for diesel and tyres.

I asked him why his drivers don't just refuse or ask for an official e-challan. He said "tum kabhi highway pe akele truck leke raat ko police ke saamne khade ho ke baat karo, tab pata chalega." Basically you have to be in that situation to understand how powerless the driver feels alone on a highway at midnight.

The only time I've seen it work differently is when one of his drivers randomly called some vakil he knew during a stop. Put the phone on speaker. The officer heard a lawyer asking for his badge number and which section he's charging under. Let the driver go in 2 minutes. But that was one driver who happened to know one lawyer. The rest don't have that option.

Anyone here in the logistics or transport business? Is this just a Gujarat route problem or is it everywhere? And has anyone actually found a systematic way to deal with this?

Hey so I run a small social media growth agency that works with US based businesses. Mostly aesthetic clinics and realtors. The work is going well but I dont have time to find new leads myself because im handling the actual delivery side.

What I need is super simple. Go on Instagram and find US based aesthetic surgeons cosmetic clinics med spas and realtors whose pages have decent followers but very low engagement. Like a page with 10k followers but only getting 20 likes per post type stuff. These people need help and they just dont know it yet.

What you would do:

• scroll instagram hashtags like #cosmeticsurgeon #medspa #botox #realtor #luxurylisting
• find accounts that fit the criteria
• note down their username follower count and avg likes per post
• find their email from their website or google maps listing
• put it all in a google sheet

Thats it. You dont need to email them or call them or anything. I handle all the outreach myself. You just build the list.

Payment: ₹400-800 per lead that actually books a call with me. So the better your leads are the more you make. If you send me 10 good leads and 3 of them book a call thats ₹1200-2400 for maybe 2 hours of scrolling instagram.

Perfect if youre a college student who is already on instagram all day lol. You literally just need a phone and some common sense to spot which accounts look like they need help.

DM me if interested. Will explain the full criteria in detail. Starting with 2-3 people and will expand if it works out.

Also open to suggestions if anyone has done something similar before and knows a better way to find these leads. im figuring this out as I go tbh

Got stopped by traffic police last month near Dwarka. Cop said my papers were incomplete, demanded ₹2000. I knew everything was fine but I had no clue how to argue with him. So I just paid and left.

Later told a lawyer friend about it. He said the cop had zero grounds and I could have just asked for an e-challan. The official fine would have been ₹500 max. I basically donated ₹1500 because I didn't know what to say.

Made me think — what if there was an app where you could just call a lawyer the moment a cop stops you? Like ₹200 for a quick call, the lawyer talks to the cop, sorts it out. Would save way more money than it costs. Does something like this exist already or are we all just out here getting scammed?

Need honest feedback. I know lawyers who said they wouldnt mind 200rs for a quick call

Ok guys so I need to get this off my chest somewhere because I literally cannot tell anyone I know about this.

I have this friend in college. Normal girl. Pretty but not like model pretty. Had maybe 2k followers on instagram which is normal for our age. She was always talking about wanting to be an influencer and I always thought it was kind of a pipe dream because like everyone wants that right

So we were running this small DTC brand together last semester. Nothing big just some accessories we were trying to sell on instagram. We were struggling to get any traction. Like 200 followers and 10 likes per post type struggling. One day she tells me some guy reached out to her offering to boost our page. Followers likes custom comments the whole thing. She said he even writes comments that match whatever youre posting so if we post a bracelet the comments say stuff like "just ordered two of these for my friends" and "the quality looks insane for this price."

I said NO thats stupid and a waste of money and nobody falls for that.

She kind of dropped it and I thought that was the end of it

Then like a month later she starts posting like crazy on her personal page. Like 7 to 10 reels in two days. Random stuff. Outfit videos food reviews talking to camera about nothing. Some people in our friend group were literally laughing at her like why is she posting so much nobody is watching this.

then on around two weeks later I open instagram and her page is at .....500k. Fucking 500k. By the end of the week almost a million. Every reel had thousands of views. Comments on everything. Stuff like "you are so gorgeous" and "where is that top from" and "just followed you youre my new favorite account"

and thats when I put two and two together. The comments looked exactly like what that guy had pitched us for our brand page. Specific to each post. Not generic bot stuff. Actually written to match the content. I realized she didnt drop it. She just used it on her personal page instead of our brand

I brought it up and she didnt even deny it. She just laughed and said "see I told you it works." She said she paid the guy and within days her page looked like she was a legit influencer. Then she said dont tell anyone about this obviously. and even I should try it. We could be "the duo".

anyway heres where it gets crazy

we went out to dinner at this nice restaurant downtown like a week later. She posted a story tagging the place. The manager literally came to our table and said dinner was on them. I thought it was a coincidence or maybe she knew someone there. She didnt. They just saw her page, which she dropped silently while getting in.

then it happened again. Different restaurant. Free dessert and drinks. Then a clothing brand DMed her offering to send free stuff. Then we went to a club and she showed her instagram at the door and they let us skip the line and gave us a table. A TABLE. We are college students we dont get tables anywhere. She has already made high six figures.

I asked her if anyone ever checked if her followers were real. She said not once. Nobody checks. They see 900k followers and they just assume shes important

its like that HBO documentary "Fake Famous: where they took nobodies and bought them followers and suddenly the whole system treated them differently. I thought that was exaggerated when I watched it. Its not. I watched it happen in real life right next to me.

some people in our college now treat her completely different. Guys who never noticed her before are in her DMs. Girls want to be her friend. A professor even mentioned her "social media presence" as an example in class. Im sitting there knowing the whole thing is "fake" and I cant say a word.

part of me wants to do the same thing. Not even for the influencer stuff but maybe for our brand page or even just my personal page. Because I know the guys contact now since he originally pitched us for the brand. But idk if I could handle knowing its all fake. Then I look at her getting free dinners and 50k views on a video of her eating pasta, making so much money and I wonder if im the stupid one for trying to do everything the real way

not trying to make a point or anything. This has just been sitting with me for months and I cant exactly bring it up in real life without exposing her. So here it is I guess.

Ok guys so I need to get this off my chest somewhere because I literally cannot tell anyone I know about this.

I have this friend in college. Normal girl. Pretty but not like model pretty. Had maybe 2k followers on instagram which is normal for our age. She was always talking about wanting to be an influencer and I always thought it was kind of a pipe dream because like everyone wants that right

So we were running this small DTC brand together last semester. Nothing big just some accessories we were trying to sell on instagram. We were struggling to get any traction. Like 200 followers and 10 likes per post type struggling. One day she tells me some guy reached out to her offering to boost our page. Followers likes custom comments the whole thing. She said he even writes comments that match whatever youre posting so if we post a bracelet the comments say stuff like "just ordered two of these for my friends" and "the quality looks insane for this price."

I said NO thats stupid and a waste of money and nobody falls for that.

She kind of dropped it and I thought that was the end of it

Then like a month later she starts posting like crazy on her personal page. Like 7 to 10 reels in two days. Random stuff. Outfit videos food reviews talking to camera about nothing. Some people in our friend group were literally laughing at her like why is she posting so much nobody is watching this.

then on around two weeks later I open instagram and her page is at .....500k. Fucking 500k. By the end of the week almost a million. Every reel had thousands of views. Comments on everything. Stuff like "you are so gorgeous" and "where is that top from" and "just followed you youre my new favorite account"

and thats when I put two and two together. The comments looked exactly like what that guy had pitched us for our brand page. Specific to each post. Not generic bot stuff. Actually written to match the content. I realized she didnt drop it. She just used it on her personal page instead of our brand

I brought it up and she didnt even deny it. She just laughed and said "see I told you it works." She said she paid the guy and within days her page looked like she was a legit influencer. Then she said dont tell anyone about this obviously. and even I should try it. We could be "the duo".

anyway heres where it gets crazy

we went out to dinner at this nice restaurant downtown like a week later. She posted a story tagging the place. The manager literally came to our table and said dinner was on them. I thought it was a coincidence or maybe she knew someone there. She didnt. They just saw her page, which she dropped silently while getting in.

then it happened again. Different restaurant. Free dessert and drinks. Then a clothing brand DMed her offering to send free stuff. Then we went to a club and she showed her instagram at the door and they let us skip the line and gave us a table. A TABLE. We are college students we dont get tables anywhere. She has already made high six figures.

I asked her if anyone ever checked if her followers were real. She said not once. Nobody checks. They see 900k followers and they just assume shes important

its like that HBO documentary "Fake Famous: where they took nobodies and bought them followers and suddenly the whole system treated them differently. I thought that was exaggerated when I watched it. Its not. I watched it happen in real life right next to me.

some people in our college now treat her completely different. Guys who never noticed her before are in her DMs. Girls want to be her friend. A professor even mentioned her "social media presence" as an example in class. Im sitting there knowing the whole thing is "fake" and I cant say a word.

part of me wants to do the same thing. Not even for the influencer stuff but maybe for our brand page or even just my personal page. Because I know the guys contact now since he originally pitched us for the brand. But idk if I could handle knowing its all fake. Then I look at her getting free dinners and 50k views on a video of her eating pasta, making so much money and I wonder if im the stupid one for trying to do everything the real way

not trying to make a point or anything. This has just been sitting with me for months and I cant exactly bring it up in real life without exposing her. So here it is I guess.