The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 133 The Supply and Marketing Cooperative is going to expand its transport team
Changcheng, Transportation Bureau, Highway Transport Management Office.

The Transportation Bureau manages waterways, railways and roads, while cars are managed by the Highway Transportation Administration.

At this time, a meeting was being held in the conference room of the Highway Administration. The stationmasters of the transportation station and the passenger station were all there, as well as the president of the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative and the director of the logistics department of the cooperative.

This meeting was coordinated by the management office. Changcheng is the capital of Jiangxi Province. Many major departments of the entire province are located here. With the development of society, people's living standards are getting better and better, and supply and demand are expanding rapidly.

There will always be some departments that cannot keep up and need external help.

The Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative is now facing the problem of transportation. It needs to purchase and distribute goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives below it. In addition, due to the development of foreign trade, more and more foreign trade products are being converted to domestic sales.

Last year, the United Nations restored China's legitimate seat, and relations with the United States improved at the beginning of the year. Of course, all this had nothing to do with the supply and marketing cooperatives. The key was the Canton Fair held in Guangzhou two or three months ago, with tens of thousands of merchants from 72 countries and regions participating.

We have completed many foreign trade orders, but there are also many products that cannot be considered unqualified, but can only be said to fail to meet the requirements of the other party. There are also some products whose orders have been cancelled for some reasons.

Once these products leave the production factory, there is no such thing as sending them back to the factory. Foreign trade orders are not part of planned production, and the factory will no longer be responsible for the goods after they leave.

Therefore, the Foreign Trade Bureau generally allows state-owned stores and supply and marketing cooperatives to convert foreign trade products into domestic sales, and these goods converted from foreign trade to domestic sales are in great demand.

However, these goods have to be transported by the supply and marketing cooperatives under them. If no one is sent to transport them, the goods will be handled by the head offices in other cities.

As for these commodities that are transferred to domestic sales, apart from the local headquarters keeping a portion for themselves, the local leaders have to show some appreciation.

Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative has its own transport team, but its transport capacity is insufficient.

Even though people’s living standards may not have improved much in the past decade, you have to look at how many bicycles there were on the road in the 1950s and 1960s, and how many bicycles are used to commute to get off work every day now.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the population was only 600 million, but now it has reached 900 million. Even if the living standard remains unchanged, if the population grows by 50%, the supply of the supply and marketing cooperatives will have to increase by 50%.

Moreover, the population is still increasing rapidly. Although the average salary has not changed much, the consumption power is increasing. After all, more and more people have jobs.

Now the Supply and Marketing Cooperative has obtained the permission from the leadership to expand a new transport team. The vehicle has also been approved and will be delivered to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative soon. Now we are in need of a driver.

Some factories have their own transport teams, and the traffic and highway management office cannot reach them. But the bus station is directly managed by this office, and it needs to support a few skilled transport drivers.

But now the stationmaster of the bus station is a bit overwhelmed by this problem. There are two or three drivers in the station, but because of the accident of Master Feng, a new driver has been replaced at the transport station, and he can only drive short distances for the time being.

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative wanted several drivers at once, and they added their own drivers to form a new transport team. Then the new drivers trained by the bus station could basically all drive cars. Some of the new drivers were unreliable, but this was not the key issue.

The key is that the management and transportation methods of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative are different from those of the bus station. There is no fixed route, and the distance is sometimes very exaggerated. In addition, if you go to purchase, you have to bring a buyer with you.

In this case, the experienced drivers who work at the transport station are unwilling to go. They are not free, and they may not get much money. Even the subsidies may not be as much as those at the transport station. Because there are also people who do transport in the city, leaving in the morning and returning in the afternoon, and they don’t even get the 60-cent subsidy for short-distance trips. The bus station wants to send novice drivers, but they don’t want them, so they send experienced drivers. It’s difficult to persuade them.

"Director Chen, there is no other way. The drivers at our bus station are usually busy, and we don't have many apprentices to recruit, so we can't mobilize them." Stationmaster Xu of the transport station said with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Yes, Director Chen, we in the passenger transport department have to find people to cover for the drivers even when they are on break, so we don't have time to take apprentices. This supply and marketing cooperative only wants experienced drivers, not new ones, and we really can't transfer them." The stationmaster of the passenger station also echoed.

The stationmasters of the two departments of the bus station usually compete with each other and dislike each other, but now they are on the same side in the office. After all, whether it is passenger or freight, it is just one department of the bus station, and people don't talk to them separately.

"We have to find a way to solve it. This is a task assigned by our superiors. In fact, we requested two drivers from the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau two days ago. We finally found yours." Director Chen said.

After hearing what Director Chen said, the stationmaster knew that there was no other way. Although the drivers of the Housing and Construction Bureau work at construction sites, their income may not be as high as that of the drivers at the bus station. But in fact, the drivers have an easy job. Generally, the transportation distance is not too far, and the time is wasted by loading and unloading.

The drivers of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau often spend two or three hours loading and unloading goods, and they don't even need an hour on the road. Although the subsidy is not much, you can still get some benefits when you are free. Except for the dust, it is really easy.

It's not just one company that's unlucky. The stationmaster of the bus station feels better. Who lets the Supply and Marketing Cooperative give some leaders some real benefits? The bus station is raised by the concubine, an illegitimate child. It's a service industry, no matter how difficult it is, it can't be seen from above.

The meeting ended at around five o'clock, and the Transportation Bureau didn't invite anyone to have dinner.

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative is expanding its new transport team, but the new vehicles have not arrived yet. The bus station still has time to find drivers. There is also time to recruit drivers. If you have the ability, you can recruit a few drivers for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

But it needs to be a skilled driver. It is easy to recruit novice drivers, but it is difficult to recruit experienced drivers. Many factory drivers have been apprenticed for several years, but each has his own position. There are not many cars, so they can’t get started.

When recruiting new drivers, there will definitely be some factory driver apprentices who will apply for the job, but it is difficult to find qualified ones among them. And when recruiting new drivers, if the bus station does not give the positions to some of the driver apprentices of its own units, some driver masters will definitely make trouble.

Jiang Cheng was eating and drinking with his apprentice in the restaurant. The restaurant in the city still sells drinks, but only apple flavored ones, without bottles, and 1 cent a bottle.

But it does have a strong apple flavor, but the texture and taste are slightly worse than the soda bought in Shanghai.

In this restaurant, Jiang Cheng still didn't order fish. In fact, he really likes to eat fish, provided that it tastes good. But there are so many fish in the space, so he can just let Zhou Lingying practice cooking fish when he gets home. As long as you are willing to add seasoning, the fish won't taste too bad.

I ordered four dishes again, fried tofu, fried leek and egg, minced meat and eggplant, and lotus root meatballs. Lotus root meatballs are not vegetarian, but meatballs with some ginger and lotus root cut into them.

This time, I spent 1.8 yuan for a few dishes, rice, and a drink. Tofu is considered a meat dish in a restaurant, but fried tofu costs 0.2 yuan.

However, while eating fried tofu, Jiang Cheng remembered the tofu shop he encountered in the suburbs of Jiujiang when he went to Yancheng last time. He would pass by there tomorrow morning and wonder if he could sell some soy products to him.

(End of this chapter)