The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 151: Transporting Mooncakes
In a city’s supply and marketing cooperatives, one cooperative generally supplies the daily expenses of tens of thousands of people.

There are more than one hundred supply and marketing cooperatives in Changcheng, which seems a lot, but Changcheng now has a population of more than two million, and one supply and marketing cooperative is responsible for the supply of an average of 10,000 to 20,000 people.

But that is only a theoretical statement. If we really need to supply so much, no supply and marketing cooperative can afford it.

In addition to supply and marketing cooperatives, there are actually state-owned stores that supply residents with a variety of goods.

State-owned stores are the main supply stores for urban residents, while supply and marketing cooperatives cover both urban and rural areas, have cooperative relations with villages, and purchase agricultural and sideline products from villages.

The agricultural and sideline products sold in state-owned stores come from state-owned farms and are more stable.

The pigs raised by the production teams in the villages are also purchased by the supply and marketing cooperatives and sent to the meat processing plants for slaughter. If there are not enough, they will purchase more from the meat processing plants.

The pork in state-owned stores is supplied by livestock factories first, so the products in state-owned stores are more stable. However, they do not have as many agricultural and sideline products as the supply and marketing cooperatives.

But no matter what, although state-owned stores and supply and marketing cooperatives are both state units, they are not a department.

This leads to a problem: due to lack of information, it is difficult for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative to distribute supplies according to the number of people covered by the cooperative.

Therefore, even if the supply is limited, it is actually only supplied to about half of the population, and many things may not be in sufficient supply.

But even so, any supply and marketing cooperative would calculate the quantity of goods distributed by tons during the holidays.

At eight o'clock, Captain Du showed up. He also brought a statistician with him. A statistician is also called a vehicle follower. He is responsible for figuring out what goods to transport, where to transport them, where to deliver them, and how many goods are there.

The driver is only responsible for driving and does not need to worry about anything else. Except for the car overturning and hitting the wall and damaging things, all other problems are the statistician's responsibility.

In fact, the drivers were also responsible for counting the cargo in the early days, but many of them were illiterate and could not keep count, which often caused problems. There were many people who could count, but not many who could drive.

If a driver is punished for having problems with statistics, he will have many ways to make the company suffer greater losses. Therefore, many companies have car drivers.

As for the fact that there are no truck drivers at the transport station, it is because the transport station is only a service industry, not delivering its own goods. They only earn the transportation fee, and can check the number of baskets or weight with the transport bill. They will not count them one by one, and if there is a problem, it is a matter between the shipping unit and the receiving unit.

Only for particularly important goods, the manufacturer will arrange for personnel to take the transport station's vehicle. In this way, the food on the road may also be provided by the shipping unit, and the transport station itself does not need any train attendants.

Transport Team 3 will not have any missions to go out of town before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Captain Du briefly explained the situation and the drivers waited for the statistician to turn over the card.

In the transport team, there are drivers and vehicle attendants who work together regularly. Unless there are special circumstances, the team leader does not need to make any arrangements.

Maybe because Jiang Cheng is young, some statisticians who follow the car don't dare to choose him. Especially those who transport eggs, they are afraid that they will be broken on the road. Then the branch offices below will only say bad things to the statisticians, not to the driver.

In the end, Jiang Cheng was selected by the statistician in charge of delivering mooncakes. Of course, there were several people who were also delivering mooncakes.

Jiang Cheng drove and followed the statistician's instructions to a warehouse. The entire warehouse was filled with moon cakes and some holiday foods. The warehouse door was large enough for cars to drive directly in.

"Master Jiang, wait a minute. I'll go down and hand in the list first."

"OK, all right."

The statistician got out of the car first and spoke politely to Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng also responded, but did not stay in the car. Instead, he got out of the car and strolled around the warehouse.

The mooncakes here are in boxes, some are packaged and some are not. The packaged ones are just wrapped in some very thin floral paper.

The origin and brand will be marked on the packaging paper. Those without packaging are basically purchased directly from local production.

Jiang Cheng took a quick look around and saw osmanthus tea cakes from Jiujiang, thin wafers from Ji'an, frozen rice candies from Fengcheng and the like, all of which were to be sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives during the festival.

In fact, Jiang Cheng doesn't like mooncakes, and thinks they are not delicious. If he wants to eat them, he prefers red bean paste mooncakes. But there are no red bean paste mooncakes here, but seeing the wafers aroused Jiang Cheng's appetite.

It was a bit like a thousand-layer cake, but it had a thicker crust with lots of sesame seeds on it. Although he didn't know what was inside, Jiang Cheng wanted to eat the thin, crispy outer layer.

Should I use the space to go there, but after thinking about it, I decided not to. The welfare of the supply and marketing cooperative is very good. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiang Cheng feels that the company will definitely give out moon cakes and the like. And this thing does not require a ticket to buy, maybe I can buy some internally in a few days.

The warehouse manager here took the delivery list from the statistician and arranged for people to load the goods directly. The statistician counted and checked the mooncakes, which came in various flavors and brands.

Because it is not delivered to a supply and marketing cooperative, the boxes have to be marked with numbers.

"Master Jiang, it's ready. We can set off." After the goods were loaded, the statistician said to Jiang Cheng.

"Okay, let's get in the car and go." Jiang Cheng responded.

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At ten o'clock, the temperature started to rise.

The third branch of the Chengdong District Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the office of the director of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

"Sister Zhu, Director Wang of our supply and marketing cooperative has received a transfer letter. He may leave after the Mid-Autumn Festival. I heard that Lao Li went to see Director Xiong after get off work yesterday."

"I'll think of a solution. I'll go talk to Director Xiong this afternoon."

The supply and marketing cooperative was not busy at this time. Zhu Lan was cracking melon seeds in her area. The melon seeds belonged to the supply and marketing cooperative. It was normal for the staff of the supply and marketing cooperative to taste the melon seeds and peanuts to see if they were crispy. They couldn't sell them to customers if they were damp.

Zhu Lan's colleagues told her about Director Wang, who is the deputy director here. However, regardless of whether he is the chief or deputy, everyone calls him director without the word "deputy".

The old Li mentioned by my colleague is the one who is in charge of the logistics here. The warehouse at the back, as well as some goods classification and inspection, are all in charge of old Li. It can be said that for many things within the supply and marketing cooperative, the director always looks for old Li in the logistics department.

According to the status of the supply and marketing cooperative, it is actually the logistics Lao Li who is stronger. But why does Director Xiong want to have an internal competition? The reason is very simple. You have seen many priority employees become cadres. Director Xiong is relieved to leave the logistics to Lao Li.

The leaders wanted brave soldiers, not capable officers, and Director Xiong only had the power to recommend the deputy director position. Once the recommendation was made, it would be difficult to remove it if he was not satisfied.

Therefore, Director Xiong did not want someone who was too capable to be the deputy director, but if someone who was too incompetent was recommended, the internal staff would not accept it. Originally, Zhu Lan suddenly emerged and used his personal ability to get some materials to the supply and marketing cooperative.

But the past month has been a bit disappointing. Besides, Lao Li has been working in logistics for so many years, so it’s not that he can’t get supplies.

The current leaders don’t dare to be too shady. If the person they recommend cannot convince the public, it will chill many people’s hearts. They may even report it. In addition, the logistics manager, Lao Li, is not a rigid person.

According to the staff of the supply and marketing cooperative, Mr. Li should be safe.

If it was a few days ago, Zhu Lan would have thought that she had no chance. People of this generation usually don't have strong ideas about being a leader, even if they do.

Even in the past, some people refused to be recommended as leaders because of their introverted personality, even if many people thought they were capable.

In the early days of liberation, many new factories were built and many cadres were recommended by everyone. Many of them really became leaders reluctantly.

By now, although everyone knew that being a cadre was good, they didn't try their best to get in. Therefore, Zhu Lan didn't shamelessly ask Jiang Cheng to deliberately get her supplies. After all, they were just neighbors, and at most they could benefit from each other.

But now, some things are so magical, Jiang Cheng actually went to work as a driver in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. We can't say they are in the same system or department, but they are all in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative circle.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng was the driver of the headquarters. Zhu Lan wanted to try whether her "cousin"'s identity as the driver of the headquarters would be useful to Director Xiong.

Just as Zhu Lan was talking to her colleagues about Director Wang's transfer, a Jiefang truck passed in front of their supply and marketing cooperative, with the words "Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative" sprayed on the front of the truck.

The car went directly around the front to the warehouse at the back, most likely to replenish goods. Mr. Li from the logistics department arranged someone to be responsible for reception, counting and unloading the goods.

Zhu Lan didn't think much about it, and there was no need to think much about it. Generally, the drivers and drivers who replenished the supply and marketing cooperatives were fixed. Fixed drivers and drivers were familiar with the routes and could save time.

(End of this chapter)