The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 18 Classification and Treatment

The next morning, Jiang Cheng got up early, packed all his luggage and clothes, had breakfast, played with his nephews and nieces for a while, and then set off.

At the stop, before the car arrived, Zhou Lingying showed up. Jiang Cheng was actually wondering if she would come, even though he said yesterday that he didn't need her to send him off and didn't need to ask for leave, but that was just one thing he said and one thing he meant.

Zhou Lingying came to give Jiang Cheng a photo and said that he had a girlfriend and that he should not treat other women like this when he went to the city.

If there weren't other people at the waiting point, Jiang Cheng would definitely kiss Zhou Lingying goodbye. But now he could only wait for the bus to arrive and get on it.

After arriving at the county seat, there were two buses to Changcheng a day, one at 10:00 a.m. and one at 2:00 p.m. I spent 20 cents to buy a ticket, took the morning bus, and arrived at the Changcheng Bus Station at 11:30 p.m.

Jiang Cheng did not go to eat, but went directly to the personnel department of the Ministry of Transport to report. When the personnel department saw his letter of introduction and the military vehicle driving qualification certificate he obtained in the army, they immediately took him seriously. Although this man was young, he was a master driver.

He immediately registered Jiang Cheng's information, and then, seeing that it was time, he took Jiang Cheng to the canteen for dinner. Employees also needed meal tickets and money to eat in the canteen, but Jiang Cheng was a retired military driver. If he went with the standard of hospitality in private, the bus station leaders wouldn't say anything.

After dinner, there was a reception room at the bus station, so Jiang Cheng rested and waited there. The driver's employment was not like that of an ordinary employee, and the leader signed and determined the grade.

Drivers are different from other employees. Other employees have eight levels, but drivers actually have only five. But each level has its own requirements. Although the person who just got the driver's license is considered a formal driver, he is not a level 5 driver. He can only be considered a level 5 driver after he has passed the novice period for one year and get a monthly salary of 40 yuan.

Jiang Cheng came from a motor vehicle corps, where driving lessons were more rigorous than in local areas. When he comes to local areas, he will probably be treated as a third-level driver, earning 58 yuan a month.

In addition, although other employees can earn about 100 yuan a month, drivers can only earn more than 80 yuan. This is mainly because drivers have extra subsidies. If they drive trucks to transport goods, they can get an extra 1 yuan a day for long-distance driving, and 60 cents a day for driving in the city.

Therefore, in terms of salary alone, the income of a first-level driver is no worse than that of an eighth-level technician. However, the benefits and treatment of drivers are incomparable to any other.

So Jiang Cheng reported here and was already employed, and he just had to wait for the arrangements from above. There were many things he had to deal with before he could officially start working, but he didn't have to worry. There was one advantage of this era. Even though today was June 17th, he would receive a month's salary on the 10th of next month.

On the afternoon of the day Jiang Cheng reported, the stationmaster in charge of transportation conducted an internal assessment on him.

Jiang Cheng showed everyone his skills on the spot. In this era, you must check the condition of the car before driving, especially the big car. Local drivers are basically apprentices with masters, and they also start by repairing cars. However, the time they have been in contact with vehicles and the problems they have encountered are completely incomparable to those of the military car soldiers.

Let's put it this way, a driver apprentice who has been in the service for two years is definitely not as good as a military driver who has been in the service for one year. And a driver apprentice needs to work for five years to become a formal driver, but their level is not as good as a military driver who has been in the service for two years.

Jiang Cheng started driving independently after two years in the army. The so-called qualification after four years of study was because the qualification standards required of the army's car soldiers were too high.

During the internal assessment, Jiang Cheng simply started the ignition and found several problems with the Jiefang car by just listening to the vibration of the car. Upon inquiry, he learned that this was not an assessment of his ability to repair cars, but that the car he was given had these problems. They couldn't repair it, it was an old problem, but there were some temporary solutions to make the car still drivable.

Car drivers these days all have a set of repair tools in their cars, and they basically repair their cars wherever they go.

As a professional Didi driver in the 21st century, Jiang Cheng is also a car fan. He may not be good at hands-on work, but he is very good at bragging about theories. He can brag a lot about the principles of the entire operation of the car, and now he has integrated his original memory and hands-on ability.

On the spot, Jiang Cheng dismantled many parts of the Jiefang truck chassis that he was given for the assessment. He repaired what could be repaired and replaced what could not. Some parts were difficult to obtain, so he drew the blueprints on the spot and asked the machinery equipment factory to help with the processing.

Anyway, his ability to repair vehicles alone has impressed the drivers present. Not to mention whether Jiang Cheng can completely solve some of the old problems of the vehicle, his ability to identify vehicle problems by sound alone shows that he is strong enough.

Then the assessment is just a simple test of how well you drive. Jiang Cheng has a military driver's license, so they don't want to see whether he can drive or not, but how well he drives.

At the end of the assessment, the salary standard for a third-level truck driver was 58 yuan per month. In fact, if you drive a passenger car, it is 60 yuan per month, which is a little easier.

But its existence is reasonable. There is no subsidy for buses, so every month, bus drivers actually get at least ten yuan less salary than truck drivers.

After assessing Jiang Cheng's ability, the higher-ups planned to let him drive long distances, which was hard work and also had certain risks. There were no expressways for long-distance driving, only ordinary roads with poor road conditions and very bumpy driving. Many drivers would rather drive between cities than take an extra 40 cents a day in subsidies.

But Jiang Cheng didn't care. When traveling long distances, he could achieve greater results with the portable space.

But even if I want to go on a long-distance trip, I have to wait a few days, at least I have to get my work certificate ready, and also arrange my accommodation. So I can only temporarily arrange the freight between the cities within the province in the past few days.

That night, Jiang Cheng was arranged to stay in a guesthouse near the bus station for a day. The next morning, he went to a photo studio to take photos, and then the personnel department took him to the subdistrict office where the bus station was located to handle housing rental and household registration issues.

"Director Li, this is a level three truck driver of our transport station. You have to take care of him." The personnel clerk from the street who brought Jiang Cheng here directly pointed out Jiang Cheng's professional identity and said to the director of the street office.

Those who do not have houses that meet the requirements for housing allocation in the urban area have to go to the street office where they work to handle housing resettlement. However, there are good and bad houses, and the street office also serves people differently. Ordinary workers in some bad units and some unpopular factories cannot get any good houses.

This truck driver is not a cadre leader, but he can never be treated as an ordinary employee. It can be said that in the small area of ​​the street office, everyone may give the street office director a little face. But outside, people will definitely pay more attention to the truck driver.

(End of this chapter)