The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 43 Emergency at the Transport Station
It is true that you don't need a food supplement certificate to buy hairtail here. But when Jiang Cheng wanted to buy several dozen kilograms, the seller refused to sell them. Jiang Cheng's obvious foreign accent and the fact that he bought so much at once made people wonder what he was going to do with it.

However, when Jiang Cheng showed his driver's ID, he said he was a driver from another place.

Hehe~~, as a driver, everyone understands that it is not easy to go on a long journey. Not only did he sell it to Jiang Cheng, he also specially loaded it on his car parked outside the market.

These days, drivers are one of the few professions that can resell things openly. If someone else resells something, people's first thought is to report it. If a driver disposes of some unused items, people will curry favor with him.

Just like in later generations, if you keep a college student as your mistress, it is at most a private act. But if you, a poor fellow, only spend a few hundred yuan to keep a mistress for three minutes, it is a threat to social stability.

After buying the things, Jiang Chengcai drove to the machinery factory.

Maybe no one is willing to haul long-distance orders for machinery and accessories. This is just like the nature of truck drivers in later generations who would rather die of hunger than haul rolls, die of poverty than haul pipes, and die of exhaustion than haul boards.

The roads are not easy to travel on. If the car accidentally gets stuck in a pit, sometimes the driver can unload the cargo by himself to reduce the weight of the car and drive out in a place where there is no one. At most, it will take a little time. But if the cargo is too heavy, you have to ask for help from people in nearby villages.

Generally, if there is a commune nearby, find the person in charge of the commune. They are all serving the country and have the obligation to help the driver get the car out. I am afraid that I will run into a place where there is no village or shop.

Therefore, when the people from the machinery factory saw Jiang Cheng's car, they quickly reported it. The person in charge of loading the goods directly gave Jiang Cheng a pack of cigarettes, which was a brand he was not familiar with, called Pegasus.

But judging from the packaging of the cigarettes, they should not be too bad. Even if this pack of cigarettes costs only about 20 cents, it is enough for his daily salary.

After loading the goods, Jiang Cheng set off immediately. It was not a big deal when he came to Yancheng, but when he thought about going back and getting married with Zhou Lingying, he felt like going home.

Jiang Cheng looked at the map for this shipment. The journey was not very far, and it was not the same route as the previous one. But it would pass through five large urban areas, so he could actually handle a lot of fish along the way. There was almost always a city area of ​​more than 100 kilometers, so the roads he would take would be wider.

It takes about two to three hours to pass through a city. If you don't take a break at noon, you can reach Huangshan City in one and a half days. If you set out very early in the morning, it is not impossible to reach Huangshan City in one day if the road is passable.

However, most drivers will not drive so hard. The weather is hot and it is difficult to steer the wheel. Driving for more than ten hours a day without stopping is difficult for the body to bear.

If you take the city roads, you may have to take some detours. Some roads can actually go through some counties to be faster. But if you are not familiar with the route, it is okay to take some detours.

Moreover, if Jiang Cheng takes the main road, he can easily meet other truck drivers, and they may even travel together for a while. When they get tired, they can drive to a cool place, smoke a cigarette, and brag. They can even share where they can get some in-demand goods.

On the first night, Jiang Cheng drove to Xuancheng. If he hadn't sold fish several times, his wealth would have accumulated to 500 yuan. When he arrived in Xuancheng, he could have arrived at least one or two hours earlier.

In Xuancheng, Jiang Cheng found a guesthouse to stay in. Sleeping in the car was fine, but it was not as comfortable as sleeping on a bed. And Jiang Cheng could only use the space to store water for bathing and washing clothes.

If it were other drivers, they would try to stay in a guesthouse even if they could sleep in the car. Water use is a headache for the drivers.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that it would rain in Xuancheng that night. There was a big tree outside the window of his room, and the sound of rain and wind was like a ghost.

The next day, Jiang Cheng got up and it was still raining. He was somewhat glad that he didn't take any shortcuts and drove through the county and town roads. When going from Changcheng to Yancheng, even if the car was empty, one had to be very careful when facing some mountain roads. If it rained, even those with good driving skills would be terrified. After washing up, Jiang Cheng checked out of the guesthouse, got in the car and set off.

This rain really didn't stop. In this era, there were not many high-rise buildings. In the south, the humidity in most houses was very high. In layman's terms, it was called "rebound". The ground floor was wet.

Jiang Cheng was on his way back to Changcheng, rain or shine, and the rain could not stop him from going back to get married. But at this time, a bad thing happened at the transportation station in Changcheng.

Truck driver is really a risky job in this day and age. It was raining a while ago and a nearly 40-year-old driver from Changcheng Transport Station overturned his truck at a bend on a small road.

The driver's car had been repaired for many years, and the problem could not be solved without replacing a large number of important parts. This accident caused the car to need a major repair, mainly because the driver was also injured, which was quite serious. He has no problem taking care of himself, but he can't drive the car anymore.

The injured driver's name is Feng Minglin, and his left leg and left hand were injured. Especially his leg, which was deformed by the seat when the car overturned, and he was still a cripple after healing.

The Transportation Department is now facing two problems. One is that there is one less driver here. Of course, there are many car apprentices at the bus station. They have learned for many years, but there is no car for them to drive. The driver is easy to solve, and several qualified car apprentices will compete.

The key is another problem, how to place the injured Master Feng, who certainly cannot drive a car. Either his children can take over the job, and if it is a daughter, she can be arranged to work in other positions. If it is a son, he will basically follow in his father's footsteps and become an apprentice driver. Another way to place Master Feng is to arrange him to a logistics position, which can also be considered as a care.

Master Feng chose to let his son take over the job. His son is Feng Hua, who is 16 years old this year. It is no problem for him to be an apprentice in the automotive industry. After five or six years of study, he will be ready to become a master.

However, car apprentices in this era did not receive any salary, only an apprentice allowance of about 18.5 yuan per month. If Master Feng did not allow his son Feng Hua to be a car apprentice, he could actually arrange other jobs for Feng Hua, and a salary of about 30 yuan would be no problem at the beginning.

But those who have been car drivers naturally know how respectable it is to drive a car. Even if you are an apprentice, it is easier to find a partner than some formal workers.

However, after the leaders of the bus station held a meeting and asked almost all the drivers, no one was willing to take an apprentice.

The drivers at this bus station are different from those in some units and factories. Some large factories like meat processing plants, textile plants, steel plants, etc. all have their own transport vehicles.

The tasks of the factory drivers are not as heavy as those of the bus station drivers. They are mainly responsible for the internal delivery of goods in their own factories. Therefore, they have more free time and have time to teach apprentices.

Another thing is that the factory’s vehicle movements are subject to the factory’s arrangements, and the drivers do not have much autonomy.

The drivers at the bus station have great autonomy over the cars. For example, the car that Jiang Cheng is driving is parked in the parking lot. Although the car belongs to the company, others will say it is Mr. Jiang's car when they see it.

　It's the weekend, and because the new book is out of the warehouse, the performance in the past few days is not ideal. I also know that the period literature is like this, without that kind of refreshing feeling, it is easy for everyone to put it aside for two or three days and read several chapters at once. But during the new book period, it is necessary to catch up, and I still hope that everyone will read it directly when they have time to read.

I can't support it, so if you have tickets, please give them to me.

　
(End of this chapter)