Their survival dilemma: not going home for months and preventing theft

Among the nearly 30 million cargo vehicles in China, the quality sampling rate of Beidou vehicle-mounted terminals last year was nearly 70%, which means that a huge group of people are facing related problems. Through three truck drivers who have many years of driving experience, we restore the current situation of their survival on the road: in addition to the fines related to the Beidou system, the road is full of obstacles, and they also face difficulties such as bumper stickers and theft, separation from their families in different places, physiological problems that cannot be properly solved, and so on.

“When my parents heard the horn, they thought I was back.”

Henan driver Lao Wang driving age 23 years

I’m 78 years old, learned to drive in my teens, has been driving for 23 years. Old drivers in this industry have felt very tired, someone in the shake said no more suffering and tired to let his son drive a big truck. Driving is very boring and tasteless, eating and driving, driving and eating. One day I drive to 12 o’clock at night, and then sleep until 6 o’clock and then get up to run, in addition to eating are driving, for two months in a row.

Sometimes my wife runs with me, sitting on the passenger side to direct the reversing; parking breaks my wife in the car to cook, with a small stove, a gas cylinder to do two meals, cook some noodles, put some vegetables. The car also carries meat and vegetables, running what are two meals, did not eat three meals, fear of delay. Eat and live in the car, ten days and a half months to open a hotel to take a shower. There are two sleepers in the car, behind the cab, double-decker, like we sit in the train, space is very small, it is difficult to turn over, 90 centimeters, like a small boat. Clothes are also changed in the car, in the morning in the service area to wash and brush, or use the water in the bucket. Toilet to the service area, it is very far to bear.

Road encountered too many bumper cars. Last year in Jiangxi, the car normal driving, a car to the intersection to drive out of a rub, and then he got off to let you down, said you hit him, I gave him 1000; some elderly people on crutches, walk to the car in front of a throw on the ground. What can be done? Monitoring can not be captured to say. This kind of thing reported insurance, the next year to buy insurance will cost thousands of dollars more, the police also delayed time.

I ran Lhasa from Guangxi in 08, the bridge collapsed in the summer rainy season, in the Tuotuo River traffic jam, with bread in the car, see a Jiangsu car with children behind, it gave them food. Who knows that has been blocked for two days and two nights, then no food, water is also no, (Qinghai-Tibet Road) grassland many puddles, the water is very clear, we are there to get water to drink. The Qinghai-Tibet plateau is originally lack of oxygen, headache and sleep. The most helpless is in Kunming in 2006 to stay for 9 days, did not match a carload of goods, can only wait in the parking lot, in the car slept for 9 days.

Running goods are generally two months, the children stay at home, the son a 16 a 14-year-old. The rebellious time to complain about other parents are at home. We run outside every day, no time and energy to go with the children, parents also take care of bad, my parents said to hear the roadside horn a sound, it feels like I drive back, open the door to see no.

What is the concept of a fine of 2,000 yuan? Buy a car to pay off the car loan, the family home to support the young, earn three or four hundred a day, you fined him two thousand, four or five days, a week for nothing. But which drive a year without a million or eight thousand? I most once fined 20,000. Henan Ye County, there is a water resources enforcement brigade, a one-time investigation of 22 dump trucks. The driver (driver) through a variety of relationships to find, say good words to speak of love, and finally fined to 50,000 when still do not agree to release the car, and then the card users have no choice but to go back. But then they found the impounded car on the road in the transport of money, card users directly stopped at the side of the national highway alarm, after the trucking association’s rights, 22 cars did not want a penny to release, to recover losses of more than 1 million.

Now driving more than 10 years of drivers, 10 8 have lumbar disc protrusion, basically heavy work force work can not do, drive a car in the next life, will not choose this career again.

“This list I see it aggrieved”

Shandong driver Lao Yang driving age 12 years

I am Shandong Heze. 08 years began to drive a truck, has been 12 years. Not home all day, there is work to run, no fixed route, where the goods go, sometimes in Shandong local, if you go to the south for four or five months are staying in the car. Generally go down the road (the bottom road outside the highway), because the highway can not afford to go. In addition to their own car, I have another car hired a driver, to remove the driver’s money, installments to pay the car loan, there is no left, but also to the car allowance.

In the car is not called life called work. I’m not happy when I’m in the car, the market is bad or the price is low, no goods, we can accept, but the unwarranted fine is very difficult to accept. 2019 in Hebei, Beidou dropped the line is the most unjust one I’ve ever been fined, the injustice is too great.

(That time) in Hebei Xingtai Pingxiang, to the over-limit station was stopped by a routine check, the car directly to the over-limit station over the pound, after the pound car no overload information. Not overloaded after looking for you a problem, is the Beidou. After the stop, he went to play (Beidou information) slip, but at that time there was nothing on the slip, so he said we blocked the information.

Beidou is sometimes bad, but we did not block it at that time. When I said I had no signal, they issued a fine of 3,000 yuan, and I saw that it said that Beidou was blocked. At that time, we retorted that the car was not blocked, but people did not listen to us, and the car was impounded directly, and we had to pay a fine to release the car.

The car did not move place in that day. The place to pay the fine is a fixed bank, I walked a few kilometers on foot to the bank to pay.

(Because) the car was detained for a day, to the local owner deducted me 3000, this trip I eat, drink and live plus pay the fine, folded more than 5000, the trip originally pulled industrial coal, a trip to earn a little more than 2000, I ran a total of three trips, not enough to pay the fine for this trip.

We now have a national policy, deliberately blocking (Beidou) can be warned. At least the first time I have to give me a warning, right? We are a farmer, did not finish junior high school, which I know this stuff, is high-tech things must be installed, but we can not control the signal, more than a year this list I have been holding (stay), can not see it, see it I feel aggrieved.

“Truck drivers are bullied everywhere”

Shanxi driver Lao Li driving age 27 years

I am a driver in Taiyuan, Shanxi, 47 years old, driving more than 20 years of car. (Last century) in the 90s to drive a truck is more popular, also like the car, go to drive a truck. Generally run Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, the southwest direction of more, the route is not too fixed, like a guerrilla.

At the beginning of pulling goods when there is a parking lot, around the information department, the information department has a small blackboard, sources of goods are written on the blackboard, you are like shopping in the market: (for example) I sent today from Hangzhou to Taiyuan goods, you see your intention of goods you can pull, you will go to his home and talk to him, you can also bargain a little. In the past nine years when driving, like our drivers to the factory side of the tube to eat and drink, a work to give you a subsidy of 50 yuan, when you leave and then give you to take the instant noodles.

Now not, everywhere is the car, a grab a lot, now driving is the bottom of society. Like we now take the freight, I ordered a marble from Changzhi to Yunnan Honghe Mile, the other party told me to give me 450, I said you can not go up a rise? He said this price is the platform to set the reference price.

Truck drivers are bullied everywhere. Someone bullied you on the road, to the factory side of the factory bullied you.

The larger factory regulations are particularly large. Our local factory loading more cars, I waited a day, the car drove to the factory to my turn to load, people said to put all your cell phone lighter to the gatekeeper, I took everything down, the car threw two previously unused cell phones did not take down, no card inside, he went up to see said that the goods can not be loaded today, in violation of the rules, have to drive to the side of reflection for 8 hours to load.

I said I do not load can go, he said you can go, you write a letter of guarantee, in the future no longer come to my factory loading delivery, equal to the blacklist. In the afternoon and write a letter of guarantee: because of my carelessness, did not check in place, resulting in security guards in the car to find the phone, next time I will not come to your factory loading. Just a few words. I waited for two days for nothing.

There is no limit to the time to pull the general cargo, if you pull vegetables, from now loading, if you say to Taiyuan market unloading, 1000 kilometers, to give you count how many hours, must be to the market. If late to deduct money. The year before last, I was from Jiangxi Nanfeng, loaded a carload of oranges to Yunnan Ruili, exported to Myanmar. Wednesday loading, according to the normal walk, Friday afternoon arrived, can be normal customs clearance to Myanmar unloading.

That night, when the service area in Xiangtan was fogged up, the car was sealed in the service area and was not allowed to leave until the fog cleared the next day. As a result, the customs office closed at 6:00 pm on Friday, so I had to wait for two days in Ruili.

The goods were unloaded on Monday to settle the freight. The boss said that one box of oranges was sold for 13 yuan less, more than 1,000 boxes, so he wanted to deduct 13,000 from me and not give me 18,000 for shipping. I also took pictures of him on the road, the service area traffic jam, special circumstances on the road, he did not care, I called the police, the police came to mediate, and finally pulled over the hard work, deducted my 6,000 yuan.

Pulling goods on the road there are also theft of fuel “oil rats”. A toilet out, a tank of oil to you finished. People have a bag, the pipe has a thick arm, take a large pipe pliers, the car are not down, drive a small car inside a plastic bag, a large oil bag, the car to your heel, the glass down. A large pipe pliers to your gas tank cover a skim, the pipe into it, two minutes the tank will give you finished.

We diesel cars run special lines, know which service area is safe, not safe only to find security guards, plug some tips, generally 20 to 30. He took a chalk, draw a mark on the tires, or take a red food bag to you tied to the car, it proves that your car has paid the protection fee. Gas guzzlers come over and do not steal your.

Like (Shanxi) Changzhi night not to steal oil, (while you) sleep outside the tires will be unloaded. Foreign cars come over and do not know, like the highway closed at night, someone parked at the highway intersection on the sleep. When you get up in the morning to start the car, snap, the bucket fell to the ground, no tires, the back of all 12 tires for you to finish. A tire (can be sold) more than 2,000, he used wood to get a stake for you to support up, the tire will be stolen.

I a year light traffic police fines on three to five thousand, the service area is full, no place to stop at night, you can only go hard, (Beidou) three and a half hours to start reminding you to exceed the time, 4 hours 01 minutes belong to fatigue driving. Stop to the side of the road to rest 20 minutes, the traffic police came to tell you is illegal parking, and 200 yuan 6 points, how can not. If you run Hunan, the service area to check two months of overtime records, there is a record is 6 points, a driver’s license 12 points, two to get you out, and then go to the traffic police team to re-learn the license, drop the vehicle class, you can no longer drive a large truck, equal to the rice bowl to get lost.