【Truck Home Original】With the car, you can most intuitively experience the whole process of pulling goods. Vehicles, routes, time, costs can be thoroughly displayed in front of the eyes, whether it is bitter or spicy, whether it is sour or sweet, with a car to know.
The appointment with Master Ma was 10:30 a.m. at a gas station in Huailai County, Zhangjiakou. As soon as I arrived at the gas station, I saw Master Ma.
Master Ma has been driving a truck for more than 20 years, and many large and small trucks have been driven, and now his car is a National Six 430 horsepower Dragon H5, manual transmission, Weichai engine, configuration is enough.
Pulling cement is not as demanding as Lutong Express, and the road conditions are mainly based on plain high-speed, the power is not too strong, and there is no need for a configuration such as liquid slowness, and Master Ma buys a car on a requirement, stable and reliable.
Master Ma's cargo is cement, and the fixed line is loaded from Yangyuan County in Zhangjiakou and then unloaded in Tianjin. The one-way distance is about 400 kilometers, and the time on the road is about 9-10 hours.
After seeing Master Ma, we simply exchanged a few words of greeting and set off from Huailai County to Yangyuan County to load the goods. This section of the road is about 150 kilometers, and since there is no problem of timeliness, we mainly use national highways.
Driving along the G118 East Ring Road, the national road is in better condition, there are not many cars along the way, and the big cars are bustling and not congested, and the driving is very relaxed and comfortable. Listening to Master Ma, this Dragon H5 was newly purchased last year, and has now run for more than 8 months and nearly 200,000 kilometers.
For the national six car is not good to raise, Master Ma said: good or not, depends on how you use it to maintain it. The same car, different people drive, some cars are in good condition, some cars are not in good condition, or the problem of drivers. And the car is a thing, 5 points, 4 points, 1 point repair.
For 5 points, 4 points, and 1 point repair, Master Ma explained it like this. As a tool for running on the road, maintenance on time can ensure reliability and stability. Just like people eating, the normal three meals a day, only give you one meal, will definitely be hungry, a long time thin, easy to have problems.
4 Separation refers to driving habits, how deep the throttle is, the timing of gear changes, predictive driving, and even how to play the steering wheel, all of which are a science. The same vehicles in the same section of the road, the fuel consumption of different drivers is much worse, which is the difference in driving habits.
The last 1 point is the problem with the vehicle itself. No problem, no problem, there are so many people on the space shuttle staring at the launch failure.
Simply put, on-time maintenance, refueling with guaranteed diesel and urea, and maintaining good car habits are the keys to stable attendance and fuel saving.
The trucks we saw along the way were mainly liberated HV and Chenglong H5, and other brands also had them.
From 11:00 a.m. to the loading site, it was already 3 or 4:00 p.m. We didn't stop along the way, so we didn't eat a mouthful of food, and when we were thirsty, we drank saliva.
When we arrived at the factory, the left side of the road was already full of trucks pulling coal, waiting to enter the factory to unload. We loaded the goods empty, no queues, and could go straight in.
As a result, we did not go tens of meters, and we were also stopped. It may be that the big brother who directed the traffic at the door went to the toilet, and for a time the road was blocked into a parking lot, and the front could not go in, and the back could not go out. It doesn't matter, just take a break.
After about 10 or more 20 minutes, the vehicle began to move and could enter the factory to load the goods. Originally thought that it could be loaded smoothly, but after going in, I found that there was no material now, and there were 4 tankers in front of me that also pulled cement, and the cement had to wait a while.
As a result, this wait was directly until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the drivers outside the factory gate lay down and rested. In the winter of Zhangjiakou, there must be a firewood in the car, otherwise it will definitely catch a cold. Our car from the 90 degree water temperature of the hot car, turned off for 30 minutes the car will be frozen.
At 12 o'clock, the loading was finally completed, and now it is ready to leave for Tianjin to deliver. Go to bed? There is no such thing as the work of the truck people day and night.
And we're fine, the coal delivery drivers have to wait in the car for the night. During the day, I also chatted with a big brother driver, who also came from Inner Mongolia to pull coal, arrived yesterday, waited overnight and a car that was unloaded during the day, too hard.
It took about 20 minutes to drive out of the factory area, and when we went to the highway, we found a restaurant on the side of the road that specialized in the truck driver business and ate a hot meal, which was 12 hours after the last meal.
The photo is of our truck home colleague, a 220-pound man, who will be hungry if he doesn't eat. We had a total of 4 cars and 6 people, ate 7 drawer buns, 8 eggs, and everyone was hungry.
After eating and drinking, the body is obviously much warmer, and continues to hurry. Now we walk along the direction of Beijing-Tibet and Beijing-Tianjin to Tianjin, and this section is basically on the whole highway.
Beijing is about to open the Winter Olympics, and many highways from Zhangjiakou to Beijing have been renovated and the road conditions are excellent.
If the truck can popularize L2 level assisted driving, have a lane in the center, and then have an adaptive cruise, the truck driver can save a lot of effort, and the safety performance is improved a lot.
We finished eating at 1 o'clock, and by 5 o'clock in the morning, we had been driving for nearly 4 hours, and according to the regulations, we had to stop and rest, so we found a service area to take a break. To be honest, I've been yawning for days.
After sleeping for about half an hour, we set off. As a result, there was a traffic jam not far from the service area. The big trucks lined up in 2 long queues, and at first I thought it was an accident, but the result was foggy and closed at high speed.
After getting off the highway, we began to take the national highway, which found that the fog at this time was so large that the fog lights were basically invisible 20 meters away.
What is surprising is that many drivers have no sense of safety, so foggy, not to mention turning on fog lights, even few who open wide lights. More people are driving double flashes, have weak safety awareness, and use vehicle lights extremely incorrectly.
Truck Encyclopedia: In the case of heavy fog, the first lights to be turned on are the width light and the front and rear fog lights, and the danger warning lights (double flashing) are generally not enabled. Fog lights have the strongest penetration, can let others find you, and you can also find others in time.
Heavy fog, accompanied by accidents. A Dongfeng Tianjin was hit and lost, and you can imagine how dangerous it was at that time.
As a result, after a period of congestion, the fog cleared and the speed of the vehicles increased. Merging into another section of high speed, this steel-rolling Howo TX runs really fast.
Finally, at 10:30 a.m., we finally arrived at the final destination of the trip, a factory in Tianjin's Dongli District. We can't enter this factory area to shoot, and according to Master Ma, after entering the factory area, it will take about 1 day to unload the car. In this way, master Ma pulls a trip of goods, which takes about 3 days to complete. After saying a simple goodbye to Master Ma, Ma Ge went into the factory to unload the goods non-stop.
● Editor's postscript
When counting the road, the whole down, 2 days, 1 night, the driving time is not long, of which the time waiting for loading and unloading, the time of traffic jam on the way is the big head. As a result, after 36 hours, we only had one meal. Cold and hungry can no longer describe the hardships of this trip. The hardships and fatigues in it can only be truly experienced by experiencing the hardships of truck people. (Text/Photo/Video Zhu Pengfei)