"The second home" is now the cardholders for the highest evaluation of heavy trucks with comfortable characteristics, but everything has a process, since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the transport life of Chinese cardholders also has an obvious upgrade chain, today the truck E family will take you to see the development of the commercial vehicle industry for 70 years, whether the transportation experience of Chinese cardholders has become better?
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, production was greater than everything
Since 1956, China's first self-produced liberation CA10 off the assembly line, China's commercial vehicle industry has broken the history of not being able to produce cars independently, but subject to the restrictions of the times and the weak foundation of China's automobile industry at that time, trucks are mainly used in core areas such as national defense construction and important material transfer, and the core configuration of the vehicle is concentrated in the power system of the vehicle and the basic driving control. Therefore, neither the manufacturer nor the car user takes into account the comfort of the product.
The seats, interiors, and other configurations of the vehicle are quite rudimentary. Iron or wooden seats, wrapped in simple leather fabrics, and without any shock-absorbing filtration, cardholders are more focused on whether the vehicle is durable and easy to maintain, rather than what kind of transportation experience the vehicle has under the muck roads that were everywhere at that time.
Open introduction of comfort consciousness awakening
Since the reform and opening up, the country has entered the so-called "opening and introduction period", in this period of time, the domestic economic development ushered in a period of rapid development, and at the same time in the technological development of the automobile industry has also cooperated with foreign advanced enterprises, the rise of joint ventures has made domestic truck technology continue to upgrade, such as Dongfeng EQ153 This kind of flat-top truck representatives, as well as the liberation of the third generation of products in the 90s have made the cardholders of the year want to pursue the consciousness of comfort upgrades.
At the same time, with the help of the reform and opening up, the market economy has developed rapidly, and the road freight business has gradually become active in the center of the stage, which has also given birth to more people who choose to invest in the work of truck driving and transportation. This can also be said to be the evolution of vehicle configuration and character thinking brought about by the influence of the times.
In this era, taking the seat as an example, the vehicle began to gradually increase the upholstered seats, the past integrated sofa seats have easy breakage, poor shock absorption performance, low comfort problems have been gradually solved, the first generation of comfort configurations such as mechanical shock absorbing seats began to appear on the market, to provide all-round support for card friends engaged in road transport, although in the past to drive a truck is a technical job, there is a high professional dignity, but the hard work is only the old drivers at that time to guide themselves. The upgrade of product comfort has made Chinese cardholders feel for the first time that truck transportation can also have such a comfortable experience.
Catch up quickly and strong brands intervene
When the time entered the 2000, at the beginning of the 21st century, China's economy was incorporated into the world track, China's automobile industry entered a period of rapid development and catch-up, China has also become one of the world's largest automobile markets, the technology and strength of domestic truck brands gradually catch up with the pace of international high-end brands, such as the liberation of the J4 "Siping Chai", Dongfeng Violet have been respected by the industry's transportation practitioners, and the comfort has been further extended.
At the same time, with the advancement of technology, the improvement of work efficiency has brought longer working hours, greater work pressure and personal attention to health concepts for truck drivers, especially after the upgrade of the road network, smooth transportation routes have extended the career of cardholders, but also brought challenges to their long-distance transportation health problems.
At this stage, the comfort configuration of domestic trucks began to be subdivided, such as the seat began to develop towards independence, which means that more high-quality seat manufacturers began to enter the market, Yisling Huatai is one of them, since its establishment in 2005, it has cooperated with many domestic manufacturers to bring users the guarantee and support of seat comfort. At the same time, the needs of cardholders have also changed from mechanical shock absorption to the pursuit of seats with airbag shock absorption, multi-directional adjustment, heating and ventilation and other functions, and gradually began to care about and pay for their own health.
Integrated care, intelligent and human
After entering the 20s of the 21st century, the domestic commercial vehicle industry first ushered in a wave of strong sales growth through the national VI, and now gradually warmed up from the trough, people's perception of vehicles from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the early days of the simple production tool attributes to now began to take into account intelligence and comfort, the society began to emphasize the strengthening of the protection of workers' rights and interests, so heavy trucks on the one hand to improve horsepower at the same time is also to pay attention to the physical and mental health of card users and the working environment.
Even in the matter of subdividing working conditions, not only the car manufacturers are attentive, but also seat companies such as Easting Huatai are also paying attention to the development route of subdivided working conditions, and comprehensively analyze the height, shortness, fat and thinness, car habits and travel routes of card friends, and have launched a lot of products suitable for various models.
For example, in the current high-end models such as Jiefang J7, long-range Xinghan H, Shaanxi Automobile X6000, SITRAK equipped with NTS875 seats are very popular with cardholders, with shoulders, backrest, inclination, seat depth, downhill, damping adjustment and other multiple functions;
We are in the current era, in the face of the pain points raised by cardholders in terms of comfort, and at the same time we have to predict what kind of needs cardholders will have in the future, as far as the truck e family understands, at present, many active and passive safety systems have been added to intelligent assisted driving and other configurations, and the future may appear in the seat, central control or other parts configuration, providing biometrics, health data tracking and other functions, providing customized support for the daily transportation of cardholders. If cardholders have the need to change their drivers, they may also be able to look forward to the memory function of seats or other configurations of different personnel, so that cardholders can achieve one-click matching when they get in the car and reduce the probability of occupational diseases.
Recently, Transfar Charity Foundation released the "China Truck Driver Health Survey Report", involving more than 1,000 cardholders, in which it mentioned that more than 33.1% of cardholders suffer from chronic pain, 21.7% of cardholders have chronic gastritis, 5.6% of users have kidney stones and other diseases, most of which are related to long-term sedentary and seat mismatch. In terms of the solutions given, we can see the vision of "promoting comfortable seats to reduce driving pressure", and the supporting installation of Easting Huatai on major car companies in recent years can see that this vision is getting closer and closer to cardholders.
Write at the end
From 1949 to 1956 to now in 2024, the pursuit of comfort by Chinese cardholders has changed from not picking and choosing at the beginning to now devoting themselves to building their cars into a "second home", which is the result of the comprehensive factors of technology, products, markets, needs and customer concepts, as well as the progress of the times. Although the industry freight rate is low and the environment is complex, but the cardholders have always been progressing in pursuit of product progress, from the appearance, the transportation experience of Chinese cardholders is making real progress, but from the perspective of many internal factors, we still have a long way to go from the real "good" and "happiness", and a lot of work to do. Do you think the transportation experience of Chinese cardholders has really changed over the years?