17 million truck drivers: The road film in reality is not comedy

They are unwilling to stand still

There are tens of millions of truck drivers in China. They are accompanied by cars and their roads. They have a huge logistics and transportation network. Data from the Ministry of Transport in 2021 showed that in 2020, 17.28 million truck drivers in the industry completed 74 % of the cargo volume and 31 % turnover of the whole society.

Since the beginning of this year, the epidemic and international situation have a great impact on the development of the road freight industry. With the gradual landing of the national logistics preservation and public security measures in the first half of the year, drivers who undertake the heavy responsibility of production and living materials are on the highway again.

"Porter" on high -speed roads

In the eyes of many people, this is not a "decent" job. Under the high -pressure life of "atomic", most truck drivers have problems with the cervical and lumbar spine of the truck drivers. Irregular meals make "stomach disease" a occupational disease in this industry.

Their income is not satisfactory. More than ten years ago, truck drivers were still a high -paying profession. By now, the income does not rise and fall, and most truck drivers do not have five insurances and one gold. Once a mistake may be "dumping".

In addition, on the road thousands of kilometers, truck drivers will inevitably deal with people such as various people, cargo owners, peers, road administration, loading and unloading workers, "fuel consumer" and so on. Most of the truck drivers come from rural areas. They often do not have the advantage with these people. The rush all the way not only consumes energy, but also consumes dignity.

Although the threshold of truck drivers is not high, it is not attractive to young people. The "Survey Report on the Circular Status of the 2021 Van Driver in 2021" released by the China Logistics and Procurement Federation shows that the 24.1%of the truck drivers are 26-35 years old, 48.7%are aged 36-45, and 24.4%are 46- 55 years old, only 1.4%of groups under 25. Young people are unwilling to enter this circle, and this profession has been in a state of speech for a long time.

Truck driver in the image

"Hello everyone, I'm Xiaogang", with the iconic start of the video, a middle -aged man appeared in front of the camera. The ID of the truck driver Xiaogang on the short video platform is called "the prosperity of the field". As of now, he has 2.435 million fans at station B. Xiao Gang's explosion comes from his love for "怼" rice. Xiao Gang will not describe the taste of food with fancy adjectives, only to say "strong". Xiao Gang was eager to eat, and the audience looked at it.

Since entering the era of mobile Internet, truck drivers are getting more and more attention.

The topic of the truck driver on the Kuaishou platform was played by 11.07 billion times, and there were 33.17 billion playback on the Douyin platform. Thanks to the exposure of the Internet, the "cards" of the car also walked from the "card friend culture" with a strong male atmosphere to the stage. In short videos, they must not only be responsible for the living of the two or even the family on the car, but also to check the goods part -time, the business is developing, and sometimes they have to get started to drive in person and bear more than half of the responsibility on the road.

These images outline the daily state of the truck driver door, and also let people see their hard work and positive attitude towards life. More and more people realize that the meals and meals in their hands may be traveled thousands of miles, and more and more people really start to pay attention and approach this group.

17 million "card friends", unwilling to stand still

During the epidemic, the truck drivers sealed on high -speed roads attracted the attention of the whole society.

In fact, before the epidemic, the "road closure" was also commonplace for truck drivers. Different from the delays when we are taking a plane and train, high -speed road closures are unbearable for truck drivers.

Most of the truck drivers trapped on highways are faced with dual torture of physical and spiritual.

The 2019 operation report of the Ministry of Transport's Road Network Monitoring and Emergency Disposal Center shows that the average annual annual high -speed blockage of highways in my country reached more than 20,000, and traffic blockers accounted for 25%of various blocks; in 2019, my country The highway was affected by the fog, causing a loss of about 44 billion yuan.

These losses are likely to fall on truck drivers to increase transportation costs.

" Card "Huang Pan and his husband are a microcosm of tens of millions of truck drivers in China. For more than ten years, it is their greatest expectation to deliver the goods on time.

It is not easy to achieve this. Huang Pan and her husband's main goods are fresh, which is not a good job in the truck circle. Fresh distribution has high requirements for timeliness, from the shortest time to receipt from the car, leaving them only a few hours. Once time is over, a car's fruits and vegetables must pay for both husbands and wives. Once you encounter extreme weather such as heavy fog at a high speed, the road is high -speed, and the couple can only wait on the road.

The "card friends" blocked at the high -speed cohesion is extremely high, but even if there are "card friends" supporting each other, the delayed fog still makes Huang Pan extremely anxious. "In the past, when I met the fog, after the high speed was sealed, the time would definitely not keep up, the goods must be delayed, and the freight was lost." She said.

Fortunately, the development of science and technology has brought some changes to "Huang Pan".

The construction of the smart high -speed "pull" the fog for the truck drivers. As the most convenient road channel in Beijing to connect the Xiong'an New District, the Jingxiong highway is one of the most important smart high -speed demonstration roads in the country. Now this highway has achieved quasi -all -weather traffic. Baidu, as the implementation unit of the software platform project in Jingxiong Smart Highway model project, successfully solved the technical difficulties of high -speed all -weather traffic through Baidu smart high -speed solutions. It can support truck drivers to be smooth and safe under the unfavorable weather conditions such as night, fog and sky such as fog and sky. Pass. At the same time, with the improvement of fusion perception and AI algorithm, the deployment distance of the equipment has been successfully expanded to 1 km, and the cost is reduced by 30%.

After the coordinated construction of the road, the truck drivers can receive the reminder on the front road in advance through the small "screen" inside the car, such as "enter the fog area in front, speed limit 30" Crash warning, please drive "... Let Kago Ka more have a pair of smarter and farther" eyes ".

Trucks in high -speed driving are "rhinos" that cannot be easily stopped. Sudden brakes, steering, and avoiding overtaking, a small movement of the body, a small change in the road conditions, transmitted to the entire car may cause catastrophic consequences. In bad weather, the tragic accidents are even more frequent.

In March 2015, there was a foggy weather in Sichuan. There were many rear -end traffic accidents in multiple highways. Three people died and more than 40 people were injured to varying degrees.

On April 3 this year, due to the influence of the fog, there were many large truck collision accidents in the Jinzhou section of the Beijing -Shenzhen highway. Some vehicles were severely damaged and were congested nearly 20 kilometers. The truth of "life is higher than everything" understands each truck driver, but when the economic benefits of the car are placed on both ends of the balance between the economic benefits of the car and the hidden safety hazards brought by the bad weather, someone will still be biased towards the former.

"Can't say the car, who does not pay the car to pay the salary?"

Technology lent the truck drivers "a pair of wisdom eyes." Huang Pan, who first came to Jingxiong high -speed, personally experienced a detailed reminder of driving information such as weather, car distance, speed, and collision in front of him. "If you have a dangerous device before, our sports cars can also be assured and earn more. I really hope that such high -speed roads can be spread all over the country."

Ten years ago, truck drivers were a "scenery" high -paying occupation, but whether it was the "high -speed knight" of the year or the owner of the "big disaster car" of many people now, the truck drivers always used the tire to measure the length of life. In the most bitter days, you can always "give some oil".

They are advancing silently, and technology is silently moving. Today, AI can help them cross the fog, and in the future, they are looking forward to making them more at ease on the road.

Our call for a better life leads the direction of scientific and technological development. At the just -concluded Baidu World 2022 conference, the host Sabenin once said that "a road that can be opened in urban and rural areas" is being slowly unfolding on the land of the motherland.

I hope this road can pass to the door of each truck driver.

This article only represents the author's point of view, and does not represent the position of this magazine.

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