Chapter 223: They are all poor people

Based on the information from various materials, Chen Mingluo judged that there are about one million regular taxis in China now. Calculated at the price of 1,000 yuan per meter, it is also a market capacity of one billion yuan. Of course, there is another very important point, that is, these vehicles are constantly being updated, so this market is also constantly expanding, not a one-time transaction.

In fact, we cannot expect how much taxi ownership will increase. In recent years, the government has restricted the number of taxi ownership. Even in the next ten years, the number of taxi ownership of one million will not increase much.

But Chen Mingluo also considered another thing, that is, although the metering industry is not very big, it is more professional. Once you have preconceived ideas, the possibility of others entering and pushing you off is much smaller. After all, this is something that has the restrictions of national mandatory standards.

Then if you can formulate the most standardized and suitable meter standards for the market and promote the industry standards to become national standards, you might be able to monopolize the market for a long time. Although this thing is inconspicuous, it is very affordable and profitable.

Thinking that my water-saving faucet patent is already bringing you a steady stream of rich returns, if you develop a few more similar new projects, it will not show off and make a fortune in silence, which is indeed a good choice.

As of now, among domestic taxi entities, there are Xiali, Jetta, Fukang, etc. The lowest-end ones are still on the table and the freight rates are also multi-level. Different cities have different freight rates. For example, Shenzhen, the lowest-priced small counties have only two yuan starting prices. Some small counties and towns in the western and central areas start at two yuan, and the kilometer price is 80 cents per kilometer, and there are 60 cents.

Of course, those taxis are small cars, Antelope, Alto, etc., and the freight rates of these cars are very low.

However, no matter what, taxis in most cities have unified headlights and ceiling lights, including unified car color, unified logos, including meters, bills, etc.

If you want to use your brain to make money in the meter, you need to do a lot of work. The first thing is to take these issues into consideration and design a super powerful but not too expensive device.

Judging from the current specific situation, it is still possible to reduce prices and improve quality, because computer chips have developed very rapidly in recent years. It is not impossible to achieve both conditions by using microcontrollers as the main component of the meter and combined with the increasingly mature sensor system.

Chen Mingluo thought about it for a while and felt that this thing could be done, but it would definitely not be possible to rely on himself alone. He suddenly thought of taking advantage of the resource advantages of Xiling Provincial University or working together to promote this matter.

Simply put, it means paying for someone to design, finally buying out the project, then applying for a national patent, striving to pass a standard certification, forcibly promote this standard, and then producing it in large quantities to upgrade taxis in various places.

When he was thinking about this, he felt a little distracted and didn't even notice Chen Tongda came back.

"What are you doing?" Chen Tongda saw his son sitting there in a daze, and knew that this guy must be thinking about making money again, otherwise he would never be so devoted.

"Oh, my dad is back." Chen Mingluo raised his head, looked at Chen Tongda, and then said, "Take a taxi home tonight, remember some things-"

After hearing what my son heard in a taxi tonight, Chen Tongda frowned and said, "Sometimes, some government decisions are induced by others, so they are easily exploited, especially the spread of information has a certain delay. There are many things that only a few people can know, which creates the possibility of taking advantage of loopholes."

Chen Mingluo nodded and said, "What my father said is naturally a reality. In fact, this situation exists in most industries. For the sake of their own selfish interests or the interests of small units, people have consciously blocked some information that should have been made public.

In this way, those who have this information will naturally become a privileged class. For example, when we started a taxi company, who was the ordinary people who were able to play with this? There was no one!

After all, if you want to play games like "making money out of nothing", you also need confidence. Otherwise, the relevant departments would have come to catch you long ago, and it would be your turn to sit leisurely and collect money and start a business from scratch?

This is true even in other departments. For example, some recruitment information or professional title evaluation information released by the personnel department every year are basically semi-confidential. Those who know will naturally know, and those who don’t know will never know.

The reason is that everyone is selfish, and the information dissemination in this society is so underdeveloped.

After all, the Internet age has not arrived yet, which provides a guarantee of confidence for closed information.

Even in the Internet era, what happened? There are still shameful behaviors such as tailoring recruitment conditions, not to mention the semi-public dirty things in the industry, which are countless.

Chen Tongda was not very concerned about the meter his son said, but he became interested in the current situation of the taxi industry.

From the current classification of taxis, they can basically be divided into three types. One is called parade rental, which means running around the street. There is also a rental called squatting rental, such as at an airport, at a station, a hotel, and a car that has been waiting for the bus at the door is called squatting rental. The third type is store recruitment. Some cars are parked in their own company or at their own homes for a long time, and some fixed customers call him and ask him to go wherever he goes.

The so-called store sign is to black cars. For consumers, this kind of black cars is convenient and saves money, and for black car owners, it gains benefits. Therefore, black cars are constantly banned because there are market needs and interests.

"The city is also cracking down on black cars, but the results are very little." Chen Tongda said to his son.

"There are usually some methods for those who can run black cars, so it is naturally difficult for you to catch them." Chen Mingluo replied.

In fact, the existence of black cars is not only a problem of tax evasion, but also a certain safety hazard. There have been cases where a customer hired black cars and was kidnapped to death before. It caused a considerable shock in Mingyang City at that time, so that for a while, everyone was not willing to take a taxi out. He looked a little nervous when sitting in a taxi, and always felt that the driver looked like a kidnapper.

As for what Chen Mingluo said about the fact that the taxi company was too dark, Chen Tongda also heard about it.

Basically, the entire taxi company has obtained high and stable returns under the statutory monopoly, but the income of taxi drivers is very limited.

Taxi drivers are really tired and hard-working. They owe the company a few hundred yuan in their accounts as soon as they open their eyes. Even if they are sick, they are too tired and don’t want to work. If they can take leave in an ordinary unit, they will not dare to ask for leave because they will have a one-day debt. No matter how sick you are, the company will collect your car as usual, which is very stressful.

There are three things to get up every day. First, you have to make a few hundred yuan in car money every day, which is rigid consumption. Second, you have to make fuel non-earnings. Third, you have to make maintenance fees. Only after you make these money can you make money by yourself.

The workload of thirteen or four hours a day is about ten hours for others and companies, one is for the company, the other is for the oil company, the other is for the auto repair shop, and the last thing is to earn a little is for yourself.

This happened in Mingyang. Some drivers drove for 24 hours to work and just played hard, but they were exhausted. Last year, several drivers were parked there and stopped moving when they were refueling at the gas station. Others were playing the horn behind them, but they still didn't move and lay on the steering wheel. As a result, when people went over and saw that the driver was dead. It is said that there are many such drivers who are exhausted in the country.

"There is really no good idea here-" Chen Tongda also scratched his head.

It is very difficult to change the current situation of the industry, and it is not something that a small department-level cadre can manage.

"The reason why taxi drivers are so desperate is because they are worried about the problem of having no support in old age. If they can consider more from this aspect, they will not be unable to do something-" Chen Mingluo said.

Chen Mingluo just calculated roughly and found that the average annual workload of each taxi driver is equivalent to 580 working days, which means that the amount of work a driver works in a year is equivalent to the workload of others for two and a half years. From this perspective, the driver's income is very low.

Another problem is that the safety factor of the entire taxi industry is relatively poor. Drivers often have to drive at night, and they face a very serious problem, such as being robbed and killed.

Faced with this environment, in fact, most of the drivers who work for the company have been in a difficult situation over the years, with very low incomes, and are making money for the company by their lives.

Drivers also hope to solve these problems, such as finding a company to negotiate, hoping that the company will reduce the amount of money in the bottom-up vehicle, but the company is a strong group. When a driver comes to him to talk to, the final result is that the driver is fired and there is no opportunity for equal dialogue.

It is really not easy to earn enough money to support yourself in the rest of your life before you get old and weak. No wonder drivers are working hard. If you don’t work hard, you won’t be able to do it. After all, there is no pension in this industry.
Chapter completed!