Li Ziwei quickly confirmed with the charter company that the eleven-seater business jet could take off at 8:30 tonight. The estimated flight time was about three and a half hours, and the landing would be almost exactly at 12 o'clock at night.
Due to the special relationship between Liu Xinxin's family, the Chuncheng Military Region took great care of them. Not only did they arrange for people to pick them up at the airport in advance, they even arranged accommodation at the military region's guest house. Li Mu, Liu Xinxin and their group could follow them directly after they got off the plane. The airport pick-up personnel went to the guest house to rest, and the next morning the military region had a vehicle to escort them to their destination.
After the plane's departure time was confirmed, Li Mu did not change his original plan to meet Senior Brother Liu and Leader Lei, and went to Taobao Technology as scheduled.
As soon as they met, Li Mu noticed the difference between Senior Brother Liu and Leader Lei. Senior Brother Liu was a little thinner than before, his skin was much darker than before, and his cheeks and lips were slightly chapped. The leader is white and fat, and he feels radiant.
As soon as Li Mu entered the door, he teased Senior Brother Liu: "Senior Brother, I see this trend, if you run around outside for a few more months, I probably won't be able to recognize you."
Senior Brother Liu laughed and said: "You run around outside all day long and are exposed to the wind and sun. You can't compare with Lao Lei. This guy sits in an office all day long and is protected from the wind and rain. He is moisturized." Very much."
Leader Lei smiled and said: "Hey, let me tell you, Old Liu, I really want to go out for a run. It's boring to stay in the office all day. The overall operation of our website is now very stable. How about I come with you?" Are you going to do some logistics stuff?"
Senior Brother Liu said, "Okay, I'll take you to the northwest in a few days. Good guy, the wind there is so strong that it will make you doubt your life."
Li Mu and the two of them sat down in the reception area of Leader Lei's office. Leader Lei poured a cup of black tea for Li Mu and said, "Mr. Li, you have been running around a lot recently. It's time to stay in Yanjing for a while." ? Old Liu and I are waiting for you to come to Yanjing and lead us to do something more awesome."
Li Mu said: "You two are both awesome people. You don't have to wait for my call to do awesome things. You can do it yourself. Besides, I haven't been able to stay safely in Yanjing recently. I have to do it tonight." Take a trip to the southwest.”
Senior Brother Liu asked: "Going to the southwest again? What are you busy with? It's not easy to come back, and I won't rest for a few days."
Li Mu laughed and said, "I'm busy with charity fund matters, and I have to do a set of punches in conjunction with the movie, so I can't slow down the pace."
With that said, Li Mu sat upright and said, "Time is limited, let's talk about business. Senior Brother Liu, how is the situation of Taobao Logistics now?"
"It went very smoothly." Senior Brother Liu said: "The third batch of imported truck tractors we ordered from Germany and Sweden have been delivered for use. Now we have more than 200 imported tractors running non-stop across the country, and there are 800 more imported tractors. With multiple high-end trailers and trunk line land transportation, the efficiency is very high, and we have ordered a large number of Iveco medium-sized trucks and a large number of customized three-wheeled motorcycles. At present, our total fleet number exceeds that of all private express delivery companies combined."
Li Mu asked in surprise: "More than two hundred tractors with more than eight hundred trailers? What kind of trick is this?"
Brother Liu said with a smile: "Drop and pull transportation is a new model abroad. It is not fully recognized by domestic laws. However, we applied with the transportation department. Because our corporate image in front of the government is very good, we were specially approved. Being a pilot enterprise for drop-and-hook transportation in China has benefited a lot from you, and many policies now favor us."
Li Mu asked curiously: "What kind of new model? Please introduce it to me."
Senior Brother Liu said: "That is to say, a truck tractor is equipped with four or three trailers. The trailer stops but the trailer does not stop. This mode of transportation can maximize the transportation capacity of land transportation. For example, the transportation from Yanjing to Jinling For the circular transportation line, we have prepared two trailers in Yanjing, one in Jinling, and one in Quancheng in Qilu. The two trailers in Yanjing are A and B, the one in Jinling is C, and the one in Quancheng is D. , our truck towed trailer A from Yanjing to Quancheng. At the same time, trailer B in Yanjing was also preparing for loading. Trailer C in Quancheng and trailer D in Jinling were also loaded. The trailer sent trailer A to Quancheng. , unhook it directly, no need to wait for unloading and loading, just pull on the trailer C prepared by Quancheng and go to Jinling without stopping. When you get to Jinling, unhook the trailer B, hook up the trailer D prepared by Jinling and start the return journey. Go straight back. Yanjing, get rid of trailer D, hook up Yanjing’s trailer B, and then repeat the cycle.”
Later, Brother Liu concluded: “To put it simply, it frees drivers from the process of waiting for loading and unloading, and allows them to drive to a place, pick up the trailers they brought, and load the prepared trailers. Then you can continue on your way immediately without even extinguishing the fire!”
Li Mu said in surprise: "The efficiency is too high. The vehicle can rotate almost 24 hours a day."
"That's right." Brother Liu said: "The price of a tractor is high, but the price of a trailer is low. Moreover, the tractor has to bear the driver's salary, fuel expenses, tolls and maintenance insurance. The tractor must be running to make money. As long as it stops, it will Losing money, and what we are pursuing is high efficiency, so the tractors cannot stop. Our current tractors are equipped with three drivers in shifts. Although the tractors do not stop, the drivers can take turns to rest and will not drive fatigued. We also have shift drivers and driver resting spots at the intermediate logistics station. If a driver is sick, tired or unwell, he can replace the shift driver at the intermediate logistics station, and then rest at the logistics station until the next rotation comes. Get back in the car and replace the shift driver.”
Li Mu praised: "This model is very good. We can make the car run at high intensity, but we cannot let people run at high intensity. At any time, people's health and safety must be the first priority."
"This is natural." Senior Brother Liu smiled and said: "It was really wise for you to insist on purchasing imported tractors. We conducted a survey among the driver group and found that imported tractors do have many advantages over domestic tractors. From the driver's point of view, the car is easier to drive, safer, and more comfortable. The driver's driving position and resting position of the imported tractor are very user-friendly, which is much better than that of domestic tractors. More importantly, Yes, the fuel consumption of imported tractors is lower than that of domestic tractors, and the failure rate is lower. I heard that it is not a big deal for Scania’s tractors to go a million kilometers without major repairs. This is very important for our domestic tractors. , indeed it can’t be done yet.”
Li Mu nodded and said: "Domestic heavy-duty trucks still have a long way to go. As a courier company, what we pursue is not cost-effectiveness, but stability and efficiency, so imported tractors must be our best choice in the short term."
After saying that, Li Mu asked again: "How are our drivers treated?"
"That's great." Senior Brother Liu said seriously: "Our driver class treatment is the best in the national transportation industry, bar none. Not only does our driver have a good working environment, but the work is humane and not overtired. More importantly, What’s more, the salary and benefits are high, and our salary and benefits are generally more than 30% higher than other domestic logistics industries.”
Then, Senior Brother Liu added: "In addition to these, we have also set up several driver's homes in distribution center cities. The company came forward to rent a batch of commercial housing near the local distribution center, and purchased and purchased furniture and household appliances in a unified manner. These commercial houses are basically three-bedroom apartments, and we currently ensure that each driver can have a room of his own, single people can live by themselves, and married people can live with their wives and children."
Li Mu nodded: "That's good. In the future, we not only need a stable management team, but also a stable grassroots team. We need to invest more in the grassroots team to make the grassroots team more stable and efficient. In the long term, we can It saves the company a lot of costs in selecting and training new employees, which is a very cost-effective deal.”
"Yes!" Senior Brother Liu said with a smile: "And our driver class has now set up a safety award. Every month, each driver in the class has a safety award of 800 yuan. If there is any accident that month, then the next month's salary Just pay an extra 800 yuan. If there is no accident again, you will continue to pay an additional 800 yuan. If there is an accident, depending on the seriousness of the accident, you will be punished by deducting the safety bonus for 1-12 months. Now the driver wants to avoid it. Let your safety award be cut off and drive very carefully. In the past month, our fleet has not had a single traffic accident for which we are solely responsible or secondary responsible."
Li Mu couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "It is really scientific and effective to use this method to cultivate the safety awareness of drivers. Drivers driving on the road, especially large vehicles, are the absolute dominant group on the road. At this time, they must It is necessary to enhance their safety awareness, otherwise it will easily cause danger to other vehicles and pedestrians on the road. Your method of this safety award is really great. It allows everyone to take the initiative to improve safety awareness, abide by traffic rules, and actively avoid Accidents are indeed a very clever management tool!”
At this point, Li Mu sighed: "To control such a big business with thousands of people offline, you still have to do it, Senior Brother Liu. If I were really asked to manage such a huge logistics system, I'm afraid I would be exhausted."
Anyone can come up with a plan, but the bigger the plan, the more capable people are needed to help implement it, otherwise all plans will be empty talk. Brother Liu was able to build a huge offline warehousing and logistics system like JD.com in his previous life It is up and running well, which proves that he has a very strong ability to cope with large-scale projects and super-large projects. This is indeed his own quality, and it has now been confirmed by Taobao Logistics.
At this time, Senior Brother Liu said with a modest smile: "I just play the role of a successor. The main reason is that the basic plan you have set is very solid. Our automatic sorting system makes our overall transportation efficiency better than other logistics companies." It has been improved so much, and more importantly, our information system, that is, the logistics management system you asked Fang Xudong to develop. My God, this system is simply great. Not only does our internal work use this system, It is more efficient and accurate, and can also monitor every express delivery in real time. More importantly, we can display this system to our customers at the front desk so that they can monitor the progress of logistics in real time. This is really what we The biggest trump card!”
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