Chapter 222 The Requirement of a meter

Although the driver punched twice, the meter still had no reaction.

The driver said in a little frustrated, "The meter is broken. Can you calculate the numbers on the odometer with you?"

"No need to be so troublesome-" Chen Mingluo thought to himself that you didn't look at the odometer when you were driving, how could you calculate it accurately now?

Of course, Chen Mingluo didn’t care about this little money. What’s the difference between how many dollars is worth?

"You probably have a clear idea in your heart, just report a number." Chen Mingluo said to him when he saw the driver's faced embarrassment.

"Okay - I definitely won't ask for your money-" The driver saw that Chen Mingluo seemed to be a more cheerful person, frowned and thought for a while, and then asked tentatively, "I'll take you back and forth twice, can I accept you thirty? This is really not too much."

"Well, it's not too much." Chen Mingluo felt that it was almost the same, and he admired the driver more. This person was not too dark.

After paying, Chen Mingluo returned to the municipal government compound, bought two dishes from the restaurant, and then picked them up.

The house is still deserted. My mother had an operation at night, and my father had not come back at work. It is said that there are activities at night, so Chen Mingluo could not expect anyone to come back and have dinner with him.

After eating cold food for a day today, my stomach was naturally uncomfortable. He heated up the roasted eggplant and the refried pork he bought for a little, and then started eating.

Even with his current net worth of tens of millions, Chen Mingluo is not very accustomed to spending time and life. Although such a life seems to be very ostentatious, it actually does not benefit the body. No matter how good the wine is, it will vomit if you drink too much, let alone how severe the irritation of alcohol is to the body.

Chen Mingluo's recipes for the evening are usually light, and a bowl of white porridge is indispensable every night.

While he was having a meal, he thought of a conversation with the driver in the taxi today, and he felt something in his heart.

Nowadays, taxis are all under the ownership of taxi companies, and not many people are single.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, some rental companies represented by Beijing taxi companies basically started their business with government investment. After the 1990s, they entered the stage of great development of the taxi industry. At this stage, the rental companies made a fortune basically in two models: one was to make money by making money and start with the driver's "financing"; the other was to borrow money to buy a car and then resell it to the driver, and then started with the driver's money to pay off the loan.

As Chen Mingluo knew, taking the current Huayu Rental in Mingyang City as an example, the boss of his company served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC of Linling District. This man was originally a gangster. In 1992, his friend in the officialdom gave him an idea, saying that he would not have to spend a penny to run a taxi company, and he would definitely not lose money. So he issued a certificate in a village in Linling District. The township government stamped a seal and wrote an application to the Municipal Transportation Bureau. The Municipal Transportation Bureau issued him a passenger transport operation approval letter, so he got the index of fifty taxis.

After the business license of the rental company was completed, he began to recruit drivers from the public, mainly with a car book, two years of driving experience, and if he paid 50,000 yuan, he could drive to his company.

Not long after, he hired thirty drivers and collected a total of 1.5 million yuan in car money.

It was difficult to buy the gift at that time, so he asked someone to pick up 30 Changhe small vans at a price of more than 40,000 yuan per unit.

In this way, with a single approval document and without spending a penny, he started a taxi company with 30 taxis and assets of 1.5 million yuan.

Huayu Rental Company is not too dark, and the car payments collected from the driver are about 1,000 yuan a month.

Nowadays, by collecting the driver's financing and collecting the monthly payment of the car paid by the driver, Huayu Company has made great progress. He owns fifty taxis, including thirty small-faced ones, ten Santanas and ten Xiali, all of which were bought with the driver's money, and he didn't spend a penny himself.

This year, the above requested that the noodles be updated for forced updates, so the taxi company used the money in the company's account, that is, the money of taxi drivers, to acquire the entire company's noodles from the driver at a price of about 40,000 per vehicle, and then sold these noodles to the non-taxi industry at the same price.

If you don’t spend a penny, you can reasonably turn the taxi driver’s property into your own property like a magical one.

Then, Huayu Taxi Company purchased 30 hatchbacks for 115,000 yuan, and then sold them to recruit drivers for 135,000 yuan each.

This person is quite kind. After all, some companies are more ruthless than him. They can earn 50,000 or 60,000 yuan per car.

The grade of the car has improved, and the car's share has increased to 1,500 a month.

However, in recent times, the government discovered the fact that taxi companies were selling cars in disguise, so it ordered the rectification of the selling cars in disguise and demanded that all the cars sold to the driver be taken back.

This decision did not bring any benefits to the drivers. Instead, the taxi company started to acquire all the taxis they had sold to the taxi drivers in the same way as the acquisition side.

As a result, the monthly car payment immediately increased from 1,500 to more than 4,000 yuan. In addition, each driver had to pay another 50,000 yuan in risk deposit to the company, because taxi assets have now become the company.

In Chen Mingluo's opinion, this is actually a change of soup or a change of medicine, or a business owner's own taxi company with the driver's personal property.

He also felt a little suspicious. Is the government really not understanding what's going on? Or does the policy change over and over again and again, and has never taken the interests of taxi drivers to heart, but has consciously opened up a channel for policy-based money-making for some people?

Based on his years of experience, he felt that the latter should be the majority, and this should be one of the ways of the original expansion of countless bureaucratic capital.

Chen Mingluo watched coldly and felt that there was no place to reason about this matter. In reform, there would always be some people who would make sacrifices. Although this statement was irresponsible, it was the mainstream consciousness. He could only say that whoever was in trouble would be unlucky.

What he was concerned about was another issue, taxi meter.

In recent years, the domestic taxi industry has developed rapidly, and the taxi service industry is closely related to taxi meters, because taxi must be equipped with taxi meters to be put into operation.

The taxi meter is priced based on the distance and waiting time of the passenger in the car, and directly displays the fare. Whether the meter is priced accurately is directly related to the economic interests of operators and consumers.

According to relevant national laws and regulations, taxi metering is one of the first batch of work measurement instruments listed in the country for compulsory inspection, and is also one of the six key measurement instruments that the national quality and technical supervision department has strengthened management in recent years.

Taxi billing system is related to the vital interests of drivers and passengers, and has always been the focus of problem disputes.

In the early 1980s, after the domestic taxi industry emerged, metering came into being.

However, at that time, no enterprise in the country could produce this thing, so the taxi meter used in the early days were all introduced from Taiwan. Taiwan is also the main production place for taxi metering. Currently, more than 90% of the metering machines in the world are produced by Taiwanese companies.

Although there are also companies in China that produce metering machines, due to technical reasons, most manufacturers' products cannot meet the standards. The main manufacturers are concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Chenyang and Guangzhou.

The earliest meters all used mechanical gear structures, which could only complete simple metering functions. It can be said that the early meters were just an odometer with two display screens and four buttons. The data memory and program memory were small, without a clock, and the functions were only metering and metering.

Because on the one hand, users and management departments have put forward new requirements for metering, and on the other hand, the market has launched new microcontroller chips. The display screen has developed from the original two screens to three screens or four screens. The display content is unit price, schedule, timing, amount, and appearance, but some customer requirements are still not met.

Chen Mingluo thought of the taxi meter used in his later era, and couldn't help but feel moved, thinking that this seemed to be a relatively broad market.

The meter is basically a monopoly in the industry. If there is no better choice in China, if you can get this project down and get forced to promote it through national certification, the benefits are not a little bit.

In fact, consumer disputes caused by the meter problem have always existed, and with the continuous expansion of the taxi market, this situation has occurred more and more, and the relevant departments are also very worried about it. After all, this is not a big deal in itself, but if it is not resolved, it will always make people dissatisfied with the government.

None of our money comes from the strong wind. It is natural to stare at the numbers jumping on the meter when getting in the car, but the question is what to do if your number is jumping around?

For example, in this situation tonight, the meter suddenly went on strike, how to settle the fare?

This is Chen Mingluo's temper is good and he doesn't care about money, so everyone will not have any disputes. If he changes to someone who is more particular about this aspect, it will not be so easy to resolve.

Chen Mingluo remembers that when he was in school, he also involved in the study of microcontrollers. He knew that metering was actually relatively simple, just a combination of microcontrollers, monitors and sensors. The programming design was really lacking. I just don’t know why there were no people in China who used their brains on this aspect, which surprised him very much.

However, if you do this project yourself, the advantage is still relatively large. I believe you can see the samples in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!