Chapter 25 Yellow River Heavy Truck

Li Weidong, who was in his previous life, was not assigned a building until 1987, and he was assigned it as an old man of Li Dengke.

Although Li Dengke is retired, he is a veteran of the transportation company after all, and he is more advanced in terms of seniority. If it is replaced by a young worker like Li Weidong, it may not be possible to get housing when the transportation company closes down.

However, Li Weidong knew that the quality of the family rooms in the subsequent phases was very poor.

The two buildings in the first phase of the family home are made of concrete and are very strong. Later, due to the progress of construction, the family buildings were all slab houses, and the construction quality directly dropped several grades.

In the 1980s, in order to reduce costs and facilitate construction, many slab houses were built in China. The safety factor of these slab houses is not high, and the most important thing is that they are not earthquake-resistant.

Once there is an earthquake, the floor house is worse than the brick house. If the brick house collapses, the bricks will be broken into pieces. As long as people protect their heads, they have a good chance of surviving, but if the floor house collapses, the entire floor will break. On the face, I am afraid that people are more fortunate and less fortunate.

Li Weidong remembers that in the 1990s, there was a magnitude 5.2 earthquake in Qinghe City, and half of the building in the family home of the transportation company was trampled. Fortunately, everyone was walking to work at the time, and there were no casualties.

Of course Li Weidong was reluctant to live in poor-quality slab houses, so he came up with the idea of ​​these 48 sets of concrete pouring houses. It's just that Li Weidong doesn't even count as a middle-level cadre. It's almost impossible to get a house.

During the entire meeting, Li Weidong was thinking about getting a house. Until the meeting ended, Cui Dashan came to his side, and Li Weidong didn't notice it.

Little Li, don't go back to the workshop for a while, go home to rest, and pack up by the way, and send you on a business trip tomorrow. Cui Dashan said.

On a business trip? Where are you going? Li Weidong asked.

Go to Jicheng City, the Yellow River Automobile Factory. Cui Dashan replied.

Huanghe Factory? Don't they make heavy trucks? Li Weidong frowned, then asked, Our company is going to buy heavy trucks?

Guess right. Cui Dashan nodded, and then asked, Guess what car our company wants to buy?

There are only two kinds of heavy trucks in the Yellow River Automobile Factory. One is Roman and the other is Yellow River. I guess the one we want to buy should be the Yellow River 162 that was just launched last year! Li Weidong continued.

You guessed it right again. I heard that the performance of the Yellow River 162 is very good, so our company plans to buy a batch. This time I sent you to the Jiqi factory to inspect the performance of this car on the spot. Cui Dashan said.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said, If it is the Yellow River 162, then there is no need to investigate it, there should be no problem. This car uses the technology of the Austrian Steyr heavy truck, and it is also a half German car, and its performance is definitely Top in the country.”

You know what you're doing! You know something about this car. Cui Dashan looked at Li Weidong in surprise, and then said, In fact, it has nothing to do with you when examining the performance of the car. The company specially selected two experiences from the freight department. Rich drivers go for a test drive.

All the old drivers have gone, so what do you want me to do? Li Weidong asked in confusion.

Your task is to visit the repair workshop of the Yellow River Automobile Factory and see how they repair the Yellow River 162. Cui Dashan replied.

This is sending me to learn repair techniques! Li Weidong nodded.

But Cui Dashan shook his head: You don't need to learn repair techniques, you just go and see how others repair cars, as long as you can understand.

Watch someone else repair the car? Just understand it? Why is this? Li Weidong asked a black man.

Cui Dashan explained: Isn't our company without heavy trucks? I'm worried that this time I bought a batch of heavy trucks, which will be difficult to repair.

So first send you to see how other manufacturers repair the car. If you can understand it, I think the masters in our workshop can also repair heavy trucks.

I can understand what it means! Li Weidong complained in a low voice.

Cui Dashan's idea is very simple. Li Weidong, as a workshop jerk, represents the lowest level of the auto repair workshop. If even the lowest level Li Weidong can understand how to repair the Yellow River 162, then the other masters in the workshop will naturally also can fix this car.

Apart from me and the drivers from the two freight offices, who else is going to Jicheng? Li Weidong asked again.

Since I'm going to buy a car, Wang Haibin from the purchasing office must be there, but I don't know how many people will go to the purchasing office. Cui Dashan replied.

It's really a narrow road for the enemy! Li Weidong sighed, and then asked: According to this, the person who went this time, the person with the highest position is Wang Haibin?

Well, the second one should be you who work for work. Cui Dashan nodded.

Then I have to listen to Wang Haibin's command? Li Weidong asked with a displeased expression.

He is busy negotiating purchases with the Yellow River Automobile Factory, and has no time to direct you. Cui Dashan then comforted: This trip to Jicheng City means four or five days, and two of them are going back and forth. On the way, you will only stay at the Huanghe Automobile Factory for two or three days. You don’t have to pay too much attention to Wang Haibin, just do your job well.”

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Back at home, Li Weidong recollected the heavy truck while packing his clothes.

In Li Weidong's memory, it was not until 1986 that Qinghe Transportation Company introduced the first batch of heavy trucks. Now is New Year's Day in 1985, which means that this trip to the Yellow River Automobile Factory to purchase heavy trucks is doomed to fail.

It seems unlikely that a state-run transportation company in a prefecture-level administrative region has no heavy-duty trucks, but in the early 1980s, almost all state-run transportation companies did not have heavy-duty trucks.

At that time, domestic heavy trucks were given priority to supply mining companies, and transportation companies could not be assigned heavy trucks.

The first heavy truck in China was born in 1960. The Yellow River Automobile Factory built a heavy truck by hand according to the appearance of the Skoda 706 heavy truck, which is the famous JN150. Mr. Zhu personally inscribed the word Yellow River for him, and then there is the Yellow River Automobile.

However, this Yellow River JN150 is a failed product. As a product of the special period of super-British catch-up with the United States, the design and quality of the Yellow River JN150 have major defects.

For example, the Yellow River Factory did not have a large punching machine at that time, so it was impossible to make beams. In the end, the Yellow River Factory bought six jacks and used the jacks to forcibly press out a beam.

In the 1960s, it was an inspirational story of overcoming difficulties with wisdom, and it was widely celebrated. However, how can the beam made by the jack be compared with the beam made by the punching machine! The quality is really poor by several grades.

After all, automobile manufacturing is about science and craftsmanship. The appearance of auto parts made by local methods looks the same, but the level of craftsmanship is not up to the level, and the quality is not good.

Without special machine tools, no technical materials, lack of funds, shortage of materials, and inexperienced staff, the heavy trucks produced are destined to be useless.

High-end manufacturing cannot be achieved by hard work and cleverness. Technology is the foundation. Domestic heavy-duty trucks are empty and the quality is very poor. Therefore, before the 1980s, China's heavy-duty trucks were mainly imported.

Foreign exchange is so precious, of course, imported heavy trucks must be given to mining companies that can earn foreign exchange. As for transportation companies, they are not eligible to use imported vehicles.

After the reform and opening up, the Yellow River Automobile Factory introduced a heavy truck production line from Romania to produce Roman heavy trucks.

This production line is just an assembly line, all parts need to be imported and then assembled in China, and even many parts are assembled abroad and then shipped to China.

This assembly mode is simpler than SAIC's assembly of Santana, which is obviously not what the country needs.

So in 1983, the China Heavy Truck Association spent 600 million US dollars in foreign exchange to introduce the technology of Austrian Steyr trucks, making up for the vacancy in the domestic heavy truck industry.

This China National Heavy Duty Truck Joint Venture is the later China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, a well-known Zhongzi enterprise.

The Yellow River Automobile Factory has the foundation of producing heavy-duty trucks. They took the lead in digesting some of the Steyr heavy-duty truck technology and launched the Yellow River JN162 heavy-duty truck. This car eventually derived more than 30 models, and was the main model of domestic heavy-duty trucks in the 1980s.

What Qinghe Transportation Company values ​​now is this Yellow River JN162 heavy truck.

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A total of five people went to the Yellow River Automobile Factory. In addition to Li Weidong and the two master drivers from the freight department, the purchasing department also sent two people, namely the director Wang Haibin and another clerk.

Qinghe Transportation Company specially dispatched a BJ212 jeep, because there were two freight forwarding drivers accompanying, so there was no special driver, and five people could fit in a jeep.

Although the old jeep was faster than the old Jiefang, it couldn't get anywhere. It took nearly six hours for the group to arrive at Jicheng City.

Check into the hostel and stay silent all night. Early the next morning, the group came to the Yellow River Automobile Factory.

The sales department of the Yellow River Factory had a special person to receive them, and then the group was divided into three parts. Wang Haibin and the clerk went to discuss purchasing matters, the two master drivers went to the venue to test the car, and Li Weidong was taken to the repair workshop of the Yellow River Factory to visit and study.

The receptionist of the Yellow River Factory led Li Weidong to the door of the repair workshop, and asked Li Weidong to stand there and wait. He went in first, and after a while, the receptionist walked out with a middle-aged man in his forties.

Director Wei, this is Comrade Li from Qinghe Transportation Company who came to us to visit and study. The receptionist said, and then introduced to Li Weidong: Comrade Li, this is Director Wei Bin of our repair workshop.

Director Wei, hello, my name is Li Weidong. Li Weidong said neither humble nor arrogant, and looked at Wei Bin at the same time.

The blue work clothes on Wei Bin's body were spotless, with no oil stains at all. He didn't look like a car repair shop at all. He wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and he was very humane, like a teacher.

Wei Bin just glanced at Li Weidong, and then asked condescendingly, Comrade Li, what kind of work are you doing in your unit?

I'm in the auto repair workshop. Li Weidong replied.

Oh, it turns out that it's a colleague, so it's much easier to handle. Do you understand the safety regulations in the workshop? Wei Bin asked again.

Li Weidong nodded: I understand, our workshop organizes safety assessments every month.

That's fine, go in and see what you want to see. If you don't understand anything, you can ask the master in the workshop directly. There's also the washbasin over there, there's soap, just wash your hands if you get dirty. Wei Bin After he finished speaking, he ignored Li Weidong and returned to the workshop.

Li Weidong knew that Wei Bin probably did not intend to greet him because he was young and could not have any leadership positions.

Li Weidong didn't take it seriously. He followed Wei Bin and walked into the rework workshop of the Yellow River Factory.

As soon as he entered the workshop, Li Weidong saw a baby on his right.

There is this car, it's a good thing! Li Weidong couldn't help but leaned up.