Blackstone Code Chapter 118: There is a new round of outbreaks hidden in the decay of all things

The people most directly affected by the recession of the real economy may be truck drivers. Once a company goes bankrupt, there will be no logistics demand. Without logistics demand, truck drivers will lose their jobs.

The more businesses fail, the more truckers lose their jobs, and this unemployment is different from that of the average worker.

Ordinary workers can look for other jobs after losing their jobs. If they are lucky, they can still find a job to make ends meet, but truck drivers are different. Without new logistics needs, there will only be fewer and fewer jobs. There will be more and more.

This also makes it difficult for truck drivers to find very suitable jobs once they lose their jobs, even if the standard requirements for wages are lowered.

Truck drivers are a very special group, they can be classified into the working class, but obviously workers are not willing to accept this group of truck drivers with higher wages than them, better benefits than them, and easy work .

And truck drivers don't want to hang out with sweaty workers, after all, they have a "private car".

This also caused the workers' union to not pay much attention to the issue of unemployment of truck drivers. Anyway, if there is a chance to make trouble, they will make trouble, and if there is no chance, they will pretend to be invisible.

Actually, the work of a truck driver is not only hard, but also dangerous.

Even today, there are still many toll road fighters who are active on the interstate highways. The hundreds of thousands of kilometers of uninhabited highways are like going in **** for every truck driver. A trip is a dance on the lifeline.

If you're not careful, you'll die in the middle of nowhere and your truck will be driven away, leaving behind a pile of skeletons that soon become one with nature.

Therefore, when truck drivers are on the road, they are often in convoys, especially on intercontinental routes. It is very dangerous to run two or three vehicles together, often with more than five trucks.

They won't stop when they encounter something on the road, just hit it, so don't think about stopping the car on the interstate highway, let alone forcing these trucks to stop.

But are big truck drivers all good people?

Apparently not. In the past FBI files on highway homicides, it can be said that most highway-related homicides are more or less related to big truck drivers.

The most famous is the "high-speed serial murder case", a big truck driver who likes to run a single gang, is willing to help others, and also likes to kill people after helping others. After being arrested, the driver confessed to dozens of cases on the highway of homicides, some of which the police didn't even discover.

In short, this is a very special group. Outside the highway, they are ordinary people. There is not much difference. They may look a little fierce, but overall they are just ordinary people.

But once they enter their "field", these people will undergo a change from the inside out, a fundamental change.

Lynch took them to the outdoor parking lot. The front of the truck and the tractor, including the trailer, were not integrated. They were all looking at the front of the big truck.

More than 40 trucks were parked in the open space. Cook suddenly became a little excited. He ran to the front of a truck and his lips trembled slightly.

He gently stroked the headlights, a little apologetically and a little distressed. Cook's friend James stood by and explained to Lynch, "That was Cook's truck before our company went bankrupt."

"Understandable..." Mr. Lynch is a very forgiving and kind person who did not spoil the warmth of Cook's meeting with his beloved truck.

After a while, Cook came back to his senses and scratched his head a little embarrassedly. This man who looked like a monster was actually a little shy and shy.

This is also a striking feature of truck drivers' lack of socialization, their circles are too narrow.

There was a desire in his eyes, but he was too embarrassed to say it, but Lynch hooked his finger at the staff very intimately, "Bring the keys to that car and let my friends see it. Look."

As soon as Lynch said this, the eyes of all the truck drivers became a little different. First of all, they began to respect Lynch, because Lynch showed through his behavior that he did not look down or look at it in a humiliating way. Cook, on the contrary, let people take the keys of Cook's car to satisfy Cook's little wish.

Secondly, instead of saying they were subordinates, employees, or simply truck drivers, he used the word "friends."

Probably because there's always scary news about the highway, not everyone in this civilized society wants to be friends with these highway truck drivers.

Add to their narrow social circle and the social barriers that everyone has to a certain extent, and their irritable personality, and the only people who can accept them are themselves.

Lynch, the big boss and businessman, calls them friends, which is very emotional and makes them feel a kind of warm power.

In the past, they may not have such strong feelings, but now, after a few months to half a year after they lost their jobs, Lynch's words are like the sunshine that warms everything in winter, melting away The ice in their hearts!

Cook doesn't know how to express his feelings and emotions at this moment. In the end, he can only express a thousand words with "thank you". He is a beast who does not know how to express.

Cook, who got the key, immediately changed into a different look. He easily took out the tool kit from the car, then opened the hood and began to check the condition of the vehicle. He quickly entered his own in the role.

Lynch looked at the others, "What about you, what are you waiting for, maybe there is your car here, maybe not but there is a car you like, why don't you go take a look, or give it a try?"

This sentence immediately moved this group of people. They had wanted to move for a long time, but they were more reserved.

With Lynch's permission, they immediately thanked them and took the keys to study their cars, while Lynch watched the truckers from the edge of the parking lot.

As it is said in this era, the highway is an outlaw place, especially the intercontinental highway. There is nothing to see on the highway of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

Even on an intrastate highway, there is only an occasional police car parked at the intersection of the highway, and they will not actively interfere with things on the highway, which is the territory of the truck drivers.

If someone can control the majority of truck drivers in a state, then that person controls the logistics system of the entire state.

Train?

Well, that's a good way to avoid truck drivers, but the train still faces two problems.

The Baylor Federation has not yet had a complete railway network that can radiate to all parts of the Federation. Due to the geological terrain, not all places are suitable for laying railways. At the same time, there is also a problem of loss of railways in places that are too barren. .

In addition, the use of railways by the people is not high, which makes the railway company become a thing of the past before it develops and grows.

Dry railways will lose money, which has become the consensus of everyone at present, but railways still exist. Generally speaking, there will be railway networks between several major cities in each state to facilitate the flow of population, but the intercontinental level Railways are rare.

If Lynch controls the logistics in the state, he can squeeze the necks of some people, even if he does nothing, it will be very easy for him to intervene in some business in the future.

Even if he doesn't have any money, he can get a certain level of stock, who let him control the logistics and transportation?

After waiting here for more than half an hour, Cook packed up his tools and cleaned himself up by the way. He happily said that the car was well maintained, except for some small problems that he had thought about for a long time. Not too big a problem.

Others have similar opinions about their car or the car they've chosen, and Lynch doesn't bother, talking directly to the dealership manager about the price.

For a big truck like this, a brand new one costs about 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, although the price is not particularly expensive, and it is not affordable for a truck driver like Cook.

Even now, these cars are all used cars, and they all cost upwards of 15,000 yuan.

After a cordial conversation with the manager of the car dealership and the owner of the car dealership, Lynch signed a special agreement with them. He will purchase a total of no less than 100 trucks within half a year, and the price must be reduced. to less than 12,000 yuan.

The car dealership is only responsible for providing vehicles for Lynch to choose. It is Lynch's freedom to choose.

If such an agreement had been placed in front of the car dealer five years ago, he would have torn it up without hesitation, then pointed at the door and roared "Get out".

But now, his eyelids are twitching as he signs the deal, and thanks to Mr. Lynch for taking care of his business.

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Facing a future that can already make people feel tragic, having a sum of money in hand and having dozens of cars are two completely different situations.

Even if you don't make much money, even if you don't make money, this is a rare opportunity for the owner of the car dealership, and he must bite the bullet and sign this agreement.

Immediately, Lynch asked Cook and the others to drive to the club. After a few days of arrangements, everyone at the club had reached an agreement with Kane, ending their careers at the club.

As owner and great philanthropist, Lynch should go and comfort these people and give them credit for having worked for the club.

Before that, he had to go to Joe Grimman's place and buy a car. He must have mortgaged it to the bank and used other people's money to serve himself. This is the core of the "financial game".

Those who use their own money to serve themselves and take risks...

Lynch never discriminates against mentally challenged people, but finds them cute!