Chapter 57: The market you didn’t see (third update, first update arrives)

"Compared with light trucks, in addition to being slower, the load performance of three or four tons is not too bad, which is enough. The most important thing is that the tractor is cheap. A 12-horsepower tractor with a single-axle trailer costs only over 10,000 yuan, but how much does a cheapest light truck cost? For those business owners in small towns, the fuel consumption of tractors is low, the cost of use is low, and the price is cheap. Buying a tractor to deliver goods to the distribution station and logistics point is economical."

"But the tractor also has a very obvious defect, that is, the trailer is basically a single-axis structure and has a limited load capacity. Even if a 12-horsepower towing is hard to load, even if it is loaded with stones, it is only about 4 tons. You also know that the goods transported by these township enterprises are mostly light industrial products, with large volumes but not necessarily heavy weight. The tractor trailer's carriage is small, even if it only has two or three tons of cargo, sometimes it has to run twice due to the size of the carriage. If there are four or five tons, it may have to run three or four trips. By doing so, it will be gone in one day."

"For those little bosses, it would be great if they could transport four or five tons of goods at one time. This... Well, the light double-axle full-trailer car that the comrade mentioned has a floor area of ​​about 15 to 20 square meters. It just takes 4 tons of goods to the distribution station or logistics center at one time. Because it is a full-trailer, the tractor only needs to provide forward traction. As long as it runs slowly, it is completely fine. In this way, it can save a lot of money for small business owners in towns... You both know that the transportation conditions in our city are still good."

It is only 1994 now. As a prefecture-level city on the third tier, Langya City has no regulations that tractors are not allowed to enter the city. As long as you have a license plate, tractors can run around the city. The government has not yet banned tractors from entering the city.

In fact, even if Lin Zheng did not have this idea, according to the original schedule, this kind of light-duty full-trailer trailer specially used for tractors will appear in the second half of this year or next year. The two-axle light-duty full-trailer trailer appears with a more powerful tractor front with a power of 15 horsepower. A few years later, a 18 horsepower or even 21 front will appear... Market demand will inevitably lead to the emergence of this product.

However, these tractors have a consistent feature: all of them are large single-cylinder agricultural diesel engines, and very few are used for twin-cylinder diesel engines. The reason is very simple. The power of the smallest twin-cylinder diesel engine is also 24 horsepower, and the price is about 1.5 times more than that of a 15-horsepower single-cylinder diesel tractor. There is really no need.

It was not until this time that Xu Yunlong remembered that he had given him such a good idea. He actually forgot to ask the other person's name for his surname. He was immediately embarrassed. After introducing the good idea Lin Zheng was thinking to Qi Baoshan and the others, he quickly asked Lin Zheng, "What do you call him this comrade?"

"This is the child of Deputy Director Lin's family, named Lin Zheng, who accompanied investors from Anqing Province to inspect..." Qi Baoshan was happy to find a solution to the problem, but he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, "Since you know all of this, why didn't you think about it?"

When Qi Baoshan asked this question, Xu Yunlong looked embarrassed, "If it weren't for Comrade Lin Zheng's reminder, we wouldn't have thought there would be such a big market here."

"This is to liberate your mind, this is to put yourself in your shoes and think about the customers," Qi Baoshan sighed, pointing at the more and more people on the road, but he felt relieved. "A problem that Xiaolin can realize, you industry practitioners didn't expect that it is still like this... What should you do with this problem?"

He forgot, Xu Yunlong didn't expect it, didn't he expect it too?

Lin Zheng was very modest, "It was just a coincidence that I accidentally heard the boss of a township enterprise complain that it would be great if the tractor could have a large carriage. It would be enough to ship the freight at once. Now I have to score three trips. It just happened to happen that Director Xu and his team encountered a problem. I would definitely not be able to change to another enterprise... Director Xu, if he loaded 5 tons of goods, can the 12-horsepower front be dragged?"

"It's definitely no problem," Xu Yunlong waved his hand and swept away his decadence before. He looked so energetic on his face. "This is the entire trailer car, and all the weight is carried by the car itself. The front of the car just needs to pull forward hard, it's just running slower."

Lin Zheng nodded with a smile. Of course, he knew that it would be fine to drag a 5-ton carriage on the front of the 12-horsepower car, because he had seen the axle of a tractor that delivered limestone to the cement factory and was crushed. The curious Lin Zheng asked the people next to him. The answer was shocked: The tractor with a single-axle carriage on the 18-horsepower carriage was loaded with 6 tons of limestone!

Lin Zheng even saw even more exaggerated. A 50-horsepower tractor was dragging a custom fully-trailer that was more than 10 meters long. The cargo piles were piled up on it. He had even seen even more exaggerated. A 75-horsepower tractor was dragging a custom fully-trailer that was almost 14 meters long on the national highway. The scene was so shocking.

It is okay to overload a single-axle car with a single-axle car to 6 tons, not to mention a 12-horsepower car with a double-axle full trailer with a load of 5 tons?

"By the way, in addition to changing these trailers into two-axle lightweight full trailer models with larger box capacity and larger load capacity, you can also add hydraulic dump function. I think, if you add such a function, it shouldn't be a big problem for you to earn three or four hundred more per trailer, right?" Lin Zheng said with a smile.

"That's right, we can also add a hydraulic tumbling bucket and two hydraulic lifters. The car can sell for at least 1,000 yuan more!" Xu Yunlong rubbed his hands excitedly, and smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

But the next moment, Xu Yunlong's face collapsed, and he rubbed his hands, and his whole body instantly changed like before, "District Mayor, that... can the district allocate tens of thousands of yuan to our factory? The factory has not paid wages for so long, and everyone really can't make it. This technical transformation also requires money."

Qi Baoshan frowned immediately: Since the district agricultural machinery tow bucket factory has a solution to the problem, the money will work immediately after giving it. This money should be given, but if this is given, what should other factories do if they find a reason to ask for money?
Chapter completed!