What is the real situation of forklift drivers and small individual forklift owners who are not known to the outside world?
Have you had a good year?
What's your forklift business based on?
At the same time, unmanned forklift AVG and intelligent robot are increasingly widely used in the logistics warehouse operation. The real economy has suffered a severe impact, with the shrinking of the manufacturing industry, factory closures, environmental shutdowns, and the increase in prices of various raw materials.
As the economy continues to slide, profits are getting thinner and squeezed harder. Under the environment of oversupply, the employment situation of forklift workers at the grass-roots level is not optimistic.
One side is the development of the forklift enterprises by virtue of capital
On one side were many unemployed forklift workers
There are also countless forklift owners struggling
I don't want to hold high the banner of industry forecast and macro data, and look at the survival situation of forklift workers in this year from the perspective of an "individual".
These forklift drivers, individual owners about their future career, business direction will be what kind of choice?
We interviewed five forklift users about their plans for the future:
"Ten years and a forklift man."
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He is 31 years old. He has been working as a forklift truck driver since he was 21 years old. Just after the New Year's day, the forklift truck driver in nongfu spring transit warehouse went back home early for the Chinese New Year. His monthly salary is only more than 5,000 yuan. He has driven forklifts of various brands and models for ten years. He said that he thinks the best forklift is linde. I asked him about his plans for the New Year. He said, "I don't know." he said, "I don't know."
"Change your career and learn to drive a semitrailer."
"Muzi", a native of tangshan, hebei province, has been working as a forklift driver for seven or eight years. He only earns about 3,000 yuan a month in a fourth-tier city. After the New Year, I will give up driving a forklift completely and plan to spend 20,000 yuan to drive a semi-trailer. At least you can earn more than driving a forklift.
"Business gets harder every year."
"A00 xintang forklift crane rental" should represent the current situation of many individual forklift owners. After driving forklift for ten years and operating forklift rental business for four or five years, the business has become more and more difficult year by year with vicious price competition and customer loss. Most of the forklift truck owners rely on business CARDS, roadside advertisements, construction sites, and introductions from acquaintances. Even though the business is difficult to do, he intends to stick to it. After working for more than a decade, it is hard to let go.
"I didn't know there were many people driving forklifts until I finished."
"Big little uncle" represents another group of people who have transferred to the industry. In his late 40s, he used to do business, but the impact of physical business was too great. He changed his profession to drive a forklift to support his family. He also said that he was ready to bear hardships before and after learning forklift, and now he was waiting for the certificate. He hoped to find a job to support his family in hubei province after the New Year.
"Thirty dollars is bad, poor crazy."
"Ronggui forklift taxi" is also an individual owner who changed from a forklift driver to a taxi for three years. Because the car is his own, he has learned to repair the car by himself. Under the increasingly difficult environment, he said frankly that he was boring and planned to consider changing his profession and changing his business.
After years of development, the bonus period of forklift industry has long disappeared. In the forklift rental market, vicious price competition is common. You are cheap, and I am cheaper than you! If you don't, there will be people rushing to do it. There are more and more new entrants, and the plates in the local market are just that big. With the economic downturn and the loss of customers, forklift drivers are having a hard time in the overall environment.
Forklift workers are looking for jobs, while the small boss of forklift is worried and the boss is in support. "this industry is really too difficult," said almost every forklift friend, who may represent the real portrayal of many people working in forklift. A lot of people do this line fast for about 10 years, a new person with a vision to enter the line, some people with a tired and frustrated left, more still continue to insist to endure.
"Escape, change careers, stick to the job, enter the job," as "fortress besieged" wrote, "people in the city want to go out, people outside the city want to come in" many people are confused about the future, eager to change the status quo and do not know whether the days ahead are bright or anxious fog...
Forklift man, where are you going tomorrow?