In Hangzhou in mid-June, there was a hint of restlessness in the air. When the wind from the sea came to the city for a turn, even the tail was slightly agitated.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Quanwu arrived at the entrance of SOS Bar in Huanglong Sports Center on time as usual, yawned, wiped his face with both hands, stopped the folding electric bicycle which was out of proportion to his figure against the tree, took a bottle of water from the bag fixed on the bench behind him, took a sip, put it back, and then clicked on the familiar orange icon on the mobile phone screen-"Didi is driving to take orders!"

The rise of Internet platform for driving

The industry of driving has existed for many years. According to the Social Value Report of Driving by Didi Media Research Institute released on January 1th, 217, in China, drunk driving is still the biggest driving scene for users, accounting for 97.8%, followed by work fatigue, business transportation and family transportation.

before p>214, there were many traditional driving companies, and the owners of driving companies cooperated with bars, hotels, KTV and other night entertainment places to give the hotel owners or security guards a commission. In this interest chain, the driving fee passed on to users is relatively high, and the actual profit of drivers has also shrunk dramatically.

In 214, cmnet entered a period of rapid development, with the growth of user scale, sales of smart terminals and mobile applications reaching new orders of magnitude. What followed was the emergence of a large number of Internet driving platforms, such as e-driving, which has been established for three years and occupies a major share of the Internet driving software market, and the rising stars love driving and 91 driving. In July 215, Didi Daidai entered the driving market again. The low-cost, convenient and standardized service of the Internet driving platform has broken the "hidden rules" of traditional driving.

"Now, most people's awareness has improved. If you don't drink or drive while driving, a sip of wine will be called driving." Mei Jianxin is a native of Xinyang, Henan Province. He came to Hangzhou to be a full-time driver. He has been on and off for nearly three years and is a veritable old driver in the driving circle. "At the Gucui intersection of Tianmushan Road, traffic police are catching drunk driving every night, and they will catch it every night. I was also checked there when I was driving."

Strictly control drunk driving to promote the development of driving industry

The Criminal Law Amendment (VIII), which came into effect on May 1, 211, added a new crime of dangerous driving. Drunk driving was first regulated by the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, and then punished by the Criminal Law, and the punishment method was upgraded, which is usually called drunk driving. In August, 215, the Criminal Law Amendment (IX) was passed, stipulating that anyone who drives a motor vehicle while drunk shall be detained and fined.

Although it is stipulated in the Guiding Opinions on Sentencing for Common Crimes (II) (for Trial Implementation) formulated a few days ago by the Supreme Law: "A defendant who is drunk driving a motor vehicle shall not be convicted and punished if the circumstances are obvious and slight; If the circumstances of the crime are minor and no penalty is required, criminal punishment may be exempted. " However, this only gives judges a certain discretion. Drunk driving has not been deleted from the provisions of the Criminal Law, and it is still an illegal and criminal act.

The Report on the Social Value of Driving Drivers points out that the driving industry, led by Didi Driving Drivers, has formed a new economic format and has become an effective means for the government to control drunk driving and reduce traffic accidents. Combined with the national average ratio of drunk driving accidents and casualties in the past five years, in 216, the driving industry reduced 3.5 million traffic accidents caused by drunk driving, exempted 83, people from criminal sanctions and reduced property losses by 46.2 billion yuan.

I dare not stop for a day

Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center, together with Shenzhen Xiangmihu Resort, Beijing Workers Stadium, Chongqing Jinyuan Times Shopping Plaza and other places, has been rated as a popular drinking place in China.

Night shows are gathered here, and bars of different styles are scattered around the gymnasium. When night falls, the lights in front of the bar shine and people and cars come and go. In the dazzling neon beam, the bustling atmosphere of the city rises, and the alcohol is accompanied by a puff of smoke, which comes out from the mouth of a paunchy man, from the fingers of a good-looking woman, and from the hands of a young man dressed in fashion.

At eleven o'clock every night, Wang Dawei will move his position from Shengli River Food Street to Huanglong Sports Center. "I just had a meal at 7: or 8: . Like at 11: 3 now, only these clubs and night shows will have more lists." Since he divorced his wife two years ago, he came to Hangzhou from his hometown of Henan alone, registered as a full-time driver who loves to drive, went out to take orders at seven o'clock every night, and went home at four or five in the morning. This is two years.

sleep during the day and work at night. Contrary to most people's schedule, Wang Dawei's life is simple and repetitive: sleeping, eating and driving. "Very boring, but I can't help it. I have to work when others come out to eat and drink at night. " The income of driving fluctuates greatly, seven or eight thousand this month and four or five thousand next month. The great pressure of living in Hangzhou makes Wang Dawei very anxious. He doesn't dare to stop for a day, because once he stops, he will have no financial resources.

Wear down jacket in summer

Years of driving at night and irregular work and rest make Wang Dawei's health begin to have various problems. At the age of 36 this year, he obviously felt that staying up late was too much for his body. When he first started to do it, he was full of energy and stayed up all night, but now he can feel exhausted. "Cold at night, my wrist, it often hurts badly now. I didn't sleep well during the day, and I often couldn't sleep. I slept until three or four in the afternoon. In fact, the quality of sleep was very poor. The temperature difference is big, and cycling is cold. Most people wear short sleeves now, and I come out in a thin down jacket. Hard work, but what can you do? " Wang Dawei said, and pulled up the zipper of the down jacket.

drivers ride uniformly equipped folding electric bicycles, which can travel 7-8 kilometers a night, but the cars are fast, the center of gravity is unstable, and accidents are easy to happen. "I remember that it snowed one winter, and the ground was frozen and slippery. On the first day of the order, I broke my left leg riding an electric car. I went back to have a rest, continued to order the next day, and broke my right leg. " Li Quanwu laughed, as if it wasn't him who fell down, and as if he were talking about some interesting memories.

Some bosses are kind

Compared with the pressure of survival and physical injury, there are others that make drivers feel wronged.

the platform for driving orders is unified, so the driver can't decide for himself what kind of customers to serve, so whether he can meet reasonable and well-behaved customers depends on his luck. Drivers meet people who are drunk every day, and disputes often occur, often because of expenses or minor problems on the road, and things such as getting drunk and making trouble without reason and defaulting on accounts often appear. Wang Dawei had no choice but to smile bitterly: "What can I do? If he is drunk, can you still argue with him?" I can only wait for him to wake up the next day and then call him to pay. " Li Quanwu loves to call customers bosses: "Some bosses are good and easy to talk; Some bosses have a bad temper and are drunk, so they just scold,' You don't know the way'. Indeed, I don't go there often, and I can't be familiar with everything. Sometimes I just curse people if I drive a little wrong. "

I only sleep for three hours a day

In addition to full-time drivers like Wang Dawei and Li Quanwu, some drivers only work part-time. Most of them are young people who are energetic and step into the society with low wages. For them, driving gives them the opportunity to supplement their lives and gives them the possibility to establish themselves in Hangzhou earlier.

Huang Wensong from Anhui is a part-time driver of Didi Daidai. After passing the platform audit, he has just been a driver for one month. "My basic salary is about 5, yuan. If I get rid of eating and drinking Lazar, I will be gone. I will come out at night to earn some living expenses." Because of the guarantee of basic salary, Huang Wensong has less pressure than a full-time driver. He arranges his time flexibly and is not demanding how many orders he must make every day. ""Yesterday before 11: 3, the net income was only 28 yuan, and after 11: 3, I received two slightly larger orders, more than 2 yuan. Yesterday, I worked until 5: 3, took a nap and went to work. " Huang Wensong is 29 years old. When waiting for the order, he just stared at the page of the app, which was very mature under the dim yellow light.

"here comes the bill!" Huang Wensong suddenly cried. A driver who just came next to him asked him where the bill was from. Huang Wensong said with chagrin, "Shit on Puyan! If you can catch the bus at 12: 3, it will be fine. If you can't catch it, it will be in vain! " As he spoke, Huang Wensong rode away on an electric car, only to hear a polite "Hello Didi to serve you" gradually disappearing into the noise from the bar.

in the final analysis, every driving is a contract built on trust. Customers trust the platform and choose to call a driver on the platform to send themselves home safely after drinking; Drivers trust the platform and choose to work according to the regulations of the platform to get their due income. For both parties, trust is very empty, and the contract is supported by the double guarantee provided by the platform and relevant departments.

in September, 216, the standard of "Service Specification for Driving Agents" (SB/T11137-215) proposed by the Ministry of Commerce and drafted by china automobile dealers association Automobile Club Branch was officially put into practice, which set clear standards and requirements for driving agents and drivers, so that the development of driving agents industry can be regulated, and the driving agent industry is no longer a "three-no-industry" with no authority, no access threshold and no unified standard.

in the first few years of the development of driving, driving insurance has not been paid enough attention, and once the driving accident happens, it is easy to have service disputes. With the diversified development of driving service, the forms of driving insurance are also various, and the probability of disputes is greatly reduced. At first, both Didi Daidai and E Daidai adopted the method of self-protection, and the enterprise charged a certain amount of fees from each income for accident compensation. At present, Didi Daijia has purchased the liability insurance for driving.

Wang Dawei's platform is Daidai. According to him, Daidai adopts Daidai liability insurance, which costs two yuan per order. There is no need to argue in the event of an accident, and there are many fewer disputes. Call the police first, and the traffic police will make a ruling at the scene of the accident. If it is the other party's responsibility, the other party will pay for it. If it is the driver's responsibility, the company will pay for it, clearly. "If there is no insurance, no one will do it! Some customers here have millions of cars, and tens of thousands of them will be repaired a little. How can we afford it? "

The list is getting harder and harder to pick up

Mei Jianxin has been a full-time driver for nearly three years, and he has used almost every Internet driver platform. He first registered for e-driving, and after a while, he registered for Hangzhou's local driving platform. According to him, the love driver had a strong momentum at the beginning, and there were many users. Now, many users have lost, and they have all been "burned" by Didi. "The market is saturated, and the industry has begun to decline. When we first started doing it, there were not so many drivers in Hangzhou, and there were lists everywhere. Now look."

Mei Jianxin's Nununu mouth signals us to look at Wang Dawei, who has been guarding the green interface of the Aidai app for 2 minutes, but he hasn't received a single order. The screen flickers on and off. When it is about to get dark, Wang Dawei will poke the screen to make it light up again. It seems that it has been on all the time, and there is hope to receive the order.

as early as 211, e-driver appeared as the leader of the Internet driver platform, but it has not been known because of its low-key development. However, the driving market only occupies a very small share in the mobile travel market. Internet giants have not turned their attention to this field in a short period of time, but only focused on larger express and car services. Therefore, as of October, 214, although there have been Internet driving platforms such as Ai Daidai, V Daidai and 91 Daidai, e Daidai has spread all over 12 cities in China, firmly occupying nearly 9% of the Internet driving market. In July 215, Didi Daidai was officially launched. Relying on the high penetration rate and traffic advantages of Didi Chuxing, the double subsidy measures for drivers and users were launched, and the comfortable days of e-Daidai were over. At the end of 215, the market share of e-driver declined rapidly to only 4%. According to the "Report on Driving Market in the Fourth Quarter of 216" released by Analysys, in 216, Didi Daijia took the lead with a share of 74.5%, which was significantly ahead of E Daijia with a share of 29.7%.

the rapid development of Didi daijia has eroded the living space of other internet daijia platforms. When drivers who are squatting in front of bars get together, they just discuss whether their favorite daijia and e-daijia will go out of business. Drivers who love to drive are always worried, the list is getting less and less, and it is more and more difficult to pick up. Others say, "I don't think it's okay to drive", which makes their hearts tremble. The days of the drivers who have joined the Didi army are not easy. There is no distinction between part-time and full-time drivers in the platform system, and there will be no preferential inclination for full-time drivers to send orders. There are more drivers and fewer orders, which makes the life of full-time drivers very difficult.

It's not easy to change careers.

The platform competition relationship has been dissolved, and the shift from decentralization to centralization has brought about the reduction of subsidy fees and the cruel reality that there are more monks and less meat, and the days of full-time driving are getting harder and harder. For them, it's not that they don't want to change careers, but they can't see the road ahead clearly.

Wang Dawei personally felt the decline of Daidai, and just applied to Didi Daidai for driver registration. "There are many drip review processes, and one set has been going on for several months. I have to live in these months." When asked about his poor health and his plans in the next few years, Wang Dawei shook his head with a wry smile: "I never thought about it, and there is no good way out now. Forget it, let's do it one day. Anyway, I don't have to worry about eating my whole family alone!"

For the future, Li Quanwu is much more optimistic than Wang Dawei: "I have no education. I stopped studying in the fifth grade of primary school, and now I can do very little work. Take it one step at a time. Can this society starve people to death if it is willing to endure hardships? Haha! "

(Li Quanwu, Mei Jianxin, Wang Dawei and Huang Wensong are all pseudonyms)