Chapter 130
"Brother Lei, off shipping again?"
"Hmm." Lei Tingjun came out of the warehouse with a cigarette in his mouth, got into the driver's seat of a truck, and a worker greeted him as he passed by.
Lei Tingjun responded calmly, extinguished his cigarette, closed the car door, and started the engine.
Ten days ago, Lei Tingjun arrived in Pingdong City, intending to find a job and solve his accommodation problem first.
Instead of looking for a factory, he went to a large construction site where he was working, intending to find a day-to-day job and then slowly plan other things.
If I decide I don't want to do it anymore, I can leave anytime.
As a result, he ran into an acquaintance at that construction site.
It was on that train trip that Lei Tingjun caught the pickpocket and helped find the owner of the wallet.
The man left Lei Tingjun a business card, but Lei Tingjun didn't call him.
It was just a chance encounter, and Lei Tingjun had no intention of bothering them.
This man was Zhao Yingda, the deputy manager of Fangyuan Construction Company. He had come here today to discuss a project and happened to run into Lei Tingjun.
"Hey, it's you, brother!" Zhao Yingda recognized Lei Tingjun as soon as he saw him.
It's really hard to forget Lei Jun with his height, presence, and appearance.
“It’s you.” Lei Tingjun recognized the other person as well.
"Brother, what are you doing here? Are you working here too?" Zhao Yingda looked Lei Tingjun up and down.
Lei Tingjun said, "I just arrived in the city and haven't settled in yet, so I'm here to do some temporary work."
"You're looking for a job? Why didn't you call me? I'm short-staffed." Zhao Yingda warmly led Lei Tingjun to his office at the construction site.
He asked Lei Tingjun, "Brother, can you drive?"
“I’ve driven it before,” Lei Tingjun said.
“That’s perfect,” Zhao Yingda said. “I happen to need a driver.”
“I usually travel to neighboring cities to discuss business, and I also have to go on business trips to other places from time to time, including Zhejiang, Fujian, and Northeast China. Since you can drive, why don’t you come and drive for me?”
“I see you’re quite skilled. In our line of work, we inevitably encounter some unpleasant people. You could be my bodyguard, and I’ll pay you double. Three hundred yuan a month, how about that? Don’t worry about food and lodging; you can eat whatever I eat,” Zhao Yingda said.
The terms offered by Manager Zhao are quite generous.
When Lei Tingjun was working at the Dongfang Factory, his workshop director, Wang Jianguo, had worked there for over ten years, and his monthly salary was only a little over two hundred yuan.
But Lei Tingjun refused without even thinking about it.
He said, "I only want to stay in East China and don't want to go elsewhere. Manager Zhao, I appreciate your kindness."
Zhao Yingda genuinely admired Lei Tingjun and wanted to recruit this passionate and righteous young man to his cause.
However, seeing that even such favorable conditions could not sway him, he couldn't help but hesitate.
Zhao Yingda thought for a moment and then said, "If you want to stay in this city, then how about this? Our construction site is looking to hire a few drivers to transport building materials and slag from the city to the county. If you don't want to drive for me to other places, how about you stay here and work as a freight driver?"
"The salary might not be as high as that of a private driver. It's calculated based on the number of trips and the tonnage you haul. But don't worry, we have dormitories at the construction site warehouse, with room and board included."
Lei Tingjun thought for a moment and then nodded: "Alright, thank you very much for the introduction, Manager Zhao."
Seeing that he had finally managed to keep him, Zhao Yingda smiled, stood up, and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be so polite, just call me Brother Zhao from now on."
And so, Lei Tingjun started working as a freight driver for Fangyuan Construction Company in Pingdong City.
During the day, he would drive the company car and go with several other drivers to deliver goods.
At night, I stayed in the warehouse dormitory near the company's construction site.
However, Lei Tingjun was born to be extraordinary, and shallow waters could not contain this dragon.
Even though he temporarily became a truck driver, his eyes and mind, what he saw and thought about, were different from those of others.
On his first day of delivering goods, Lei Tingjun astutely discovered a way to make money.
On construction sites, a large amount of slag and waste is generated every day. This waste needs to be hauled away and cleaned up using special waste trucks to avoid creating garbage piles.
However, among the waste materials, Lei Tingjun saw a lot of mud, sand, bricks, scrap steel, and scrap wire, which were piled up into mountains of waste and were too difficult to clean up. So he had to pack all the waste materials and ask a waste recycling company to take them away.
Lei Tingjun thought of A-Qiang in Pingquan County.
He works hard every day running a recycling station, collecting a few kilograms of scrap copper and iron. Once he has accumulated a certain amount, he sells it and earns a few cents per kilogram.
If Lei Tingjun were to hire a truck to take over the business at the construction site, clean up the waste materials, and sort out the steel scrap, he could make a profit even if he sold it as scrap.
Lei Tingjun quickly calculated in his mind.
A medium-sized truck can carry five tons of waste.
Even if only two-tenths of the scrap steel can be screened out from one ton of waste, a five-ton truckload of waste would still weigh two thousand kilograms.
At three cents per pound, a truckload of scrap could be sold for four to six hundred yuan.
If you take four or five trucks and haul scrap materials, you can easily earn two thousand yuan a time.
If Lei Tingjun wanted to take on the waste recycling business, that would be easy. The problem now is where he's going to get five trucks.
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