“The truck positioning function is being upgraded and maintained, and the background is temporarily unavailable for use and query. Please understand! Please use it again if the page is restored.”
On July 11, the customer service of Fahuo Bang told a reporter from 21st Century Business Herald that it is currently uncertain when the function of querying truck trajectories can be restored.
The reporter noticed that from July 10, Fahuo Bang urgently removed the truck trajectory query function.
Prior to this, the platform’s function facilitated a large number of cargo owners and ordinary people to query truck positioning information, and some even traced the trajectory of “problem tankers” within half a year.
Recently, the public’s attention to food safety is very high. Some self-media, based on the license plate number of the tanker disclosed by the Beijing News, queried a large amount of open source data of tanker trajectories on the freight platform, and sorted out a number of companies involved.
21st Century Business Herald learned that the platform for querying truck trajectories is Fahuo Bang, which is a new platform established in June 2021. It focuses on serving the supply chain “large ticket and less-than-truckload” logistics business of enterprises with the “technology logistics + multimodal transport” model, and realizes convenient matching services with the “digital logistics asset trading” platform, and integrates supply chain element resources with “digital logistics” to build an “industrial metaverse” ecosystem with “dual chains + two modernizations” as the starting point. To put it bluntly, this is a platform that aggregates cargo owners and truck drivers, mainly for matching transactions.
It is reported that before, the Fahuo Bang page had a truck trajectory query function, and the cargo owner could pay to query the driving trajectory and waybill information of a certain truck, with a maximum tracking period of half a year.
Due to the fermentation of the “problem tanker” incident, this function was heavily accessed on July 9, and Fahuo Bang urgently restricted query requests, made requirements for data sources, data usage, and authorization. On July 10, it simply removed the truck trajectory query function. As for the restoration time, the company’s customer service did not give a definite answer.
Whether the freight trajectory of trucks should be made public, some logistics industry experts believe that the data itself is confidential, but it should be allowed to be obtained by cargo owners for a fee. After all, cargo owners have the right to know the whereabouts of the goods and keep abreast of the status of the goods. The demand of cargo owners for the attention of goods and vehicles also provides an idea for solving food safety concerns.
Zhai Xuehun, founder and CEO of G7 Easy Flow, who has been engaged in the logistics industry for nearly 30 years, pointed out that with today’s IoT technology, the entire route of tankers is recorded with data. Through the truck trajectory and waybill information, the cargo owner can quickly and clearly understand what the tanker has transported before transporting the oil, and whether it has been cleaned. It is not difficult to ensure the safety and reliability of the entire process from the vehicle to the tank, including cleaning, loading and unloading, and the cargo owner and the regulatory authorities can effectively supervise it, and the cost is not high. If the food companies that purchase oil products do a careful inspection at the oil tanker’s arrival and acceptance stage, and even track the data on whether the tanker has been cleaned, and do chemical sampling analysis for each car of oil, these actions together will ensure the safety of oil products. The cost is at most 10 yuan per car.
The problem is that some cargo owners are unwilling to spend these ten yuan, and some do not properly verify the tanker. Zhai Xuehun pointed out that logistics drivers travel back and forth to different cargo owners every day. Usually, they do whatever the cargo owner or the company asks, because they know very well that the price of violating these requirements is that they will not receive freight or even be fined.
“Sometimes, a few drivers who are not very disciplined will test the bottom line of the cargo owner, for example, to see if they can successfully get the acceptance form without washing the tank, whether they will really be fined if they are late, and whether they can change the weighing bill by giving a pack of cigarettes to the gatekeeper, etc.” Zhai Xuehun said that if these drivers find that they can succeed, they will not only do so next time, but also tell other drivers that this cargo owner is not so serious, and the written regulations written in the contract are actually irrelevant. So the drivers spread the word, and most of the drivers gathered in this company will do so. Those drivers who quote according to the written requirements will not get the contract because of the high price, and the typical bad money drives out good money will appear.
Obviously, the tankers that appeared in the Beijing News video without cleaning were successfully loaded, successfully unloaded, and finally successfully settled in the perfunctory acceptance of the factory. This action signals to the drivers who undertake the transportation of these factories, “In fact, this cargo owner does not really have the requirement to wash the tank.”
In Zhai Xuehun’s view, to solve the public’s concerns about food safety, it is necessary to start from the source, that is, to require the cargo owner to be responsible for the quality of the oil products, and to do things in accordance with the inspection and acceptance specifications of the oil products. The regulatory authorities should require enterprises that operate edible oil to be able to provide inspection reports, inspection procedures and full monitoring data for each car of bulk oil they purchase at any time. “Only in this way can the source problem be truly solved”.
A senior expert from the China Logistics Society, who did not want to be named, also pointed out that if the blame is ultimately placed on a few truck drivers or logistics companies, the problem cannot be truly solved. Only by making the cargo owner responsible for the oil products can the problem be ultimately solved. Because what to transport and how to transport is decided by the cargo owner, the cargo owner does not pay if the acceptance is unqualified, and the driver will not get the freight at all if he does not clean the tank or other non-compliant behaviors lead to the contamination of the oil products.
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