In the early morning of May 22, Mr. Chen, the online taxi driver, had been waiting at Jinan International Airport for a long time. He wanted to take a downwind ticket home, but he waited for more than three hours without waiting. Finally, he gave up and ended the day's sports car work by taking a ticket at random. Master Chen earned 390 yuan when he went online for car hailing.
In Jinan, there are more than 30000 online taxi drivers who go out early and return late like Master Chen, expecting a good "harvest" every day. However, due to the "more monks and less porridge", the recent decrease in income has become normal. The reporter noticed that in recent days, Jingdezhen, Suzhou, Chongqing, Putian, Shangqiu and other places have issued risk warnings for the online car hailing industry. The daily average number of single cars has not exceeded 15, and the entire online car hailing industry is about to usher in a deep reshuffle and adjustment.
Only 4 runs in 5 hours
The airport and railway station have to wait for two or three hours
At 9:00 on May 22, Master Chen, who had less than 7 hours' rest, drove out as usual.
At 9:20, he received the first passenger. This one-way trip is about 5 kilometers, and Master Chen earns 11.99 yuan. Then nearby, Master Chen received the second order. After running at 10:5, Master Chen received 36.99 yuan.
An hour later, he did not receive the third passenger of the day until 11 o'clock. About half an hour later, he received the fourth passenger of the day near the CBD in downtown Jinan.
From 9:00 to 14:00, he received four orders, with a total flow of about 80 yuan. "A small amount of money is small. About five years ago, 8 to 10 hours a day, the running water was more than 500 yuan. Now, 12 to 14 hours a day of sports cars are hard to break 400 yuan." Master Chen said.
From 9:00 to 14:00 that day, the total flow of Master Chen is about 80 yuan
"In transportation hubs like airports and railway stations, it is too common to wait for several hours to pick up an order." Master Chen said that if you are lucky enough to catch up with the order explosion, you can go faster, but for most online taxi hailing drivers, the waiting time at the airport is not less than 3 hours on average. Previously, I picked up the order at Jinan West Railway Station. Maybe I could go when the bus arrived. Now I have to wait for one or two hours.
At noon of the same day, the reporter came to a charging station in the urban area of Jinan, and the online taxi drivers were queuing up to charge. They told reporters that in the morning, most people received an order every hour on average.
Online car hailing drivers queue up for charging
Master Liu, the online taxi driver, said that he went out at 4 am that day and ran seven or eight rounds at noon. "There are relatively many cars in the area from CBD to Daming Lake in the urban area of Jinan, and they are basically only sports cars in this area. Beyond this range, they don't want to pick up unless they go to Changqing University Town, Zhangqiu and other areas with large traffic, and 80% of the empty cars come back," said Master Liu.
Driver growth rate of 127% in recent four years
The order volume in the same period increased by less than 11%
The reporter noted that in the past few years, the online car hailing market has grown rapidly, with nearly 7 million practitioners in just a few years.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Transport, as of March 31, 2024, 6.791 million online car hailing driver certificates and 2.847 million online car hailing transport certificates have been issued nationwide. From January to March this year, 219000 online car hailing driver certificates and 80000 vehicle transport certificates have been newly issued.
According to the Worker's Daily, from 2020 to 2023, the number of online car hailing driver licenses increased by 3.681 million, The growth rate reached 127%. In contrast, during the same period, The number of online car hailing orders increased by less than 11%, and the number of orders per capita also decreased from 280 to 136.
According to enterprise survey data, Shandong has 1170 online car hailing related enterprises, ranking first in terms of region. There are 960 and 833 online car hailing related enterprises in Yunnan and Liaoning respectively, ranking top three. In terms of cities, Qingdao has 680 online car hailing related enterprises, with the largest number.
Faced with the situation of "more monks than porridge", the online car hailing platform, in order to seize the market and expand traffic, Drivers' income is squeezed, and their income is also declining.
On May 22, Master Wang, the taxi driver of Jinan Online, ran three tickets from 11:00 to 14:00. "There are obviously more cars. The background can see the empty cars around the location. In the downtown area of Jinan during the peak period, there are almost two or three cars around any location, or even more. The number of empty cars around the business circle has doubled than in previous years." Master Wang said.
This year is the fourth year of Master Wang's online car hailing. The daily flow is about 400 yuan, excluding car insurance, charging fees and car loans, His monthly net income is 5000 yuan to 6000 yuan. "The hourly salary is reduced. It used to be 40 yuan to 50 yuan per hour, but now it is about 30 yuan per hour. It only takes time to run more money. I now run for more than 12 hours every day," said Master Wang.
In the interview, many online car hailing drivers said that with the increase of vehicles, the platform order distribution method and pricing method also changed. "The platform gives priority to the drivers who run special express trains, but the income of the special express is too low, and the commission is 27% to 29%, Our drivers will pay for the preferential part of the platform for consumers. If we set "no special express", we will send less orders. " Master Wang said.
Master Chen also revealed to reporters that in airports, railway stations and other places, an online car hailing platform does not send orders according to the queue number sequence, but according to the driver's points. "Before, there was a queue number, and I knew it well. Now, drivers with 460-470 points can walk faster. Ordinary drivers can only wait for orders, from one hour or two to three or four hours more."
Risks in car hailing industry of multi region early warning network
In recent days, many places in the country have intensively issued online car hailing industry risk warnings. The reporter combed and found that, The daily average number of single vehicles in the multi grid car hailing industry does not exceed 15.
On April 6, 2023, Jinan issued the Notice on Risk Early Warning of Online Taxi Reservation Industry in Jinan. At that time, a total of 69 online car hailing platform enterprises were registered in Jinan, and more than 35000 drivers had obtained online car hailing qualification certificates. At present, the daily average number of online car hailing bicycles is less than 10, and the transportation capacity of Jinan online car hailing market has been basically saturated.
Many places remind people to be cautious about entering the online car hailing industry. The picture shows the online car hailing bulletin board (information picture)
In April this year, Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Transport released the operating trends of the online car hailing industry in Qingdao in the first quarter of the year. In the first quarter of 2024, Qingdao will have 63290 access platform vehicles, up 31.55% year on year. From the data of single vehicle, 15992 vehicles with 15 or more completed daily, accounting for 28.13%; 9471 vehicles completed 10-14 orders per day, accounting for 16.66%; 11783 vehicles completed 5-9 orders per day, accounting for 20.73%; 19601 vehicles with less than 5 orders completed per day, accounting for 34.48%, and continued to issue operational risk alerts.
On April 5, Yingtan Transportation Bureau issued a risk warning. As of the first quarter of this year, the city has licensed 1196 online car hailing vehicles, with 14 daily orders per vehicle, an average daily income of 205 yuan, and an average single income of 14.68 yuan.
On April 16, Chongqing Road Transport Affairs Center issued a reminder of the industry's operational risks. According to the monitoring of operational data, in the first quarter of this year, the average daily order volume of online car hailing in the central city of Chongqing was more than 650000, and the average daily order volume of a single car was 13.6, with an average daily revenue of about 321 yuan.
On May 16, Shangqiu Transportation Bureau issued an online car hailing risk warning. Influenced by the rapid increase in the number of employees and other factors, at present, 15 to 18 daily orders are received for online car hailing in the urban area, and the daily average operating income of a single car is 200 to 230 yuan.
On May 20, Jingdezhen issued an online car hailing industry risk warning. The average daily number of online car hailing in the urban area was 15, and the revenue of single car was only 240 yuan. The capacity of online car hailing is becoming saturated.
This series of warnings not only sounded the alarm for practitioners in the industry, but also indicated that the online car hailing industry will face a deep reshuffle and adjustment.
Source: poster journalist Cong Ping Li Yifang
