Transmigration: The Promise of Echoes
CHAPTER 08 ~ First Trip ~

Slowly Lastri ran the truck on the side of the rocky road. There are times when the rear wheels of the truck run over the shoulders of the road that is not covered with asphalt. The dust of the ground flew. Lastri could clearly see how the dust was billowing, soaring higher and higher through the rearview mirror.

Lastri tried to remember the exact location where the results of his adoptive father's garden are usually stacked. Usually dodosmen put the garden harvest in front of the road using building trolleys. Easy to transport on a truck.

Dodosman, a nickname given to freelance daily energy. They are ordered and paid by foremen or garden owners directly to harvest oil palm plantations. Their job is to pick and raise crops on trucks, or other conveyances As for the results of the garden in the form of chunks of palm fruit commonly called TBS, fresh fruit bunches. 

Soon Lastri stopped the speed of the truck after he saw Wagiso in the crowd. Wagiso was the leader of the dodos laborers entrusted by Wasis. Since the harvest of peaches, Wagiso has been appointed as the leader of the harvesting process in the gardens owned by Wasis.

Lastri got off the truck, then waved his hand and called Wagiso. The person called Lastri was seen hesitating for a moment. He quickly approached Lastri after confirming that the truck belonged to his former boss.

Something was strange that day. There's a weighing device there. Usually Wasis only do the weighing process only once. Before the palm is dismantled in its subscription factory. 

"Why are there scales sir?"

"Yes, you want to be taken to a nearby field!"

"How is it not directly factory?"

"The tonality is less!"

"Usually you take it directly to the factory!'

"Yes Ma'am, I don't know if you go straight to the factory!"

Lastri suspects that Wagiso has been bullied by the group. As long as Lastri knew the factory never limit tonnage. If indeed the number of palm fruit is less, the sender himself who loses is exposed to inappropriate road costs.

One of those wearing a uniform came to Wagiso. Then ask why the Lastri truck was there. Wagiso answered the truck that Lastri brought was owned by a gardener. And herself as the daughter of the garden owner. Lastri was moved to hear Wagiso's confession to him.

Then the man returned to his group. It seemed that he was not satisfied with Wagiso's answer. Then they laughed, some were pointing towards Lastri. 

Lastri tries not to care about the behavior or treatment of those people to him. Presumably the arrival of Lastri has failed their plan in processing the palm harvest of his adoptive parents. Lastri was able to smell something was wrong there.

"Sir, I don't want to use that man's energy if I harvest again!"

"Why Why did you?'

"This is what Pak berondolannya really do not get caught!" Lastri pointed towards the scattered palm fruit. 

"The system is different!" Shouted the person in an impolite tone.

Lastri's reaction after listening to the speech of the man who did not have the manners was to reprimand Wagiso directly. Not because of the personal Wagiso, but rather on the failure to choose the wrong business partner. Cheating and not being able to appreciate himself as a garden owner. If the owner of the garden alone is bold and rude, how is his attitude towards Wagiso and other workers. 

"So how do you want it loaded now?" Obviously Wagiso showed his regret and bad taste.

"Well, how else!"

"People ask for cigarette money first, Pastri?"

"How much?"

"Once again!"

Lastri gave the old man two pieces of medium money. Wagiso immediately gave the money to the man in uniform. Lastri can clearly see the uniform that person was wearing from a company engaged in the field of palm oil collectors. Very similar to the one used by Yudi, the traitor.

While the truck was loading the palm fruit, Lastri saw the uncollected kernel Lastri taxir was about 20 to 30 kilos. Too bad it can not be used as money, because it is not raised on the truck. 

The reason they are land carried will lower the sorting value. Until making the delivery of palm fruit to the factory rejected. It's so far-fetched in making excuses. If the sorting process is good and honest, of course, it will not lower the quality of the shipment of palm fruit to the factory.

Lastri was once told the term wasasis for a palm fruit that is brondolan. For people who understand palm oil, they call it by the name of the kernel. Kernel is the best fruit in a bunch. Even to know one bunch has been worthy of harvest, namely by paying attention to the number of palm fruits that fall out in the soil.

Palm fruit that has been cooked perfectly is very easy to escape from the sign. Somewhat long exposed to the sun alone sometimes also make loose from the sign. Her story this time by the new dodos did not collect, instead impressed ignored. 

Usually the kernel is stacked up like a mountain or inserted sack. This will reduce the level of dirt. Only after that it was transported into the truck by being thrown from the bottom. Sacked by two people simultaneously use sack or cloth as a runway.

Lastri give the rest of the harvest, transport, and load wages. The total cost of harvesting reaches 25 percent of the purchase price of the mill. If the price of palm oil improves the wages of dodgers range from 18 to 21 percent of the price of TBS received in the factory.

Lastri drove his car with a feeling of annoyance. He hated cheating. Do not know whether the hatred is the true nature of Lastri or comes from Ruh Gema, who was disturbed to see the fraud. 

Ten minutes later Lastri turned around. The truck belonging to the late Wasis was back passing in the same place. Lastri had intended to do that. He was curious about a different garden.

Lastri remembers Gianto, a traffic cop with the rank of chief brigadier. Gianto once showed evidence of paying for palm fruit from the factory. Clearly Lastri could see the total weight of the TBS tonnage at that time. And now the amount of oil palm tonnage in his truck is just under seventy percent of the notes he has seen before. 

Lastri really wanted to prove the love of the dodgers. Especially in the uniformed man of a palm oil collector company. Lastri felt that the person was more suitable to work as a palm fruit scalper. Lastri was increasingly convinced that the uniform was the same as the work clothes that Yudi had worn when visiting him.

Lastri arrived in front of the factory guard post at ten in the morning. No problem there. All procedures have been executed by each operational section. 

With an orderly Lastri follow all the stages according to the flow of delivery of palm fruit. Starting with taking a letter of introduction at the security post, weighing bridge, also the sorting process carried out by the union at the factory. Sort is declared complete when the head of the sort gives a receipt to be handed over again to the officer on the weigh bridge.

Not so many fruits are rejected. Only a few bunches lack seeds or appear empty. The rejected fresh fruit bunches are transported back onto the truck by the sorting officer.

A little repulsion is not because the dodgers chosen by Wagiso are good. But more to the late Wasis who had taught Wagiso how to judge a ripe fruit. Also the three-week harvest period selected affected many palm fruit that has been fully ripe. Wasis has set a high standard in the process of harvesting his garden.

After the sorting process Lastri returned to the weigh bridge. This time it weighed the truck with just three fresh fruit marks raised again by the sorties. The difference in weight and some pieces that are in accordance with the provisions of the factory is calculated. 

The finish of the Lastri weigh section was given a note. Similar to what Gianto showed at the time. In the note there are evidence of palm oil delivery data, weights and amounts of money paid before tax deductions and others.

Since Lastri is a driver for the first time, the finance section offers options in payment. Whether cash or through a bank. Lastri also chose the bank mechanism. In accordance with Pure's instructions before he left this morning.

The process of unloading TBS is fast, so the main factor is because Lastri came out of the factory faster than expected. Because the lastri truck is dump truck type. The type of truck that can pour cargo with its own power. 

Lastri really wanted to emulate the late Wasis. On the way back to the house Lastri took the time to stop at the palm oil field subscription Wasis. Lastri intends to meet the owner of the stall and introduce himself as a replacement for Wasis. Unfortunately the owner of the stall was out, Lastri was only met by a worker.

There's not much to talk about, it's just procedural stuff that Lastri got. It seems that female truck drivers have not been their priority. In addition, the SIM that Lastri has is not in accordance with the standards they want.

Lastri was aware that the talk would be pointless. The owner of authority is not in place. Only he can afford to give a decision for every opportunity that Lastri has.

Not wanting to waste any more time, Lastri decided to immediately excuse me. He remembered the Gya meal. Lastri was worried that the milk she had prepared this morning in the refrigerator was lacking. 

Gya is now five months old. It's easier to get hungry. More Pure wants Lastri to give Gya ASI exclusive to his adopted grandson. Lastri was very obedient to Pure, even believing her foster mother was God's choice for her good and Gya, her daughter.

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