Heavy & Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Also called:
Truck Driver, Driver, Over the Road Driver (OTR Driver), Line Haul Driver
What they do:
Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license.
On the job, you would:
- Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Maneuver trucks into loading or unloading positions, following signals from loading crew and checking that vehicle and loading equipment are properly positioned.
- Collect delivery instructions from appropriate sources, verifying instructions and routes.
Transportation
- movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
Safety and Government
- public safety and security
Engineering and Technology
Business
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Basic Skills
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Controlled Movement
- quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat
- use your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down
Vision
- see details that are far away
- decide which thing is closer or farther away from you or decide how far away it is from you
Spatial
- know where things are around you
- imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed
Hand and Finger Use
- keep your arm or hand steady
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People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Self Control
- Independence
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
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You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
- Easy Trucker software
- Fog Line Software Truckn2004
Route navigation software
- ALK Technologies PC*Miler
- MarcoSoft Quo Vadis
Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
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high school diploma or
some college
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$38,200
per year, on average
This work is part of the .
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