Overview & Salary

Overview

Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license. Includes tow truck drivers.

On the job, you would:

  • Check all load-related documentation for completeness and accuracy.
  • Inspect loads to ensure that cargo is secure.
  • Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.

Education

  • high school diploma/GED
  • no high school diploma/GED

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $37,440
Annual median $54,320
Annual 90th percentile $76,780

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Transportation

  • movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Safety and Government

  • public safety and security
  • law and government

Business

  • customer service

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Skills

Basic Skills

  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Realistic

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Cooperation
  • Integrity

Abilities

Controlled Movement

  • change when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving
  • quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat

Spatial

  • know where things are around you
  • imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed

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

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted
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