Weigher and Sampler license

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/milk_and_dairy_food_safety/Personal_Licenses.html

I just assume you are from Cali still (below your avatar mentions you are from Modesto), If you have to sign off on something, it's probably something required to show you are trained in the proper way to determine fat content (and ultimately the value) of the product. It appears there are different sublicenses, so you may want to contact the company and see which one they require.

Good luck driver

 

There's a couple of companies running ads in your area:
Of course not all LTL companies are the same, some home every day and some it varies throughout the week.

Mountain Valley Express (LTL company)

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Mountain Valley Express - Manteca, CA
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Terrill Transportation - home every weekend

• Very competitive pay scale
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage available for you and your family
• 401K matching
• Paid holidays and vacation
• Truck aesthetics incentive bonus
• Annual safety and performance incentive bonus
• Your own personalized truck
• 1 year of verifiable experience required.

 

The Dept. of Agriculture gives you certification in order to weigh and sample bulk milk your picking up off the farm . Its no big deal and most operators will help get you set up and pay for the license. Here it takes about half an hour to meet the milk inspector take a short test and then be observed loading a stop. No big deal at all. Milk hauling is not a bad job and in most cases the shippers and the employees that recieve at the plants are some of the nicest folks in the world. You will know in about 60 days if it is right for you. Getting started is the hardest part but after a little while its easy as falling off a log. Good Luck !

 

I certainly agree with plow boy concerning the people that work in the milk business, they are, for the most part, super nice and helpful. No license or certification is required for transporting milk, only the procedure of loading the milk is a license required. I have no idea how milk hauling pays in Calif. but here on the east coast, it is one of the cheapest trucking job that you can have. Most of the milk hauling outfits around here are always running ads for drivers. Not enough per mile, too much waiting around at the dairies that are receiving the milk. You will learn real fast how to "play" with the log book, that is if you want to make a living.

 

not sure if the test is the same as here. the place i just got hired just calls it "the milk test" but i can probably take photos of the study guide they gave me and post for you if you'd like.

as for the job i consider myself #### lucky to have it. it seems like a real sweet job to have. im home every other day on most runs and 1 day a week off. the shortest and lowest paying run i make is from central pa to winston salem NC and it pays $350 to drive a full tanker down and come back empty. the longest run i make is from central pa to braselton GA and pays $500.

worst part of the job seems to be that you cant get sick lol. they dont like it when you take a sick day because milk isnt something that can sit around but you also cant go to farms and dairys hacking and coughing with snot running out of your nose.

i love everything about the job and feel lucky to have it but am a bit stressed about "the milk test" myself. i should be testing on that any day now. the pickup procedure is not hard just allot to remember. i had the same issue trying to memorize the pre trip procedure in driving school though. if you've got a good memory it should be nothing to worry about..

the first time you haul a 1/2- 3/4 full tanker of milk you'll know weather or not its for you. you've got to respect the milk lol thats what they told me before i even turned the key and its very fitting. if you forget its there even for a second things can go bad quickly. that said though i dont think i'd ever want to drive anything but tanker after this.

oh and about the logs. loose leaf logs are your best friend. i dont have to do any major changes to the log to make a run work out but little adjustments make life alot easier like making your trip look 15 minutes longer to bring down your average speed, counting an hour or 3 of your time dropping off at the dairy as sleeper berth so that you get to leave a little earlier to avoid traffic. just things like that.

as for being considered, if you can drive well and arent freaked out by the load moving you stand a chance. i had no job experience and a felony conviction when i got the job. i was told that it takes a special kind of crazy to haul liquid tankers so its harder to find good drivers because looking good on paper doesnt mean much when your scared to death of the load. lots quit after their first trip because theres nothing anyone can say to prepare you for the feeling of the milk reacting to your every move. hard breaking feels like you got ### ended by another truck. sharp s turns make you think your going to roll for sure, hard acceleration feels like your hauling 3 times as much. hard shifts feel like you ### ended a car, as you get used to the tanker though and get smoother all of these become more subtle and less nerve wracking. the milk will tell you how your driving. thats where the crazy part comes in though, most quit before they get a chance to smooth it out but the ones that are crazy enough to like it at its worst stick around long enough for it to smooth out.

sorry for the adhd induced ramble i just finished my first week hauling milk tankers and am loving it.

 

MVE drivers are out of Manteca, and cover the entire Bay Area as well. most ive spoken too seem pretty happy, top out at 20 an hour and change

 

I took the weigher and sampling test in OH in early 90's , pretty simple stuff maybe 20-25 questions they will give you a study guide..My employer paid for it Im thinking then it was around $50 , but that was years back...Im sure its changed some through the years but cant be to complicated ..sampling you take a dipper and put a sample of milk in a test bottle then put in ice chest..weighing you pull out a gauge rod and read it like a rule...pretty simple stuff