Running heavy equipment is one of the most boring jobs. The only plus about it, is at 3:30, you get to go home, and do the exact same thing the next day. Now grades are all laser guides, so all you do, basically, is forward and reverse. I stayed with a truck.
Which is a tougher job: OTR driver or heavy-equipment operator?
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Yes..Now you have an up arrow and a down arrow..Just raise or lower the blade..Even I could could cut grade now.LOL
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Yes u have a boss in ur face dogging u while in the truck. Fall off a flatbed or on top of the freight u are seriously injured if not dead. All the morons on the road create a dangerous situation . Equipment operation is in a controlled predictable enviroment. Otr is one of the dangerous jobs u can do , we risk our lives everyday with all the dumb####s around us wanting a payout. This is one of the least physically intense job i have ever worked , but to say it is a cush job is just ignorant , there is more stress and frustration than any job i ever worked , and more mental challenge than most jobs. Well some of u guys that just do drop and hook for mega carrriers and sleep for 15 hours everyday yeah its pretty easy but some of us actually have to work for a livin
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There are some equipment jobs that are ok, like the roller dude on an asphalt crew( if you can handle the vibration all day), or a backhoe or trencher does different jobs, but I tried dozer, those "clopping" tracks all day, front end loader, feeding a belt or loading dump trucks, excavator too, diggin' a hole, or earth movers, around and around, it's not much better than a factory job, except you're outside, and days off when it rains, and laid off in the winter, and home to watch the kids baseball game, are all big pluses.
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Nobody from the white Volvo crowd will be driving a dozer or a track loader with one foot on the dash and a cell phone in one hand in front of his face. That requires the use of all your appendages.
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I'd run a D11 or 24M over a truck any day. Grader and dozer are way more fun the trucks.
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