What would change?

CNA:http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fpc/profinfo/narinfo/aboutnar.html#Training

Construction Material Tester:http://www.dot.state.mn.us/const/tcp/
These are the guys that go out and pick up buckets of gravel and then test it to make sure road gravel is really road gravel. They test concrete to make sure if you buy 5000 PSI concrete, you get 5000 PSI concrete.

I also said LICENSED daycare provider. Something you MUST have if you receive daycare assistance funds from the state on behalf of a client.
http://mn.gov/elicense/licenses/licensedetail.jsp?URI=tcm:29-2855&CT_URI=tcm:27-117-32

Fast Food Service:http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/food/fmc/how.html

 

Too late it has already happened!

 

Airline Pilot

Need a ATPL to qualify and around 5 to 8000 hours flying for peanuts. After paying well over 6 figures for the ATPL.

 

I would consider truck driving to be skilled labor since you have to take a class to learn how to drive. Plus a lot of guys (like a friend who started at the same time as me totally sucked at driving) for over a year until he finally got better. Unskilled labor is like working at a warehouse order picking.

Look in the want ads, we make way more than a lot of the $8 per hour "unskilled" jobs out there. I make more money than a friend with a master's degree in a fancy office. A good trucking company pays very well. Reading the posts on this forum a lot of guys drive for crap companies barely making anything.

 

interesting that when it comes to fuel going from $1 to $5/gal, no one thinks about hurting the economy

but when it comes to paying truck drivers more, all of a sudden, we are concerned about the economy

 

cuz wez jest dom ol' steerun whiel whoulders.....

 

MNdriver-every driver that drives a rig has to have a skill when on the road. I have many verbal fights with people on this. I told a geek lawyer try driving a rig from here to west coast, you would not last a 100 miles. how would you handle a hot bearing, a tire blowing up, hung up brake, survival braking with out rolling over, just to name a few. I thought hauling 300 pots a day was hard, driving a rig 10 hrs is more stress. driving a rig you never stop learning. Mike-Z

 

Have as many verbal arguments as you want.

You are no more skilled than any other joe schmoo that operates heavy equipment. Be it a truck/trailer, excavator or a bulldozer. If anything, LESS skilled.

Getting a CDL is no more difficult than others who have to get a health certification. A life guard is DIRECTLY responsible for preserving a persons life. They actually DO their job, they are not only trying to SAVE a life, they are putting their life directly at risk to do it. Often times, nothing more than a teenager with thoughts of grandeur. A CNA, primarily responsible for patient comfort. But assists a higher trained medical person.

You seem to be getting pissed at me for no reason. Don't get upset with me because I comprehend and understand WHY Dept of Labor classes truck drivers as unskilled labor as some here claim. When in reality, they are seen more as semi-skilled.

You really need to understand ALL the classifications and what they REALLY mean. Not just take it for face value.


You did read this posting I hope...

 

It doesn't look unskilled from where I am sitting. I am getting ready to attend Swift Academy in a couple of weeks and have never been in a truck. The hoops to jump through in just qualifying to become a commercial driver knocks a good percentage of people out of the workforce. For a life long sales guy, this is the most realistic thing available to me above laborer. (Laborer may pay more, but tough to even find that).

All told, my uneducated opinion is trucking is semi-skilled labor.