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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Truck Driver”

Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.

Related Technology & Tools

Hay bale stackers
Batch grain dryers
Min-till drills
Land finishers
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Hay conditioners
Silage feeders
Manure spreaders
Ditchers
Portable sprayers
Peanut digger inverters
Transfer augers
Silage bins
Row crop cultivators
Post hole diggers
Feed mixer wagons
Silage wrappers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Coulter drills
Shavings spreaders
Offset disks
Field cultivators
Fertilizer blenders
Land rollers
Skid steer post hole diggers
Peanut diggers
Silage distributors
Manure separators
Hammermills
Roller packers
Forage wagons
Seed vacuums
Bucket elevators
Pasture renovators
Hay bale forks
Wheel loaders
Seed tenders
Skid steer tree cutters
Feed conveyors
Bed shapers
Min-till planters
Combine draper headers
Seed scales
Field rollers
Hay bale accumulators
Air drill seeders
Skid steer hay bale spears
Tandem disks
Post drivers
Dry bulk storage tanks
Min-till cultivators
Forage boxes
Hay bale movers
Manure storage tanks
Hay bale elevators
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Silage boxes
Nurse tanks
Subsoilers
Hay bale conveyors
Subcompact tractors
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Chisel disks
Manure chopper pumps
Skid sprayers
Lime spreaders
2-point sprayers
Sprayer chassis
Land levelers
Windrow inverters
Chaff spreaders
Grass seeders
Air seeders
Sprayer booms
Grain heaters
Soybean combine harvesters
Feed grinders
Gravity wagons
Hay bale feeders
Land planes
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Peanut digger shakers
Chisel plows
Combine cylinders
Crop lifters
Fertilizer spreaders
Seed dryers
Air carts
Garlic harvesters
Skid steer post pullers
Peanut dryers
Skid steer post drivers
Hay bale shredders
Crop shredders
Grain pumps
Seed drills
Silo spreaders
Forage harvesters
Tomato harvesters
Swath turners
Utility vehicles
Hay bale wrappers
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Mower conditioners
Hay bale trailers
Crop dividers
Manure injection systems
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Skid steer loaders
Liquid storage tanks
Flat-ended shovels
Rock windrowers
3-point sprayers
Hay bale spears
Skid steer rock grapples
Air reels
Silage baggers
Tractor guidance systems
Silage wagons
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Auger movers
V hay rakes
Grain wagons
Auger wagons
Continuous flow grain dryers
Grain drills
Horizontal feed mixers
Seed hoppers
Rotary hoes
Plows
Forklifts
Self-propelled sprayers
Threshers
Header carriers
Peanut dump carts
Windrowers
Silage mills
Cargo trucks
Grain bin aeration fans
Seed conveyors
Seed mixers
Peanut harvesters
Harrow baskets
Compost turners
Disk rippers
Manure augers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Rotary hay rakes
Combine header transports
Forage blowers
Seed strippers
Land scrapers
Skid steer rotary tillers
Grain combines
Power winches
Manure scrapers
Haybines
Tower grain dryers
Hay tedders
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Hay bale unrollers
Mist blowers
Track tractors
Seed bins
Coulter rippers
Hay balers
Backhoes
Flotation sprayers
Bedding hippers
Hay bale compressors
Straw and chaff spreaders
Compact tractors
Grass drills
Granular applicators
Farm tractors
Grain augers
Rotary tillers
Combine headers
Telehandlers
Litter spreaders
Stump grinders
Grain vacuums
Hay bale loaders
Weed wipes
Forage tractors
Combine grain headers
Coulter disks

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