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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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