Heavy And Tractor-trailer Truck Driver

Job description

The Driver will help transport farm equipment, from one field to another, from warehouses to the crop fields, and from the fields to warehouses for repair, maintenance, storage, or for continued use. Equipment will includes but is not limited to tractors, machinery, stakes, pallets. The driver employee will not be responsible for transporting any produce or commodity produced by the farm.
Additionally, the Driver will also be expected to be available to carry out other tasks that relate to the planting, growing and picking of produce as a farmworker. This part of the job mirrors the position labeled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics as SOC 45-2092 Farmworkers and Laborers. The Driver will be paid the same rate that corresponds with the Driver position, or whichever has a higher hourly rate pay. The Driver may only be asked to do Farmwork duties if there is no Driver duties available.
As a Farmworker, the worker can expect the following:
Help plant, grown and pick crops. The crops include different varieties of tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, squash, eggplant, cucumber, and Workers will have to help plant, irrigate, and maintain crops in good health. Farmworkers need to learn and help drive stakes into the ground, learn to
help maintain plants in good health. Farmworkers will need to learn how to distinguish between crops. Workers will then have to help harvest the crops.