Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Down The Highway With CDL Jobs

By Shirley Edwards


Human society was once nomadic, made of hunter gatherers who moved around in search of food. But human society eventually settled down, mainly near sources of water like rivers, and started to grow crops and raise livestock. Those settlements eventually started growing, on and on and on until many of them became the sprawling metropolises of glass and chrome today. But despite that settling, humanity never truly lost its nomadic spirit, that exploratory instinct. All that settling did was give the explorer a fixed point, a direction in which to go back. Humankind set out and explored, meeting different people with different cultures, and bringing back things like spices and silk. With that came international trade. Now, once those products reach their destination, they all have to be transported to various merchants. To do that, they are hauled via truck. In fact, trucking is one of many CDL jobs Salt Lake Utah City that are available to people.

A commercial drivers license, or a CDL for short, is just like any other license. Except that it signifies that person is properly certified to control a commercial vehicle. Now, commercial vehicles are different from automobiles. The principles behind their operation may be the same, but their sheer size means that the skills do not necessarily translate.

To qualify for a CDL, a person must have reached a certain age. This age is generally between eighteen and twenty one years of age. To get one, a person must pass a written test and perhaps a practical test.

There is only one location in which a CDL can be obtained. That location is the DMV, where all licenses for terrestrial vehicles are obtained. In the DMV, a person will have to fill out many forms and submit many documents.

There are many jobs that come with having a CDL. A person can drive a delivery van, for example. They can also drive a bus, usually this means that they will be in the employ of the local government. But the job most associated with a CDL is long haul trucking.

Driving is not glamorous work. It is often lonely, with only oneself and maybe another person for company. This is not the type of work that will make one rich. However, the pay is decent and the money is honest and it is good work with benefits.

Regular schedules are not something that a trucker is going to have. A bus driver will have a regular schedule. As will a deliveryman. But a trucker will be out on the job for long stretches of time.

Now, long haul truckers have their own culture. Being on the road for so long, most of them have no one to talk to but each other, and this is usually done over the radio. Consequently, they have developed their own shorthand. Prospective drivers should take care to learn the slang.

The first fish like creature to have crawled out of the primordial waters on to some prehistoric beach must have freaked out like crazy. Not only was it out of its literal comfort zone, its senses now had to process new sensations, like being dry, and its body had to do new things, like breathing air. Its brain must have been so haggard from processing all the new information that there was not enough in it left to predict what it would become or how important it would be for the planet as a whole. There was no way it could have predicted the gleaming skyscrapers, the sprawling cities, and all the people inside of them with their wants and needs.




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