Saturday, June 30, 2018

Moving Out And About With CDL Jobs

By Shirley Edwards


People are going to have wants and needs. Now, it used to be that the goods required to have those wants and needs met was transported by boat. But that meant that people in port cities essentially had dibs on all the best stuff. To this day, port cities are among the wealthiest and most prosperous of any nation, with trillions of dollars in goods being processed at various ports all over the world annually. But port cities cannot sustain human populations, not at the rate which it has grown. So people moved inland, established cities there. But they still had wants and needs, the same as the people living on the coasts. So, goods were transported to those people, first by train, then via truck. Driving a truck is actually one of the man CDL jobs Salt Lake Utah City available.

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 place to get a commercial drivers license. That place is the Department of Motor Vehicles. In the DMV, a prospective driver will fill a number of forms and take a number of tests and may also be subject to a background check.

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.

Now, this type of work is strictly blue collar. This is not the kind of job that makes a person wealthy. But it is the kind of job that gives a person the means to provide food and shelter for their family. And it is good, honest work. Plus, there can be a lot of benefits like dental and healthcare.

But the people working such jobs will have to be prepared to work long hours. A long haul truck driver will especially need to be ready for such a schedule. Hauling goods and services from one city to another can take days if not weeks.

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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