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    Obtaining a CDL

    I don't have the resources to get a truck, so I will probably just have to find a trucker to help me on the weekends and pay him.
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    Deciding on a career field

    I am going to take the FE exam in the summer, but there is a good chance I will not get my PE. I do not want to do design work. Construction is what I am going to do. Project management, estimating, and field work is what I want to do. I am really involved in the American Society of Civil...
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    Deciding on a career field

    I do not know what specific path I want to follow. I want to start my own company, but I do not know what I want to do specifically. I have a lot to learn before I start a company and I do not know the best path for me to take to get from where I am to where I want to be.
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    Obtaining a CDL

    How have some of you obtained your cdl? Did the company you were working for assist you? Truck driving school? I obtained my cdl learner's permit on my own, but the company I am working for will not give me the opportunity to practice driving and the truck driver's will not talk me through a...
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    Deciding on a career field

    Hello everyone. I am a junior civil engineering student and I am having trouble deciding what internship to do this summer. I worked at the state DOT 2 summers ago and I worked for a dirt contractor last summer. I have internship offers from the same dirt contractor I worked with last summer, a...
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    Finding qualified help

    I worked 3 months this summer (I am going to college) and we had a fuel truck, a 10 speed Mack, and a water truck, a 6 speed International, on the job site. The project superintendent, the foreman, and a couple of the operators always complained that the other laborer and I did not know how to...
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    Job searching newbie

    Blue jeans and a polo or a dress shirt. Nice, clean boots or dress shoes. Be polite. Show up early. Head up and shoulders back. Do not slouch during an interview. Be honest about your knowledge and what you are looking for. There are jobs out there, you just have to want to work and be willing...
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    Need Some Control Guidance

    I think that knowing how to run both well would be a good thing. It may take you several hours to reacquaint yourself with the ISO controls after running h-pattern controls, but I think that the muscle memory would still be there.
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    Hi, new member with industry questions

    In my limited experience, companies are looking for work experience, work ethic, and for someone who will show up when they are supposed to. You probably will not get a job as a lead mechanic in the beginning, but you should be able to work as an assistant mechanic. Working as a lube tech...
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    Grade setter stakes or paint ?

    I have spent hours setting stakes in the Arkansas heat and yet, I still hit them occasionally when I drive a dump truck. One stake every once in a while is inevitable, but I would be mad when we showed up on Monday morning and some fool on a four-wheeler had driven down the ditch and knocked...
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    Grade setter stakes or paint ?

    I have shot grade with a GPS rover and surveyed with a total station (I was the rodman). I used the GPS on cleared ground and the total station in brushy and overgrown ground. Paint was the way to go with the GPS because you can hold the rover in one hand and paint in the other. I was taught to...
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