• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? Truck driver, truck driver or just trucker 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? My main duties are to deliver the goods to the appointed place on time and in safety. My job is to monitor the condition of the car, perform the work assigned to me and actually drive the car (drive it). Another feature of this work is that it is a man's work, since it is very difficult and difficult to manage the machine, which is loaded with 20 tons of cargo and is almost 20 meters long. 3. What education is required to get your position? Higher education is not required, experience in freight transport and rights with an open category of the appropriate type are important. 4. Describe your working day. The working day usually starts very early, depending on how far you need to travel, sometimes the working day for a particular trip starts at 12 at night, and sometimes at 5-6 in the morning. Since we are now working with a building materials supply company, the car should be in the right city and in the right place by 8 in the morning (sometimes they ask for a car even earlier). Loaders also come by this time and before 9-10 in the morning, when the store opens, the car will already be unloaded and the goods will go on sale. And then, when everyone was accepted and counted, you can pick up the already printed consignment note (TTN-ka in the people) and go back home. This is a brief description of my working day, if I work only in Ukraine and the nearest cities. In the case of working abroad, the delivery time of the goods can increase up to a month, and sometimes more. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? Working conditions can hardly be called comfortable, since you have to spend almost the whole day driving or turning nuts under the car, often in frost or in extreme heat on cold ground or on wet snow. The only thing that made the working conditions easier now is that they bought a new car (1998), not KAMAZ anymore, but Mercedes-Benz, there is already a stove in winter with autonomous heating. And it breaks less. Oh, if only I could buy a new one, it would be a fairy tale…. There is climate control and computer control. But this, for me personally, is just a dream…. 6. What do you like most about your job? I am a fan of my business, since childhood I constantly went on business trips with my father, I liked it, then we built our family business on this. And I don’t know how to do anything else, for 20 years in this business they have already known their pros and cons, and it’s too late, probably at 40, to start something new. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? I don’t like, probably, the fact that, like in any other business, there are professional problems and illnesses. They are associated with lifting weights, lying on cold ground and simply freezing some areas in severe frost, because you can’t sit in the cabin for days, so you have to go outto work, to repair something, to heat diesel fuel with a lamp in the cold. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level (is it enough to write whether you are satisfied or not)? It's no secret, it suits. Although this is hard work, but the salary, believe me, is enough to support a family and live well. This is a profession and a business that brings sufficient income at any time. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? Dispatchers, customers, service station workers, etc. can be called from the team. There are no such people who would work next to me. Although, if you travel abroad, you need to take a partner with you, the same driver, so that there would be someone to replace you. 10. What human qualities, in your opinion, are most important in your business? Sociability, strength, the ability to drive a heavy and long car and the ability to get out of extreme situations. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). The opportunity to constantly visit different countries and cities. And sometimes there is an opportunity to travel with my daughter and wife while the car is unloaded, I will have time to sleep and relax after a sleepless night on the road, and my wife and daughter can take a walk around the city where we arrived at this time. Here is such a free form of tourism comes out. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? 3 or 4 points due to the difficulty of work and insufficiently comfortable working conditions. 13. Why did you choose this job? My father did this, and today it is a very profitable family business. Yes, and at school he studied poorly and in recent years he worked all the time on the collective farm. I never intended to enter the university, since since childhood I saw myself only as a trucker or driver of a combine, a tractor. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? Everything is fine, there is enough of everything, but one could add a question about the gender of the profession. Is this job suitable for both men and women? Or not? Why? 0