5700 - Transportation/Mobile Equipment Operation family
This occupation includes jobs that require skill in operating tractors and attached or towed equipment and knowledge of their purpose and operating characteristics. The work performed typically includes transporting materials and equipment, digging, towing aircraft, loading, planting, harvesting, clearing, mowing, and dispensing liquid and solid materials. The tractors operated are wheel mounted and powered by gasoline, propane, diesel, and electric motors and typically have single axle drive. Examples of the attached and towed equipment include trailers, carts, towbars, plows, harrows, planters, mowers, post hole diggers, combines, balers, spreaders, backhoes, front-end loaders, sprayers, and sweepers.
5716 Engineering Equipment Operating
This occupation includes jobs that involve the operation of gasoline or diesel-powered engineering and construction equipment with wheeled or crawler-type traction, such as graders, tractors with bulldozer or angle-dozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scraper attachments. This equipment is used to perform such functions as cutting, moving, digging, grading, and rolling earth, sand, stone, and other materials, and to maintain ditches, road shoulders and beds, and firelines.
This occupation includes jobs involved in operating ships, tugboats, seagoing dredges, fishing vessels, or other similar vessels, often greater than 55 meters (180 feet) in length, engaged in transporting passengers and freight, towing or assisting the maneuvering of large vessels, making hydrographic and oceanographic surveys, drilling or probing subaqueous holes, conducting fishing operations, etc. The work includes navigating the ship, standing watch, setting and maintaining speed and course, using navigational aids and devices to compute position, and coordinating the activities of members of the crew. The work requires knowledge of the handling and operation of large vessels offshore or in the Great Lakes and/or large vessels under tow.
