It’s better if they pay by hours than by loads.
I certainly licensed for class A, that’s why I’m asking. I live in Garden Grove, California. I also have hazmat.
I have 5 years experience

Yep, there are job opening right down the street from where I live.
"Hmm, you say, I don’t know where Max Cruise lives. So I can’t apply for the trucking company that has openings. But, it doesn’t matter, because I didn’t tell anyone where I call home in my question."
C’mon, Bachyen how about some information. Your question is about as vague as possible.
Such as where do you live? Are you licensed to drive an 18 wheeler? Do you have any experience?
Try a little harder next time.
Good Luck, you will need it.

The delivery driver job is obviously going to cost me in maintenance but as a waitress there may be no tips to be had..so which has the potential for a higher income?

Both jobs don’t pay much as far as hourly rate - they make money in tips. Delivery people don’t make much in tips, and you’re right, they have car maintenance. Cocktail waitresses can make good money in tips from serving drinks and food. On top of that, many restaurants and bars split the bar tips with the entire wait staff so you’ll make even more money in tips.

There is really only one way to do this. Go to truck driving school and get a class-A license. All trucking companies look for these two things before hiring. Most want 6 months to 1 year commercial driving experience also. The first year is the most difficult. If you do well your first year, you can work most anywhere.

You can get government financial aid to go to truck driving school, and the school will prepare you for the licensing test.

i’m 17 and never had a job but i really need one, preferrably full-time.. i don’t have a driver’s license or a permit and i only have a GED becuase i was kicked out of school.. what would be the best way for me to get a job soon?

if the job doesn’t require driving then no, you don’t have to have one. You will need to be able to get to and from your work so If i couldn’t drive I would start looking close to home or along a convenient bus route.

Jobs like taxi driver or businesses that need a driver like courier service, flower delivery service. Things like that.

- bakeries/catering

- pizza, obviously :O)

- casinos and other mega entertainment places usually have shuttles to get people to various places
- airports have shuttle services, although I bet those services are contracted out
- UPS/FedEX (another obvious)
- I know places like LabCorp (company that does employee drug tests) hires people to drive to various sites and pick up/drop off specimens.

If a person has had a commercial license (CDL[A]) for several years, but no experience, there seem to be no straightforward answers. The same old story: no experience = no job and no job = no experience.

Are there no farms in your area!

The country may be smack dab in the middle of a recession, but one sector of the economy is bouncing back. According to a November 2008 CNN Money report, “Industrial production grew in October, after September produced the worst dropoff in factory output in 62 years.” This good news came courtesy of the Federal Reserve, a governmental offshoot that doesn’t have much to brag about these days.

Indeed, manufacturing rose by its highest amount in nine years, making October 2008 the largest monthly increase in factory output since October 1999. But manufacturers shouldn’t start celebrating too quickly. The Federal Reserve report went on to point out, “Factory output in October only increased because production in September fell by a revised 3.7%. Though last month’s industrial production rose from the previous month, it fell a substantial 4.1% from a year ago. Factory output in September fell 5.6% from September 2007.”

The report went on to caution, “Manufacturing output increased 0.6% in October, and the factory operating rate rose slightly to 73.8%. But factory operations are still nearly six percentage points below the average rate from the 35-year period from 1972-2007.”

Hope still exists, however, “Capacity utilization for all industries, a measure that tracks the percentage of factories in use, posted a seasonally adjusted increase of 0.9 percentage point to 76.4%. Economists had expected a increase to 76.5%.” Fortunately for manufacturers, they were a key driver of this marginal growth.

So how can manufacturers keep up the momentum of this momentary upswing on factory operations output? They need to get in better touch with their factory floor. How can they do this? Well, lean times call for lean measures and factory operations software can take lean manufacturing to whole new levels.

A real-time factory floor data collection system utilizes touch screen capabilities, to free up manufacturers’ time so that they can focus on more urgent issues: like keeping their factory output momentum up to speed. Such a software solution puts everything a manufacturer needs to efficiently manage his or her factory floor at the fingertips. With built-in work in progress tracking, job tracking and factory floor control capabilities, it’s a factory floor manager’s dream come true. Add on modules for labor collection and job sequencing, and factory operations are further streamlined.

In fact, with its easy-to-install and intuitive push-button touch screen user interface, factory management software lends machine integration and greater visibility to shop floor jobs. Indeed, lean manufacturing is based on visible feedback and floor level management, both of which a reputable factory management software provides.

How does the software accomplish all these factory operation aims? As an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and finite scheduling system, it visually improves the sequencing of production (and raw materials) through a PC-based system that is completely interfaced with most ERP and MRP systems. It can also monitor machine cycle counts with a customizable human machine interface HMI and provides a real-time view of the factory floor for more accurate and timely asset analysis. Finally, it provides the underlying data for metrics and key performance indicators KPI such as labor efficiency, bottleneck analysis, operation time standard analysis and OEE.

Carmen Fontana
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/factory-operations-enjoy-momentary-rise-699440.html

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage

What do we mean by a ‘goal’? It seems that these things are important, yet, so few people have them and some have been woefully misled by the term.

Everyone at some point in their life has heard that it is important for us to have goals. Goals provide you a map to your future, whether in business, life, career or indeed sport. It seems obvious, but a football team playing without a goal to aim for is just kicking a ball around. But, other than the more obvious physical goals as the target of a particular game, what exactly is a goal? And how do you know when you have achieved it? Is it even very important to have goals? A sporting goal is a useful analogy though, here we are more interested in the non-sporting variety.

The OED definition of a goal is “an aim or a desired result”.

That’s useful, but I prefer the Wikipedia version which defines a goal as “a specific, intended result of strategy.”

They amount, ultimately to the same thing: the intended achievement of a desired result. The dictionary definition, however, suggests that the goal exists with or without you.

Why is this important? I hear some question already. Let me share an example: On the horizon is a mountain, its peak visible on this glorious day. It is your goal. You are aiming to reach the peak of this mountain.

According to the dictionary the goal is the mountain peak. According to the encyclopaedia, the intended result is that you reach the mountain peak as a result of the journey (intended strategy) you are making.

What’s important, the existence of the goal or the journey to its attainment? Let me refer briefly back to soccer… Is the existence of the goal at the end of the pitch the thing that makes the game, or is it the strategy (and tactics) employed by players to score (reach) the goal?

The reason for being pedantic at this stage is to stress that we refer (in English) to goal as both an entity and as the intended result of our actions. For the purposes of this article, I refer to goal as both - an entity that we are able to describe in one or more of the five senses we enjoy and as a specific, intended result. I believe that it is critical that a goal can be described in one or more of our senses - otherwise we will never know what it is.

“A man without a goal, you are like a ship without a rudder.” Thomas Carlyle

You know people, perhaps yourself, who would be lost without a “To Do” list. Daily, weekly, monthly tasks that result in specific intended results. Many people will consider this as their goals. Indeed, you can call them ‘goals’ if you wish. But I want to distinguish this concept further. I call these daily, weekly, monthly tasks “Outcomes” - they are important steps on the way to achieving goals but they are a small part of the overall intended result.

I’ll borrow from my own To Do list for today. It includes, strangely enough, writing this chapter. Now, is my goal to a chapter of mybook? Is it to write a book? I can answer yes to both yet it doesn’t tell us the full story - my Goal is to develop my business and as a part of that, I want to reach a wider audience for the purpose of building my brand, building my reputation and establishing myself as a trusted expert that you will now consider to design and run a training programme or undertake coaching in your organisation. This chapter is just one part of that strategy, and this section, just one part of this chapter. The primary and secondary research I’ve undertaken to be in a position to write, I trust, knowledgeably about goal-setting has been another part… and so on.

It is the goal that helps us determine the appropriate outcomes necessary to reach the goal, the specific outcomes help determine the actions we undertake to achieve them. The whole series together, makes a strategy.

For ease and clarity, I consider a “Goal” to be longer-term and the intended result of a strategy. “Outcomes” are the result of the steps, milestones or activities that we achieve en-route to achieving the goal.

When I was a child, schoolteachers and relatives would often ask “And what do you want to be when you grow up?” I honestly didn’t have a clue. My friends seemed to have got the hand of this and I discovered that the expected answers seemed to be focusing around jobs or careers “I want to be a Fireman/Doctor/Train Driver”, or perhaps something bolder like “Rock Star/Famous Actor” - or around money… “I want to be a millionaire”. Apparently it didn’t matter what you wanted to be - it still required that you studied hard, preferably got all A Grades - oh and it was critically important that you “eat all your greens”. Quite how Brussels Sprouts are a necessity for success has never been answered fully to my satisfaction. By the time I was a teenager, I was at the “I dunno” stage. And by the time I was choosing my A level subjects it seemed that my options were becoming limited. Artist was ruled out on the recommendation of my delightful art teacher who claimed that my lovingly crafted painting “hurt her eyes” and Author was ruled out because I had little taste for over-analysing Jane Austin’s Northanger Abbey.

To my knowledge, none of my friends answered “I wish to be a wage slave pushing paper from one side of a building to another, politically manoeuvring myself into a position of power and authority, attending useless meetings each day and commute for 4 hours” so what went wrong?

Well, perhaps it is the goal-setting process. But, that’s another lesson.

John Kenworthy
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/what-is-a-goal-695646.html