Truck Driver / Ag Equipment Operator
Aero Farms LTD
📍 Calamus, IA · Clinton County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26313-351576
- 📞 Phone: +1 (563) 357-5113
- ✉️ Email: elevatortickets@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Workers interested in the job may reach the employer at the following address and phone number:
Name: Robert M Herrmann
Address: 1932nd Street Box 188 Calamus Iowa 52729
Phone: 563-357-5113
Email: Elevatortickets@gmail.com
Applicants may call Monday - Friday between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm
Applicants, Workforce Agency Personnel, Walk-ins, Gates Hires, etc. may:
1. Call for an interview during normal business hours at the number listed above.
2. Report to the farm office or worksite listed above.
3. Employee must be available and indicate willingness to work the entire season. Must have transportation to the job site at the start of the season. Transportation will be reimbursed. Must be familiar with the terms, conditions and nature of employment. Are legally entitled to work in the US. and able, willing and qualified to perform the work. Must possess documentation required to enable employer to comply with the employment verification requirements of IRCA. Accurate completion of Form I-9 will be required from each worker within (3) days of employment and/or hiring of individual referred through the clearance system. All candidates must be able to communicate in English to ensure safety at the workplace.
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
The grain farm operation requires assistance with planting, cultivating, harvesting, transportation of products, and equipment maintenance and repair for Corn, Wheat, Oats, Beans, Barley, Rye, Soybeans, and Canola. Under SOC 45-2091, 20% of the work will focus on preparing fields for planting with tractors and attached tillage equipment, connecting plows, discs, planters, sprayers, harvesters, and other implements to tractors, and operating tractors, seed drills, planters, sprayers, combines, and other agricultural machinery to plant, cultivate, weed, spray, and harvest crops. The work also includes applying fertilizer or crop treatments using the specified equipment, setting equipment controls and adjusting operating mechanisms for the assigned task, watching and listening for equipment problems during operation and reporting malfunctions, driving farm trucks or semi-trucks to move crops, tools, and supplies as assigned, inspecting equipment, performing routine servicing, lubrication, adjustments, and minor repairs, recording agricultural work completed and other required operating information, and completing routine repairs and maintenance on equipment. Under SOC 53-3032, 80% of the work will involve driving heavy trucks or tractor-trailer combinations to transport the specified agricultural products or materials, moving harvested crops between fields, storage facilities, elevators, and delivery locations, positioning trucks beside harvesting equipment to receive crops during harvest, connecting and disconnecting trailers and inspecting coupling connections, conducting vehicle inspections before and after trips, checking tires, lights, brakes, fluids, and vehicle safety equipment, positioning trucks and trailers at loading docks, field loading points, and unloading areas, loading and unloading cargo using the assigned handling equipment, distributing cargo appropriately and securing loads with covers, straps, chains, or other restraints, checking cargo documents, delivery instructions, and load information, following assigned routes and communicating delays or delivery changes, obtaining weight tickets and completing applicable shipping or delivery paperwork, maintaining driving, trip, inspection, and vehicle-service records, refueling vehicles and performing authorized routine servicing, reporting mechanical problems, cargo damage, and incidents, and cleaning trucks, trailers, and load-handling equipment. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 6 months |
| Other requirements | Driver's license required Lifting up to 75 lb |
Job requires a 75 lb lifting requirement. Must have a Class A CDL or equivalent or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire. The worker must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in English, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records. Employee must have 6 months of verifiable experience.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | $27.64/hr (wage offered to H2A workers only) |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Calamus, Ia) |
| Meals | The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration), cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g. adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers. |
| Daily transportation | See Addendum C for daily transportation arrangements and vehicle information. |
| Travel to the job | The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. |
| Pay deductions | Deductions required by law. Employer may deduct the reasonable cost of damages &/or replacement of tools &/or equipment if such repair or replacement results from willful neglect or gross negligence after damage has occurred & after gaining the employee's written authorization to make the deduction. Employer may deduct the reasonable cost of damages and/or replacement of tools and/or equipment/lodging/vehicles if such repair or replacement results from willful neglect or gross negligence after the damage has occurred and after gaining the employee's written authorization to make the deduction. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26313-351576 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (53-3032.00) |
| Posted | Nov 9, 2026 |