Cody Garrison

Employed as an applicator/truck driver with Helena. Regularly pulling 5,000 gallon tankers, 24 ton fertilizer tenders, dump tailers, and 53' box trailers; transporting liquid chemicals, dry fertilizer, seed, and equipment. Applied pesticides, and fertilizer with self propelled John Deere sprayers and dry spreaders such as the 612R, 800R, Haggie sts12, and terra gator. As well as performing routine equipment maintenance to the fleet.

Employed as a heavy truck operator. Daily tasks consisted of hualing material and equipment, grading gravel roads, chip sealing asphalt roads, asphalt patching, deberming road shoulders, bridge maintenance, guard rail repair, culvert installation, traffic control, tree trimming, and equipment maintenance. During the winter months, plowing snow on highways, roads, and streets.

Employed as a laborer and heavy truck operator; advancing to equipment operator on my 3rd year. Daily tasks consisted of maintaining the city's utilities, streets, sidewalks, buildings, parks, and equipment. During 2016, I took over the service truck position; handling all service requests throughout the city regarding water and sewer-related matters; also training new employees for handling after-hours emergencies. In 2020 I returned to the road crew as lead worker for my remaining 3 years of employment.