Job Description Job Description
Position Summary
Our CDL Class A Driver position is responsible for transporting various materials between locations. This position often travels extensive distances to deliver loads and must adhere to traffic and safety regulations while still making deliveries in a timely manner. A good candidate for this position will be dependable, team-oriented, detail-oriented, and flexible to change in a busy work environment. These general categories do not necessarily constitute all job duties.
Responsibilities
- Deliver customer-ordered materials to designated location(s)
- Operating of vehicle and unloading and load handling/securement at designated location(s),
- Perform routine inspections, pre- and post-trip vehicle inspection reports
- Ensuring and reporting maintenance and/or repair issues with the vehicle are correct before driving
- Perform daily maintenance of truck (refueling, cleaning, etc.)
- Recording cargo deliveries, verifying loads for accuracy, planning routes, and meeting delivery schedules
- Properly secure loads in accordance with the industry client's specific safety practices
- Record and maintain information accurately and precisely in the Driver's Log to comply with DOT regulations
- Maintain positive and ongoing customer relations through proper attitude, behavior, and appearance
- Become acquainted with client inventory, products, and materials
- Learn, understand, and comply with OSHA requirements, company safety rules, and policies
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Prior 1 year regulated tractor-trailer experience required
- CDL Class A required
- 3 years DMV/MVR record with two or fewer moving violations or accidents
- Currently hold, or ability to obtain, a non-excepted interstate DOT medical card required
- At all times, wear the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Steel-toed boots are required
- Awareness and understanding of pertinent safety guidelines
- Capacity to provide and follow directions and procedures
Physical Demand: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and/or stoop and sit for hours at a time.
Training: Company-paid on-the-job training as needed.
Benefits:
Commercial Transload of Minnesota employees receive a very generous benefit package, which includes health care and dental coverage with no monthly premiums for the employees.
- AD&D/Life Insurance
- 401k
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Profit Sharing
- Expense check paid on 10th of every month
- Additional Supplemental Medical Plans
Within the first year, an employee can earn up to 15 days of vacation.
Introductory Period: 120 days
All positions require pre-employment background verification, medical review, and pre-employment drug screening.
Commercial Transload of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $50,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Supplemental Pay:
- Bonus opportunities
- Breakdown pay
- Detention pay
- Extra stop pay
- Layover pay
- Performance bonus
- Signing bonus
- Tarp pay
- Yearly bonus
Trucking Driver Type:
Trucking Route:
Work Location: In person
