CDL A Delivery Truck Driver - Now Hiring
$90,000–$95,000 year
On-siteHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Drive a tractor trailer from the warehouse to customer locations, delivering and unloading products according to invoices and company standards. Safely transport goods via backhauls and line hauls, ensuring timely delivery and accurate product verification. Perform loading and unloading tasks in all weather conditions, including handling damaged goods and customer returns. Complete all required paperwork, including DOT logs, vehicle maintenance reports, and daily invoices. Maintain food safety protocols, proper vehicle temperatures, and sanitary conditions in the tractor, trailer, and warehouse. Communicate with management regarding route deviations, trailer issues, or customer concerns. Work assigned evening and weekend schedules, including on-call rotation and overtime as needed to meet customer demands.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma/GED/equivalent degree
- 1 year of tractor trailer driving experience
- Completion of a tractor trailer driving school
- Ability to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records
- Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License
- Insurability to operate a vehicle as a condition of initial and continued employment
- Knowledge of DOT regulations
- Knowledge of Hazmat guidelines
- Knowledge of Safe lifting and delivery practices
- Skill in driving over long distances, over a variety of terrains and in varying weather conditions
- Skill in communicating with customers
- Skill in solving problems
- Skill in delivering product
- Ability to drive a tractor-trailer unit both in the day and at night in a variety of traffic and weather conditions and remain alert and aware of surroundings
- Ability to meet or exceed minimum productivity levels established by the Company
- Ability to handle hazardous materials and food and restaurant items that are frozen, dry and refrigerated
- Ability to operate a 3 axle tractor, 45' - 48' trailer, straight truck, on board computer, key pad and a 2 wheel hand cart
- Ability to read, write and communicate in English as it relates to the job and to the safety regulations
- Ability to perform basic math functions (e.g. add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Ability to effectively plan and organize work activities independent of direct supervision
- Ability to solve problems
- Ability to lift, push, or move product that weighs up to up to 50 pounds by hand
- Ability to push/pull up to 350 pounds of product with a 2-wheeled hand cart down a ramp and into the customer's storage areas
- Ability to climb in and out of a tractor and trailer
- Ability to reach to stack and unstack pallets and hand cart
- Ability to bend and twist while loading and unloading product, and retrieving items from trailer
- Close vision
- Distance vision
- Color vision
- Peripheral vision
- Depth perception
- Ability to adjust focus
- Ability to work an overnight schedule
- Ability to work weekends
- Ability to work holidays
- Ability to work overtime
- Ability to start at various times
- Currently authorized to work in the United States
Desired Qualifications
- 1 year of tractor trailer driving experience preferred
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