1st Shift CDL Truck Driver

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title:  CDL Truck Driver Department:  TBD  

FLSA:  Non-exempt Status:  Full Time

Reports to:  TBD

Customary Days:  Schedule varies 

Customary Hours: 40 hours per week; hours may be extended when work load is increased 

Position Summary  This position drives a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Check vehicles to ensure mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment are in proper working order.
• Inventory and inspect goods to be moved to determine quantities and conditions.
• Deliver raw materials to manufacturing plant from distribution center as required.
• Load and unload trucks, or assist others with loading and unloading, operating any special loading-related equipment on vehicles and using other equipment as necessary.
• Drop and hook multiple times throughout the day, rotating completed product to distribution center.
• Operate forklift to assist in staging and loading outbound shipments as needed.
• Maintain logs of working hours or of vehicle service or repair status, following applicable state and federal regulations.
• Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered good and collect payment for services when required.
• Check all load-related documentation to ensure that it is complete and accurate.
• Maneuver trucks into loading or unloading positions, following signals from loading crew and check that vehicle and loading equipment are properly positioned.
• Secure cargo for transport, using ropes, blocks, chain, binders, or covers.
• Read bill of lading to determine assignment details.
• Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to vehicles.
• Couple or uncouple trailers by changing trailer jack positions, connecting or disconnecting air or electrical lines, or manipulating fifth-wheel locks.
• Operate equipment such as truck cab computers, CB radios, and telephones, to exchange necessary information with bases, supervisors, or other drivers.
• Check conditions of trailers after contents have been unloaded to ensure that there has been no damage.
• Crank trailer landing gear up or down to safely secure vehicles.
• Perform basic vehicle maintenance tasks such as adding oil, fuel, or radiator fluid, or performing minor repairs.
• Remove debris from loaded trailers.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Job Requirements

Education and Experience: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
• Previous truck driving experience preferred

Essential Qualifications:   To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem solving and decision making
• Demonstrated active listening skills
• Ability to use critical thinking skills
• Proficiency in reading comprehension
• Adept at verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to be at work on time and as scheduled
• Ability and willingness to learn
• Ability to hold and maintain a commercial driver’s license
• Demonstrated ability to perform routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed
• Demonstrated ability to determine the kinds of tools and equipment needed to do the job
• Ability to troubleshoot causes of operating errors and to determine how to resolve said errors

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, write, and speak English; bilingual in Spanish preferred

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here 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.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle and feel; reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is regularly required to bend or twist body and keep or regain balance.
• The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• The employee must often lift and/or move objects weighing up to 75 pounds.
• This position may require the use of personal protective equipment. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:   The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position works both in manufacturing and enclosed vehicle environments.
• This position may be exposed to chemicals and contaminants.
• This position is exposed to whole body vibration
• May work in extreme heat or cold (weather).
• May work near airborne particles. 
• The noise level is typically loud and dusty.