CDL Delivery Driver

CDL A Delivery Driver

US Foods is seeking dependable, safety-focused, and customer-oriented CDL A Delivery Drivers to join our transportation team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a Delivery Driver, you will play a vital role in ensuring customers receive food products, supplies, and equipment accurately and on time while serving as one of the key faces of the US Foods brand. This position offers local routes, allowing drivers to be home every night, along with opportunities for career growth, competitive compensation, and industry-leading benefits.

Drivers are responsible for safely operating commercial vehicles, delivering products to customer locations, unloading merchandise using hand trucks, verifying deliveries, collecting payments when required, and providing exceptional customer service. The role requires frequent stops, heavy lifting of up to 80 pounds, and the ability to work in various weather conditions while maintaining productivity and safety standards.

Schedule:

Monday through Friday with early morning start times between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM.

US Foods® has a lot to offer:

• Home Every Night with local routes
• Work Schedule Monday
  - Friday starting in the early morning until finished
• US FOODS® is the company built on YOU Matter, where your hard work is rewarded
• We are committed to compensation, benefits that respect, and reward our employees for their dedication and hard work
• Guaranteed minimum 40 hours per week
• Paid Training AND Paid Overtime
• Service recognition and employee rewards
• Excellent Leadership

Benefits start day one: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) life insurance and paid parental leave.

Main ingredients of the job:

• Deliver best-in-class Customer Service.
• Deliver customer's orders to meet scheduled delivery times and keep productivity.
• Unload products with a hand truck and place items in customer storage area.
• Able to perform repeated, manual heavy lifting of items up to 80 pounds.
• Make frequent stops during a work shift.
• Deliver product in inclement weather conditions.
• Verify delivery of items with customers.
• Collect money (cash or checks) where needed.

What you bring to the table:

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must have valid CDL A issued by the state of legal residence with necessary endorsements and DOT (Department of Transportation) qualified.
• Minimum six months commercial truck driving experience or three months of food service or food and beverage truck delivery experience required.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law. The expected base rate for this role is between $25.65 and $41.00.

As applicable, this role will also receive component pay. Each new driver will go onto the component pay program after a minimum two-week training period. This training period may be extended at the discretion of Transportation Management. During the training period the driver will be paid an hourly rate of $25.65 plus time and one half for all hours worked over 40 hours in a workweek.

When the new driver can deliver on his/her own he/she will be removed from training pay and paid based on plan components.

* Registering to the FMCSA Clearinghouse is a requirement by the Department of Transportation. All Drivers are required to the Clearinghouse website and register to the new database. The Clearinghouse is a secure online database that provides real-time information about commercial driver's license (CDL) and commercial learner's permit (CLP) holders' drug and alcohol program violations. If you have not registered to the FMCSA database, please note registration is required.

Please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click GO to login. If you are able to log into login, but are having trouble with the Clearinghouse registration, see "Clearinghouse Help" field on the clearinghouse page.

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