CDL B Local Delivery Truck Driver

Overview

External Job Posting

Ride with Sysco: Drive routes with daily pickups and deliveries, with home daily opportunities and early-mourning start times. Earn an above-average compensation with potential bonuses and incentives.

All drivers run daily routes with frequent stops and are required to load packages onto hand trucks and unload product at each stop on the assigned route in the order designated by the Transportation Department Manager. The candidate will operate successfully in a cross-dock model, picking up a loaded truck from a nightly delivery at the assigned loading dock and returning the empty truck to the assigned lot at the end of the route.

May be required to assist with loading trucks, palletizing product, and performing other duties as assigned by Supervisor or Manager.

• Provide technical, customer relations, and personnel management for major programs and projects.
• Run routes efficiently, meeting or exceeding designated route times.
• Unload product from trailer, by hand or using a hand cart, and place in designated customer storage areas. May include transporting product down ramps, stairs, or docks, in all weather conditions.
• Frequently lift, push, or move product that weighs 1–75 pounds, up to 100 pounds; reach up to 72 inches to stack and unstack pallets and hand cart; bend and twist while loading and unloading product, and retrieving items from trailer.
• Verify delivery of items with customer and obtain proper signatures. Contact management for authorization when discrepancies are on invoices. Communicate all errors/returns.
• Call in when a customer does not receive their entire order (shorts).
• Handle customer complaints professionally.
• Handle company equipment properly, follow written driver safety rules, and perform pre-trip inspection. Perform pre-trip and post-trip responsibilities in accordance with DOT regulations and Sysco policies and procedures.

• Education
• High School or GED or equivalent
• Experience
• One-year route delivery experience or applicable background driving a straight truck
• Valid Commercial Driver’s License – Class B (Class A preferred)
• Must read and speak English sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to inquiries, and record information.
• Skills
• Operate vehicle in a variety of traffic and weather conditions
• Meet or exceed minimum productivity levels established by the Company
• Meet or exceed established cases per error goals
• Demonstrate strong customer relations and problem resolution skills
• Plan and organize work activities independently
• Develop knowledge of product and inventory control techniques
• Maintain ongoing inter-department communications related to routing, safety, and customer relations
• Communicate articulately and perform simple arithmetic (handling money is a plus)
• Building Customer Loyalty
• Managing Work
• Adaptability
• Building Trust
• Follow-up
• Communication

• Frequent lifting of product up to 50 lbs., infrequent lifting to 80 lbs.
• Must be able to climb on and off the box of the truck
• Frequent bending, squatting, pushing, and pulling
• Must be able to work in confined spaces