What are the responsibilities and job description for the CDL A Local Delivery Truck Driver position at Buckhead Meat and Seafood?
Hit the Road to Success
We are seeking a skilled Route Delivery driver to join our Buckhead Meat and Seafood team.
Key Benefits:
- Home Time Guarantee: 10-hour routes allow you to be home in time for dinner
- Early Morning Starts: 2AM-5AM daily departures
- Weekend Time Off: Be home every weekend
- Overtime Opportunities: OT is available when needed
- Paid Vacation and Holidays: Affordable paid time off and holidays
- Retirement Benefits: Career-long retirement savings plan
- Employee Discount Program: Exclusive discounts on Sysco products and services
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits: New hires are eligible first day of the month following or coinciding with 31 days from date of hire
Job Profile Summary:
All drivers run daily routes with frequent stops, loading packages onto hand trucks and unloading product at each designated stop. The ideal candidate will operate successfully in a cross-dock model, picking up loaded trucks and returning empty trucks to assigned lots at the end of each route.
Responsibilities:
- Run routes efficiently, meeting or exceeding designated route times
- Unload product from trailers by hand or using hand carts, and place in designated customer storage areas
- Lift, push, or move product weighing 1-75 pounds, up to 100 pounds; frequently reach up to 72" to stack and unstack pallets and hand carts
- Verify delivery of items with customers and obtain proper signatures
- Contact management for authorization when discrepancies occur
- Communicate all errors/returns
- Call in when customers do not receive their entire order (shorts)
- Handle customer complaints professionally
- Operate company equipment properly, follow written driver safety rules, and perform pre-trip and post-trip responsibilities in accordance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations and Sysco policies and procedures
Qualifications:
- 21 years of age
- Valid Class A Commercial Driver License (CDL) with a clean driving record
- Ability to read, write, and communicate in English
- Touch freight experience - lifting, pushing, or moving product weighing an average of 40-60 pounds and as much as 100 pounds repeatedly
- Flexibility - overtime, weekends, and holidays as business needs require
