What are the responsibilities and job description for the Class A CDL Delivery Truck Driver position at Sysco?
Class A CDL Delivery Truck Driver Summary
The Class A CDL Delivery Truck Driver is responsible for safely transporting products from the warehouse to various customer locations, ensuring timely and accurate deliveries while maintaining food safety protocols.
This position requires a valid Class A Commercial Driver's License and offers competitive pay, benefits, and paid training to support career development. The driver will be tasked with building strong customer relationships through courteous service and clear communication.
Responsibilities:
- Unload product from trailer by hand or using a hand cart down ramps, stairs, or docks, in all weather conditions and place in designated customer storage areas according to customer specifications and company standards.
- Ensure all paperwork is completed according to established company and governmental guidelines (e.g., DOT electronic or manual logs, inspections, company vehicle maintenance reports and pre- and post-trip reports are completed accurately and submitted on a timely basis).
- Ensure all food safety protocols are met according to established guidelines and maintain sanitary conditions in tractor and trailer; assist with maintaining sanitary conditions in the warehouse and yard.
- Develop and establish good relationships with customers by providing excellent and courteous service with clear communication.
Requirements:
- Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License. Must be insurable to operate a vehicle as a condition of initial and continued employment.
- High school diploma/GED/equivalent degree, plus 1 year of tractor trailer driving experience preferred. Completion of a tractor trailer driving school will be accepted instead of, or in addition to a high school diploma.
Benefits:
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Well Maintained Equipment – All Automatics
- Bi-Weekly pay
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Benefits active the 1st of the month after 31 days of employment
- 401k and Sysco Stock Purchase Plan
- DEDICATED ROUTES (*does not apply to Extra Board drivers.)
- Evening Dispatch, Sunday – Friday
- Most routes out no more than 36 hours
Physical Demands:
- Lift, push, or move product that weighs up to 50 pounds by hand and push/pull up to 350 pounds of product with a 2-wheeled hand cart down a ramp and into the customer's storage areas.
- Climb in and out of a tractor and trailer.
- Reach to stack and unstack pallets and hand cart.
- Bend and twist while loading and unloading product, and retrieving items from trailer.
Work Environment:
- Occasionally exposed to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions.
- Moving mechanical parts and may be required to work in confined spaces.
