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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

CDL A or B Local Delivery Truck Driver

Delivery & Courier DrivingUpdated on Nov 11
Full-time$21 /hrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • One year of route delivery experience or applicable experience driving a straight truck is required.
  • A valid Commercial Driver’s License, Class B or A, is required.
  • A high school diploma, GED, or equivalent is required.
  • Commercial vehicle drivers must be able to read and speak English sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records.
  • The driver must be able to operate a vehicle in varied traffic and weather conditions.
  • The driver must meet or exceed company productivity levels and cases-per-error goals.
  • The driver must demonstrate customer relations and problem-resolution skills.
  • The driver must be able to plan and organize work independently of direct supervision.
  • The driver must develop working knowledge of products and inventory-control techniques and procedures.
  • The driver must maintain interdepartmental communication related to routing, safety, and customer relations.
  • The driver must be able to communicate articulately and perform simple arithmetic.
  • The driver must frequently lift products up to 50 pounds and infrequently lift up to 80 pounds.
  • The driver must be able to climb on and off the truck box, frequently bend, squat, push, and pull, and work in confined spaces.

Responsibilities

  • Run assigned routes efficiently, meeting or exceeding designated route times.
  • Unload products from the trailer by hand or hand cart and place them in designated customer storage areas, including transporting products down ramps, stairs, or docks in all weather conditions.
  • Frequently lift, push, or move products weighing 1–75 pounds and up to 100 pounds; reach up to 72 inches to stack and unstack pallets and hand carts; and bend and twist while loading, unloading, and retrieving items from the trailer.
  • Verify deliveries with customers and obtain required signatures.
  • Contact management for authorization when invoice discrepancies occur and communicate errors and returns.
  • Report when customers do not receive their complete order.
  • Handle customer complaints professionally.
  • Properly handle company equipment, follow written driver safety rules, and perform pre-trip inspections.
  • Perform pre-trip and post-trip duties in accordance with Department of Transportation regulations and company policies and procedures.
  • Organize the truck and make deliveries efficiently.
  • Check whether the truck is operating well enough to perform the route.
  • Load packages onto hand trucks and unload products at each stop in the order designated by the Transportation Department Manager.
  • Pick up the uploaded truck at the assigned loading dock following the nightly delivery and return the empty truck to the assigned lot at the end of the route.
  • Occasionally assist with loading trucks, palletizing products, and other duties assigned by a supervisor or manager.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience handling money is preferred.

About the Company

Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Sysco buys, stores and delivers food, kitchen supplies and equipment to restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels and other businesses that cook away from home. Alongside national brands, it sells its own Sysco Brand line of foods and supplies, which fills a large share of the cases it ships. Its biggest product groups are fresh and frozen meats, canned and dry goods, and frozen produce and baked goods. Customers order through Sysco sales representatives or online, and Sysco delivers from distribution centers across North America and Europe, earning money on the difference between what it pays suppliers and what customers pay for delivered goods. Sysco was founded in 1969, began public operations in 1970 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1969

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