Job Description
- Location: 15 Winer Road, Guelph, ON N1H 6H9 Canada
- On the road job
- Salary: 27.50 hourly / 30 to 40 hours per week
- Terms of employment: Permanent employment, Full time
- Shift
- Start date: Starts as soon as possible
- Benefits: Health care plan, Dental plan, Vision care benefits
Overview
Languages
- English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years
On the road job
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Professionalism in customer service
- Drive as part of a two-person team or convoy
- Drive lighter, special purpose trucks
- Load and unload goods
- Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
- Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
- Perform brake adjustments
- Perform emergency roadside repairs
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
- Perform preventive maintenance
- Receive and relay information to central dispatch
- Record cargo information, hours of service, distance travelled and fuel consumption
- Tarping and ensuring safety and security of cargo
- Transport and handle dangerous goods
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- AZ class license
Experience and specialization
Type of trucking and equipment
- Extended length tractor-trailer combination
- Logging, off-highway
- Refrigerated
- Straight truck (4, 600kg+ or 10, 000lbs + with 3+ axles)
- Tractor-trailer
- Tractor-trailer A train
Communication systems experience
- Citizens band (CB) radio
- Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
- Trip recorder (on-board computer)
