Location:: Trenton, ON, K8V 5P6
Salary:: $27.00 hourly / 40 to 60 hours per Week
Terms of employment:: Permanent employment,Full time, Day, Early Morning, Evening, Morning, Night, Weekend
Start date:: Starts as soon as possible
vacancies:: 5 vacancies
Job Description
• Operating and driving trucks with three axles to transport goods and materials as required
• Safely loading, handling, and transporting goods and heavy cargo safely
• Recording both materials picked up and delivered, performing pre-trip, en-route and maintain their vehicles before driving, updating lines, routes,total mileage and breaks every day
• Reporting any accidents or delays to supervisors, ensuring inspection and repairs to keep their vehicle safe and legal to operate
• Obeying traffic laws and following established traffic and transportation procedures
• Verifying the contents of inventory loads against shipping papers
• Performing emergency repairs like changing tires or installing light bulbs, fuses, tire chains and spark plugs
• Reading maps and following written and verbal geographic directions; reporting mechanical problems with vehicle
Job Requirements:
Languages
- English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Arrange travel, related itineraries and make reservations
- Drive as part of a two-person team or convoy
- Drive lighter, special purpose trucks
- Load and unload goods
- Obtain special permits and other documents required to transport cargo on international routes
- 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
- Pay and receive payments for goods
- 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
Documentation knowledge
- Accident or incident reports
- Bill of lading
- Driver logbook
- Inspection report (pre-trip, en-route, post-trip)
- Maintenance and repair reports
- Trans-border documentation
- Trip reports
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
- Willing to travel cross-border
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sitting
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
How to apply
By email:: towingfellows@gmail.com
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