Driver, Truck - Mississauga, Canada - Canrings freightlines LTD.
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Experience an asset
Tasks:
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Coach colleagues on new methods or work techniques
- Mountain driving expertise
- Owneroperator business skills
- Professionalism in customer service
- Arrange travel, related itineraries and make reservations
- Drive as part of a twoperson 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 pretrip, en route and posttrip 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- AZ class license
Documentation knowledge:
- Accident or incident reports
- Bill of lading
- Dangerous goods occurrence reports
- Driver logbook
- Inspection report (pretrip, enroute, posttrip)
- Maintenance and repair reports
- Transborder documentation
- Trip reports
Communication systems experience:
- Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
Transportation/travel experience:
- Local
- Longhaul
- Shorthaul
Security and safety:
- Bondable
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Drug test
Transportation/travel information:
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
- Travel expenses paid by employer
- Valid driver's licence
- Willing to travel crossborder
- Willing to travel for extended periods
- Willing to travel internationally
- Willing to travel overnight
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sitting
Weight handling:
- Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
