First Choice Logistics
Dartmouth, NS
Posted 6 days ago
Job Details:
$29.00 - $32.00 / hour
Full-time
Experienced
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Experience an asset
- Calculate the cost of truck repairs and new parts if needed
- Plan or adjust routes based on changing conditions, using computer equipment, global positioning systems (GPS) equipment, or other navigation devices, to minimize fuel consumption and carbon emissions
- Load and unload goods
- Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
- 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
- AZ class license
- Valid driver's licence
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sitting
- Cellular phone
- On the road job
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week