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Long haul truck driver
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 44 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Will train
Work setting
- Various locations
Tasks
- 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
- Professionalism in customer service
- Load and unload goods
- Perform brake adjustments
- Perform emergency roadside repairs
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
- 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Air Brakes Endorsement
- Driver's License (Class 1 or A)
Documentation knowledge
- Accident or incident reports
- Driver logbook
- Maintenance and repair reports
- Trip reports
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Large workload
- Physically demanding
- Sitting
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Hardworking
Employment terms options
- Evening
- Morning
- Night
Employment terms options
- Day
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
Support for Veterans
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
Support for Indigenous people
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations