Delivery Driver

usfoods; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Plan

Stock Purchase Plan

Paid parental leave

Job summary

US FOODS delivers food and supplies to customers with a focus on service and reliability. As a Delivery Driver, you will transport meats, produce, frozen goods, groceries, dry goods, equipment, and supplies to client drop-off sites, ensuring on-time delivery and strong customer service.

Starting pay is $25.65 per hour during a 90-day training period, then moves to component pay once training is complete. You must be 21+, have a CDL A, and meet DOT qualifications.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must have valid CDL A issued by the state of legal residence with necessary endorsements and DOT qualified.
• Minimum six months commercial truck driving experience or three months of foodservice or food and beverage truck delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver orders to customers on schedule.
• Provide best-in-class customer service.
• Unload products and place items in customer storage area.
• Verify delivery of items with customers.
• Collect money (cash or checks) where needed.

Skills

CDL A

DOT qualified

6 months trucking

3 months foodservice

Customer service

Safety conscious

Job description

Join Our Community of Food People!

We are looking for Delivery Drivers who relish the chance to push their potential, grow and reap the rewards of joining the US FOODS® family.

We help YOU make it! US FOODS® is one of the largest food distributors with a culture and history of promotion from within and unlimited career growth opportunities w/ ongoing job skills and leadership development training.

The starting pay is $25.65 per hour during the training period (90 days) then moves to component pay after training.

Schedule: Monday - Friday 2:00 AM - 4:00 AM Start Time

US FOODS® has a lot to offer:

Home Every Night with local routes

Work Schedule Monday- Friday starting in the early morning until finished

US FOODS® is the company built on YOU Matter, where your hard work is rewarded

We are committed to compensation, benefits that respect, and reward our employees for their dedication and hard work

Guaranteed minimum 40 hours per week

Paid Training AND Paid Overtime

Service recognition and employee rewards

Excellent Leadership

Benefits (Day One):

• medical, dental, vision, 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) life insurance and paid parental leave.

Main Ingredients of the Job

• As a US FOODS® Delivery Driver you will be critical to the US FOODS® team and one of the important faces of our organization. As a delivery truck driver, you will have an impact on our customers by delivering our meats, produce, frozen goods, groceries, dry goods, equipment, and supplies to their drop-off sites.
• Deliver best-in-class Customer Service.
• Deliver customer's orders to meet scheduled delivery times and keep productivity.
• Unload products with a hand truck and place items in customer storage area.
• Able to perform repeated, manual heavy lifting of items up to 80 pounds.
• Make frequent stops during a work shift.
• Deliver product in inclement weather conditions.
• Verify delivery of items with customers.
• Collect money (cash or checks) where needed.

What you bring to the table

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must have valid CDL A issued by the state of legal residence with necessary endorsements and DOT (Department of Transportation) qualified.
• Minimum six months commercial truck driving experience or three months of foodservice or food and beverage truck delivery experience required.

Great drivers are crucial to the US Foods® team and one of the important faces of our organization. Our truck drivers strive for integrity and reliability, while building trusting relationships with customers. JOIN OUR TRANSPORTATION TEAM!

Please check out our job preview video: "A Day in the life" Delivery Driver https://vimeo.com/usfoods/review/583126249/f25d9562f9

Registering to the FMCSA Clearinghouse is a requirement by the Department of Transportation. All Truck Drivers must visit the Clearinghouse website and register to the new database. The Clearinghouse is a secure online database that provides real-time information about commercial driver's license (CDL) and commercial learner's permit (CLP) holders' drug and alcohol program violations. If you have not registered to the FMCSA database, please note registration is required. Please visit https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register and click GO to login. If you can log into login, but are having trouble with the Clearinghouse registration, see "Clearinghouse Help" field on the clearinghouse page.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law. The expected base rate for this role is between $25.65 and $41.00.

As applicable, this role will also receive component pay. Each new driver will go onto the component pay program after a minimum two-week training period. This training period may be extended at the discretion of Transportation Management. During the training period the driver will be paid an hourly rate of $25.65 plus time and one half for all hours worked over 40 hours in a workweek. When the new driver can deliver on his/her own he/she will be removed from training pay and paid based on plan components.

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html .

Great drivers are crucial to the US Foods® team and one of the important faces of our organization. On and off the road, our drivers strive for integrity and reliability, while building trusting relationships with customers.

At the foundation of those efforts are