Better Today is hiring local CDL-A truck drivers for a dry van driving job in Cleveland, TN. Deliver pre-loaded dry van trailers from a distribution center to grocery stores on semi-local, out and back runs. Freight is general merchandise and health and beauty aids.
Average pay: $1,900 a week (reported by the hiring company, not a guarantee)
Experience: 24+ months
The Job
- What you haul: Pre-loaded dry van trailers, general merchandise and health and beauty aids
- Where you run: From the distribution center in Cleveland, TN to grocery stores. Semi-local, out and back runs
- Schedule: 24 hour dispatch
- Equipment: Late model daycabs and sleepers
Your Truck
Pay and Benefits
- How pay works: Paid by the mile: $0.84 per mile for 1 to 300 miles and $0.79 per mile for 301 miles
- How pay works: $0.84 per mile for 1 to 300 miles, $0.79 per mile from 301 miles
- Stop pay: $15. Detention: $20 an hour after the first hour
- Sign-on bonus: $5,000, paid in five $1,000 payments over 180 days from your first dispatched load
- Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D and disability, starting the 1st of the month after 60 days
- Paid time off: PTO after 60 days of employment
- Retirement: 401k after 6 months
Requirements
- Valid Class A CDL and full med card
- 24 months of verifiable Class A experience
- Current DOT medical card and a clean drug screen
- Driving record: no more than 3 tickets or incidents in the past 3 years, and no more than 2 in the previous year
- No major violations (15+ over, careless or reckless driving, DUI, hit and run, texting) and no serious or preventable accidents
- Dry van or reefer experience preferred; without recent van or reefer experience you take an additional road test
Good to Know
- Weekend work is required
- Live unloads averaging 3 to 4 stops per load; West Virginia runs average 6 to 8 stops per load
- You help unload some totes on top of the palletized freight