CDL Driver

Curtis Lane Equipment is an authorized Bobcat® dealer serving Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina with 9 full-service locations. We offer sales, rental, parts, and service of all Bobcat machines. We are looking for a heavy haul CDL driver. No nights, no weekends, all local hauling, delivering Bobcat equipment to job sites.

Job Title: CDL Equipment Transport Driver - Class A

Job Status/Classification: FT/ Non Exempt

Department:
Service Department

Reports to: GM/Store Manager or Service Manager where applicable

The CDL Driver serves as a key business partner in operating and safely driving trucks with a gross vehicle weight over 26,000 lbs. used to deliver company products, equipment machinery on a flatbed (dovetail) or RGN (lowboy) trailer in various environmental conditions, terrains, urban, rural and construction site settings. This entails adhering to schedules that meet customer needs, working collaboratively with the Service team and other departments to accomplish best outcomes that are productive and successful, maintaining safety practices and professionalism at all times, providing advice, troubleshooting concerns and providing resolution as well as maintaining detailed documentation as may be periodically required.

This role serves as the "face" of Curtis Lane Equipment and its products/services and must effectively collaborate with the team, build customer and employee loyalty, liaise cross functionally with business partners and vendors to convey satisfactory customer service at all times, abiding by the Company's three (3) core values of Honesty, People and Growth, exhibiting a people focus perspective and genuine care and pride in our organization.

This role is responsible for effective problem solving and must consistently provide assertive diligence in collaborating with the team, anticipating needs, identifying opportunities and consistently providing solutions.

Benefits and Perks:

When you join our team you will receive competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401K, short term and long term disability, paid time off, employee discounts, weekends off and paid holidays!

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operates and safely drives assigned vehicle(s)

• Drives trucks with a gross weight over 26,000 lbs

• Ensures trailer hitch and tractor unit are properly and securely attached, operating effectively

• Cleans, organizes and properly maintains rig which may require use of spray washers, grease, oils, detergents and other tools

• Safely and efficiently operates heavy machinery and loads/unloads goods at selected destinations

• Maintains detailed driving and delivery logs

• Tracks and reports working hours

• Obeys all applicable traffic laws and drives according to the weather and road conditions

• Complies with ICC and DOT regulations

• Makes safety a priority at all times

• Performs light yard duty and maintenance of your fleet

• Gauges fuel and other meters and documents as necessary

• May provide additional assistance in meeting customer and business needs

• Practice and enforce company safety policies at all times

• Uses general knowledge of basic tools used in course of business

• Anticipates needs and initiates solutions that have collaborative buy-in

• Maintains solid understanding of maintenance requirements and follows best practices to assure readiness

• Accountable for maintaining adherence to company policies and regulations related to service delivery

• Maintains up-to-date training/knowledge on best customer service practices

• Maintains daily work flow, coordinates schedule based on customer and business needs, anticipates opportunities and uses agility to meet expectations and efficient time management of self and team

• Uses strategic thinking to problem solve and assure efficient work productivity

• Must successfully maintain a high level of customer service/customer satisfaction as well as build customer relationships ongoing.

• Must successfully demonstrate collaboration across all levels of the team, business partners, vendors and customers to troubleshoot and resolve concerns effectively

• Must successfully demonstrate representation of the store…