Feed Truck Driver

Job Description

To drive a commercial truck to transport product and make efficient, safe and professional deliveries to Frontier Ag Inc customers, promote Frontier Ag Inc sales and assist with feed and/or grain, as directed.

Requirements

Accountabilities/Essential Functions:

Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order, including but not limited to pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
Maneuver trucks into loading or unloading positions.
Collect delivery instructions from appropriate sources, verifying instructions and routes.
Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations or damage to the vehicles.
Secure cargo for transport, using ropes, blocks, chain, binders or covers.
Drive trucks with capacities greater than 3 tons, including tractor-trailer combinations, to transport and deliver products or other materials.
Operate equipment, such as truck cab computers, CB radios and telephones, to exchange necessary information with bases, supervisors or other drivers.
Perform basic vehicle maintenance tasks, such as adding oil, fuel, or radiator fluid or performing minor repairs.
Check condition of trailers after contents have been unloaded to ensure that there has been no damage.
Couple or uncouple trailers by changing trailer jack positions, connecting or disconnecting air or electrical lines, or manipulating fifth-wheel locks.
Check all load-related documentation to ensure that it is complete and accurate.
Read and interpret maps to determine vehicle routes.
Crank trailer landing gear up or down to safely secure vehicles.
Load and unload truck, or help others with loading and unloading, operating any special loading-related equipment on vehicles and using other equipment as necessary.
Remove debris from loaded trailers.
Conform to safety and regulatory compliance requirements, as directed and per company policy.
Become knowledgeable and familiar with Frontier Ag Inc products, policies and procedures.
Work in cooperation with other divisions, locations, customers, supervisors and managers with a positive attitude and willingness to provide positive feedback to them.
Perform other duties and tasks as assigned by the Branch Manager or Dispatcher.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Ability to communicate information or ideas effectively in oral or written form.
Ability to listen to what other people are saying and ask questions as appropriate.
Perform basic math operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) to include, but not limited to, use of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages and discounts.
Work and communicate with internal and external customers to meet their needs in a polite, courteous and cooperative manner. Committed to quality service.
Ability to identify and analyze problems associated with work processes.
Develop constructive and cooperative relationships with others.
Ability to organize and work on multiple tasks concurrently.
Demonstrate responsible behavior and attention to detail.
Encourage and facilitate cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity. Foster commitment and team spirit.
Knowledge and skill in judgment and decision making, negotiation, and management of material resources.
Capacity to adjust to change, work pressures or difficult situations without undue stress.

Education, Training, Certifications Required:

A valid driver’s license
Having a valid CDL or the ability to obtain a CDL along with proper endorsements
Pre-employment drug testing, plus random drug testing, per company policy

Working Conditions and Physical Demands:

Ability to lift a minimum of 60 pounds on a consistent basis.
Ability to work days, evenings and weekends, with or without prior notice.
Requires sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, climbing, pinching, grasping, reaching above and below shoulder and repetitive foot movements.
Requires working in non-controlled environmental conditions, including indoors or outdoors and exposure to all weather conditions, including very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures.
Includes exposure to smells, sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable.
Job tasks are performed in close physical proximity to other people, cramped work spaces and/or getting into awkward positions.

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