About This Role
This full-time, dedicated CDL-A Truck Driver position involves transporting portable storage units to storage centers or hub facilities across the 48 contiguous states. The role offers consistent miles, reliable pay, and regular home time, making it suitable for a driver ready to advance their career with predictable routes and customers.
Responsibilities
- Transport portable storage units to storage centers or hub facilities
- Secure and strap down containers and storage units
- Pick up and deliver across the 48 contiguous states (no NYC deliveries), may not deliver in all states but will travel through
- Log 70 hours in 8 days
- Perform pre-trip inspections
- Drive
- Lift and move side kits (lift requirements: 46 lbs)
- Secure load with chains and hardware (lift requirements: 80 lbs)
- Climb onto and off the flatbed trailer/load
- Count freight
- Complete fuel tickets
- Complete delivery receipt
- Hook/Unhook trailer (force requirement: 90 lbs)
Requirements
- Live within a 100-mile radius of Houston, TX
- Minimum of 1-year verifiable tractor-trailer experience in the past 3 years
- Class A CDL
- 21 years of age
- No convictions for reckless driving within the past 5 years
- No convictions for DUI or DWI within the past 5 years
- No suspensions or revocations for a moving violation within the past 5 years
- No serious violations within the previous 12 months (15 mph or greater, following too closely, improper passing, traffic offense committed in a CMV in connection with a fatality)
- No more than 3 moving violations within the past 3 years
- No preventable DOT recordable accidents within the past 3 years
- Ability to sit upright for extended periods of time
- Regular predictable attendance
Benefits
- Paid time off including 8 paid holidays
- Health Insurance: Medical, dental, vision and hearing coverage starting as low as $40.20/week (individual) and $105.90/week (family) after 30 days
- Rider policy for legally married spouses
- Profit Sharing: Monthly direct deposits into your retirement account
- Referral rewards: Cash bonuses for referrals
- Career Growth: Opportunities for local, regional, and leadership roles within Averitt
Important Details
- Route Type: dedicated
- Start Date: ASAP
- Home Time: Generally home on Fridays and out on Mondays; minimum of 2 weeks out, but could average 3 weeks; if out for two weeks, two days home; if out for three weeks, three days home; required to reset while on the road (34 hours); flexible home time to accommodate preferred time off and home days
