Salt City Trucking
CDL-A Local Grocery Driver - Good Pay | Day Shift
Salt City Trucking
Job Summary
$1,650 - $1,950 /Weekly (EST)
Elizabeth, NJ
CDL A
Local
0+ Months of CDL Experience
home daily
Job Details
Handling Type
Touch Freight
Transmission Type
Automatic
Job Requirements
CDL Class
CDL A
CDL Experience
0+ (includes CDL students)
Full Description
CDL-A Local Grocery Driver - Good Pay | Home Daily
Earn $85,000-$100,000 annually delivering fresh and frozen groceries throughout the New York region. This dedicated position offers daily home time, consistent work, and mostly no-touch freight.
Pay Details
Earn $85,000-$100,000 annually delivering fresh and frozen groceries throughout the New York region. This dedicated position offers daily home time, consistent work, and mostly no-touch freight.
Pay Details
- Average Annual Pay: $85,000-$100,000
- Average Weekly Pay: Approximately $1,650-$1,950
- Seniority-based yearly average: $83,600-$87,600
- Approximately 1,409 miles per week
- Double dock pay available
- Deliver fresh and frozen groceries using 53-, 51-, and 48-foot refrigerated trailers.
- Deliver to supermarkets and distribution centers within 250 miles of Chester, NY.
- Service the Hudson Valley, New York City boroughs, Long Island, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania backhaul areas.
- Approximately 20-25% of freight delivers in New York City.
- Handle multistop loads, typically 15 or more stops per week.
- Complete two loads per day or one longer load.
- Pick up returns or backhaul freight after deliveries.
- Mostly no-touch freight; occasional pallet-jack unloading may be required when supporting other accounts.
- Support other local distribution-center accounts approximately 2-3 days per week.
- Schedule: Sunday-Thursday
- Start times: 1:00 AM-5:00 AM
- Workweek: Five days, with two mandatory sixth days each month
- Sixth days are also mandatory around major holidays.
- New drivers will not run New York City routes until they have been on the account for at least six months.
- Before solo NYC routes, drivers train with NYC-certified trainers.
- Thanksgiving and Christmas are off; New Year's Day is not guaranteed off.
- Valid Class A CDL
- Minimum 3 months of truck driving experience
- Reliable personal transportation to and from work every day
- Strong customer-service skills
- Ability to assist with pallet-jack unloading when needed
- Willingness to support other local accounts
- No SAP drivers
- Automatic and manual day-cab tractors
- Refrigerated trailers
- Slip-seat operation; drivers may share trucks with opposite-shift drivers
- Tractors cannot be taken home
- Uniforms provided and maintained by the account
- Newer equipment, averaging approximately three years old
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