Salt City Trucking
CDL-A Local Reefer Driver - Great Pay | Grocery Account
Salt City Trucking
Job Summary
$1,700 - $1,950 /Weekly (EST)
Newark, NJ
CDL A
Local
0+ Months of CDL Experience
home daily
Job Details
Equipment
Refrigerator Trailer
Handling Type
Touch Freight
Transmission Type
Automatic
Job Requirements
CDL Class
CDL A
CDL Experience
0+ (includes CDL students)
Full Description
Local CDL-A Reefer Driver - Great Pay | No-Touch Freight
Earn $85,000-$100,000 per year delivering fresh and frozen groceries throughout New York and surrounding markets. This dedicated local position offers daily home time, established delivery routes, and mostly no-touch freight.
Pay Details
Earn $85,000-$100,000 per year delivering fresh and frozen groceries throughout New York and surrounding markets. This dedicated local position offers daily home time, established delivery routes, and mostly no-touch freight.
Pay Details
- Average Weekly Pay: Approximately $1,700-$1,950
- Double dock pay available
- Additional compensation may apply when supporting other accounts
- Deliver fresh and frozen groceries using 46', 48', 51', and 53' reefer trailers.
- Delivery area includes the Hudson Valley, New York City boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania backhaul routes.
- Approximately 15 or more stops per week.
- Complete two loads per day or one longer load, depending on the route.
- Pick up returns at final stops or backhaul freight to the distribution center.
- Mostly no-touch freight; customer unloads and the driver assists as needed.
- Drivers may support other distribution-center accounts 2-3 days per week.
- Pallet jack unloading may be required when assisting other accounts.
- Strong customer service skills are expected.
- Home daily
- Holiday work required when the holiday falls on a scheduled workday and the account is operating.
- Thanksgiving and Christmas are typically off.
- New Year's Day off is not guaranteed.
- Valid Class A CDL
- Minimum 3 months of verifiable Class A CDL experience
- DOT Medical Card
- Clean driving record
- No SAP drivers
- Reliable personal transportation to and from work
- Ability to provide professional customer service
- Willingness to support other local accounts and perform pallet jack unloading when needed
- New drivers must complete required training before operating solo routes in New York City.
- Drivers will not run NYC routes until they have been on the account for at least 6 months.
- Automatic and manual day cabs
- Reefer trailers ranging from 46' to 53'
- Slip-seat operation; same-truck assignments are preferred but not guaranteed
- Trucks cannot be taken home
- Uniforms provided and maintained by the account
- Newer equipment, averaging approximately 3 years old
- Training provided for pallet jack operation
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