Job Description
Job Description
Burkhart Enterprises, Inc. is currently seeking a Class A or B CDL Local Delivery Truck Driver in the Knoxville, TN, area.
Drivers with experience driving pneumatic trucks, tanks, flatbed trailers, or dump trucks are preferred.
As a Burkhart Enterprises truck driver, you will drive within a 500-mile radius of Knoxville. You will be home on nights and weekends.
The benefits of working with us include :
- Excellent pay
- Safety bonus
- Longevity bonus
- High driver retention rate
Education Requirements :
A high school diploma or equivalent
Experience Requirements :
2 years of truck driving experience
Qualifications :
Class A or B Commercial Drivers License (CDL)
Responsibilities :
- Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Follow appropriate safety procedures for transporting dangerous goods.
- Inspect loads to make sure cargo is secure.
- Maintain logs of working hours or of vehicle service or repair status, following applicable state and federal regulations.
- Control operations of equipment or systems.
- Watch gauges, dials, or other indicators in order to confirm a machine is working properly.
Skills :
- Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring / Assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
About us :
Burkhart Enterprises, Inc. is a third-generation company that has diligently continued to improve and expand its business over the past six decades.
Truck transportation is a major operation at Burkhart Enterprises. This part of the organization supports all our other operations & brings them together as a cohesive process.
Our operations include :
- A loading & unloading facility.
- A rail facility with 2000 Rail, bottom dump pit, 32 car capacity.
- Privately owned river port where loaded barges are offloaded using two large excavators equipped with clamshell buckets.
- A 1250 Komatsu & 1000 Komatsu.
- A 100-ton Northwest crane is also available for more heavy lifting.
- Various other equipment such as loaders, tandem trucks & forklifts augment the barging operation.
Our equipment includes :
- Late model Mack tractors
- Aluminum flatbed trailers
- Aluminum dump trailers
- Pneumatic tankers
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.