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Truck Driver Duties, Skills & Responsibilities: a Guide for Employers

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When hiring Truck Drivers, it’s important to properly describe the job opening with the duties, skills and responsibilities of the role. We’ve compiled a guide to Truck Driver Duties, Skills & Responsibilities using data from actual job postings on Indeed.

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Popular Truck Driver Duties and Skills

Here are some commonly found skills and other specifications in job postings for Truck Drivers.

CDL A

  • Definition : A license that qualifies an individual to drive any combination of vehicles weighing 26,001 pounds or higher. Governing bodies differ by state.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 90.7% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Commercial driving

  • Definition : Experience with driving commercial vehicles.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 56.7% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Driving

  • Definition : Skill or experience operating a motor vehicle.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 29.5% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

CDL

  • Definition : A driver's license that qualifies an individual to operate heavy commercial motor vehicles. CDL classification is determined by the vehicle's weight and other specific requirements. Governing bodies differ by state.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 16.7% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Tractor-trailer

  • Definition : Experience driving a tractor-trailer, a vehicle that includes a tractor unit and one or more trailers.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 13.3% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Tanker Endorsement

  • Definition : License that allows CDL drivers to drive a commercial vehicle carrying liquid or gaseous material.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 11% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Hazmat Endorsement

  • Definition : Endorsement that allows a driver to transport hazardous materials.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 9% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Flatbed

  • Definition : Skill or experience operating a flatbed truck, typically in a construction or transportation context.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 8.5% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Doubles/Triples Endorsement

  • Definition : A CDL (commercial driver’s license) endorsement required to pull double and triple trailers.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 4.5% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Driver's License

  • Definition : A license to drive a motor vehicle, awarded upon passing a driver's exam and meeting other state requirements for training.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 3.1% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Tanker

  • Definition : Experience driving a tanker, a vehicle that transports liquid or gases within a tank.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 2.9% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Roll off truck

  • Definition : Experience operating a roll off truck, a type of garbage truck that transports rectangular, open-top dumpsters typically used by construction and demolition companies.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 2-3
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 1.4% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Air Brake Endorsement

  • Definition : Endorsement as part of a CDL (Commercial Driver's License) required to operate vehicles equipped with air brakes.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.8% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Forklift

  • Definition : Experience operating a forklift.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.7% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Manual transmission

  • Definition : Experience operating a vehicle that has manual transmission.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.7% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Freight

  • Definition : Skill or experience in the movement or transportation of goods.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.4% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Route driving

  • Definition : Experience driving trucks along specific local routes, making multiple stops to sell or deliver retail or wholesale goods to businesses.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.3% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Delivery driver experience

  • Definition : Skill or experience driving to homes or businesses to deliver goods.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Load & unload

  • Definition : Skill or experience with loading and unloading cargo.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Dump truck

  • Definition : Experience operating a truck that has an open-box bed that is hinged and may be lifted by hydraulics to dump out the bed contents.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.

Heavy equipment operation

  • Definition : Experience operating heavy equipment.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.1% of Truck Driver job postings on Indeed.
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