Driver

**Job Description & Requirements**:

- Transport clients and/or packages to and from destinations
- Arrive at destinations on schedule
- Fulfill administrative needs, like office pickups
- Research and plan for traffic, construction and weather delays
- Interact with clients professionally at all times
- Ensure that the vehicle is always fueled and ready for use
- Arrange for vehicle repairs as needed
- Keep mileage records and repair records up-to-date
- Drivers are responsible for transporting clients or handling deliveries in a timely manner, and they may have to work nights and weekends to accomplish their duties. Common duties and responsibilities for drivers are to: Transport clients and/or packages to and from destinations Arrive at destinations on schedule
- Delivery drivers must deliver high-quality products to our customers safely and in a courteous and timely manner.
- The delivery driver needs to collaborate with the courier company’s support team to offer excellent customer service and address customer concerns.
- The driver must establish and maintain excellent relations with customers.
- Delivery drivers must inspect and approve invoices and purchase requests to confirm the accuracy of delivery details.
- The driver must collect payments from the customers at the time of shipment delivery.
- The driver needs to investigate the delivery address, plan and determine appropriate delivery routes, and maintain the schedule.
- The driver needs to perform a vehicle inspection before and after each delivery service trip.
- The driver should drive carefully and safely and deliver products within the estimated arrival time.
- The driver should notify any mishaps or accidents to supervisors immediately.
- Delivery drivers must follow regional and state driving rules and road regulations.
- Delivery drivers must inspect delivery vehicles and ensure the safety and security of the loading and unloading process.
- The driver should inform managers about any significant repairs and maintenance of delivery vehicles.
- Delivery drivers must contact clients to confirm delivery details.
- Drivers need to decide merchandise placement, follow loading and unloading process protocols and safety protocols during deliveries, and also perform safety inspections.
- Drivers need to stick to the company’s functioning guidelines and procedures.
- Delivery drivers need to maintain a driving record, prepare delivery vehicles’ performance records, and complete daily paperwork.
- Drivers must provide exceptional care in delivering delicate and unsafe products.

**List of delivery driver requirements**:

- All drivers need to have a clean driving record.
- Delivery drivers need to obtain special driving licenses to use certain vehicles intended for delivery.
- Delivery drivers need to follow the assigned routes for delivery, schedules, transportation rules and regulations, and safety protocols.
- Delivery drivers must have excellent customer service skills and a sense of time management.
- Delivery drivers must be physically fit to do heavy lifting jobs such as loading and unloading process of shipments.
- The drivers must be able to walk efficiently.
- The drivers need to pay attention to details.

**Qualifications and skills required for delivery driver job**:

- The delivery driver must have excellent verbal communication skills and organizational abilities.
- The delivery driver job seeker needs to have good social skills and the ability to solve problems to increase customer satisfaction.
- The delivery driver should be familiar with the local streets and delivery routes of his region.
- The delivery driver job seeker should be a responsible and dependable person who can help in increasing customer satisfaction.
- The delivery driver’s job description also requires the delivery driver to have the ability to work in a tight schedule in a dynamic environment.
- The delivery driver must have the ability to work holistically as part of a delivery process team.