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CDL A Drivers Run LA, MS, GA, FL Only Home Weekly
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What they do
A Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver drives large commercial vehicles such as tractor-trailers, semi-trucks, or big rigs. Responsibilities typically include transporting cargo across long distances, sometimes over the course of multiple days. They may work for trucking companies, freight carriers, logistics, or shipping companies.
$44,729 / year median in Alabama
-10% projected decline
Job Description
Class A truck drivers run southern US on a dedicated account that gets you home every week. Average weekly pay is $1400-$1800 with a $2000 sign on that is paid out over your first 60 days Full benefits start after 30 days and include medical, dental, 401K, PTO and a rider and pet are welcome. Paid CPM and for every trailer that is unloaded. Drivers will take the boxes out of the back of the trailer and place it on a conveyor belt that takes product into the store where store personnel put it away. Average is $1400-$1800/WK Deliveries are made in LA, MS, AL, GA and FL. Drivers can take a rider and a pet and take the truck home during home time $2000 sign on bonus that is paid out at $500/First Load, $500 at 30 days and $1000 at 60 Requirements Minimum 3 months Class A driving experience in the last 3 years (local, regional, or OTR; 40' trailer; excludes trainer/school time) No more than 3 jobs in the last 12 months If you have been terminated from a previous job due to safety tissues you must have 6 months of safe driving with another carrier Relatively clean MVR with no CMV accidents that resulted in injury, jack knife or rollover in the last 5 years