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CDL Driver/Material Handler
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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.
$42,024 / year median in Michigan
-20% projected decline
Job Description
The CDL/Material Handler delivers material to job sites, inspects and maintains trucks and equipment, loads and unloads materials, stores material in the warehouse and yard. Follows proper procedures to verify accuracy, waits on customers in the yard, uses forklift, and able to bend, squat, reach, lift, carry, push and pull. Maintain a valid CDL. Hours 8:00AM-5:00PM Monday-Friday with rotating Saturdays from 8:00AM-Noon