Tow Truck Driver
6 months ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 45 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
**Work site environment**:
- Dusty
**Work setting**:
- Remote location
**Tasks**:
- Plan or adjust routes based on changing conditions, using computer equipment, global positioning systems (GPS) equipment, or other navigation devices, to minimize fuel consumption and carbon emissions
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Coach colleagues on new methods or work techniques
- Mountain driving expertise
- Professionalism in customer service
- Arrange travel, related itineraries and make reservations
- Drive lighter, special purpose trucks
- Load and unload goods
- Obtain special permits and other documents required to transport cargo on international routes
- Pay and receive payments for goods
- Perform brake adjustments
- Perform emergency roadside repairs
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
- Perform preventive maintenance
- Receive and relay information to central dispatch
- Record cargo information, hours of service, distance travelled and fuel consumption
- Tarping and ensuring safety and security of cargo
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
- Air Brakes Endorsement
- Class 3/3F/DF Licence (trailer truck, vehicles with more than 3 axles)
- Class 5/5F/G Licence (cars, small trucks and other 2-axle vehicles)
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board¿(WSIB) clearance Certificate
- Air Brake (Z) Endorsement
**Documentation knowledge**:
- Accident or incident reports
- Driver logbook
- Inspection report (pre-trip, en-route, post-trip)
- Maintenance and repair reports
- Trip reports
**Type of trucking and equipment**:
- Tow truck
**Communication systems experience**:
- Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
**Transportation/travel experience**:
- Local
- Long-haul
- National
- Provincial/territorial
- Regional
- Short-haul
**Specialization or experience**:
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
**Security and safety**:
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Drug test
- Medical exam
**Transportation/travel information**:
- Valid driver's licence
- Willing to travel overnight
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
**Weight handling**:
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
**Own tools/equipment**:
- Cellular phone
- Hard hat
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Tools
- Safety vest
- Gloves
**Personal suitability**:
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Hardworking
- Patience
**Screening questions**:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Green job**:
- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
**Workplace information**:
- On the road job
**Health benefits**:
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:
- As per collective agreement
- Bonus
- Commission
- Gasoline paid
- Life insurance
- Mileage paid
- Night shift premium
**Long term benefits**:
- Long-term care insurance
**Other benefits**:
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- On-site recreation and activities
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week
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