Truck Driver Resume Example

Professional Trucking Resume Tips

You should emphasize these three traits on your resume:

1. What type of Certified Driver’s License you have
2. Your safety record during your years of experience
3. Your ability to pass a basic physical fitness exam

Click here to see a helpful government page detailing vehicles and the licenses required to drive them. Only once you obtain your license will you become employable as a professional truck driver and be paid on average $30,000-40,000 annually.

1. Action Verbs for a Truck Driver Resume

Clean	Fill	Pickup
Conduct	Load	Repair
Coordinate	Maintain	Stock
Deliver	Operate	Transport
Drive	Perform	Verify

Like this list of action verbs? There’s more where that came from! Check out our endless list of action verbs.

2. Highlight your Strengths in the Career Objective

Take a look at the Career Objective in the above resume. It includes all of the traits a hiring manager will want to see in your resume. Most importantly, it tells the hiring manager how this applicant will help the company — not how the company can help the applicant.

Here’s a bad example of a career objective:

Experienced truck driver seeking  position with a reputable logistics company.

The career objective above just won’t cut it. Employers already know you are applying for a truck driver position, so this career objective is really just a waste of space.

The goal of a career objective is to emphasize how you can help the company achieve its goals. Below is a great example of how you should format your objective.

Pay particular attention to how the candidate emphasizes their relevant experience, accomplishments, and certifications:

Heavy Truck Driver with 6+ years of experience driving dump trucks and concrete transport trucks, managing time effectively for delivery purposes. Zero accidents or injuries throughout entire career. Possesses a Class A Certified Driver’s License and ME Certificate.

After reading this, the hiring manager will immediately be interested in you as a candidate. They will then move on to the Professional Experience Section.

3. Professional Experience Tip: Be Specific

To get the most out of your professional experience section you need to provide details. One easy way to do this for a truck driver is to tell the hiring manager what types of vehicles you drove, and for how long.

The candidate above has driven dump trucks and concrete mixers, with a maximum of 12.5 hour shifts. How about yourself?

Additionally, be sure to include if you ever trained any new employees. The ability to train employees means that management trusts you with big tasks, and that you’re knowledgeable about your job. Here’s how the sample resume puts it:

• Trained 2 new employees in manipulating dump trucks, following routes, and adhering to safety standards

If you trained any employees, feel free to copy that template, and make it relevant to your own experience.

4. Additional Skills are Important

Truck drivers need a range of basic physical, mental, and technical skills to do their jobs well. You need to know:

• Math: How to do basic math like adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
• Technical: How to do basic vehicular repairs, like oil and tire changes and engine maintenance
• Physical: The ability to lift, stretch, and do physical activities. (In fact, you need a Medical Examiner’s Certificate to even apply — and the company will probably test you, too.)
• Customer service: Be able to resolve client disputes in a polite manner
• Time management: Meet all your pickup and delivery deadlines

If you have these skills, put them in the Additional Skills section to ensure that the hiring manager calls you in for an interview.