Driver

If you want to be home daily with an occasional overnight stay in a hotel, drive newer equipment, and earn competitive wages, we may have the career opportunity you are looking for!

As a Flex Driver with BWI, you make the difference. You will deliver a quality product and provide our customers with top notch customer service. Being a Flex Driver for BWI is much more than driving a truck and comes with some great benefits.

In this role, you will:

• Primarily operate a semi unit with a 53’ drop deck trailer, Dodge 550 spreader truck, and bulk bags of fertilizer.
• Be responsible for the loading and unloading of the spreader from the trailer.
• Be responsible for spreading fertilizer at job sight according to work order specifications.
• Drive tractor-trailer combinations and straight trucks to transport and deliver products.
• Frequently interact with customers.
• Follow safety and placarding procedures.
• Perform trip, vehicle, and equipment inspections.
• Maintain logs of working hours and vehicle service and repair.
• Obtain delivery receipts/signatures.
• Correctly maneuver trucks into loading/unloading positions.
• Properly secure cargo for transport.
• Read invoices to determine assignment details.
• Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, and damage to vehicles or property.
• Collect delivery instructions, verifying instructions and routes.
• Operate Elog device (people net).
• Understanding of weights and measurements
• Operating loading-related equipment. (Some manual unloading may be required.)
• Collaborate with other BWI employees (e.g., employee training and sharing information) to ensure customer satisfaction and teamwork.

To apply, you must:

• Be at least 23 years old.
• Have a High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
• Have a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) ‘A’ with Haz-Mat and Tanker Endorsement.
• Have at least one-year CDL driving experience.
• Have a clean MVR with less than 3 moving violations over three-year period.
• Be able to pass DOT physical & DOT drug screen.
• Have no DWI / DUI convictions within the past 5 years.

Key benefits for all full-time employees include 401(k) retirement plan with generous company match, excellent health, dental & vision care plan options, flexible spending account and health savings account options, life & disability insurance, paid vacation and 8 paid company holidays. In addition, our drivers also can earn annual tenure and safety bonus and receive meal per diem and reimbursement for hotel stays.

Wages are activity-based and are highly competitive!  While you will be home most nights, you may have 2 overnight trips weekly.