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  • Truck driver

    Job Types: Part-time, Seasonal

    Pay: $27.00-$29.00 per hour

    We are seeking a dedicated Truck Driver to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for transporting goods across Vancouver Island.

    This is a local Part-time/ On call position 1 to 4 shifts per week.

    Duties:
    Safely operate trucks to transport goods and materials to and from specified locations
    Load and unload cargo following proper handling procedures
    Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections of the vehicle
    Communicate effectively with dispatchers, customers, and other drivers

    Qualifications:
    – Valid Class 1 drivers license with a clean driving record
    – Proven experience in commercial driving, preferably in freight transportation
    – Knowledge of forklift operation is a plus

    We Offer:

    • Dedicated trucks.
    • Palletized dry van freight
    • Great team atmosphere and a healthy safety culture, Family owned and operated since 1992.
    • Supportive driver team with many long term employees.

    Benefits:

    • On-site parking
  • delivery driver

    Pay: CA$18.50 – CA$19.00

    • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Experience: Experience an asset
    • or equivalent experience
    • Work setting
    • Warehouse
    • Tasks
    • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
    • Professionalism in customer service
    • Keep a record of items received and delivered
    • Prepare, package and restock goods
    • Load and unload goods
    • Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
    • Perform labouring duties in warehouses
    • Operate forklift
    • Inspect and verify incoming goods against invoices or other documents
    • Organize warehouse and work areas
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
    • Air Brakes Endorsement
    • Forklift Operator Certification
    • Driver’s License (Class 3 or D)
    • Type of trucking and equipment
    • Straight truck (4,600kg+ or 10,000lbs+ with 3+ axles)
    • Transportation/travel experience
    • Local
    • Provincial/territorial
    • Security and safety
    • Driving record check (abstract)
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
    • Own tools/equipment
    • Steel-toed safety boots
    • Personal suitability
    • Reliability
    • Screening questions
    • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
    • Do you have experience working in this field?
    • Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
    • Health benefits
    • Dental plan
    • Disability benefits
    • Health care plan
    • Vision care benefits
    • Financial benefits
    • Group insurance benefits
    • Life insurance
    • Pension plan
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 42.5 hours per week
  • small van driver

    Pay: CA$20.00 – CA$25.00

    • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
    • Experience: Experience an asset
    • Work site environment
    • Motor vehicles
    • Tasks
    • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
    • Professionalism in customer service
    • Transport and handle dangerous goods
    • Load and unload goods
    • Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
    • Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
    • Class 5/5F/G Licence (cars, small trucks and other 2-axle vehicles)
    • Transportation/travel experience
    • Provincial/territorial
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Tight deadlines
    • Handling heavy loads
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
    • Own tools/equipment
    • Steel-toed safety boots
    • Personal suitability
    • Organized
    • Reliability
    • Dependability
    • Employment terms options
    • Early morning
    • Workplace information
    • On the road job
    • Health benefits
    • Dental plan
    • Health care plan
    • Vision care benefits
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
  • transport driver

    Pay: CA$30.00 – CA$37.00

    • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
    • Work setting
    • Willing to relocate
    • Relocation costs not covered by employer
    • Tasks
    • Address customers’ complaints or concerns
    • Load and unload goods
    • Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
    • Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
    • Pay and receive payments for goods
    • Perform preventive maintenance
    • Receive and relay information to central dispatch
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Handling heavy loads
    • Large workload
    • Physically demanding
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Sitting
    • Employment terms options
    • Early morning
    • Evening
    • Employment terms options
    • Flexible hours
    • Morning
    • Day
    • Weekend
    • Green job
    • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 32 to 35 hours per week
  • delivery driver

    Pay: CA$20.00 – CA$21.50

    • Durée de l’emploi: Permanent
    • Langue de travail: Anglais
    • Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
    • Education:
    • Expérience:
    • Education
    • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Work site environment
    • Outdoors
    • Motor vehicles
    • Tasks
    • Deliver and pick up messages, parcels, and other items by hand
    • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
    • Professionalism in customer service
    • Accept payment or invoices for items delivered
    • Assemble, install and set-up merchandise/products
    • Keep a record of items received and delivered
    • Prepare, package and restock goods
    • Load and unload goods
    • Sort packages for delivery
    • Provide customer service
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
    • Class 5/5F/G Licence (cars, small trucks and other 2-axle vehicles)
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
    • Personal suitability
    • Client focus
    • Organized
    • Dependability
    • Punctuality
    • Screening questions
    • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
    • Experience
    • 1 to less than 7 months
    • Employment terms options
    • Flexible hours
    • On call
    • Day
    • Support for newcomers and refugees
    • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
    • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
    • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
    • Does not require Canadian work experience
    • Support for youths
    • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
    • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
    • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
    • Support for Indigenous people
    • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
    • Supports for visible minorities
    • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
  • transport driver

    Pay: CA$30.00 – CA$37.00

    • Education:
    • Expérience:
    • Education
    • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Work setting
    • Willing to relocate
    • Relocation costs not covered by employer
    • Tasks
    • Address customers’ complaints or concerns
    • Load and unload goods
    • Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
    • Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
    • Pay and receive payments for goods
    • Perform preventive maintenance
    • Receive and relay information to central dispatch
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Handling heavy loads
    • Large workload
    • Physically demanding
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Sitting
    • Employment terms options
    • Early morning
    • Evening
    • Experience
    • 1 year to less than 2 years
    • Employment terms options
    • Flexible hours
    • Morning
    • Day
    • Weekend
    • Green job
    • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
    • Durée de l’emploi: Permanent
    • Langue de travail: Anglais
    • Heures de travail: 32 to 35 hours per week
  • truck driver

    Pay: CA$28.85 Per Hour

    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 30 hours per week
    • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
    • or equivalent experience
    • Tasks
    • Address customers’ complaints or concerns
    • Professionalism in customer service
    • Arrange travel, related itineraries and make reservations
    • Drive as part of a two-person team or convoy
    • Drive lighter, special purpose trucks
    • Load and unload goods
    • Obtain special permits and other documents required to transport cargo on international routes
    • Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
    • Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
    • 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
    • Transport and handle dangerous goods
    • 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
    • Straight truck (4,600kg+ or 10,000lbs+ with 3+ axles)
    • Communication systems experience
    • Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
    • Transportation/travel experience
    • Local
    • Provincial/territorial
    • Short-haul
    • Transportation/travel information
    • Valid driver’s licence
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Handling heavy loads
    • Physically demanding
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Sitting
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
    • Personal suitability
    • Efficient interpersonal skills
    • Excellent oral communication
    • Excellent written communication
    • Flexibility
    • Judgement
    • Organized
    • Reliability
    • Team player
    • Hardworking
  • local truck driver

    Pay: CA$22.00 – CA$24.00

    • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
    • Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
    • Work site environment
    • Motor vehicles
    • Outdoors
    • Wet/damp
    • Hot
    • Cold/refrigerated
    • Work setting
    • Various locations
    • Rural area
    • Tasks
    • Drive lighter, special purpose trucks
    • Load and unload goods
    • Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
    • Receive and relay information to central dispatch
    • Use maps and other trip planning aids
    • Record trip information such as vehicle mileage, fuel costs and any problems
    • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
    • Air Brakes Endorsement
    • Class 3/3F/DF Licence (trailer truck, vehicles with more than 3 axles)
    • Transportation/travel experience
    • Local
    • Provincial/territorial
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Physically demanding
    • Work under pressure
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
    • Own tools/equipment
    • Cellular phone
    • Steel-toed safety boots
    • Personal suitability
    • Reliability
    • Team player
    • Initiative
    • Dependability
    • Green job
    • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 35 to 45 hours per week
  • delivery driver

    Pay: CA$16.50

    • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
    • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
    • Work site environment
    • Motor vehicles
    • Work setting
    • Restaurant
    • Tasks
    • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various items and products
    • Professionalism in customer service
    • Load and unload goods
    • Follow directions and read map
    • Transportation/travel information
    • Valid driver’s licence
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Fast-paced environment
    • Work under pressure
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Personal suitability
    • Flexibility
    • Organized
    • Reliability
    • Team player
    • Dependability
    • Time management
    • Financial benefits
    • Gratuities
    • Other benefits
    • Parking available
    • Work Term: Casual
    • Work Language: French
    • Hours: 20 to 30 hours per week
  • long haul truck driver

    Pay: CA$77k

    • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Experience: Will train
    • Work setting
    • Various locations
    • Tasks
    • Drive as part of a two-person team or convoy
    • Load and unload goods
    • Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
    • Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
    • Perform brake adjustments
    • Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
    • 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
    • Transport and handle dangerous goods
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
    • Air Brake (Z) Endorsement
    • Driver’s License (Class 1 or A)
    • Type of trucking and equipment
    • Refrigerated
    • Straight truck (4,600kg+ or 10,000lbs+ with 3+ axles)
    • Tractor-trailer
    • Security and safety
    • Valid passport
    • Driving record check (abstract)
    • Drug test
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities
    • Attention to detail
    • Handling heavy loads
    • Sitting
    • Weight handling
    • Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
    • Personal suitability
    • Team player
    • Health benefits
    • Dental plan
    • Health care plan
    • Other benefits
    • Other benefits
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week