Truck Driver resume example
A Class A CDL driver's resume — loads, on-time rate, safety record and inspections, with the license class and endorsements a carrier's recruiter screens for first.
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Written for applications in the United States. The notes say what to change elsewhere.
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Dale Peterson
dale@example.com | (479) 555-0115 | Fort Smith, AR
Summary
Class A CDL driver with seven years over the road and regional, 640,000 accident-free miles, and Hazmat and Tanker endorsements. Clean MVR and experienced on ELDs.
Experience
Regional Truck Driver
Mar 2022 – Present
Ozark Freight Lines, Fort Smith, AR
Delivered 2,300 dry-van and reefer loads to distribution centers across 6 states with a 98.6% on-time rate.
Passed 11 roadside DOT inspections with zero violations by running a 15-point pre-trip check on every dispatch.
Cut idle time from 22% to 9% of engine hours by planning rest stops around shipper windows, saving about 1,100 gallons of fuel a year.
OTR Truck Driver
Feb 2019 – Feb 2022
Prairie Line Transport, Fort Smith, AR
Drove 118,000 miles a year across 48 states with no accidents or cargo claims in 3 years.
Education
CDL Class A Certificate
Oct 2018 – Jan 2019
Arkansas Valley Driving Academy, Fort Smith, AR
Skills
Driving: Class A CDL, Hazmat endorsement, Tanker endorsement, Dry van, Reefer, Pre-trip inspections
Systems: Samsara ELD, Omnitracs, Trip planning
Why it is written this way
License class and endorsements in the first line
Class A, Hazmat and Tanker are screening requirements, and a recruiter filters on them before reading anything else, so they open the summary.
Safety is a record, so it is written as one
Accident-free miles and roadside inspections with no violations are the numbers a carrier's safety department checks. “Safe and reliable driver” says nothing it can verify.
Freight and equipment are named
Dry van, reefer and the electronic logging systems used tell a recruiter which loads you can take tomorrow, which is the question behind every driving job posting.
US conventions: Letter, city and state
No street address, photo or date of birth. The page is set on Letter paper, and the home terminal city tells a recruiter which lanes fit.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Made something faster or cheaper
- Cut ___ from ___ to ___ by ___
- Reduced ___ by ___% by ___
- Removed ___ from ___, saving ___ per ___
- Automated ___, taking it from ___ of manual work to ___
Shipped something
- Shipped ___, used by ___
- Built ___ that ___, replacing ___
- Launched ___ in ___, ___ ahead of ___
- Delivered ___ across ___ with ___
Handled scale or volume
- Operated ___ serving ___ ___ a ___
- Scaled ___ from ___ to ___ without ___
- Managed ___ worth ___ across ___
- Processed ___ ___ per ___ at ___ accuracy
Also called
Armored Truck Driver · Automotive Carrier Driver (Auto Carrier Driver) · Automotive Crane Driver (Auto Crane Driver) · Automotive Haulaway Driver (Auto Haulaway Driver) · Automotive Hauler (Auto Hauler) · Automotive Transport Driver (Auto Transport Driver) · Basket Operator · Batch Mixing Truck Driver · Bull Driver · Car Ferrier
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
This is the actual plain-text output for the document above — the same text an applicant tracking system extracts, and the same text this app hands you when you download the .txt. Nothing is lost between the page and the parser, which is the whole argument for a single column of real text.
Dale Peterson dale@example.com | (479) 555-0115 | Fort Smith, AR SUMMARY Class A CDL driver with seven years over the road and regional, 640,000 accident-free miles, and Hazmat and Tanker endorsements. Clean MVR and experienced on ELDs. EXPERIENCE Regional Truck Driver | Mar 2022 - Present Ozark Freight Lines, Fort Smith, AR - Delivered 2,300 dry-van and reefer loads to distribution centers across 6 states with a 98.6% on-time rate. - Passed 11 roadside DOT inspections with zero violations by running a 15-point pre-trip check on every dispatch. - Cut idle time from 22% to 9% of engine hours by planning rest stops around shipper windows, saving about 1,100 gallons of fuel a year. OTR Truck Driver | Feb 2019 - Feb 2022 Prairie Line Transport, Fort Smith, AR - Drove 118,000 miles a year across 48 states with no accidents or cargo claims in 3 years. EDUCATION CDL Class A Certificate | Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 Arkansas Valley Driving Academy, Fort Smith, AR SKILLS Driving: Class A CDL, Hazmat endorsement, Tanker endorsement, Dry van, Reefer, Pre-trip inspections Systems: Samsara ELD, Omnitracs, Trip planning
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