What are the responsibilities and job description for the CDL-A Flatbed Driver - Paid Flatbed Training - Home Weekly position at NIS EXPRESS?
You've done your year hauling a box trailer and you're tired of sitting at docks while flatbed drivers make better money. We'll teach you flatbed on our dime, pay you while you learn, and then put you in your own truck with home every weekend.
How the Switch Works
- 2 to 3 week flatbed training program, classroom plus hands-on
- Learn securement, tarping, chains and binders on real loads like steel, pipe and building materials
- Extra week with a road trainer if you need it
- Then into your own assigned truck as a solo flatbed driver
Pay From Day One
- $800 a week while you train ($160 a day)
- $800 a week minimum your first 4 weeks solo
- Then percentage pay: 26% of the load, rising to 27% after 12 weeks
- Experienced flatbed drivers here average $1,400 to $1,600 a week
- $300 a week non-taxed per diem
- Paid every Friday by direct deposit, nothing held back
After Training
- Home every weekend with a 34 hour reset
- Most drivers run regional within 5 states
- $40 per tarped load, $16/hour detention after 2 hours
- Cascadia or T680 automatic, 3 years old or newer, assigned only to you
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision starting the first of the month after 30 days
- 401(k) with company match
- Free $10,000 life insurance and paid vacation
- Paid orientation with hotel, meals and travel covered
- Riders and pets ride free
Requirements
- At least 22 years old with a valid Class A CDL
- 1 year OTR tractor-trailer experience in the last 3 years (a month of CDL school counts as a month)
- No flatbed experience needed
- No more than 3 moving violations in the last 3 years
- No DUI/DWI in the past 3 years
- Must pass a urine drug screen
Ready to trade the dock for the deck? Apply on Indeed and a recruiter will call you the same business day.
Equal Opportunity Employer.
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