CDL Class A (Route Driver)

Since 1933, Vine Line Produce has been delivering fresh fruits and vegetables to our valued partners throughout the Midwest. Our goal is to collaborate and build solid relations in the produce industry, allowing us to understand our partners needs and services, so that we can support them in all things produce. Vine Line continues to be an organization built on generations of hard working, ethical, and humble families who are dedicated to building relationships by taking care of our customers. We look forward to adding to our team and continuing our growth.

Compensation:

• Average Annual Earnings: $80,000+
  • Base Rate: 40-50 average hours per week
    • Overtime paid after 40 hours worked
    • Scheduled annual increases
  • Additional Pay Incentives:
  • Stop Bonus
• Paid via direct deposit weekly

Benefits & Perks:

• Great company benefits starting 60 days of employment:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Supplemental Insurance
• 401K with 4% company match available after 1-year of employment
• Paid: 4 working Holidays & 2 non-working Holidays
• 2-Weeks’ paid vacation after 1 year
• Paid training and paid orientation

  Home Time, Route & Schedule:

• Home Time: Home Daily
• Schedule: Rotating (Sundays off with schedules varying 5 days per week, every other Saturday required).
• Shift: Start Time: Varies, usually around 3:30am. Workday is typically 10-12 hours per day.
  • Holiday work will be required (Everyone is off Thanksgiving & Christmas)
• Route: Drivers will drive thoughout different areas in the Michigan area
  • Must be flexible with route changes
  • Routes can have 5-18 stops per day
  • Palletized freight, deliveries to grocery stores and retail chains in MI, IN.
• Level of Touch: unload pallets using manual pallet jack; some pallet breakdown and hand unload
  • Must be able to use a manual pallet jack / occasional hand unload

Equipment:

• All trucks are late models: never older than 5-years as new inventory is always added
• Automatic
• Must be able to use a manual pallet jack / occasional hand unload

Qualifications:

• Must be at least 21 years of age
• Must have CDL A license
• Must have 6 months of verifiable commercial driving experience
• Drivers cannot have more than 6-points on their driving record at one time
• Air-brakes endorsements required
• Must meet Department of Transportation (DOT) testing and physical requirements and be knowledgeable of DOT regulations
• Must be able to pass a required pre-employment drug screen
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50lbs
• Hiring Radius: Drivers must live within 40 miles of Birch Run, MI or be willing to relocate for this position

Physical abilities commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use hands to grasp, manipulate or feel objects
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.