Code 14 Flatdeck Driver (Steel Loads)

Long hours, clean record, safe arrival every time: that is what a long-haul freight fleet in Richards Bay pays for. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Richards Bay-based, with most of your time spent at a long-haul freight fleet.

• Do a full pre-trip inspection: tyres, brakes, lights, couplings and fluids
• Complete border paperwork at Beitbridge, Lebombo or other posts
• Deliver to customers and get proof-of-delivery signed and stamped
• Carry out fuel stops with the fuel card and keep the slips
• Check reefer temperatures and record them on cold-chain loads
• Log driving hours and take the required rest breaks

• Passport for cross-border routes
• Able to be away from home for several nights at a time
• Clean criminal record
• Clean driving record with no serious accidents

• Knowledge of SADC border routes
• Dangerous goods training certificate
• Experience on a specific trailer type (tanker, tipper, reefer)

• Overnight and subsistence allowance on trips
• Monthly safe-driving and fuel-saving bonus
• Provident fund and medical aid option
• Paid PrDP renewal

• Put your licence code, PrDP expiry date and years on Code 14 in the first three lines. Transport managers scan for those first.
• List the trailer types and routes you have done, for example "tautliner, JHB to Durban, 4 years".