Code 14 Refrigerated Truck Driver

You'll move heavy loads between White River and depots across the country for a coal haulage contractor. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

Home base is a coal haulage contractor on the White River side of Mpumalanga.

• Drive planned routes and stop only at approved truck stops
• Carry out fuel stops with the fuel card and keep the slips
• Log driving hours and take the required rest breaks
• Deliver to customers and get proof-of-delivery signed and stamped
• Keep the logbook and tachograph or telematics records up to date
• Check reefer temperatures and record them on cold-chain loads
• Do a full pre-trip inspection: tyres, brakes, lights, couplings and fluids

• Clean criminal record
• Medically fit, including eyesight
• At least 3 years on Code 14 trucks
• Able to be away from home for several nights at a time
• Clean driving record with no serious accidents
• Valid Code 14 (EC) licence

• Experience on a specific trailer type (tanker, tipper, reefer)
• Defensive driving course
• Clean record on a telematics driving score

• Provident fund and medical aid option
• Monthly safe-driving and fuel-saving bonus
• Well-maintained trucks with sleeper cabs

• Expect a driving test with a real truck. Arrive rested and do your pre-trip check out loud so the assessor sees it.
• Put your licence code, PrDP expiry date and years on Code 14 in the first three lines. Transport managers scan for those first.