USPS Jobs near Me – Tractor Trailer Operators

Job Description:

The United States Postal Service has the following challenging employment opportunities for highly motivated and innovative individuals. The successful candidates must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements. Regularly operates a heavy-duty tractor-trailer either in over-the-road service, city shuttle service, or trailer spotting operations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Makes decisions respecting changes in route in emergency; makes emergency decisions respecting loading mail or leaving it for later trip.
• In addition, may prepare daily trip reports; make minor repairs or adjustments to vehicle in emergencies; load and unload mail; perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor.
• Picks up and delivers bulk quantities of mail at postal installations, mailing concerns, railroad mail facilities and airports.
• Ascertains the condition of the tractor-trailer prior to leaving and in returning to garage; reports all accidents, mechanical defects noted, and mechanical failures in the course of the trip.
• Operates a tractor-trailer in conformity with time schedules and in accordance with instructions regarding the route assigned; or operates a tractor-trailer in unscheduled service directed move by move by telephone, two-way radio or through designated supervisors.

Job Requirements:

• The required amount of experience will not in itself be accepted as proof of qualification. The applicants’ record of experience and training must show the ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Applicants must have two-years of general driving experience with at least one-year full time, or equivalent, of driving 7-ton trucks or buses of 16 passengers or over. A minimum of six months of the required total driving experience must be in a tractor-trailer.
• Applicants selected under this qualification standard must successfully complete the required
• Vehicle Familiarization and Safe Operation training, including demonstration of the ability to safely drive a vehicle of the type used on the job.
• Applicants for these positions must complete an Assessment Questionnaire.
• Applicants must be physically able to perform efficiently the duties of the position.
• Qualified applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the
• U.S. Postal Service’s requirement to be drug free. Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.

Job Details:

Company: USPS

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Beaumont, TX, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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