Company Driver Flatbed Regional

****CDL-A Truck Driver Job, Flatbed Freight, Cedar Rapids, IA****

**Excellent Earnings for Flatbed Drivers up to $88,000. No Experience Necessary.**

**TMC Transportation** needs Class A CDL Drivers to grow our team of professional flatbed drivers. This is a regional position getting you home on the weekends

TMC is the largest ***employee-owned*** flatbed freight carrier in the nation. We are looking for drivers who want to be home every weekend but still reap the rewards of an over-the-road driver. For those who love driving but dont like the sedentary lifestyle that often comes with trucking, flatbed is a great solution.

Positions are open for experienced and non-experienced CDL drivers. **Give TMC Transportation a call at .**

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****Truck Driver Benefits:****

* Earn up to $88,000/annual

* Paid Training

* Up to $5,000 Sign-On Bonus with Quicker Payout for Experienced Drivers

* Consistent Weekly Home Time

* Performance-Based Pay

* Employee Ownership

* Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription)

* Latest Model Peterbilt Equipment

* School Tuition Reimbursement

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****Truck Driver Requirements:****

* Class A CDL

* No recent DOT Reportable Accidents or DUIs

* Minimum 23 years of age

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Call TMC Transportation **today** at

Beyond the job benefits already listed above for truck driving jobs, there are several other appealing benefits for truckers living in Cedar Rapids. With access to over 30 ports and the proximity to the US Canada border, there are a multitude of opportunities for truck drivers or anyone looking for a career in trucking.

**Company Drivers**

The information below provides insight into how working as a Company Driver may meet your expected lifestyle, work into your long-term career plans, and provide the working environment you seek.

Company Drivers are employed by specific companies that maintain its own fleet of trucks. Company Drivers are can be separated into 2 categories: (1) drivers working for trucking carriers that exist for the sole purpose of transporting freight of others, or (2) drivers working for companies that carry its own freight to support its own companys product or service. Company drivers are in high demand, particular among large carriers.

Aside from the personal characteristics needed to be a good truck driver, a Company Driver can be representing a company with thousands of workers in the US and internationally. Therefore, it is helpful for a Company Driver to keep a happy, helpful demeanor both to the general public and customers. Likewise, reliability, honesty, integrity, and self-motivation is necessary since you wont have anyone looking over your shoulder or directing your every move. No one will tell you when to get out of bed in the morning or when to take a break or stop driving for the day (except the NMCSA, of course).

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Different types of materials require different types of trailers, and each type of trailer offers drivers its own challenges. Therefore, it is important to understand what is required to not only drive your truck and your freight, but the trailer you are pulling as well.

Flatbed trailers are essentially exactly what the name implies a base of steel or similar material mounted on a frame with axles and wheels. Flat beds often haul oversized load that cannot fit in an enclosed trailer.

Aside from the appropriate CDL, drivers of flatbed equipment need to be adept at securing cargo with tarps, come-a-longs, chains, strapping, or other types of devices. Before leaving the location of loading, drivers must make sure the cargo is securely held on the trailer and unable to move in any direction during events up to and including collisions, jackknifing, or to the extent possible, rollovers. Securing cargo on flatbed trailers is not a one-time check-and-go responsibility and must be rechecked and adjusted as needed.

Another important point of flatbed hauling concerns oversized loads. If cargo is wider or taller than a trailer would otherwise carry, the trailer must include large notations indicating Oversized Load. In some cases, oversized loads will be accompanied by pilot vehicles who alert the truck drivers of potentially dangerous barriers ahead and often pull into the left lane to prevent other vehicles from passing until safe.

Endorsements for flatbed hauling depend on the type of cargo secured to the trailer. In cases where hazardous materials are being hauled, an (H) or (X) endorsement is needed. Also, if a tank of liquid, hazardous or not, is placed on a flatbed, for hauling purposes the trailer becomes a tanker. In such cases, it is best to hold endorsements for (N) Tankers, (H) Hazardous Materials, and/or (X) Hazardous Materials/Tanker combinations.

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Truck driving route type vary within the industry and are dependent on several factors including interstate trucking requirements, route planning, type of cargo hauled, frequency, hazardous materials restrictions, driver experience, etc.

**Regional Routes** are routes within a specified geographic region. The region may be as small as a few counties in a state, a state itself, or a number of states. Regions are often divided geographically in typical ways including the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest Northwest, etc.

Driving experience* Trailer Experience* Job Overview Company Driver

Flatbed

Regional

Cedar Rapids, IA

Up to $88,000/yr

Required endorsement:

None

Required experience:

Less than 6 months

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A commercial driver's license (CDL) is a driver's license required to operate large, heavy, or placarded hazardous material vehicles in commerce in the US. The type or class of CDL a truck driver needs depends on the type of commercial motor vehicle operated. A truck driver may hold a CDL in one of three classes: Class A, Class B, and Class C.

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