• Manages assigned routes ensuring customers’ waste is picked up in a safe, timely, efficient, and accurate manner.
• Pick up and transport waste safely according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations.
• Follows routing software route schedule
• Plans daily schedule based on customers’ needs by reviewing daily paperwork, e.g., manifest, route sheets, previous VCR, etc. provided by the Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher.
• Prepares paperwork, loads supplies, load, and secures waste and loads / unload trucks while servicing customer accounts.
• Pick up specified waste from each customer site scheduled for the day.
• Ensures that customers have packaged and prepared the waste according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations before transporting.
• Provide the highest level of customer service to assigned accounts on a daily basis, communicating any issues to the Transportation Manager/Supervisor or Dispatcher for resolution. This includes, but is not limited to re-routes, adjustments in container sizes, training, etc.
• Ensures waste, supplies, and material handling equipment are secured prior to operating vehicles on a public highway.
• Ensures that assigned vehicle work is completed legibly, neatly, accurately, and completely and returned to Transportation Supervisor or Dispatcher for processing.
• Ensures DOT Driver Log is completed, if applicable
• Communicates with Stericycle Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher regarding any change to route pickups, including address changes, customer not having waste ready for pickup, etc.
• Ensures that employee covering for specific route is aware of any situations outside the norm in order to provide the highest level of customer service.
• Reports any problems/issues with accounts to Transportation Supervisor and/or Dispatcher before the close of business each day.
• Performs pre-trip and post-trip maintenance on assigned trucks prior to leaving or closing for the day.
• Reports any maintenance problems to Transportation/Dispatcher for follow-up.
• Use of ELD (electronic logging device) and Geotab to log hours per DOT guidelines
• Perform other duties and responsibilities, as assigned