Delivery Drivers

Working as a Delivery Driver

Average salary: $25,000 - $60,000

Delivery drivers, also called van drivers, deliver goods from one organisation or individual, to another.

With the rise of home deliveries and ‘convenience shopping’, there’s plenty of work available, so there’s never a better time to explore this occupation.

If you are organised, enjoy driving and are comfortable travelling for work, a delivery driver job might be the right opportunity for you.

Common duties

• Manoeuvring vehicles for packing and unpacking
• Verifying and handling documents
• Determining the most appropriate delivery routes, to deliver the goods
• Ensuring that vehicle maintenance needs are documented and reported
• Handling payments and issuing invoices

Experience and qualifications

• No formal qualifications are required to work as a delivery driver, however a driver’s license is essential, and other tickets, checks and licenses can help your application, such as:
  • Forklift license
  • Manual drivers license
  • Medium rigid (MR) driver’s license
  • Heavy rigid HR driver’s license
  • National police check
  • Psychometric or aptitude tests

Skills

• Comfortable and experienced with driving vehicles
• Experience driving heavy vehicles
• Organisational skills
• Physically fit
• Able to move, coordinate, load and unload heavy or large items
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Operational skills
• Navigation skills

Please note that we do experience peak times for phone calls, which could result in some time on hold. We aim to keep inconvenience to a minimum but please note that delays of several minutes are possible.