Contracts are Currently Available in:

• Auckland
• Waikato
• Bay of Plenty
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• Wellington
• Christchurch
• Dunedin

Professional Truck Drivers. 
Class 5. Contract Drivers supplying relief driving services.

We invite applications to fill the roles of Self-employed Contract Drivers in both North and South Islands.

We are experiencing strong demand from transport operators in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, for a new class of professional relief drivers who are able to demonstrate absolute dedication and a strong desire to excel  in their chosen career.

If you can show that you have provable practical skills, varied and provable trailer experience, are conscientious, and have that desire to forge a career outside of the traditional mould, while still earning top money in an appreciated environment  then we'd like to hear from you.

Ethics:
We are a company with strong ethics and compliance strategies, and we are dedicated to supplying a highly-skilled team of the best available contract drivers to our wide range of reputable clients throughout New Zealand.
We will expect you to uphold and also demonstrate those ideals.
We won't take any noddies, and we won't work for any cowboys.
We operate a drug and alcohol free workplace, and all staff are tested pre-engagement and randomly during their engagement.

Training:
We engage all Contract Drivers on training plans to ensure efficiency and safety in the workplace. We don't want to teach you how to suck eggs, but we do want to have your skills formally recognised within the NZQA unit standard framework and to see you gaining New Zealand National Certificate qualification of your abilities.

Key role:
As a Contract Driver you'll be responsible for handling a range of assignments for our clients, generally handling loads on Class 5 rigs - both Metro and LIne-haul. The assignments can be anything from a couple of days to a couple of months.
The emphasis of every assignment will be a focus on the needs of our client and their client, legal compliance on all levels, efficient handling of loads and equipment, safety in the workplace, and management of all associated procedures and business.

Ideally, you will be:
Licenced to Class 5, "DG" endorsed, "W" endorsed, "F" endorsed with current OSH Forklift Operator's Certificate.
Your licence and your lifestyle will both be clean, you'll have a good reputation and you'll be well presented.
You must be a New Zealand resident with the right to own and operate a business.

The sort of things that we are really keen on:

• Excellent - and provable - Driving Skills on New Zealand Roads including some good solid years of trailer work.

• Excellent knowledge of Road Code and Truck Loading Code with ability to reference publications.

• An excellent attitude to the job, the gear and most of all the customers you will interface with.

• A good reputation with verifiable references.

• Clean licence and clean criminal history.

• Adequate technical ability to operate Truck/engine Management Systems, Dispatch Systems, GPS,

• You must have internet access to web and email in order to handle your training, assignment and job management tools.

• Pride in personal presentation.

• Pride in equipment presentation.

• Good and provable machine empathy with Road Ranger and Fuel-efficient driving skills.

• A desire to advance and a preparedness to put in the study to prove your skills.

• Honesty, reliability, responsibility.

We Provide:

• Top Payment Rates. Top Assignments. Top Operators.

• Procedure and Best Practice processes and manuals, and all required training and support for you to handle the assignments efficiently.

• Induction training, and unit standard training and assessments on Processes, Health and Safety management, Fatigue management, Worktime and logbook management.

• We will also develop an ongoing training and development program to formally recognise your current skills. We like to see our people progressing towards the formal qualification of New Zealand National Certificates.

• Safety training, manuals and processes to handle workplace hazards and maintain compliance with Health and Safety in the Workplace requirements.

• Ongoing support in the workplace.

• Subsidised training and assessment to enable your qualifications.

• Subsidised Uniform and Safety Equipment package.

• Professional Indemnity, Public Liability, and Third Party Liability Insurances.

• A fair and robust contract to secure your role.

• Practical support to establish and maintain your business.

Contract Driver's Application Process..

Are you a Professional Heavy Truck Driver?
Application to Become a Self-Employed Contract Driver with Drivers On Call Limited.

FIRST:
DO THIS NOW!
Please send by Email an application with your contact details and a resume outline (up to two pages) of your history, qualifications, skills and abilities, and referee's details, then follow the process below:
(Even if you have talked to us on the phone, we will not lodge you application until you've done this email application step.)
NEXT:
Please do this basic Road Code and Truck Loading Code Knowledge Check online as soon as you've studied the material: 
It’s available at: 
http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/drivers/tests/basic/
THEN:
Do this, and hold the papers.
To complete your application package:
Please find three forms linked from here:

1. Drivers On Call Limited. Driver’s Application for Consideration of Gaining a Contract.
   http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/Contract_Driver_Application.pdf

2. Application for disclosure to us of your Criminal Convictions and Traffic Convictions - if any, (except in those cases where our asking you to declare them would breach the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004. If such protected "clean slate" information is volunteered, we undertake that we will not act upon it.)
   http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/Conviction_Record.pdf

3. Consent for disclosure to us of your Driver Licence Details
   http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/TORO_Consent.pdf

We’d appreciate you completing all three forms in your own handwriting and then advise us by Email when completed. We will arrange to have you mail those, or, we may arrange an interview and ask you to bring them personally.

• Include a photocopy of both sides of your Driver's Licence.

• Include a CV or Résumé, and two references, or details of referees.

• Include any other qualifications or details that you’d like us to consider.

• Detail any currently held NZQA Unit Standards or Certificates

• Also make any disclosures that you’d like us to consider with your application.

• Sign the declaration on the third page, to enable us to substantiate your application.

We will consider your complete application. We will be in touch, and may arrange a personal interview.

 If we, and you, then choose to go further, our process will follow these lines:

We will arrange:

• An Advanced Driving Practical assessment. This may be conducted in a car or a truck, and will include assessment to and beyond general unit standards.
  The assessment has been designed to determine your road-craft and general road and traffic-handling skills.  

• A Drug and Alcohol Test, to be performed by New Zealand Drug Detection Agency. We will also require pre-test disclosure of all drug and alcohol consumption in recent times.

 If we are then satisfied of your suitability,

• We will offer you a contract, and

• Will assist you with establishing your business.

• We will then arrange induction training and unit standard assessments on Processes, Health and Safety management, Fatigue management, Worktime and Logbook management.

• We’ll also develop an ongoing training and development program. We like to see our people progressing towards the formal qualification of New Zealand National Certificates.

• All training and assessment will be conducted at levels to include unit standards.

• We’ll also organise a subsidised uniform and equipment package, including operation manuals.

 You will then be able to begin accepting assignments as a Contract Driver.

 We look forward to working with you!

 Summary:
Three things to do:

1. Please send by Email an application with your contact details and a resume outline (up to two pages) of your history, qualifications, skills and abilities and referee's details.
   Please do this now.

2. Complete the Basic Law Knowledge Check online:
   http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/drivers/tests/basic/ 
   Please do this online as soon as you've studied the material (Road code and Truck Loading Code).

3. Complete your application package:
   Then, do this, and hold the papers.
   We’d appreciate you downloading and completing all the following three forms in your own handwriting and then advise us by Email when completed.
   We will arrange to have you mail those, or we may arrange an interview and ask you to bring them personally.

   1. http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/Contract_Driver_Application.pdf

   2. http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/Conviction_Record.pdf

   3. http://www.driversoncall.co.nz/downloads/drivers/TORO_Consent.pdf

 Please also collect and include in that package:

• Include a photocopy of both sides of your Driver's Licence.

• Include a CV or Résumé, and two references, or details of referees.

• Include any other qualifications or details that you’d like us to consider.

• Detail any currently held NZQA Unit Standards or Certificates

• Also make any disclosures that you’d like us to consider with your application.

• Sign the declaration on the third page, to enable us to substantiate your application.

Criminal and Traffic Convictions, and Civil Judgements:
Please note that we require all people engaged by us to be and continue to be of good character and to have and maintain a "clean licence". We therefore require that all (historic and current) criminal convictions, traffic offences, and other judgements,  be disclosed to us except in those cases where our asking you to declare them would breach the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004. If such "clean slate" protected information is volunteered to us, we undertake to not act upon it.