Driver CV example to fill in
For a driving job, the first thing employers check is your licence: which categories you hold, plus the professional driver qualification and the tachograph card. Then the vehicles, the routes and the goods. This driver CV example puts them at the top, in a one-column template that recruitment agency systems read well. It works for delivery and van drivers too.
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In this example
- Your licence categories and qualifications, with expiry dates.
- The vehicles you drive and your routes: local, national, international.
- The goods you carry and extra tickets, such as ADR or forklift.
What to write in a driver CV
Licences and qualifications
Put them at the top, where they are seen first: your licence categories (B, C, C+E, D), the professional driver qualification (the CPC in Europe) with its expiry date and your tachograph card. If you hold an ADR certificate for dangerous goods or a forklift licence, add them: they open up more jobs.
Experience
For each job give the company, the depot, the dates and the vehicle: van, rigid, articulated, tanker, refrigerated. Then the routes and numbers: drops per day, miles or kilometres per year, whether you are home every night or away for several days.
DutyTransporting goods by road.
With numbersI drive a refrigerated artic on national routes, from Verona to distribution centres in southern Italy: about 110,000 km a year.
Skills to include
- Driving vans, rigids or artics within driving and rest time rules.
- Loading and unloading, securing loads, using a tail lift.
- Delivery notes and proof of delivery, on a handheld device too.
- Walkaround checks and basic maintenance.
- Languages, if you drive abroad.
A clean record
Employers want drivers who are punctual and careful. If you have years of driving without an accident, say so in one line in your profile: it is a fact, not an adjective.
Applying through an agency
Many haulage firms recruit drivers through agencies, which upload CVs to their own systems. A one-column CV like this one is read well by them.
Frequently asked questions
Should I give my qualification expiry date?
Yes: the employer needs to know it is valid. If it is close, add when your C or D licence expires as well.
I only have a car licence: can I use this example?
Yes: for courier and van delivery jobs a car licence is often enough. Instead of long routes, list the areas you know, your drops per day and the handheld you use.
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