Seasonal Truck Driver
Overview
CHS drivers spend their days making life easier for their customers – farmers, ranchers, local feed & seed stores, community gas stations and refineries. You’ll know most of the people on your route and you’ll be home most nights for supper.
More than any other role at CHS, you’re the connector. Moving products from sellers to buyers. Transporting supplies from production facilities to customers. Keeping rural America in business from before spring planting starts to well after fall harvest ends.
CHS is one of the biggest names in agronomy, energy and grain processing. Join our driving team and see where your career takes you.
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Job type: Full-time Part-time Seasonal
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Job level: Mid level
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Success profile
- Having these traits leads to success in any of our driver roles:
- Flexible
- Detail-oriented
- Personable
- Positive
- Quick-thinking
- Responsible
- Safety driven
Quote
I’m carrying hazardous material, so I’m constantly thinking about safety. On average, I only drive 120 to 175 miles a day. I make a lot of short trips back and forth through rural areas, so I’m always on the lookout for farm equipment and school buses and keep a safe distance from them on the road.
— Mark Siefers Driver and recipient of the CHS Transportation Million-Mile Safe Driving Award
Fun fact: Mark has driven over 2 million miles without a safety incident — the equivalent of driving around the world 80 times.
Driver options
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Agriculture
- Truck
- Dry van trucks
- Straight trucks
- Licensures
- Class A CDL
- Class B CDL
- Hazmat endorsement preferred
- Route
- Primarily local
- Home most nights
- Customers
- Retail outlets that sell products to large farming operations
- Warehouses that are designed to distribute our packaged goods to retailers
- At the co-op level, working directly with local farmers and ranchers
- Load
- Commercial driving + fill-in warehouse work
- Crop inputs (fertilizer, protection, nutrients)
- Nitrogen, phosphorus, potash
- Palletized products like feed and fertilizer
- Hazardous- license endorsements
- Truck
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Energy
- Truck
- Tankers (multiple load)
- Pressure trailers
- Licensures
- Class A CDL (some positions only require a Class B CDL)
- Hazmat/Tanker endorsement
- 2 years or 200,000 miles of verifiable tractor trailer experience endorsement
- Route
- Primarily regional; some long-haul
- Home most nights
- Customers
- Gas stations, bulk plants (large propane bottle)
- Smaller trucks take to farms and smaller businesses
- Load
- Refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.
- NH3 (Anhydrous Ammonia)
- Truck
Benefits & perks
We offer all of the benefits you’d expect from a large, international employer. Plus, we’ve made sure they’re affordable for every stage of your life — whether you’re early-career and starting a family, late-career and looking ahead to retirement or at any point in between.
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Medical
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Dental
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Vision
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Life and disability insurance
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401(k)/ Retirement Plans
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Military pay differential
Responsibilities
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Join our Team
CHS offers COMPETITIVE PAY, OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE, and STABLE EMPLOYMENT with LONG TERM GROWTH opportunities.
We are hiring a Seasonal Truck Driver in ELKTON, SD to deliver products such as grain, feed, seed, fertilizer, and other commodities. This is a flexible driving job that allows you to be HOME EVERY NIGHT!
Flexible hours to fit your needs are available, please ask location manager.
Our ideal candidate has an excellent driving record + a commitment to safety and customer service.
Responsibilities
- Pick up and delivery products to customers in a safe, timely, and professional manner.
- Ensure on-time loading/unloading and communicate with vendors if delay occurs.
- Be available to load and/or unload as needed.
- Assist in warehouse when not delivering product.
- Perform other related duties as needed or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- Must meet minimum age requirement by state.
- 3+ months experience operating a tractor-trailer combination, manual & automatic.
- Valid Class A CDL.
- Ability to pass DOT drug test.
- Ability to work additional hours/occasional weekends to meet business demands.
Additional Qualifications (Helpful, Not Required)
- Air Brake endorsements.
- Agriculture background knowledge and/or experience helpful.
- Customer service experience helpful.
- Bulk liquid, pressure trailer, or forklift experience.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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