Automated 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.
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've tried being as safe as I can when I'm out on the road. It's about being aware of your surroundings and following the rules like you're supposed to. I try doing it in the safest and most mistake-free way as I can.
— Lonny Sr hazmat truck driver
Fun fact: Lonny has driven over 3 million miles without a safety incident — the equivalent of driving around the world about 120 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.
Summary
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. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
CHS has an exciting opportunity within our Transportation team. We are looking for an individual to be a part of our CHS team at the forefront of pilot testing automated driving systems. This individual would learn how to drive, operate, and help develop automated transportation solutions, strengthening our supply chain to feed the world.
Responsibilities
- Operate leader-follower platooning technology proficiently on designated routes, in compliance with applicable regulations and DOT requirements always.
- Capable of operating vehicles in both single and dual driving modes for extended periods of 6-8 hours. Collaborate effectively with partner drivers to coordinate the roles of leader and follower platooning trucks.
- Participate in training to learn how to monitor and manage multiple in-cab software systems, ensuring the highest level of focus and awareness for safe operations.
- Following above-mentioned training, practice ability to swiftly recognize and respond to any software alerts or anomalies.
- Maintain open lines of communication with the central command and have an ability to provide feedback to engineering teams regarding observed vehicle behavior.
- Attend periodic training sessions to stay updated on the latest safety practices and software updates.
- Perform other relevant duties as required, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to the role.
Minimum Qualifications (required)
Valid Class A CDL license and 5 years’ experience operating Class A vehicles on public roads
High School Diploma or Equivalent
Current CDL License consistent with type or class of vehicle being operated.
Additional Qualifications
Previous work with platooning technology or automated vehicles
Experience and training on providing subjective feedback on vehicle behaviors and environment.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift/carry up to 80 lbs, walk, stand, sit, bend, and kneel
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care savings accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
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