Truck Driver CV Example

Put your licence and cards at the top

Unlike most CVs, a truck driver CV should open with your entitlements, either in the summary or in a short “Licences and cards” block under your name. Include:

• Licence category: C1 (up to 7.5 tonnes), C (rigid) or C+E (articulated or drawbar), and the country that issued it. In the UK, Class 2 and Class 1 are still widely used, so it helps to give both.
• Driver CPC: that you hold it and when your current periodic training runs out. In EU countries it appears as Code 95 on your licence; in the UK it is shown on your Driver Qualification Card.
• Tachograph driver card: that it is valid, with its expiry date. No employer can put you on the road without it.
• ADR: whether you hold packages only or tanks too, any specific classes, and the expiry date.
• Extras: lorry-loader crane (often called HIAB), truck-mounted forklift, counterbalance forklift, tail-lift experience, and a current driver medical if your country requires one.

If your licence is clean, say so in your summary; it is one of the strongest lines on a lorry driver CV. Never claim it if it isn't true, because employers and their insurers check.

How to write a truck driver CV summary

Write three or four sentences covering your licence, years of driving, the work you do and one or two proof points. Be specific about the type of haulage, because a tipper operator, a supermarket distribution centre and an international groupage firm look for different drivers.

• Type of work: trunking, multi-drop, tramping with nights out, international, container, tipper, tanker, refrigerated.
• Vehicles: curtainsider, box, flatbed, reefer, tanker, low-loader, drawbar, double-deck trailers.
• Routes and countries if you drive abroad, and the languages you can use at delivery points.
• Your record: infringement-free audits, on-time delivery, accident-free years.

What to put in your experience section

Under each job, give the employer, location, dates and the kind of driving. Then add three to five bullets a transport manager will recognise as real work rather than a job description.

• Scale: drops per day, kilometres or miles a week, typical routes, nights out.
• Compliance: drivers' hours, tachograph audits, walkaround checks and defect reporting, load security.
• Reliability: delivery slots met, damage-free deliveries, customer feedback.
• Efficiency: fuel economy, eco-driving scores from telematics, less idling.
• Paperwork: CMR notes, proof of delivery, customs documents, temperature logs.

If you have done agency or relief work for several firms, group it under one heading, such as “Agency HGV Driver, various clients”, and name the most relevant clients and vehicle types in the bullets instead of listing a dozen short jobs.

Skills and training worth listing

Driving ability is assumed; what separates candidates is everything around it. Show that you can couple and uncouple safely, reverse onto tight bays, secure loads properly and use the in-cab systems you will be given: route planners, telematics and handheld proof-of-delivery scanners. Name the systems if you know them.

Training is easy to list and often left off. Driver CPC modules, ADR refreshers, defensive or eco-driving courses, first aid and forklift tickets all show you take the job seriously. Keep expiry dates on your CV up to date, because an expired card with no date raises questions.

Length, layout and tailoring

One page is often enough for a lorry driver CV, two at most. Transport managers and agency consultants read quickly, often on a phone between calls, so use clear headings, short bullets and consistent dates.

Tailor each application to the ad. If it asks for night trunking with double-deck trailers, bring that experience to the top; if it is a multi-drop role with a tail-lift, lead with drops per day and manual handling. If you are applying in another country, say where your licence and Driver CPC were issued, which countries you have driven in, and which languages you can use with warehouse staff and customers.

Truck Driver CV summary examples

Truck Driver CV bullet point examples

• Completed 18–25 multi-drop deliveries a day in a 26-tonne rigid with tail-lift, with a 99% on-time record over 12 months.
• Drove around 2,500 km a week between the Netherlands, Germany and northern Italy, planning breaks and weekly rest within EU drivers' hours rules.
• Passed three annual tachograph audits with zero infringements and downloaded driver card data on schedule.
• Raised telematics eco-driving score from 71 to 89 in six months, cutting fuel use by about 8% on the same routes.
• Transported ADR Class 3 flammable liquids in packages to industrial sites with complete documentation and no incidents.
• Delivered chilled and frozen loads to 14 stores a night, with temperature logs within range on every delivery.
• Handled six to eight trailer swaps a shift at a busy cross-dock, including coupling and uncoupling double-deck trailers.
• Completed daily walkaround checks and reported defects through the company app, helping the fleet pass its annual roadworthiness tests first time.
• Trained four new drivers on routes, delivery-point procedures and the in-cab telematics system.

Skills for your Truck Driver CV