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Truck Driver's Offsiders


Truck Driver Offsiders load and unload trucks and containers.

What the job involves

  • Working with a truck driver: labelling goods with customers' details and destinations

  • Loading goods into trucks, containers and rail wagons, and securing loads

  • Assisting to tie down loads and cover them with tarpaulins

  • Guiding truck drivers into loading bays and through confined spaces

  • Performing clerical functions to record and check cargo on arrival, storage and dispatch

  • Transferring loads using moving equipment and directing equipment operations using communication systems