Profile
Versatile professional driver with Class*, 2b, 3, 4 and 5 NS Driver’s license able drive a bus, including school bus. Experience as a delivery driver, truck and taxi driver with 9 years of professional driving experience both short and long haul. Looking for employment as bus driver. Canadian work experience as a delivery driver and small truck driver with moving company - extensive knowledge of Halifax and surrounding areas. Safety training completed. Automotive Installer training completed. Air brakes completed. Physically fit, available for split shifts. Friendly and customer service focused. Flexible, adaptable and accommodating to meet customers’ needs and provide friendly, efficient service.
Skills
Class 2, 2b, 3, 4 and 5 NS Driver’s license, can drive both manual and automatic cars
Friendly, customer focused
Extensive knowledge of HRM and surrounding areas
Delivery driver experience
Automotive Maintenance
oChange Oil &fluids
Knowledge and Skills to Work Safely :
oOccupational Health &
Safety
oFirst Aid, CPR
oFire Safety Training
oWHIMS
Ability to Operate Manual Transmission
Long Haul driving experience
Taxi driving experience
Hardworking and Honest
Reliable and punctual
Provide good customer service
Work History
Courier, delivery driver, Amazon, Halifax Dec 2019 – Present
Driving own car, taking orders from warehouse, loading car
Delivering packages to customers throughout Halifax and Dartmouth
Calling and texting customers with delivery details
Taking delivery orders on smart phone.
Driver and labourer, Heritage Movers, Dartmouth, NS Aug 2019 – Present
Moving and delivery company servicing all Nova Scotia.
Driving delivery truck to various sites: private house, hardware shops
Loading truck with furniture, boxes, fridges, cookers
Protects furniture from damage: wraps furniture in cardboard, blankets
Customer service – asking customers for packaging preferences and where to place delivered furniture in the house
Works as a team with other workers to ensure safe handling of heavy items
When furniture is too large for door, removes doors to ensure item can be moved inside property, and installs door back into frame.
Uses body strap and moving dollies to move heavier items.
Truck Driver/ Delivery Driver, Genad, Adama, Ethiopia 2012-2017
Long Haul driver responsible to deliver various goods and items including oil, and multiple food products to government store facilities.
Delivered goods on time and safely
Maintained the vehicle. Responsible for all repairs and maintenance including:
oOil changes
oChanging tires
oMaintaining brakes
Taxi Driver, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia 2011-2012
Provided local transportation and provided safe and friendly service to clients of all ages
Education and Training
Class 2 and 2B Driver’s license, Access NS, Dartmouth, NS Jul 2020
Automotive Installer Training Jan 2019 – Feb 2019
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Dartmouth NS
Demonstrated the safe use of automotive shop equipment and tools in accordance with equipment and tool manufacture recommendations / Checked, adjusted, and repaired tires in accordance with manufacturers' specifications and procedures / Completed preventive maintenance such as, engine tune-ups, tire rotations, oil changes, and replacing filters.
High School Diploma, Asmara, Eritrea 2007
First Aid & CPR Certificate, St. John Ambulance, Dartmouth Jan 2019
WHMS Certificate, Courtney's First Aid & Safety Training Inc., Dartmouth NS Jan 2019
Fire Safety Certificate, Courtney's First Aid & Safety Training Inc., Dartmouth Dec 2018
03, Air Brakes Certificate, Halifax, NS Apr 2019
Knowledge/ theory part passed for class 1 DL May 2019
References available upon request.