Delivery Driver Resume: Examples (2026)

Delivery driving looks simple from the outside, and a lot of resumes treat it that way: delivered packages to customers. A dispatcher or fleet manager reading your resume wants more than that. How many stops a day? How accurate? How clean is your driving record? What have you driven: a car, a cargo van, a 26-foot box truck with a liftgate? The answers decide which routes they can put you on.

This guide covers what to put on a delivery driver resume, how to turn route work into numbers, summaries for new, experienced and lead drivers, the skills delivery companies and distributors look for, and a plain explanation of when a delivery job does and does not need a CDL. The full example is for a Minneapolis van driver moving up to a box truck route with a supply distributor. Heading for tractor-trailers? The truck driver resume example covers CDL jobs.

These skills show up most in postings for package, food, parts and route delivery drivers. Use the ones that match the vehicle and the work.

Hard skills

• Safe, defensive driving in city traffic
• Route planning and stop sequencing
• Loading and unloading by stop order
• Hand trucks, dollies, pallet jacks and liftgates
• Pre-trip vehicle inspections
• Scanning and proof-of-delivery photos
• Collecting signatures and payments
• Checking orders against invoices
• Backing and parking a box truck in tight spaces
• Keeping delivery logs and records

Soft skills

• Friendly, professional customer service
• Staying calm with traffic and weather
• Working alone without supervision
• Time management across a full route
• Clear updates to dispatch
• Physical stamina for lifting and stairs

Tools and software

• Handheld scanners
• Route and navigation apps
• Delivery driver apps and proof-of-delivery software
• Telematics and dash cameras
• Card readers for payments
• Liftgates and appliance dollies

Pick the one closest to you and swap in your own vehicle, route size and numbers.

New delivery driver

Reliable driver with a clean record and 8 years licensed, plus a year of app-based food delivery with 3,200 completed orders and a 98 percent customer rating. Comfortable with navigation apps, lifting up to 50 pounds and talking with customers. Seeking a full-time package or parts delivery job with a company vehicle.

Experienced route driver

Route delivery driver with six years on a food distribution route, delivering 18 to 22 restaurant stops a day from a 24-foot box truck. Check every order against the invoice, handle credits and returns, and keep the route's customers loyal. Clean driving record and DOT medical card. Seeking a senior route driver job.

Lead driver or driver trainer

Lead delivery driver with ten years in parcel and freight delivery, the last three training new drivers and covering open routes. Know 40+ routes across the metro, help dispatch plan daily loads and run a monthly safety meeting. Seeking a lead driver, driver trainer or dispatch role.

Each bullet names the route or task, adds a number and, where you can, a result. Use the shape with your own facts.

• Delivered 18 to 22 restaurant stops a day from a 24-foot box truck, checking every order against the invoice.
• Kept a 99.8 percent on-time rate across 2,400 medical specimen pickups and deliveries.
• Drove 140 miles a day on a rural parts route, delivering to 25 auto repair shops and dealers.
• Cut redeliveries on my route by 40 percent by calling customers before large-item drop-offs.
• Delivered and set up 10 to 14 furniture orders a day on a 2-person crew, with no damage claims in 2025.
• Collected $6,000+ a week in cash and check payments with no shortages.
• Covered 15 different routes as a floater driver, learning each within 2 days.
• Completed 5,000+ app-based deliveries with a 4.95 customer rating.
• Loaded my own van by stop order each morning, cutting search time at stops to under a minute.
• Drove 3 years with no tickets, no preventable accidents and a clean driving record.
• Trained 9 new drivers on the scanner, the route app and safe lifting during their first week.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says every delivery driver needs a driver's license. Beyond that, what you need depends on the size of the vehicle and where you drive it. Here is how the federal rules work:

• Driver's license and a clean record: list the class of license and the issuing state. Employers usually check your driving record, so describe it accurately.
• When a CDL is needed: under FMCSA's license classes, a CDL is needed for a single vehicle rated at 26,001 pounds or more (Class B), for heavier combinations with a trailer (Class A), and for smaller vehicles that carry 16 or more people or placarded hazardous materials (Class C). Most cargo vans and many box trucks are rated below 26,001 pounds and do not need a CDL; check the truck's weight rating to be sure.
• When a DOT medical card is needed: FMCSA says a driver needs a DOT medical certificate to drive a vehicle rated or weighing 10,001 pounds or more in interstate commerce, even without a CDL. The exam is done by a medical examiner on the National Registry.
• Company training: forklift or pallet jack training, defensive driving courses, food safety or hazmat awareness training from your employer. List the course and the year.

The example is for Kevin, a package delivery driver in Minneapolis with 5 years of driving who wants a box truck route. Here is what each part does.

Headline: Delivery Driver, Van and Box Truck. Both vehicles he can drive, so he is considered for either kind of route.

Summary: 5 years and a clean record first, then his daily load (120 to 150 stops) and accuracy (99.6 percent), then his box truck and cash-on-delivery experience, his DOT medical card, and the job he wants.

Current job: five bullets. The route size and accuracy come first, then planning (finishing 35 minutes early), safety (a pre-trip check every morning and no preventable accidents in 3 years), customers (20+ calls a week and a 4.9 out of 5 rating) and training 6 new drivers.

Earlier job: the 26-foot box truck with a liftgate, 8 to 12 appliance deliveries a day on a 2-person crew, and 30+ cash-on-delivery orders a week. This is the experience that matches the job he wants.

License and medical card: his Minnesota license held since 2016 with a clean record, and a DOT medical card from 2025.

Skills: eight entries covering driving, equipment, payments and customer service.

• Writing delivered packages and stopping there. Give stops per day, accuracy and on-time numbers. That is what separates a strong driver from an average one.
• Not naming the vehicle. A car, a cargo van and a box truck are different jobs. Say what you have driven.
• Leaving off app-based delivery. Gig delivery is real experience. List it with dates, deliveries completed and your rating.
• Guessing about CDL needs. If a posting says CDL required, the vehicle likely needs one. If you do not have one, apply to non-CDL routes or say you are working on it.
• Forgetting customer service. For many companies you are the only person the customer ever meets. A bullet about ratings, calls or compliments shows you represent them well.

Other trades and transport resume examples close to this one:

• Truck driver resume: for Class A and B CDL drivers, with endorsements and ELDT explained.
• Warehouse worker resume: loaders, pickers and forklift operators, a common start for route drivers.
• Customer service representative resume: for drivers moving into dispatch or customer-facing office roles.
• First job resume: for new drivers applying for their first paid job.

Every example is in the resume examples hub, grouped by job and situation.