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Owner/Operators - Fuel Delivery

GPM Investments

Chesapeake, VA • On-site

$3.0K/mo

Other

Re-posted 17 days ago

GPM Investments rating

4.0

Company rating: 4.0 out of 10

Based on 218 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

46th of 47 rated convenience stores

Job description

Overview

Owner Operators Needed! Must be driving under your own authority.

  • Fuel Transport

  • All customers are owned or controlled by the company

  • Up to 90% of linehaul rate

  • Paid semi-monthly

  • Local routes – Home Daily

  • $3000 sign on bonus

Responsibilities

Qualifications

  • Must have a registered DOT number in good standing with FMCSA

  • Must have 2 years fuel hauling experience

  • Must be able to drive under your own authority.

  • A tractor older than 7 years must be approved

  • Must have Class-A CDL and be registered in the state of residence

  • At least 23 years old

  • Must have at least 1 years of verifiable tractor trailer experience

  • Only power units 2005 or newer and must pass DOT inspection

  • TWIC card preferred

  • No more than 3 moving violations in the past 12 months

  • Not cited for more than 1 DOT preventable accident in the past 5 years

  • Must provide a police report for any accident or reportable incident within the past 5 years

  • Must not be prohibited in the FMCSA Clearinghouse

  • Must not have more than 100 CSA points

  • Must have copies of CDL, Social Security Card, Medical Card, and DOT Physical Long Form (pages 1-4)

  • Must have an EIN Number and Letter of Good Standing with the State

  • Must produce IRS paperwork for EIN number of company name and State paperwork for filing of their company name

Location : LocationUS-VA-Chesapeake

BrandGPM Empire, LLC

Position TypeFull-Time

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About GPM Investments

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GPM Investments, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARKO Corp., a Family of Community Brands, is based in Richmond, Virginia and operates or supplies sites in 33 states and Washington D.C. As the 6th largest convenience store chain in the country, we have approximately 3,200 locations comprised of approximately 1,400 company-operated stores, approximately 121 proprietary cardlock locations, and approximately 1,660 dealer sites to which we supply fuel. We operate in four reportable segments: retail, which consists of fuel and merchandise sales to retail consumers; wholesale, which supplies fuel to third-party dealers and consignment agents; GPM Petroleum, which supplies fuel to our sites (both in the retail and wholesale segments); and fleet fueling, which operates proprietary cardlock locations, manages third-party fueling sites, and markets fuel cards with access to a nationwide network of fueling sites.

Industry

Retail

Company size

5,001 - 10,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Richmond, VA, US

Year founded

2003

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