Delivery employers sort applicants by vehicle and license before they read anything else, so the resumes here name the vehicle and license in plain words and list a DOT medical card where the route needs one.
The examples split by what you drove and what you delivered: parcels from a step van, building supplies from a box truck, foodservice on a Class B, clinic specimens from a sedan and app orders from an SUV, plus first jobs and career changes with no route yet.
Leandro's resume is built for the most common delivery opening, a full-time parcel route. The summary names the step van and the stop range in its first sentence, and the current bullets carry the numbers a dispatcher would check: 98.6% first-attempt delivery, 70 lb lifts or misloads under 0.3% of volume.
Copy the layout if you run a route for a delivery partner or contractor. Swap in your own stop range, the van you drive and your accident-free period, and keep an earlier package handler job if you have one, because it shows you learned the sort from the inside.
Eleven more examples by vehicle, route and starting point
Pick the example closest to the vehicle you drive and the kind of stop you make. A box truck driver and a medical courier both deliver, but employers screen them on different things, and each resume's bullets follow those things.
First delivery job from a store stock role
Yarely has never driven a route, so her resume leads with the parts of stock work a delivery manager screens for: loading customer vehicles against the pick ticket, 99.5% pick accuracy, freight up to 80 lb and no late shifts in 14 months. The summary states she is over 21 with a clean record. Use it if your work so far is retail, grocery or warehouse and the posting asks for a driving test.
Summary states age 21+ and a clean driving record
Loading accuracy and lifting stand in for route numbers
Bilingual English and Spanish listed for customer stops
Non-CDL box truck driver for jobsite drops
Garrett's first bullet names the 16 to 24 ft box trucks, the manual transmissions and the 8 to 12 jobsite drops a day, because building-supply employers hire on those first. Credentials list an employer-certified forklift and a DOT medical card for drops on both sides of the state line. Use it if you deliver lumber, drywall or roofing and unload where a site foreman points, and if an earlier construction job shows you know your way around a site.
Truck lengths and manual transmission in the first bullet
Forklift listed as employer-certified, with the year
Redeliveries counted against about 2,400 drops a year
Class B CDL driver on early foodservice routes
Isidore's credentials list the Class B CDL, the entry-level driver training behind it and his DOT medical card as three separate lines, each with a year. The bullets give the truck's 33,000 lb weight rating, the 2 AM start, 25 to 35 stops, case counts and two New York City days a week. Use it for foodservice, beverage or grocery routes that need a Class B, especially if you moved up from the warehouse.
CDL, training and medical card listed separately with years
Truck weight rating stated in the first bullet
Warehouse selector job shows the path to the CDL
Route sales driver who writes orders and grows accounts
Bridget's resume reads like a sales resume with a truck in it. It gives the 38 accounts, stale returns under 4% of sales, 11% route growth in two years and daily cash and check collection. An earlier receiving clerk job shows she knows how stores check vendors in. Use it for bakery, snack, beverage or dairy routes where the driver takes the orders and is the store's main contact.
Sales growth tied to new accounts and displays won
Handheld ordering and returns rate in the bullets
Receiving clerk job shows the store's side of delivery
In-home furniture and appliance delivery with a helper
Lorenzo's first bullet gives the 26 ft truck's 25,999 lb rating and lift gate, so the reader sees at once that no CDL is needed. The other bullets cover stair carries, assembly, appliance hookup and haul-away, and the 4.8 of 5 rating comes with its sample of 2,300 surveys. Use it for retail home delivery, where half the job is driving and half is careful work inside a customer's house.
Weight rating shows a non-CDL 26 ft truck
Customer rating given with its survey count
Mover job and helper promotion show the climb to driver
Medical courier with timed clinic pickups
Sunita drives her own sedan, so her resume puts the company coolers, specimen manifests and 99.2% on-time pickup rate where a lab manager looks first. Specimen and privacy training appears inside a bullet as employer training, and an earlier clinic front-desk job shows she has handled patient records before. Use it for lab, pharmacy or hospital courier jobs in a personal vehicle with timed pickup windows.
On-time rate and STAT turnaround in the bullets
Cooler temperatures and chain of custody named
Front-desk clinic job supports privacy experience
App delivery presented for a full-time route job
Kwabena lists Amazon Flex and DoorDash as one independent contractor entry with hours per week, more than 5,000 deliveries, a 4.9 rating and 98% on-time arrival. The bullets show how he reserved blocks a week ahead and sorted packages by street before leaving the station. Use it if most of your delivery history is in apps and you now want an employee job with a set route.
Contractor status stated in the job title
Hours, rating, on-time rate and total deliveries given
Valet job shows earlier driving for an employer
Pizza delivery driver with cash handling
Delphine's resume covers two pizza stores in two years and gives weekend order counts, a 14-minute average from oven to door and a cash-out with the manager at every close. It names her personal car and the store's yearly driving record check. Use it for restaurant and grocery delivery, or to apply for a first package route once your store record covers a year or more.
Orders per night and oven-to-door time stated
Cash bank and cash-out described in plain steps
Box folding and dishes between runs included
Lead driver who trains new hires and adjusts routes
Torsten's resume splits ten years at one company into route driver and lead driver, so the promotion is easy to see. The lead bullets count the 3 to 4 drivers he trains a year, the 14 routes he rebalanced with dispatch and the overtime it saved, and his eight-year accident record gets its own line. Use it if you already train ride-alongs or cover dispatch and want a lead, trainer or supervisor title.
Promotion shown as two titles at one employer
Training load and route changes counted
Accident-free years stated with a start point
Three peak seasons as a package driver
Lupe lists each October to December season as its own job with its own stop count, so a reader sees three seasons with the same carrier instead of one short job. Spring and summer landscaping fills the rest of each year and adds trailer towing. Use it if your package driving has been seasonal and you want a permanent route, or if you need to explain the months between peaks.
Each peak season listed with its own dates
Stops per day grow from 90 to 120 across seasons
Year-round work shown next to the seasonal entries
Retail manager moving to non-CDL route delivery
Ludovic has never held a driving job, so his summary names the target, a non-CDL route, and his credentials show the DOT medical card he got before applying. The bullets pick out truck check-in, freight counts, home delivery scheduling and complaint handling from nine years of store management. Use it if you're leaving retail, hospitality or warehouse management and need a route manager to see the overlap.
Target job named in the first line of the summary
Medical card obtained before the job search
Receiving and delivery scheduling lead the manager role
Name the vehicle, its weight rating and your medical card
State what you drove, what it is rated to weigh and which license and medical card that took, because delivery employers sort applicants on those facts first. Find your vehicle below and copy the wording from the last column into your summary or first bullet.
The weight that counts is the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) on the driver's door sticker, not what the truck carried that day. Write 'non-CDL' next to a box truck so the reader doesn't wonder whether a CDL lapsed. Parcel routes usually count as interstate even inside one state, because the packages started their trip out of state. For other in-state routes, state rules and the employer decide, so list the card whenever you hold one.
Vehicle
Weight rating (GVWR)
License
DOT medical card
Write it like this
Personal car, SUV or minivan
Under 10,001 lb
Regular driver license
Not needed
Personal SUV, valid North Carolina license, clean driving record
Step van or large cargo van
Varies, check the door sticker
Regular driver license
Needed for interstate work at 10,001 lb or more
16 ft step van, 130 to 160 stops a day, DOT medical card current
Box truck or straight truck
Usually 10,001 to 26,000 lb
Regular driver license
Needed for interstate work, often required by the employer
24 ft manual box truck (25,999 lb GVWR), non-CDL, DOT medical card
Class B straight truck
26,001 lb or more
Class B CDL
Needed for interstate work, set by the state for in-state routes
Class B CDL since 2023, 33,000 lb refrigerated straight truck
Count stops, weight and first-attempt deliveries
Miles say little about a delivery job, because the work happens at the stop. Give the reader stops per day, the heaviest regular lift and one accuracy number, such as first-attempt rate, misloads or shorts.
Parcel drivers can give stops and packages as a range, '130 to 160 stops, 180 to 220 packages', since routes change daily. Box truck and foodservice drivers should count drops or cases, name the hand truck or forklift and give the lift range in pounds. Couriers and app drivers have on-time percentage and rating in their dispatch or app reports, so use those.
Put your safety record in its own bullet with a time period, such as 'no preventable accidents in four years'. Add your pre-trip and post-trip inspections too, naming what you check, because local route ads list them as a daily duty.
Gives the numbers a dispatcher checks
Deliver 180 to 220 packages across 130 to 160 stops a day in a 16 ft step van, with 98.6% first-attempt delivery over the last 12 months.
Says what every driver says
Delivered packages safely and on time to customers in the Cincinnati area.
List app delivery as contract work with its own numbers
Put app delivery in your experience section as one entry titled 'Independent Contractor, Delivery Driver', with the apps on the employer line and real start and end dates. A route manager then reads it as contract work in your own vehicle, not as a gap.
Give it the same numbers as a route job: hours a week, total deliveries, rating and on-time rate. Check each app's ratings and earnings screens and screenshot them before you write. A 4.9 rating across 5,000 deliveries tells a hiring manager more than 'excellent customer service', and reserving Amazon Flex blocks a week ahead shows you can hold a fixed shift.
Add one bullet on how you worked a block or a busy evening: sorting packages by street before leaving the station, using gate codes and leasing offices, or photographing each drop. These are the same habits a parcel route needs, and they turn app work into route experience a W2 employer can read.
If you drove for apps alongside another job, list both with their real, overlapping dates and put the weekly hours in the gig bullet, such as 'about 25 hours a week'. That answers the scheduling question before an interviewer asks it.
Expect a record pull, a medical exam and a road test
Before a first route, most delivery employers check your age, your driving record, a DOT physical when the truck needs one, and a driving test in their vehicle. UPS, Amazon Flex and box truck ads for interstate routes set 21 as the minimum age, and local route ads often ask for about a year of route or box truck experience.
Put what they will verify where they can find it. List the medical card under credentials with the year issued, write 'clean driving record' in the summary only if your motor vehicle record (MVR) shows no violations or at-fault accidents, and name every vehicle type you have driven, manual transmission included.
Without route experience, show the parts of the job you have already done: loading in stop order, lifting 50 to 75 lb through a shift, checking items against a ticket, and getting a customer's signature. Yarely's example uses store stock work this way, and Ludovic's uses receiving and home delivery scheduling.
Ads for early routes, such as foodservice runs that start between midnight and 3 AM, want to know you can make that start every day. State your availability in the summary, 'available for 2 AM starts and Saturdays', rather than leaving the reader to guess.
