Concrete Mixer Driver CV Examples & Writing Guide

This CV belongs to a driver who started on a groundworks crew, moved to aggregate haulage, then into ready-mix. It leads with licence, record and load counts, because that is the order a plant manager reads in. The person and companies are invented; the numbers are the kind that sit on your delivery tickets and your vehicle check sheets.

Ready-mix hiring is fast and it is risk-based. A mixer is heavy, top-heavy and expensive, and a late load means a crew standing around at the customer's cost. Four things decide the call.

• Licence and record. Licence category, how long you have held it, points, accidents and your last DVSA roadside checks. A clean licence is the single strongest thing on this CV.
• Mixer experience specifically. A curtainsider driver and a mixer driver do different jobs. Drum mixer or volumetric, drum size, chassis and years running them all matter.
• Site sense. Getting a loaded 32-tonne mixer onto a muddy housing plot without getting stuck or tipping is judgement, not just driving. Say you have done it, and where.
• Reliability and start times. Plants start at 4 or 5 in the morning and go when the work goes. Attendance, years at one employer and willingness to work Saturdays carry real weight.

“First thing I look at is the driving record, then whether they have actually run a drum. After that it is attendance. I can teach a good lorry driver the concrete side in a month. I cannot teach somebody to show up at four in the morning six days a week in July.”

This part of the CV is not padding. It is the part that gets checked before anyone calls you.

• Licence category: a category C (Class 2) licence is the usual minimum for an 8-wheel mixer, and some producers prefer C+E so the same driver can move plant on a low loader or pull a trailer. State the category and how long you have held it.
• Site cards you hold, and be accurate. A CSCS card or an industry skills card gets you through the site gate. Do not claim a card you do not have; sites check them at the gate.
• Driver CPC and digital tachograph card: say both are current and give the DQC expiry. You also need a Group 2 medical to hold the lorry entitlement, so be prepared to discuss any condition the DVLA knows about.
• Driving record: years without a blameworthy accident, points, and roadside check results. "No prohibitions in five DVSA roadside checks since 2021" is a strong line.
• Experience length in months or years, because insurers set minimums. Many producers will not hire under one year of HGV driving, and some under two.
• Drug and alcohol testing: producers and many construction sites test, sometimes at random. If your record is clean, there is nothing to write, but be ready for the question.

Everything about this job is counted somewhere, on the ticket, the tablet or the weighbridge.

• Loads per shift and loads per year, and drum capacity in cubic metres.
• On-time arrival percentage against the booked time, over a stated period.
• Years and miles without a blameworthy accident, plus DVSA roadside check results.
• Types of pour you deliver to: house slabs and driveways, foundations and walls, kerbs and drainage, bridge decks, pump jobs, and any night or motorway work.
• Radius or area covered, and whether you run local, regional or plant to plant.
• Attendance and length of service. Three years at one plant with no unplanned absences reads better than most metrics in this trade.
• Extra duties: plant loading shovel operation, yard work, washing out other mixers, or covering the despatch office when short-handed.

Say what you drove, how much you moved and what did not go wrong.

Two or three lines is enough. Licence, years, vehicles, loads, record. Use a career objective only if you have a category C licence but no mixer time yet.

Plants regularly hire drivers from tipper, refuse, general haulage and even bus work, and they hire groundworkers who have just passed their category C test. What they will not do is skip the licence check.

1. 1Get category C with the Driver CPC at minimum. If you can afford the extra time, go on to C+E, because it opens more producers and pays better at many of them.
2. 2Show any heavy or awkward-load driving: tippers, refuse collection vehicles, tankers, car transporters, farm lorries, military vehicles. Weight, reversing and site access are the transferable parts.
3. 3If you came off a concrete crew, say so loudly. Knowing slump, setting time and what a finishing crew needs makes you a better delivery driver on day one.
4. 4Put your record on the page: years licensed, accidents, points, roadside checks. If it is clean, that is your strongest selling point when experience is thin.
5. 5Say you can do the hours. Early starts, long days in the busy season, Saturdays. Half the turnover in this job is about the schedule, not the driving.
6. 6Apply in late winter. Many plants take on drivers in February and March before the spring and summer pouring season gets busy.

One page. Plain, black text. UK conventions: no photo, no date of birth, no graphics. Many plant managers print it or read it on a phone, and larger producers run applications through recruitment software.

• Put licence category, Driver CPC and tachograph card in or right under the contact line.
• Use the advert's exact words: "ready mix", "truck mixer", "rear discharge", "volumetric", "Category C", "Class 2", "walk-round check", "Driver CPC".
• List every employer with dates, including short ones. Gaps and missing employers slow down reference checks, which slows down your start date.
• Give two references with mobile numbers, ideally a despatcher or plant manager. This trade runs on phone calls.
• Say where you live relative to the plant. A 15-minute commute at 4am is a genuine advantage and worth mentioning.
• Send a PDF and be ready to send it by text or WhatsApp. Name it Lastname-Firstname-Class2.pdf.