Delivery Driver CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a driver who started with pizza delivery, moved to last-mile parcel work in a van and now runs a foodservice route in a 7.5-tonne refrigerated lorry. The name, employers and school are made up.

The person screening delivery CVs is usually a transport manager or route controller with a van sitting empty. They look for four things and check the first before you start.

• Licence and driving record. Your licence categories (B for vans up to 3.5 tonnes, C1 for 7.5-tonne lorries) and your penalty points. Employers check your licence with the DVLA and their insurer sets the limit, often around 6 points and no recent drink-driving conviction. Write "0 points" only if it is true; if you have points, give the number, since the DVLA check will show it anyway.
• Volume and on-time rate. Drops, parcels or cases a day, the type of route (residential, commercial, rural) and how often you hit the window. "Delivered parcels" says nothing; "180 to 240 parcels, 98.8% completed" says you can run their route.
• What you drove and for how long. Own car, small van, long-wheelbase van, Luton van, 7.5-tonne lorry, chilled or ambient, and total commercial miles. Moving up a vehicle size is easier when you can show the miles below it.
• Safety and reliability. At-fault accidents, roadside checks, in-cab camera scores, damage rates, missed shifts.

“I read the header for the licence and the CPC card, then I look for stops per day. If those two are there and the record is clean, I call that person the same day. Most CVs I get have neither.”

The pattern: what you delivered, how much, in what vehicle, and the result (on-time rate, damage rate, safety record). Below, common weak lines rewritten with the numbers a controller wants. Use your own figures; they will ask about every one.

Three lines under your name: years and type of delivery, daily volume and on-time rate, what you drove, your safety record. With no driving job yet, a career objective is fine, but make it about what you bring (licence, record, physical work, availability).

Keep the skills section to 10 to 14 lines that a controller can picture you doing. Name the vehicles you have driven and the equipment you have used; those words are also what the applicant tracking system searches for. Show soft skills through numbers in your bullets ("no missed shifts through two peak seasons"), not as a list of adjectives.

• Driving and vehicles: car, small van, long-wheelbase van, Luton van with tail-lift, 7.5-tonne lorry, refrigerated vehicle; city, rural or motorway routes; reversing, loading bays and tight-space manoeuvring; defensive driving.
• Route work: multi-drop sequencing, loading by drop order, reading a manifest, meeting delivery windows, re-routing around traffic and closures, deliveries to blocks of flats and gated developments.
• Loading and equipment: sack truck, pallet truck, roll cages, tail-lift, load straps, lifting 20 to 25 kg alone, stacking to avoid damage.
• Compliance: daily walkround checks and defect reports, drivers' hours rules (GB domestic rules for most vans; EU or AETR rules and a digital tachograph for most goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes), chilled and frozen temperature logs.
• Customer and paperwork: proof of delivery (scan, photo, signature), invoices and credits, cash on delivery, returns and refused items, calm handling of complaints at the door.
• Technology: handheld scanners, dispatch and proof-of-delivery apps (name the ones you used), Google Maps or Waze, in-cab safety cameras, telematics and tachograph systems if your job used them.

"Food delivery driver CV" is a search of its own, and the question behind it is usually whether Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat or pizza delivery counts. It does, as long as you write it with numbers. Transport managers know app drivers handle routing, customers, weather and their own vehicle without supervision; what they cannot see from "Deliveroo rider, 2023 to present" is how much and how well.

• List app work as one job: title "Self-Employed Delivery Driver", employer "Deliveroo and Uber Eats", dates, then bullets. App couriers in the UK are usually self-employed; say so honestly, and employers offering employed route jobs do not hold it against you when the volume is there.
• Give the numbers the apps already show you: total deliveries, customer rating, completion rate, deliveries per hour in a dinner rush, hours a week.
• For takeaway and pizza delivery, add cash handling (pounds a shift, zero shortages), delivery radius, average delivery time and any in-store work.
• State your vehicle and insurance (food delivery or hire and reward cover) once, in the contact line. If a restaurant employer gave you food hygiene training, list the Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate under qualifications; never list one you do not hold.

Most delivery driver jobs need only a standard car licence (category B), but the vehicle's weight sets the rules, and the right details in your header save the screener a phone call. Check the advert and the gov.uk licence rules for the vehicle you will drive.

• Category B, the standard car licence, covers cars and vans up to 3.5 tonnes maximum authorised mass, which includes almost all parcel vans and Luton vans. Write it plainly: "Full UK driving licence (category B), 0 points".
• C1 or C only when the vehicle needs it. C1 covers 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes (drivers who passed their car test before 1 January 1997 have it automatically; everyone else has to take the C1 test), C covers rigid lorries over 7.5 tonnes and C+E articulated lorries. If you hold one, put it in the header. Do not list an ADR dangerous goods certificate unless you hold one.
• Driver CPC, tachograph card and medical. Driving goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes for a living generally needs a Driver CPC (35 hours of periodic training every 5 years) and a digital tachograph driver card, and you need a D4 medical when you apply for C1 or C. List the DQC expiry date. Vans up to 3.5 tonnes need none of these.
• Age and record. You can drive a van from 17 and a C1 lorry from 18, but many insurers and parcel firms want drivers aged 21 or over, sometimes 25. Write "0 points" only when it is true. Never list a licence category, CPC or card you do not hold; employers check with the DVLA before your first shift.
• Training worth listing: forklift or pallet truck training (an accredited course such as RTITB, if you were trained and tested), a defensive or safe urban driving course, a Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate if you deliver prepared food, and Emergency First Aid at Work.

Delivery is one of the few jobs where "no experience" is fixable on the CV itself: what employers screen for (a licence, a clean record, physical work, turning up) comes from your life and your other jobs, not from a previous delivery title.

1. 1Header: licence categories, "0 points" if true, your vehicle if the job needs one, and your availability (weekends, early mornings, peak season from November).
2. 2Career objective in three lines: how long you have been driving, the physical work you have done, your availability, and that you can pass a drug and alcohol test.
3. 3Pull the delivery-shaped work out of past jobs. Stockroom, warehouse, removals, gardening, supermarket online picking, food service and retail all involve lifting, time pressure and customers. Rewrite those bullets with numbers: cases lifted, orders picked, shifts covered.
4. 4Add any driving for someone else (gig deliveries, a family business van, volunteer food bank or meals deliveries) under Experience with dates and volumes. If the advert asks for C1 or a Driver CPC, say where you are in the process.

• Length: one page is enough; a transport manager will not read page two. In the US the same document is called a resume.
• Order: header with licence and CPC, personal statement, experience, skills, qualifications, education. With no driving job yet, put skills and qualifications above experience.
• Layout: single column, standard font, PDF unless the advert asks for Word. No photo, no date of birth, town or city instead of a full address. Large parcel carriers and their delivery partners use applicant tracking systems that read text only, so skip graphics and skill bars. The cvplex delivery-driver template follows these rules.
• Keywords to mirror from the advert when true for you: delivery driver, multi-drop, route, last mile, van driver, Luton, 7.5 tonne, C1, sack truck, pallet truck, Driver CPC, tachograph, clean licence, on time, proof of delivery, customer service, manual handling, GPS, scanner. The ATS matches exact words.
• Amazon delivery driver CV: these jobs are usually with a delivery service partner (DSP), not the retailer itself. Write the DSP as the employer, your title as "Delivery Driver", and add "(Amazon DSP)" in brackets. The same goes for routes with parcel networks such as DPD or Evri, where drivers may be employed, agency or self-employed: name whoever employed or contracted you. Give parcels and stops a day, completion rate and your safety tier.