Delivery driver CV example
A driving CV is judged on licences, accident-free mileage and daily drops. All of that belongs at the top, not the bottom.
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- Sector
- Logistics and transport
- Template used
- Porto
- ATS level
- ATS verified
- ATS keywords
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Ryan Castle
Delivery driver with a full Category C licence and CPC
ryan.castle@mail.com · 07700 900174 · Leeds · linkedin.com/in/ryan
Professional summary
Driver with eight years in urban and last-mile delivery. I complete 95 drops a day at 99.2% on-time performance and have covered 250,000 accident-free miles. Category B and C licences plus a current Driver CPC, available for national routes.
Experience
Delivery driver
Employer name · City · 2019 – Present
- 95 drops a day at 99.2% on-time performance on urban routes
- 250,000 accident-free miles with no insurance claims
- Cut fuel consumption 12% through efficient driving technique
Education
Qualification or certificate for the role
Training centre · Year
Skills
Category B and C licences | Driver CPC | Digital tachograph | Handheld scanners | Loading and unloading | Customer service
Languages
- EnglishNative
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Professional headline
This is the line that decides whether they keep reading: a specific role and years of experience, never an adjective.
Delivery driver with a full Category C licence and CPC
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Example professional summary
Three or four sentences with your specialism, one figure and your goal. It sits right under the headline.
Driver with eight years in urban and last-mile delivery. I complete 95 drops a day at 99.2% on-time performance and have covered 250,000 accident-free miles. Category B and C licences plus a current Driver CPC, available for national routes.
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Achievements that work in this role
Past-tense verb, what you did, measurable result. Three to five per role, strongest first.
- 0195 drops a day at 99.2% on-time performance on urban routes
- 02250,000 accident-free miles with no insurance claims
- 03Cut fuel consumption 12% through efficient driving technique
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Skills to include
Written as plain text: rating bars are invisible to automated filters.
- Category B and C licences
- Driver CPC
- Digital tachograph
- Handheld scanners
- Loading and unloading
- Customer service
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ATS keywords
The terms filters search for in this role. Place them inside your experience, not in a list at the end.
- Category C licence
- CPC
- tachograph
- last mile
- daily drops
Work them naturally into your experience — these are the terms screening software scans for.
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Tips for this CV
What separates a CV for this trade from a generic one.
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Put your licences and their expiry in the very first line — it's a pass/fail requirement.
- 02
Add accident-free mileage and licence points; it builds trust instantly.
- 03
State your availability and whether you accept nights away or national routes.
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What a delivery driver CV is
Short definition, ready to quote.
A delivery driver CV is the one or two page document used to apply for a delivery driver role in logistics and transport: it brings together the professional headline, the profile summary, experience with measurable results and the competencies the trade expects you to evidence, such as Category B and C licences and Driver CPC. Unlike a generic CV, it is ordered around what the applicant tracking system and the hiring manager look for in a delivery driver: the words used in the advert and the numbers of the actual job.
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Keywords and where to place them
Each term works best in a specific place in the document. Repeating them all at the end scores nothing.
| Keyword | Where to place it |
|---|---|
| Category C licence | In the professional headline |
| CPC | In the profile summary |
| tachograph | Inside an achievement with a figure |
| last mile | In the skills list |
| daily drops | In training or certifications |
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How this delivery driver CV gets through the filters
What the example above does right, point by point.
- The headline reads «Delivery driver with a full Category C licence and CPC»: the job title (delivery driver) appears literally in the first line, not as a creative synonym.
- The trade's keywords —Category C licence, CPC, tachograph— sit inside the experience and summary, where the filter reads them in context.
- Every achievement carries its figure. «95 drops a day at 99.2% on-time performance on urban routes» is the pattern to copy: volume, timeframe and result.
- Skills such as Category B and C licences, Driver CPC, Digital tachograph are written as plain text, never as rating bars or stars, which no parser can read.
- The Porto template is single-column and rated ATS verified, so the sections come out in order.
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What hiring managers look for in a delivery driver
The three points that separate two candidates in this trade.
Licence, CPC and endorsements
Give the licence category (B, C1, C, C+E), years held, your Driver CPC status with hours completed, and digital tachograph experience. In transport the licence is the filter before anything else.
Deliveries and round type
Give the round: drops per day, mileage, area type (urban, trunking, final mile) and vehicle. “140 drops a day on an urban round in a 3.5t van” describes the job in one line.
Safety record and vehicle checks
Years with no accidents and a clean licence is the argument a fleet values most, because every incident is direct cost. Add daily walkaround checks, defect reporting and load security.
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Common mistakes on a delivery driver CV
The ones that repeat in this role, each with its fix.
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Not stating the licence category and CPC
It is the advert's first requirement and without it the application is rejected unread. It belongs at the top with your contact details, with dates.
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Leaving out the handheld and delivery app
Final mile runs on a device: scanning, proof of delivery, digital signature and exception handling. If you worked with a named courier's handheld, say which — it is a genuine keyword.
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Counting years without counting miles
Ten years in a city is not ten years trunking. Give annual mileage and route type so the fleet knows what experience it is buying.
- 04
Not mentioning customer contact
On final mile the driver is the company's face: failed deliveries, returns, complaints. It is a valued skill almost nobody writes down.
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What a delivery driver earns
So you can tell whether an advert is at market rate before applying.
- Usual range
- Typically £26,000-£36,000 a year; Class 1 (C+E) and ADR work sit at the top of the band, van final mile at the bottom
- What moves the figure
- Night trunking, ADR and tramping allowances change total pay more than years held do.
- Where the figure comes from
- Ranges observed in UK driving adverts through 2026.
Frequently asked
Questions about a delivery driver CV
- Does Driver CPC go on the CV?
- Yes, with your periodic training hours and the expiry date. An out-of-date CPC counts as no CPC, so the date matters as much as the qualification.
- Is ADR worth listing?
- If you hold it, prominently: hazardous goods pay more and have fewer candidates. State the classes and the renewal date.
- How do I prove I drive safely?
- With verifiable facts: years accident-free, a clean licence with no endorsements, and no load incidents. Any fuel-efficiency or safe-driving recognition from an employer belongs here too.
- Same CV for parcels and for Class 1 trunking?
- No. Parcels reward drops per day, customer handling and urban pace; trunking rewards mileage, tachograph discipline, nights out and load security. Change the headline and your first three achievements.
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