A delivery driver CV gets scanned for three things before anything else: your licence, your points, and your record. If a transport manager has to hunt for them, they usually will not.
What recruiters actually scan for
- Licence class and penalty points — state both plainly, in the first section
- Vehicle types you have actually driven — 3.5t Luton, LWB van, 7.5t if you hold C1
- Volume — drops per day or parcels per shift, and your first-time delivery rate
- Clean history — years without an at-fault claim, passed vehicle-check audits
- Tech — handheld and PDA apps, route apps, electronic proof of delivery
Five example bullet points
Copy the shape and use your own real figures.
- Completed 90–110 multi-drop deliveries per day on urban routes with a 99.4% first-time delivery rate.
- Held a full licence with zero points and a 5-year clean insurance history across 3.5t and LWB vans.
- Maintained a 4.9/5 customer rating across 4,000+ tracked deliveries.
- Passed every daily vehicle-check audit for 2 years and logged defects same-day, with no roadside failures.
- Cut average route time by about 25 minutes by re-sequencing drops around school-run traffic.
The mistake that sinks driver CVs
Hiding the licence. Plenty of driver CVs open with a personality paragraph and mention the licence in the last line. Reverse it: licence class, points, and years of clean driving go at the top, because that is the pass/fail check. If you do have points, say so honestly — insurers surface them anyway, and being upfront reads far better than being caught.
Which template to pick
A driver's CV should be one page and instantly scannable. On NobelCV, Studio Column keeps everything in one clean column, and Signal Mono suits a compact, fact-dense page where licence, vehicles, and numbers line up neatly.
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