Job Description

At Old Dominion, we don't just move freight—we help businesses keep their promises. As one of the nation's leading LTL carriers, we've earned our reputation by putting people first, delivering premium service, and staying true to the values that have guided us for more than 90 years. Our PROMISES values shape how we work, our family culture shapes how we treat one another, and our commitment to being the Best in the Game drives everything we do. If you're looking for more than just a job, you'll find a career built on trust, teamwork, and opportunity at OD.

As a Line Haul Supervisor at Old Dominion, you will oversee freight operations, ensuring timely, efficient, and safe delivery of customer shipments. This fast-paced role requires strong leadership, collaboration with drivers and team members, and the ability to leverage technology to drive performance excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring drivers, optimizing operations, and achieving on-time delivery goals to enhance the overall customer experience.

Old Dominion is currently recruiting for a Line Haul Supervisor to join our OD Family Culture. This role will successfully manage the line haul department of the service center. They will also maintain and achieve department/shift and service center and/or company standards for safety, quality, efficiency, cost, service and delivery, training and development and housekeeping. Our Line Haul Drivers are critical members to our OD Family; they help to accurately deliver our customer's freight and help us keep our promises.

Responsibilities:

• Monitors and evaluates the safety of each employee on a daily basis, trains on safety processes as needed

• Monitors multiple service center lanes to ensure freight reaches service centers in time for efficient cross docking

• Monitors, evaluates, and teaches safe driving habits

• Monitors employees to ensure service goals are met

• Directly manages, supervises, and assigns tasks to drivers to ensure proper utilization and development of team members while meeting customer expectations.

• Closely works with the Operations Manager/Assistant SC Manager, Central Dispatch, and/or Service Center Manager to ensure alignment in meeting daily/weekly/monthly and yearly business objectives.

• Provide instruction, analyses, suggestions and ideas for the improvement of operations within the shift, department, and facility

• Provides training and feedback to employees on a continual basis regarding RPM, over speed, and idle scores

• Constantly uses OD’s proprietary technology system permitting consistent monitoring of shipment locations and drivers as freight moves through the various terminals while communicating continuously throughout the day with associates, customers, and team members verbally and through other computer operating systems

• Completes the various company and government forms utilized in freight movement such as shipping manifests, freight bills, inter-terminal movement forms (ITM's) and exception forms

• Conducts daily inspections to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal safety regulations, as well as OSHA compliance, and DOT compliance

• Conducts quarterly safety meetings

• Motivate drivers to exceed goals and maintain the 99% on time percentage

• Strive for continuous improvement in all areas of service center operations

• Operates AS400 system, BLU system, DYMS, and any other computer/internal freight monitoring systems used within the company to monitor freight movement

• Speak with drivers, evaluating their needs and maintaining a successful relationship

• Works with dock supervisors on getting trailers closed and moved on to its destination

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent required,

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• 2 years working operations experience preferably in the transportation industry

• Supervisory experience preferred

• Working knowledge of AS400, Microsoft Office, DYMS and BLU systems

• Knowledge of general DOT regulations

• Good verbal and written communication skills

Working Days:

Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,Sunday

Working Shift:

Overnight

Work days/shifts may change based on scheduling and business needs and are provided as guidelines at the time of posting.

Join the OD Family Today!

As a Full Time member of our Family, you and your family are eligible to receive:

• Great Health Benefits including a Zero premium medical plan for employee only coverage
• Vision & Dental
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Flex Spending Accounts
• 401k Retirement plan with company match and additional company annual discretionary match opportunity
• Life Insurance
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement for Drivers and Technicians
• Training and growth opportunities to build a career
• We prioritize our OD family of employees
• Ability to advance through our promote from within philosophy
• National Career Opportunities Available at our 260+ service centers

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, and/or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military status, Vietnam Era and/or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law(s).

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Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Work at office, Local area, Monday to Friday, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work, Day shift

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