- Company: Sysco
- Location: Knoxville, Knox County
- Salary: $120,000/yr
- Full Time
- Knoxville, Knox County
- $120,000/yr
- Apply on company site
- $120,000/yr
Sysco at a glance
sysco.com- Founded 1969
- Employees 67001
- Ticker SYY
- Revenue (FY2025) $81.37B
- Net income $1.83B
Investor research: Yahoo Finance · SEC filings
Federal funding recipient: largest known award $23.3M from the Department of Agriculture (started Sep 17, 2020) — via USAspending.gov
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60,637 employees covered under a retirement plan (2024 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
Registered as a global legal entity (LEI 5RGWIFLMGH3YS7KWI652, US) — via GLEIF
OSHA safety record: 5 confirmed violations across 3 inspections — via OSHA Establishment Search
Sysco (NYSE: SYY) is a U.S. foodservice distributor based near Houston. Founded in 1969, it markets and delivers food, supplies, and equipment to restaurants, healthcare, schools, stadiums, and other foodservice customers. It employs roughly 67,000 people.
11,751 Wikipedia views in June 2026 — a rough gauge of public visibility.
Join Sysco in Knoxville, Knox County as a full-time CDL A Local Delivery Truck Driver, delivering essential food service products to customers throughout the region. This is an immediate opening for a dependable, safety-focused driver ready to build relationships while managing an assigned local route.
About the Role
As a CDL A Local Delivery Truck Driver at Sysco, you'll operate a tractor-trailer on assigned routes, delivering a variety of food service products—meats, produce, frozen foods, groceries, dry goods, and supplies—to customer locations throughout your service area. You'll combine safe, efficient operations with excellent customer service, building strong relationships that keep Sysco's customers coming back.
What You'll Do
- Safely operate a tractor-trailer in compliance with all DOT regulations and company safety standards
- Load, unload, and deliver food service products to assigned customer locations
- Execute your assigned delivery route efficiently, managing customer delivery windows and schedules
- Build and maintain positive customer relationships through professional, courteous service
- Maintain detailed delivery records and perform vehicle pre-trip and post-trip inspections
- Meet deadlines while prioritizing safety in all driving and delivery operations
What We're Looking For
- Valid CDL A license with a clean driving record
- Experience operating tractor-trailers in local delivery or similar roles
- Physical capability to safely load, unload, and manually deliver products
- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Dependability, punctuality, and a commitment to safety
- Ability to work full-time hours consistent with delivery operations
About Sysco
Sysco is the industry-leading global food service distributor. We partner with tens of thousands of restaurants, retailers, and food service businesses across North America. Our drivers are integral to that success, representing Sysco and delivering the products our customers rely on every day.
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What people say about Sysco
- Ask HN: Share an idea?
- Software is tool, not a business plan
- Boiling frog, or when did we lose it with /etc?
- The news business is probably holding “a one-way ticket to Bangalore.”
Recent news
- In buying Restaurant Depot, Sysco is taking on some risks, but also profit - Restaurant Business
- Sysco (SYY) Has a Local-Scale and Gross-Profit Engine Bigger Than a Restaurant-Traffic Trade - AlphaStreet
- 'Hard and Messy': What Sysco Learned by Getting Out in Front of EPR Reporting - Packaging World
- What is Excellence Behind the Wheel? Sysco’s 25 Inductees to the 2026 IFDA Truck Driver Hall of Fame - GlobeNewswire
- ShinyHunters claims 61M Sysco records weeks after Qilin ransomware threat - Cybernews
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
Working in Knoxville, Knox County
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This role is based in Knoxville, Knox County, in East Tennessee. Tennessee is a landlocked Southeastern state bordering Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri—useful context for local routes and regional distribution.
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. Accor
🇺🇸 Relocation safety for US: Exercise Normal Caution — via Warnely, CC BY 4.0
National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 215,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
Cost of living in Tennessee: 8.1% below the national average — via BEA
Minimum wage in Tennessee: $7.25/hr — via FRED
Home prices in Tennessee (year over year): +3.5% — via FRED
Median household income in Knox County: $71,662 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Most recent FEMA-declared disaster in Knox County: Severe Winter Storm (Winter Storm), Feb 2026 — via FEMA
Average commute time in Knox County: 22 min — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Most common commute in Knox County: Drove Alone (76%) — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Households with home internet in Knox County: 90% — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Nearby history: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, listed 1996 (59m away) — via National Register of Historic Places
Typical climate: average high 69°F / low 46°F year-round (summers around 87°F, winters around 29°F) — via NOAA 1991-2020 Normals
Walkability: Most walkable (17.0/20) — via EPA National Walkability Index
Typical rent nearby: $1,184/mo (1BR) · $1,471/mo (2BR) — via HUD Fair Market Rents
- Elevation 275m (902 ft)
Source: Wikipedia (state)
About this role & career path
Heavy and tractor-trailer driving for a national distributor can lead to senior driver roles, trainer or safety paths, and dispatch/operations work as you build clean local-route experience and reliability.
Build the skills for this role
- Valid Class A CDL and FMCSA entry-level driver training (ELDT) where required — FMCSA CDL & ELDT (free info)
- Safe local delivery, backing, and customer-stop discipline
- Foodservice product handling and accurate delivery docs
Free & low-cost learning resources
- Walk through a local multi-stop foodservice day: pre-trip, route order, delivery, returns
- Explain how you protect product quality and handle tight docks or busy kitchens
- Discuss safety habits and on-time delivery under traffic and weather
Strong fit if you hold (or are finishing) a CDL A and want local—not over-the-road—work delivering for a major foodservice company. Sysco’s scale and recent recognition of top drivers underscore a culture that values excellence behind the wheel.
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Listing facts
- Role CDL A Local Delivery Truck Driver
- Employer Sysco
- Location Knoxville, Knox County
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $120,000/yr
- Posted July 2, 2026
- Apply by 2026-08-02
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (315 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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- Hacker News — Ask HN: Share an idea?
- Hacker News — Software is tool, not a business plan
- Hacker News — Boiling frog, or when did we lose it with /etc?
- Hacker News — The news business is probably holding “a one-way ticket to Bangalore.”
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