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Freight associate resume examples from 2026

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a freight associate resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.

Step 2: Detail your years of experience in freight associate-related roles and your industry experience.

Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.

Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some freight associate interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical freight associate skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some freight associate interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a freight associate resume:

  • Sales Floor
  • Cleanliness
  • Customer Service
  • Sort Merchandise
  • Store Merchandise
  • Math
  • Electric Pallet Jack
  • Store Shelves
  • Stock Shelves
  • Unload Trucks
  • Preps
  • RF
  • Truck Freight
  • Stock Merchandise
  • Unload Freight
  • POS
  • Customer Demand
  • Delivery Truck
  • Safety Procedures
  • Product Knowledge
  • Organizational Guidelines
  • Inventory Control
  • Loss Prevention Policies
  • UPC
  • Inventory Management
  • Back Room
  • Hand Trucks
  • Depot
  • Stock Location
  • Taking Inventory

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How to structure your work experience

Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the freight associate position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:

  1. List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
  2. Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs.

How to write freight associate experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are effective examples from freight associate resumes:

Work history example #1

Freight Associate

The Home Depot

  • Performed inventory counts and entered information into computer inventory system.
  • Organized merchandise while using appropriate safety procedures Maintained safe and organized overheads Operated freight machines, forklifts and reach trucks
  • Operated machinery, including a reach truck, propane-powered forklifts, and an order picker.
  • Unloaded the truck and assisted on organizing bays and aisles while performing Customer Service
  • Resigned from Home Depot for lack of hours.

Work history example #2

Freight Associate

Kohl's

  • Changed signs appropriately to how it's posted on the manual book.
  • Operated Forklifts, Machine Operator.
  • Utilized RF scanner for inventory, pricing and signing, and replenishment purposes.
  • Performed price changes using a radio frequency interactive terminal.
  • Applied discounts and coupons when applicable, gave accurate change, receipts and informed customers of Kohl's cash rewards.

Work history example #3

Lot Associate

Walmart

  • Helped customers with purchases and rang up their purchases at the cash register.
  • Completed many Wal-Mart safety training modules.
  • Organized and retrieve all carts from the Wal-Mart parking lot using cart a machine.
  • Assisted hardware/lawn & garden customers with all needs
  • Operated register, handled cash, checks, debit and credit cards transactions as a cashier.

Work history example #4

Freight Associate

United Parcel Service

  • Gained experience to work efficiently and cooperatively with other coworkers.
  • Maintained communication with internal customers with an effort for process improvement.
  • Worked at the MSP airport sorting and loading air containers to assure proper delivery.
  • Loaded semi trailers with various sized packages including hazardous materials.
  • Loaded and unloaded trailers with forklift Scanned inbound and outbound freight Maintained inventory Labeled shipments Hazmat and safety training

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.

If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

High School Diploma

2018 - 2018

High School Diploma

2016 - 2016

Highlight your freight associate certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

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