Driver/Sales Worker Drive truck or other vehicle over established routes or within an established territory and sell or deliver goods, such as food products, including restaurant take-out items, or pick up or deliver items such as commercial laundry. May also take orders, collect payment, or stock merchandise at point of delivery.
Driver/Sales Worker is Also Know as
In different settings, Driver/Sales Worker is titled as
- Delivery Man
- Driver
- Driver Salesman
- Pizza Delivery Driver
- Route Delivery Driver
- Route Driver
- Route Sales Driver
- Route Sales Representative
- Route Salesman
- Sales Route Driver
Education and Training of Driver/Sales Worker
Driver/Sales Worker is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Driver/Sales Worker
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Driver/Sales Worker
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Driver/Sales Worker
Training Required for Driver/Sales Worker
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Driver/Sales Worker in different industries are
- Light Truck Drivers
- Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
- Counter and Rental Clerks
- Couriers and Messengers
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Stockers and Order Fillers
- Cashiers
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
- Postal Service Mail Carriers
- Fast Food and Counter Workers
- Order Clerks
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- Cargo and Freight Agents
- Postal Service Clerks
- Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
- First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
- Retail Salespersons
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
- Parking Attendants
What Do Driver/Sales Worker do?
- Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer receipts.
- Listen to and resolve customers' complaints regarding products or services.
- Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes.
- Write customer orders and sales contracts according to company guidelines.
- Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers.
- Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise.
- Call on prospective customers to explain company services or to solicit new business.
- Record sales or delivery information on daily sales or delivery record.
- Review lists of dealers, customers, or station drops and load trucks.
- Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.
- Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages.
- Sell food specialties, such as sandwiches and beverages, to office workers and patrons of sports events.
Qualities of Good Driver/Sales Worker
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Driver/Sales Worker
- Barcode scanners
- Delivery trucks
- Delivery vans
- Dollies
- Handheld computers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Laser printers
- Pallet movers
- Personal computers
- Propane delivery trucks
- Scanners
Technology Skills required for Driver/Sales Worker
- bMobile Technology Route Manager
- bMobile Technology Sales
- Computer Directions Route Sales Tracker
- GEOCOMtms A.Maze Planning
- IBM Domino
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- MobiTech Systems Route Sales Trakker
- Regulussoft Route Accounting
- Route planning software
- Soft Essentials Vending Essentials