Job Description: Driver/Sales Workers are truck drivers who have sales and customer service responsibilities. Sometimes called "Route Drivers," they make regularly scheduled deliveries of fast-moving or perishable products to businesses and stores. These products range from grocery products such as milk, bakery items, snack food, and beverages to industrial garments and vending machine items. Customers may include grocery stores, hospitals, hotels, and restaurant. Job duties vary with the product, customer, and company policies. Typically drivers keep track of their customers' stock, maintaining predetermined levels, rotate stock on the shelves, replace outdated or damaged items, and bring in new stock from the truck. They arrange merchandise on racks and shelves and set up promotional displays, maintain records or deliveries and charges, and may collect money.
Wages - Statewide:
To give you an idea of how much you might earn, we have given you the average hourly wages and average yearly wages for this career throughout California. Wages can vary greatly in different parts of the State.
Hourly Average Wages:
$
25,474
Yearly Average Wages:
$
25,474
Source: California Occupational Employment and Wage Data, 2008
Job Openings:
An average of 1590 job openings will be available statewide per year. The number of openings includes both new jobs and replacement openings as workers leave the occupation.
Source: California Occupational Employment Projections 2004 - 2014
Where to get training locally: There are few if any training providers for this specific occupation. Places to go to get training in the needed skills of driver and salesperson include: High school and other driver training providers, Regional Occupation Program (ROP) providers, business colleges, and community colleges. Employers usually provide brief driver training in the form of instruction from an experienced driver. They also usually give one to two days classroom instruction on general duties, the operation and loading of a truck, company policies, the preparation of delivery forms, company record-keeping methods, and company products and merchandise.
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