Route Sales Driver

Route Sales Driver

Responsible for safely driving a commercial motor vehicle over established route to deliver and sell dairy products. Stocks and rotates all products, providing excellent customer service.

Essential duties and responsibilities include delivering dairy products safely and on time to customers, providing excellent customer service to ensure customer retention and expand sales, stocking, rotating, and removing out of date, damaged, or unsellable product, maintaining a clean and fully stocked display area for each customer, picking up all empty milk crates, resolving discrepancies and minor customer issues, alerting management when necessary, using a handheld computer to order products, calculate sales and track inventory daily, complying with DOT regulations and company policy including required pre and post trip inspections, completing required paperwork daily, and maintaining assigned truck in a neat and clean condition including inside cab and refrigerated box.

Basic requirements include possessing a Class A or Class B CDL, high school diploma or general education degree (GED), customer service or sales experience is a plus, direct store delivery experience is a plus, excellent motor vehicle report, ability to read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, ability to pass DOT physical, drug screen, and physical abilities test, and must be organized, detailed oriented, and possess excellent communication and customer service skills.

Competencies include communication, accountability, customer focused, initiative, problem-solving, and collaboration.

Physical demands include sitting, using hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaching with hands and arms, talking or hearing, standing, walking, reaching, bending, extending, and lifting 50-60 pounds, frequently walking, standing, stooping, bending, reaching, climbing, and pulling, and frequently lifting milk case weighing up to 55 lbs. and pushing/pulling stacks of milk weighing 250-300 lbs. using provided equipment.

Work environment includes working in the cooler room with varying degrees of temperature, contact with water or dairy liquids, exposed to a noise level of 90 decibels, wet/slippery work conditions, and ability to tolerate frequent temperature changes, hot and cold environments, inside, outside, refrigerated areas, and coolers.