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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Route Drivers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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 Workers · O*NET 53-3031.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

4 of 11tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

9 matched to the tools driver/sales workers use. Showing 9.

The tools this job actually uses

11 documented for this occupation. Showing 11, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • bMobile Technology Route Manager
  • bMobile Technology Sales
  • Computer Directions Route Sales Tracker
  • GEOCOMtms A.Maze Planning
  • IBM Domino
  • MobiTech Systems Route Sales Trakker
  • Regulussoft Route Accounting
  • Route planning software
  • Soft Essentials Vending Essentials

What this job involves

11 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 11.

  1. Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers.
  2. Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.
  3. Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise.
  4. Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes.
  5. Record sales or delivery information on daily sales or delivery record.
  6. Listen to and resolve customers' complaints regarding products or services.
  7. Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer receipts.
  8. Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages.
  9. Write customer orders and sales contracts according to company guidelines.
  10. Review lists of dealers, customers, or station drops and load trucks.
  11. Sell food specialties, such as sandwiches and beverages, to office workers and patrons of sports events.