Route Sales Driver

Salary Range

$54,000

Monday‑Friday, start time between 3am-5am with a 10+ to 11+ hour shift. Willingness to work overtime, additional days, and federal holidays if needed.

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

• Deliver dairy products safely and on time to customers.
• Provide excellent customer service to ensure customer retention and expand sales.
• Stock, rotate, and remove out of date, damaged, or unsellable product.
• Maintain a clean and fully stocked display area for each customer.
• Pick up all empty milk crates.
• Resolve discrepancies and minor customer issues, alerting management when necessary.
• Use a handheld computer to order products, calculate sales and track inventory daily.
• Comply with DOT regulations and company policy, including required pre and post trip inspections, completing required paperwork daily.
• Maintain assigned truck in a neat and clean condition including inside cab and refrigerated box.

• Possess 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.
• Must be organized, detail‑oriented, and possess excellent communication and customer service skills.

• Communication:
  Communicate clearly and effectively through multiple channels—oral, written, visual, and non‑verbal—ensuring our messages are understood and delivered appropriately, whether in‑person or digitally.
• Accountability:
  Take responsibility for actions and anticipate challenges before they arise.
• Customer Focused:
  Prioritize understanding and meeting both internal and external customer needs, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and loyalty by anticipating customer requirements and striving for exceptional service.
• Initiative:
  Proactively identify opportunities and address potential threats; act independently and decisively, rather than waiting for situations to demand action.
• Problem‑Solving:
  Identify and address complex issues with minimal guidance; analyze challenges and find practical, effective solutions; take responsibility for deliverables while supporting others to ensure collective goals are met; work harmoniously with others toward a common goal, recognizing and valuing each person’s contributions.

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee must be able to reach, bend, extend, and lift 50–60 pounds.

• Must be able to frequently walk, stand, stoop, bend, reach, climb, and pull.
• Must be able to frequently lift milk case weighing up to 55 lbs. and push/pull stacks of milk weighing 250–300 lbs. using provided equipment.

The work environment may require working in the cooler room with varying degrees of temperature and may include contact with water or dairy liquids. Exposed to a noise level of 90 decibels; the noise level is usually moderate/high. Wet/slippery work conditions. Ability to tolerate frequent temperature changes, hot and cold environments, inside, outside, refrigerated areas, and coolers.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.