Skills
Route Sales Driver Skills & Tools
The technical skills, people skills and tools employers look for in route sales drivers, and how to build and show them.
What skills do route sales drivers need?
Route Sales Drivers need technical skills such as safe driving, merchandising, and order taking, plus people skills like friendliness and persistence. They also use tools such as Delivery trucks and Handheld order devices.
Technical (hard) skills
- Safe driving
- Merchandising
- Order taking
- Sales
- Inventory tracking
- Handheld devices
People (soft) skills
- Friendliness
- Persistence
- Reliability
- Time management
Tools, equipment and technology
- Delivery trucks
- Handheld order devices
- Hand trucks
- Route software
- Payment systems
- Phones
Skills in action: common tasks
These step-by-step guides show how route sales drivers put their skills to work:
How to show these skills on a resume
- Lead your skills section with the technical skills from the job posting, for example, “Safe driving” and “Merchandising.”
- Prove soft skills with results: instead of listing “friendliness,” describe a situation where you used it.
- List credentials such as CDL near the top, with the issuing organization and date.
- Use the employer’s vocabulary. Our route sales driver glossary covers the terms hiring managers expect.
How to build these skills
Formal training, supervised practice and certification are the most direct routes. Our Route Sales Driver training introduces each of these skills with plain-language lessons, procedures and a final knowledge check: a strong foundation before hands-on training or your first day.