Driver/Sales Workers
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.
409,180 people do this job in the US. $38,770 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 12%
- 0%
- 88%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 12%. Today's estimate: 13%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 11 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 51% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Sell food specialties, such as sandwiches and beverages, to office workers and patrons of sports events.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 10% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 9% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 33 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Record sales or delivery information on daily sales or delivery record.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Listen to and resolve customers' complaints regarding products or services.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 3% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Review lists of dealers, customers, or station drops and load trucks.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Write customer orders and sales contracts according to company guidelines.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 2% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 1% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer receipts.Done daily by most who do it. | 1.0% | 4 min2 min to 8 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Light Truck Drivers12% now, 12% by 2028
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks43% now, 43% by 2028
- Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers27% now, 31% by 2028
- Counter and Rental Clerks53% now, 53% by 2028
- Couriers and Messengers7% now, 7% by 2028
- Stockers and Order Fillers18% now, 18% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).