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75201.00 – Delivery service drivers and door-to-door distributors

Delivery service drivers drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various products. Door-to-door distributors deliver items to residences and businesses.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Bread deliverer
  • Canteen driver
  • Delivery driver
  • Door-to-door distributor
  • Driver salesperson
  • Dry cleaning driver
  • Flyer distributor
  • Newspaper carrier
  • Newspaper delivery driver
  • Pizza delivery driver
  • Vending machine driver-supplier

Core competencies

  • Social Perceptiveness to recognize basic cues in clients' body language and tone, adjusting interactions to ensure a comfortable, professional and client-centered delivery experience
  • Time Management to focus on basic scheduling and punctuality, ensuring timely deliveries by organizing routes, prioritizing tasks and minimizing idle time between stops
  • Spatial Orientation to perceive their location in relation to the surrounding environment and understand where objects, routes and destinations are relatively
  • Peripheral Vision to monitor surroundings effectively, detecting and responding to vehicles, pedestrians and unexpected obstacles on both sides of the vehicle while maintaining focus on the road ahead
  • Stress Tolerance to handle moderate stress, staying calm and focused when facing time pressures, traffic challenges, or negative customer interactions
  • Knowledge in Logistics to understand basic route planning, package handling and inventory tracking, ensuring timely deliveries and efficient use of transportation resources

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Operate and drive automobiles, vans and light trucks to pick up and deliver various products, such as food, newspapers, magazines, bakery and dairy products, and items such as dry cleaning
  • Deliver newspapers, flyers, handbills, telephone directories and similar items to residences and businesses
  • Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspection of vehicle
  • Plan delivery travel schedules and service routes
  • Load and unload cargo, goods or merchandise
  • Provide customer service by selling products, delivering over established routes and accepting or making payments for goods
  • Record information on pick-ups and deliveries, vehicle mileage and fuel costs and report any incidents or problems encountered
  • May scan and sort freight or cargo for delivery
  • May assemble, install or set-up delivered goods or merchandise
  • May communicate with central dispatch using mobile communications equipment.

Additional information

  • Progression to supervisory positions or to non-driving occupations, such as driver trainer or dispatcher is possible with additional training or experience.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

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NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

7 – Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations

TEER

5 – Occupations usually require short-term work demonstration and no formal education

Major group

75 – Helpers and labourers and other transport drivers, operators and labourers

Sub-major group

752 – Transport drivers, operators and labourers

Minor group

7520 – Taxi and personal service and delivery service drivers

Unit group

75201 – Delivery service drivers and door-to-door distributors

Occupational profile

75201.00 – Delivery service drivers and door-to-door distributors

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