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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers.Mostly human for now
- 02Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Record sales or delivery information on daily sales or delivery record.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Listen to and resolve customers' complaints regarding products or services.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer receipts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages.Mostly human for now
- 07Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.Mostly human for now
- 08Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 09Write customer orders and sales contracts according to company guidelines.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Review lists of dealers, customers, or station drops and load trucks.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
33%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 18% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 99% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers.
- Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.
- Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise.