How To Be an Ice Cream Truck Driver
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If the idea of rolling around in the sunshine selling ice cream sounds good to you, here’s what you need to do.
To complete this How-To you will need:
A driver’s license
A clean criminal record
Basic math skills
A high tolerance for squealing children and a cloying jingle
Other required permits (optional) (optional) (optional) (optional)
Charm (optional) (optional) (optional) (optional)
Business savvy (optional) (optional) (optional) (optional)
Step 1: Have a driver’s license
Have a driver’s license issued by the state you’ll be working in, with no DWIs or reckless driving convictions. Some companies require applicants to be 18. Be able to pass a criminal background check.
Step 2: Get other permits
Check with the city, county, and state department of health offices to see whether you need a food vendor’s permit or any other special permits or licenses.
Step 3: Find a job
Find a job by checking internet job listings and calling ice cream vendors in your area and asking if they know any truck owners who are looking for drivers. Or, you could buy your own franchise from a vendor.
Step 4: Learn the ropes
Learn the ropes. Generally, drivers load up their trucks themselves in the morning at the vendor’s garage and turn in their receipts and cash when they return the truck at night. They keep anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of the profits.
Tip: Be unfailingly polite to parents — they’re the ones who are supplying money to your best customers, their children.
Step 5: Work your route
Learn to work your route. You might be limited to a certain area, but you can maximize profits by keeping track of where and when you make most sales, and adjust your schedule accordingly.
Tip: Unless you’re looking for a fight, stick to your area. Ice cream vendors are territorial creatures — and they won’t like you poaching their customers.
Step 6: Try to make early sales
Make as many sales as you can early enough in the day that customers might splurge on a second treat later in the evening.
Tip: Depending on how spread out your route is, sometimes it pays to drop the slow areas altogether and focus on the busy sections. You’ll save gas that way, too.
Step 7: Don’t give out freebies
Resist the urge to give out a free ice cream to every cute kid you see, or soon their 24 closest friends will be hitting you up for a freebie.
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Tags: becoming, being, careers, cream, Driving, HotHowTos, ice, icecream, man, selling, Truck
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