Demo driver? Maybe. A development and test driver would be a welcome addition to some companies. Can’t believe the brand new heaps we were palmed off with were tested on anything except dry, flat, warm, motorways with a half load.
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yorkshire terrier:
No In a word,im passionate about German cars but I couldn’t sell them…
My mate who is in the same German car club as me is a salesman but not for the cars he loves, no he sells Korean cars and he hates them and tells everyone outside work how poor they are,but he is top salesman because he is a born liar and he sells a product he thinks is poor but tells folk it’s good…now that’s a proper conartist…
FTFY 
hth …
Depends on what is considered being a good salesman.
There are two options here:
Being a good salesman for the employer, i.e. selling many items per month, selling the “needed” items. In short, doing everything to please the company you work for, paying no attention to customers’ needs.
Being a good salesman for the people you sell to. Such salespeople are endangered, they are like contemporary dinosaurs. You know what I mean by that: they are listening to you, trying to REALLY help, not just creating an image of helping. They can offer you to buy a vehicle which costs less than your initial search was just because their option suits your needs better.
I hate the first type of salespeople.
Anyway, I’m still hitting the road, while my older brother wanted to retire and change his life. He is 54 now. 20 years of trucking.
He got a job at one used truck dealership, and was fired after the first month. He is very honest guy, and once he was asked by a customer whether this truck is good. He answered “no, it is a pile of metal scrap”. Of course he was fired.
Now he works here wallworktrucks.com/index as a mechanic. He says the money is decent. He knows too much about trucks to be a salesman.
harrawaffa:
There’s no much “sales” involved I would imagine. Most fleet buyers are in for whatever you can give them for as little money as possible. Anyone who buys nice trucks already knows what they’re looking for and doesn’t need any sales patter to convince them.
Not like car sales when some clueless Joe Bloggs can be influenced into buying whatever the salesman decides they’re getting.
You should meet the people who buy ours!
My dad sold farm tractors, then he sold beer before taking a salesman’s job selling lorries and cars, in those days the customer told my dad what ratio diff, what engine, what cab, what gearbox, what weight, what wheelbase, even what size / make tyres. The customer specced the vehicle, much like Dell Boy specced his cocktails.