What are the duties of a Porter in a Dealership?

Answer 1

A porter is a person that details or cleans new and used cars and service or bodyshop customer's cars including washing, waxing, buffing, vacuuming, engine cleaning and it can also include doing jobs like running errands or dealer trades, doing lot work like moving cars, undercoating and applying fabric or paint protection, general cleaning of the service dept, etc...

Answer 2

Porters have various duties. Washing cars. Pulling cars off the lot for test drives. Pulling up cars for customers after they've been fixed. Running errands. May pick up a stranded customer from time to time. Getting cars ready when a new vehicle is purchased. Duties vary.

Answer 3

A porter can do the following jobs.
Washes cars (when they've been sold or for dealer lot)
Pick up or deliver cars from the lot to dealership
Gas up new cars (when they've been sold)
Pick up & drop off customers
Pick up parts (If needed)
Cleans where needed

Answer 4

clean and detail cars

Also - teardown helper

high speed buffer
wet sanding

about any small job that is mostly going to be teardown.
Removing bumpers - etc....

Answer 5

General, all purpose employee, who moves cars in the lot, runs errands, etc.

Answer 6

All around but mostly to stick long enough to become service manager. It takes decades but not an ounce of intelligence.

Answer 7

shlepper -- does the don't wanna do work -- goes to DMV and gets the cars regisetered

Answer 8

basic are odd jobs or hey boy