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Bus driver — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Bus Drivers, School · School Bus Monitors · Passenger Attendants · Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters · Light Truck Drivers · Locomotive Engineers
In the official classification#
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 53-3052.00 (Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Operation and ControlVery important
- Operations MonitoringVery important
- Service OrientationImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- PersuasionImportant
Knowledge
- TransportationExtremely important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- Public Safety and SecurityVery important
- English LanguageImportant
- Law and GovernmentImportant
- Administration and ManagementImportant
Work activities
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or EquipmentExtremely important
- Performing for or Working Directly with the PublicVery important
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
Abilities
- Far VisionVery important
- Control PrecisionVery important
- Multilimb CoordinationVery important
- Depth PerceptionVery important
- Spatial OrientationVery important
- Response OrientationVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- MonitoringImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 4 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.