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Truck 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): Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators · Light Truck Drivers · Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders · Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists · Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining · Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors · Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
In the official classification#
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
Heavy truck and lorry drivers
Fit with this page: same job
Lorry driver
Fit with this page: same job
What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 53-3032.00 (Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Operations MonitoringVery important
- Operation and ControlVery important
- TroubleshootingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Equipment MaintenanceImportant
- RepairingImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
Knowledge
- TransportationVery important
- Public Safety and SecurityVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- Law and GovernmentImportant
- MechanicalImportant
Work activities
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or EquipmentExtremely important
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or SurroundingsVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
Abilities
- Far VisionVery important
- Spatial OrientationVery important
- Control PrecisionVery important
- Multilimb CoordinationVery important
- Response OrientationVery important
- Rate ControlVery important
Essential skills
- MonitoringImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- Active ListeningImportant
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 5 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 4 match at least one. 1 are work O*NET does not describe yet. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Highway drivingOperate vehicles or material-moving equipment.O*NET's activity is broader · Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Delivery rider
- Yard manoeuvring and dockingOperate vehicles or material-moving equipment.O*NET's activity is broader · Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Delivery rider
- Being responsible for the loadSecure cargo.covers part of this task · Performing General Physical Activities · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Container port workerInspect cargo to ensure it is properly loaded or secured.covers part of this task · Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings · O*NET 31.0
- Handling the trip going wrongAdjust routes or speeds as necessary.covers part of this task · Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work · O*NET 31.0
- Remote supervision of autonomous fleetsO*NET's activity lists do not describe this work yet. This site judges it to be emerging work.
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
自动驾驶汽车运输安全服务指南(试行)
交办运〔2023〕66号 · should — best efforts or an expectation, not a hard duty · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Remote supervision of autonomous fleets
交办运〔2023〕66号 · must not · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Being responsible for the load
2023-11-21 · the record →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 5 task judgements are for: 4 backed by a verified event, 1 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, 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.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- 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.