Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment (4.A.3.a.4) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.
- Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites.
- Drive tractor-trailer trucks to move equipment from site to site.
- Drive trucks to installation sites and unload mirrors, glass equipment, or tools.
- Operate mechanized equipment, such as pickup trucks, rollers, tandem dump trucks, front-end loaders, or backhoes.
- Drive trucks or other heavy equipment to convey contaminated waste to designated sea or ground locations.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Drive trucks to transport crews, materials, and equipment.
- Drive truck-mounted units to well sites.
- Drive or guide truck-mounted equipment into position, level and stabilize rigs, and extend telescoping derricks.
- Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
- Drive moving equipment to transport materials and parts to excavation sites.
- Tow aircraft to gates or hangars using tugs, tractors, or other vehicles.
- Drive trucks, tractors, or truck-mounted drills to and from work sites.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Aircraft Service Attendants
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
- Glaziers
- Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
- Pipelayers
- Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Operate transportation equipment or vehicles”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.