Which jobs involve maintain vehicles in good working condition?

15 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians, Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants, Bus Drivers, School, Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment, Commercial Pilots.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment" (element 4.A.3.b.4).

Maintain vehicles in good working condition

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.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	15 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment (4.A.3.b.4)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 15 occupations that perform it.

Perform or schedule repairs or preventive maintenance of vehicles or other equipment.
Perform minor aircraft maintenance and repair work, or arrange for major maintenance.
Perform minor maintenance on emergency medical services vehicles, such as ambulances.
Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages.
Perform basic vehicle maintenance tasks, such as adding oil, fuel, or radiator fluid, performing minor repairs, or washing trucks.
Inspect and maintain vehicle supplies and equipment, such as gas, oil, water, tires, lights, or brakes, to ensure that vehicles are in proper working condition.
Make minor repairs to vehicles.
Perform routine vehicle maintenance, such as regulating tire pressure and adding gasoline, oil, and water.
Perform minor vehicle repairs, such as cleaning spark plugs, or take vehicles to mechanics for servicing.
Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration.
Perform minor repairs, such as adjusting brakes, replacing spark plugs, or changing engine oil or filters.
Perform routine maintenance on vehicles or auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.
Lubricate machinery, vehicles, or equipment or perform minor repairs or adjustments, using hand tools.
Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
Refuel trucks or add other fluids, such as oil or brake fluid.
Perform emergency roadside repairs, such as changing tires or installing light bulbs, tire chains, or spark plugs.
Perform emergency repairs, such as changing tires or installing light bulbs, fuses, tire chains, or spark plugs.
Rotate, test, and repair or replace tires.

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.

Our pickBuy nothing

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.

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Who does this work

15 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Maintain vehicles in working condition”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Service vehicles to maintain functionality	10
Maintain material moving equipment in good working condition	8
Maintain watercraft engines or machinery	5
Maintain locomotives or other rail equipment in good working condition	3
Service green vehicles to make repairs or maintain good working order	2

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.