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Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing

Work activity · O*NET

Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Performing General Physical Activities. 101 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Load materials into production equipment
  • Place materials into molds
  • Stack finished items for further processing or shipment
  • Load shipments, belongings, or materials
  • Load items into ovens or furnaces
  • Unload materials or equipment
  • Load materials into equipment for processing
  • Load or unload materials used in construction or extraction

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 100.0% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 3rd pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Cargo and Freight Agents 4
Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 4
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 4
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 3
Dental Laboratory Technicians 3
Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators 3
Foundry Mold and Coremakers 3
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 3
Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic 3
Pourers and Casters, Metal 3
Semiconductor Processing Technicians 3
Agricultural Equipment Operators 2
Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators 2
Conveyor Operators and Tenders 2
Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders 2
Couriers and Messengers 2
Crane and Tower Operators 2
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 2
Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 2
Funeral Attendants 2
Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders 2
Glaziers 2
Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 2
Helpers--Extraction Workers 2
Helpers--Production Workers 2
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 2
Lighting Technicians 2
Machine Feeders and Offbearers 2
Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders 2
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 2
Packers and Packagers, Hand 2
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators 2
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators 2
Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 2
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 2
Print Binding and Finishing Workers 2
Printing Press Operators 2
Sailors and Marine Oilers 2
Stockers and Order Fillers 2

Showing 40 of 101 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 40 occupations in occupations that perform Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Foundry Mold and Coremakers Helpers--Extraction Workers Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators Helpers--Production Workers Packers and Packagers, Hand Agricultural Equipment Operators Glaziers Crane and Tower Operators Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Funeral Attendants Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators Lighting Technicians AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/load-products-materials-or-equipment-for-transportation-or-further-processing

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/load-products-materials-or-equipment-for-transportation-or-further-processing

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-load-products-materials-or-equipment-for-transportation-or-further-processing,
  title  = {Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/load-products-materials-or-equipment-for-transportation-or-further-processing}
}

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