Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.

Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 12 occupations and seen in 13 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Operate transportation equipment or vehicles. in Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 13 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites. · Highway Maintenance Workers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Drive or guide truck-mounted equipment into position, level and stabilize rigs, and extend telescoping derricks. · Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Drive truck-mounted units to well sites. · Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Drive trucks or other heavy equipment to convey contaminated waste to designated sea or ground locations. · Hazardous Materials Removal Workers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites. · Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Drive trucks to installation sites and unload mirrors, glass equipment, or tools. · Glaziers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Drive moving equipment to transport materials and parts to excavation sites. · Helpers--Extraction Workers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Drive trucks to transport crews, materials, and equipment. · Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Drive trucks, tractors, or truck-mounted drills to and from work sites. · Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Operate mechanized equipment, such as pickup trucks, rollers, tandem dump trucks, front-end loaders, or backhoes. · Pipelayers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites. · Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Drive tractor-trailer trucks to move equipment from site to site. · Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Tow aircraft to gates or hangars using tugs, tractors, or other vehicles. · Aircraft Service Attendants · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Highway Maintenance Workers
• Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
• Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
• Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
• Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
• Glaziers
• Helpers--Extraction Workers
• Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
• Pipelayers
• Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
• Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
• Aircraft Service Attendants

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-drive-trucks-or-truck-mounted-equipment,
  title  = {Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/drive-trucks-or-truck-mounted-equipment}
}