Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.

“Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.” is a supplemental task performed by Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#9 most important). About 33% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Operate transportation equipment or vehicles. in Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Move levers or controls that operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams with swivel-hooks, hoists, or elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, or stack material. · importance 4.6
• Move controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas. · importance 4.5
• Manually or mechanically load or unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles. · importance 4.5
• Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, or boxes and secure material or products for transport to designated areas. · importance 4.5
• Inspect product load for accuracy and safely move it around the warehouse or facility to ensure timely and complete delivery. · importance 4.3
• Weigh materials or products and record weight or other production data on tags or labels. · importance 4.3
• Perform routine maintenance on vehicles or auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank. · importance 4.1
• Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines. · importance 4.1
• Signal workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
• Hook tow trucks to trailer hitches and fasten attachments, such as graders, plows, rollers, or winch cables to tractors, using hitchpins.

See all tasks on the Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators page.

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-task-3210,
  title  = {Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.},
  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/tasks/task-3210}
}