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Light Truck Drivers
Drive a light vehicle, such as a truck or van, with a capacity of less than 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), primarily to pick up merchandise or packages from a distribution center and deliver. May load and unload vehicle.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Obey traffic laws and follow established traffic and transportation procedures.Mostly human for now
- 02Report any mechanical problems encountered with vehicles.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Verify the contents of inventory loads against shipping papers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Inspect and maintain vehicle supplies and equipment, such as gas, oil, water, tires, lights, or brakes, to ensure that vehicles are in proper working condition.Mostly human for now
- 05Read maps and follow written or verbal geographic directions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Load and unload trucks, vans, or automobiles.Mostly human for now
- 07Present bills and receipts and collect payments for goods delivered or loaded.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Maintain records, such as vehicle logs, records of cargo, or billing statements, in accordance with regulations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Drive vehicles with capacities under three tons to transport materials to and from specified destinations, such as railroad stations, plants, residences, offices, or within industrial yards.Mostly human for now
- 10Turn in receipts and money received from deliveries.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
37%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 38% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 100% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Obey traffic laws and follow established traffic and transportation procedures.
- 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.
- Turn in receipts and money received from deliveries.