Table 4-1 Transportation-Related Occupations
Vehicle operators, pipeline operators, and primary support occupations
- Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
- Commercial pilots
- Air traffic controllers
- Airfield operations specialists
- Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
- Bus drivers, transit and intercity
- Bus drivers, school
- Driver/sales workers
- Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
- Truck drivers, light or delivery services
- Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
- Locomotive engineers
- Locomotive firers
- Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and hostlers
- Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
- Railroad conductors and yardmasters
- Subway and street car operators
- Sailors and marine oilers
- Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
- Motorboat operators
- Ship engineers
- Bridge and lock tenders
- Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
- Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
Secondary support service occupations
- Insurance appraisers, auto damage
- Parking enforcement workers
- Transit and railroad police
- Crossing guards
- Travel guides
- Flight attendants
- Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
- Travel agents
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
- Couriers and messengers
- Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
- Postal service mail carriers
- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
- Parking lot attendants
- Traffic technicians
- Transportation inspectors
- Refuse and recyclable material collectors
- Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
Transportation equipment manufacturing and maintenance occupations
- Aerospace engineers
- Marine engineers and naval architects
- Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
- Avionics technicians
- Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
- Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
- Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
- Automotive body and related repairers
- Automotive glass installers and repairers
- Automotive service technicians and mechanics
- Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
- Rail car repairers
- Motorboat mechanics
- Motorcycle mechanics
- Bicycle repairers
- Recreational vehicle service technicians
- Tire repairers and changers
- Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
- Painters, transportation equipment
- Tire builders
- Automotive and watercraft service attendants
- Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
Transportation infrastructure construction and maintenance occupations
- Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
- Highway maintenance workers
- Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
- Signal and track switch repairers
- Dredge operators
Other occupations
- Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
- Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
- First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand
- First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, Table 3-24, available at www.bts. gov as of July 2016.