Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.
774,420 people do this job in the US. $46,420 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
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Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 9 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manually or mechanically load or unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.Done daily by most who do it. | 22% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Inspect product load for accuracy and safely move it around the warehouse or facility to ensure timely and complete delivery.Done daily by most who do it. | 20% | 21 min13 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Move controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 17% | 17 min8 min to 29 min | Stays with people | |
| 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.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 15% | 13 min4 min to 29 min | Stays with people | |
| Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, or boxes and secure material or products for transport to designated areas.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 13% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Weigh materials or products and record weight or other production data on tags or labels.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform routine maintenance on vehicles or auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 8 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators9% now, 9% by 2028
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand11% now, 11% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).