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Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license. Includes tow truck drivers.

36 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
66 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers a safe career from AI?

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers scores 36 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 45. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 66 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers pay

The median wage is $57,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,230 and the upper quarter over $65,520. About 2,070,480 people do this work in the United States.

Where Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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