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Occupation

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders

Load and unload chemicals and bulk solids, such as coal, sand, and grain, into or from tank cars, trucks, or ships, using material moving equipment. May perform a variety of other tasks relating to shipment of products. May gauge or sample shipping tanks and test them for leaks.

31 AI exposure
66 Human advantage
53 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders a safe career from AI?

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders scores 31 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 66, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 53 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 Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders pay

The median wage is $58,070 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,260 and the upper quarter over $71,230. About 10,920 people do this work in the United States.

Where Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Locomotive Engineers 91% of the skills carry over $77k median
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 89% of the skills carry over $59k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 77% of the skills carry over $63k median
Brickmasons and Blockmasons 81% of the skills carry over $61k median

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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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