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Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators

Transportation and Material Moving Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 53-7051 · 4 skills

Occupation context

These O*NET tasks describe the occupation. They provide context for this SOC mapping, but do not mean every listed Skill performs every task.

  • 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.
  • Move controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
  • Manually or mechanically load or unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.

O*NET task statements are shown in their source language (English). Task data excerpted from the O*NET® 29.1 Database (USDOL/ETA) and used under CC BY 4.0.

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A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

industrial-truck-operator
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wonsukchoiwonsukchoi/domain-experts
Use when a task needs the judgment of an Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator — checking a load against a forklift's rated capacity and load center, judging stability-triangle tip-over risk before raising or tilting a load, verifying rack beam load-capacity before stacking a pallet, managing pedestrian-forklift traffic in a shared warehouse aisle, or deciding whether an operator needs recertification after an incident.
forklift-operator
2
nobodyonlycnobodyonlyc/skills
Certified forklift operator expert specializing in material handling, load management, warehouse safety compliance, and traffic navigation. Expert in OSHA 1910.178 regulations, load center calculations, and pre-operation inspections. Use when: operating forklifts, loading/unloading, warehouse traffic management, load capacity calculations, or conducting safety inspections.
machine-11-autonomous-yard-terminal-mover
1
TuringWorksTuringWorks/civstack
Non-humanoid autonomous machine for the Transportation operating system: **Autonomous yard / terminal mover** — shuttle trailers and containers within yards, ports, and terminals. Best in: distribution yards, ports, intermodal terminals. A self-driving/self-operating platform whose planning brain issues physical actions as tool calls (perception-to-control trained on world models, simulation, and RLAIF) inside a defined ODD with teleoperation fallback. Use this skill to plan or operate the platform; trigger whenever this physical work is needed, even if only described.
template-creation
0
ceo-whyd-itceo-whyd-it/car-log
Create recurring trip templates with mandatory GPS coordinates for 90%+ accuracy automatic matching

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