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Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity: where your skills can take you

Drive bus or motor coach, including regular route operations, charters, and private carriage. May assist passengers with baggage. May collect fares or tickets.

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.

Three moves that use what a bus drivers, transit and intercity already knows

Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.

Bus Drivers, School

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses operating machines and controls, watching gauges and readings, looking after customers and clients and reading people.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (97%).

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Drive a school bus to transport students. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist students in boarding or exiting.

Subway and Streetcar Operators

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses operating machines and controls, watching gauges and readings, looking after customers and clients and managing your own time.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (87%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Operate subway or elevated suburban trains with no separate locomotive, or electric-powered streetcar, to transport passengers. May handle fares.

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Most common: Year 12 or below (59%) · A$101,900 median full-time for Truck Drivers (Jobs and Skills Australia)

🧰 Your current job already uses operating machines and controls, watching gauges and readings, managing your own time and reading people.

🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (59%).

🪪 Truck licence class: HR for heavy rigid trucks, HC for semi-trailers, MC for B-doubles and road trains

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

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.

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What this list is. A starting point, not advice. Australian pay is shown where a job maps cleanly. Check any course or registration with the body that runs it.

Data sources and licences

O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.

Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.

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