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Intelligence Verdict
AI and your work

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck driver

What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.

  • 2,221,200US jobs, 2025
  • $58,640median pay a year, 2025
  • +4%government outlook, 2025 to 35
What the government says

The official outlook.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.

AI in the government's outlook

The government's profile of this job doesn't mention AI, automation or self-driving trucks.

BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026

US jobs, 2025
2,221,200
Median pay, 2025
$58,640 per year

$28.19 an hour

Outlook, 2025 to 35
4% (As fast as average)
The work itself

The job's main tasks.

As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.

  1. 01Check all load-related documentation for completeness and accuracy.
  2. 02Inspect loads to ensure that cargo is secure.
  3. 03Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
  4. 04Crank trailer landing gear up or down to safely secure vehicles.
  5. 05Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.

O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026

The evidence on AI

What studies have found.

We haven't found a trial or study of AI in this job yet. The score below is the best measure so far of how much its work overlaps with what people do with AI.

AI applicability scoreCompany-reported

0.14on a scale from 0 to 1

01

Microsoft AI applicability score for Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (SOC 53-3032)

How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.

Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0