Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

dangerous goods drivertocargo vehicle driver

A dangerous goods driver already meets 62% of what the cargo vehicle driver role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From dangerous goods driver
62%
Overlap1
To cargo vehicle driver
12 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
38.8 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

62%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

38.8/ 100

1 Share of the cargo vehicle driver role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the dangerous goods driver profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A cargo vehicle driver role treats 11 of its required skills as things a dangerous goods driver already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • anticipate foreseeable problems on the road
  • control the performance of the vehicle
  • interpret traffic signals
  • mechanical components of vehicles
  • operate GPS systems
  • parallel park vehicles

What stands in the way is 7 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A cargo vehicle driver role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a dangerous goods driver background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held parallel park vehicles working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held anticipate foreseeable problems on the road working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held practice emergency stops working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held vehicle cargo capacity services
  • already held transport topography services
  • already held manoeuvre heavy trucks working with machinery and specialised equipment

All 12 carried skills, including the 11 the cargo vehicle driver role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 7 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 business, administration and law 2 required
  • required, not held road transport legislation required
  • required, not held road traffic laws required
02 management skills 2 required
  • required, not held supervise loading of cargo required
  • required, not held supervise unloading of cargo required
03 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held read maps required
04 services 1 required
  • required, not held types of cargo required
05 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held use communication devices required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a cargo vehicle driver role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 12 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held anticipate foreseeable problems on the road skill
  • already held control the performance of the vehicle skill
  • already held interpret traffic signals skill
  • already held mechanical components of vehicles knowledge
  • already held operate GPS systems skill
  • already held parallel park vehicles skill
  • already held practice emergency stops skill
  • already held stay alert skill
  • already held transport topography knowledge
  • already held use different communication channels skill
  • already held vehicle cargo capacity knowledge
  • already held manoeuvre heavy trucks skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
10 held skills the cargo vehicle driver role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role check dangerous goods transport unit skill
  • not needed by the target role hazards associated with loading dangerous goods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health and safety measures in transportation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role international carriage of dangerous goods by road knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain gas mileage records skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain logbooks skill
  • not needed by the target role operate emergency equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role perform defensive driving skill
  • not needed by the target role revise certifications for dangerous good transportation skill
  • not needed by the target role transport dangerous goods skill
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held road transport legislation required
  • required, not held types of cargo required
  • required, not held road traffic laws required
Index

Other moves recorded from dangerous goods driver

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Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.