Lifting truck operators
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Keeping records of work undertaken and breakdowns of vehicles.38
- Operating and monitoring lifting truck and similar equipment to load and unload, transport, lift and stack goods and pallets in terminals, harbours, warehouses, factories and other establishments16
- Inspecting equipment to identify wear and damage16
- Performing routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment15
- Positioning lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids and boxes, and securing material or products for transport to designated areas15
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Keeping records of work undertaken and breakdowns of vehicles.(38)
- Operating and monitoring lifting truck and similar equipment to load and unload, transport, lift and stack goods and pallets in terminals, harbours, warehouses, factories and other establishments(16)
- Inspecting equipment to identify wear and damage(16)
- Performing routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment(15)
- Positioning lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids and boxes, and securing material or products for transport to designated areas(15)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 20.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Keeping records of work undertaken and breakdowns of vehicles.
- • Operating and monitoring lifting truck and similar equipment to load and unload, transport, lift and stack goods and pallets in terminals, harbours, warehouses, factories and other establishments
- • Positioning lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids and boxes, and securing material or products for transport to designated areas
- • Performing routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Drivers and mobile plant operators group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Drivers and mobile plant operators |
|---|---|
| Romania | 8.8% · 675 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 6.9% · 362 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 6.8% · 200 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 6.2% · 55 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 5.9% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.7% · 98 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 5.6% · 960 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 5.4% · 234 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.4% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 5.3% · 250 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 5.0% · 1,102 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.8% · 70 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 4.6% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 4.1% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 4.0% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 4.0% · 209 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 3.9% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 3.9% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 3.7% · 194 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.7% · 1,078 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.6% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 3.5% · 156 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.3% · 1,113 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 3.2% · 1,333 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 3.1% · 161 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 3.0% · 712 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.9% · 81 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 2.9% · 281 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 2.5% · 76 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.1% · 103 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Plant and machine operators and assemblers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland3,902
- Denmark3,581
- Norway3,391
- Iceland3,272
- Ireland3,013
- Belgium3,003
- Luxembourg2,848
- Finland2,711
- Austria2,708
- Netherlands2,689
- Germany2,646
- Sweden2,578
- Italy2,397
- EU272,188
- Spain2,169
- France2,125
- Slovenia1,961
- Poland1,931
- Lithuania1,895
- Cyprus1,832
- Malta1,828
- Greece1,726
- Estonia1,653
- Romania1,652
- Hungary1,630
- Croatia1,623
- Czechia1,621
- Latvia1,590
- Slovakia1,571
- Portugal1,289
- Bulgaria1,106
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Drivers and mobile plant operators group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?