Where a roadside vehicle technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a roadside vehicle technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Roadside vehicle technicians perform onsite repairs, tests and maintenance to roadside vehicles. They locate and travel to customers' vehicles to provide services such as tyre replacements and engine repairs.
Also known as PCV roadside technician, bus roadside technician, bus and coach roadside technician, mobile vehicle mechanic, truck recovery technician, vehicle recovery technician, LGV roadside technician, automotive recovery technician, car recovery technician, light vehicle roadside technician, mobile auto mechanic, heavy vehicle roadside technician.
Craft and related trades workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: vehicle maintenance attendant, 50%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A roadside vehicle technician needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- carry out repairs and maintenance of vehicle bodies working with machinery and specialised equipment
- maintain motorcycle records information skills
- identify vehicles service requirements communication, collaboration and creativity
- organise vehicle breakdown support management skills
- carry out repair of vehicles working with machinery and specialised equipment
- maintain vehicle records information skills
- perform technical tasks with great care working with machinery and specialised equipment
- car controls services
- perform manual work autonomously handling and moving
- types of vehicles engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a roadside vehicle technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- vehicle technician 68% covered · difficulty 34.8
- vehicle maintenance attendant 44% covered · difficulty 58
- vehicle restoration technician 33% covered · difficulty 66.8
- sales engineer 29% covered · difficulty 70.5
- vehicle maintenance supervisor 29% covered · difficulty 70.5
- vehicle cleaner 26% covered · difficulty 73.6
- coachbuilder 21% covered · difficulty 76.3
- vehicle electronics installer 18% covered · difficulty 78.8
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Roadside vehicle technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a roadside vehicle technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.