Carriage driver to bus driver
A carriage driver already meets 23% of what the bus driver role asks for. The move turns on 25 required skills not yet in the profile.
79.3/ 100
1 How much of what a bus driver is expected to do is already part of a carriage driver’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the bus driver role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A bus driver role treats 8 of its required skills as things a carriage driver already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- assist disable passengers
- assist passengers
- communicate with customers
- drive in urban areas
- ensure vehicle operability
- focus on passengers
What stands in the way is 25 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A bus driver role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a carriage driver background worth leading with.
- already held tolerate sitting for long periods management skills
- already held focus on passengers assisting and caring
- already held assist disable passengers assisting and caring
- already held ensure vehicle operability working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held assist passengers assisting and caring
- already held drive in urban areas working with machinery and specialised equipment
All 8 carried skills, including the 8 the bus driver role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 28 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn adhere to transportation work schedule required
- still to learn communicate clearly with passengers required
- still to learn apply conflict management required
- still to learn perform services in a flexible manner required
- still to learn stay alert required
- still to learn use different communication channels required
- optional, not held promote the use of sustainable transport optional
- still to learn help to control passenger behaviour during emergency situations required
- still to learn provide information to passengers required
- still to learn interpret traffic signals required
- still to learn provide first aid required
- still to learn control the performance of the vehicle required
- still to learn perform defensive driving required
- still to learn manoeuvre bus required
- still to learn use communication devices required
- still to learn ensure vehicles are equipped with accessibility equipment required
- still to learn keep time accurately required
- still to learn read maps required
- still to learn passenger transport regulations required
- still to learn health and safety measures in transportation required
- still to learn transport topography required
- still to learn clean road vehicles required
- still to learn lift heavy weights required
- optional, not held execute vehicle maintenance optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a bus driver role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 adhere to transportation work schedule practise this
- 02 clean road vehicles practise this
- 03 communicate clearly with passengers practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 8 skills that carry over
- already held assist disable passengers skill
- already held assist passengers skill
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held drive in urban areas skill
- already held ensure vehicle operability skill
- already held focus on passengers skill
- already held road traffic laws knowledge
- already held tolerate sitting for long periods skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- still to learn organise vehicle breakdown support required
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- still to learn mechanical components of vehicles required
- still to learn operate GPS systems required
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held promote the use of sustainable transport optional
- optional, not held execute vehicle maintenance optional
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
12 held skills the bus driver role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role animal behaviour knowledge
- not needed by the target role clean horse's legs skill
- not needed by the target role drive carriage skill
- not needed by the target role ensure passenger comfort skill
- not needed by the target role groom animals skill
- not needed by the target role harness horses to carriage skill
- not needed by the target role obey traffic rules skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role provide care for horses skill
- not needed by the target role provide customers with price information skill
- not needed by the target role train horses skill
- not needed by the target role transport horses skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn mechanical components of vehicles required
- still to learn passenger transport regulations required
- still to learn health and safety measures in transportation required
- still to learn transport topography required
Common questions about this move
Can a carriage driver become a bus driver?
Yes, and it is a career change move. A carriage driver already covers 23% of what a bus driver is expected to do: 8 skills carry over, 8 of which the bus driver role treats as required.
What skills does a carriage driver need to become a bus driver?
25 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is adhere to transportation work schedule.
How hard is the move from carriage driver to bus driver?
Its learning distance is 79.3 out of 100, which is the career change band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.