Taxi controller to bus driver
A taxi controller already meets 18% of what the bus driver role asks for. The move turns on 27 required skills not yet in the profile.
84/ 100
1 How much of what a bus driver is expected to do is already part of a taxi controller’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 6 of its required skills as things a taxi controller already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- drive in urban areas
- passenger transport regulations
- perform services in a flexible manner
- read maps
- road traffic laws
- use different communication channels
What stands in the way is 27 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 6 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 taxi controller background worth leading with.
- already held passenger transport regulations services
- already held drive in urban areas working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held road traffic laws business, administration and law
- already held read maps information skills
- already held perform services in a flexible manner communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use different communication channels communication, collaboration and creativity
All 6 carried skills, including the 6 the bus driver role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 30 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 assist disable passengers required
- still to learn assist passengers required
- still to learn focus on passengers required
- 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 adhere to transportation work schedule required
- still to learn communicate clearly with passengers required
- still to learn apply conflict management required
- still to learn communicate with customers required
- still to learn stay alert required
- optional, not held promote the use of sustainable transport optional
- still to learn control the performance of the vehicle required
- still to learn ensure vehicle operability required
- still to learn perform defensive driving required
- still to learn manoeuvre bus required
- still to learn use communication devices required
- still to learn clean road vehicles required
- still to learn lift heavy weights required
- optional, not held execute vehicle maintenance optional
- still to learn organise vehicle breakdown support required
- still to learn tolerate sitting for long periods required
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- still to learn ensure vehicles are equipped with accessibility equipment required
- still to learn keep time accurately required
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 assist disable passengers practise this
- 03 assist 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 6 skills that carry over
- already held drive in urban areas skill
- already held passenger transport regulations knowledge
- already held perform services in a flexible manner skill
- already held read maps skill
- already held road traffic laws knowledge
- already held use different communication channels skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- still to learn health and safety measures in transportation required
- still to learn transport topography required
- 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
16 held skills the bus driver role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assign taxi fares skill
- not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
- not needed by the target role communicate verbal instructions skill
- not needed by the target role consider economic criteria in decision making skill
- not needed by the target role control taxi schedules skill
- not needed by the target role follow up complaint reports skill
- not needed by the target role handle customer complaints skill
- not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
- not needed by the target role listen actively skill
- not needed by the target role log times of taxis skill
- not needed by the target role match vehicles with routes skill
- not needed by the target role monitor drivers skill
- not needed by the target role operate radio dispatch systems for taxis skill
- not needed by the target role provide high-end driving services skill
- not needed by the target role relay messages through radio and telephone systems skill
- not needed by the target role use codes to communicate with taxi drivers 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.
- still to learn mechanical components of vehicles required
- still to learn health and safety measures in transportation required
- still to learn transport topography required
Other moves recorded from taxi controller
Common questions about this move
Can a taxi controller become a bus driver?
Yes, and it is a career change move. A taxi controller already covers 18% of what a bus driver is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 6 of which the bus driver role treats as required.
What skills does a taxi controller need to become a bus driver?
27 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is adhere to transportation work schedule.
How hard is the move from taxi controller to bus driver?
Its learning distance is 84 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.