Education:
58%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
13%
Less than a High School Diploma
Transportation Vehicle, Equipment & Systems Inspectors
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$126,150.00
Average:
$79,770.00
Hourly
Average:
$38.35
What they do:
Inspect and monitor transportation equipment, vehicles, or systems to ensure compliance with regulations and safety standards.
On the job, you would:
- Inspect vehicles or equipment to ensure compliance with rules, standards, or regulations.
- Inspect vehicles or other equipment for evidence of abuse, damage, or mechanical malfunction.
- Inspect repairs to transportation vehicles or equipment to ensure that repair work was performed properly.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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78% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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73% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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72% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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71% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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71% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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71% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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66% | Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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66% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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65% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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63% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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62% | Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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61% | Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. | |
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59% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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56% | Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. | |
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53% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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53% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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95% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. | |
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78% | Conventional - Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
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72% | Support - Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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72% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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69% | Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. | |
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66% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |
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53% | Flexibility of Closure - The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |
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53% | Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Prepare accident or incident reports.
Recommend changes or corrective procedures.
Investigate transportation incidents, violations, or complaints.
Review documents or materials for compliance with policies or regulations.
Resolve issues affecting transportation operations.
Review documents or materials for compliance with policies or regulations.
Investigate transportation incidents, violations, or complaints.
Communicate with government agencies.
Evaluate new technologies or methods.
Connect cables or electrical lines.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Inspect motor vehicles.
Monitor equipment gauges or displays to ensure proper operation.
Test materials, solutions, or samples.
Inspect motor vehicles.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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98% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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93% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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89% | Frequency of Decision Making - How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? | |
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89% | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable - How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? | |
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85% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
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85% | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results - What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? | |
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83% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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83% | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets - How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? | |
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81% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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76% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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75% | Structured versus Unstructured Work - To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
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74% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? | |
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72% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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72% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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71% | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings - How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? | |
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71% | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results - How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? | |
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71% | Physical Proximity - To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? | |
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71% | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? | |
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70% | Coordinate or Lead Others - How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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70% | Spend Time Walking and Running - How much does this job require walking and running? | |
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70% | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety - How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? | |
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69% | Exposed to Contaminants - How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
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67% | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions - How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? | |
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66% | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather - How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? | |
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65% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
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64% | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment - How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? | |
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63% | Level of Competition - To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? | |
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57% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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55% | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment - How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? | |
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54% | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body - How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? | |
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53% | Frequency of Conflict Situations - How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? | |
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52% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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51% | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People - How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? | |
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68% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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75% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
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73% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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67% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. | |
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66% | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. | |
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65% | Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. | |
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61% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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61% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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59% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
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58% | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. | |
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54% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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53% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |