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Road Transport Manager
OFO Code: 132403
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 132403
- Occupation
- Road Transport Manager
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1324 · Supply, Distribution and Related Managers
Official description
Supply, distribution and related managers plan, direct and coordinate the supply, transportation, storage and distribution of goods.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Car Rental Agency Manager, Transport Company Manager, Cargo Manager
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
- Establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures
- Preparing and implementing plans to maintain required stock levels at minimum cost
- Overseeing the recording of purchase, storage and distribution transactions
- Monitoring and reviewing storage and inventory systems to meet supply requirements and control stock levels
- Liaising with other departments and customers concerning requirements for outward goods and associated forwarding transportation
- Determining, implementing and monitoring purchasing, storage and distribution strategies, policies and plans
- Establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources
- Planning and directing daily operations
- Negotiating contracts with suppliers to meet quality, cost and delivery requirements
- Operating recording systems to track all movements of goods, and ensuring re-ordering and re-stocking at optimal times
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.