Passenger Coach Driver

OFO Code: 733103

Last checked 7 October 2026

PATHLENS

1. Occupation identity

Official description
Bus and tram drivers drive and tend buses or street tramcars to transport passengers, mail or goods.

More official OFO detail

Controlling lighting, heating and ventilation on buses and trams
Collecting fares or verifying passenger has necessary ticket
Observing traffic to ensure safe progress
Driving and tending motor bus, trolley bus or motor coach to transport local or long-distance passengers, mail or goods
Opening and closing doors before or after passengers board or alight
Assisting passengers with luggage
Driving and tending street tramcar transporting passengers
Drives a Truck Bus to transport passengers and goods.
Truck Bus Driver

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.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

A funding match will only be shown once a recognised qualification or study route has been identified.

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.

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.