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O*NET detailed work activityLoad materials or equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs9 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
- Load machines onto trucks to prepare for transportation.
- Feed mail into postage canceling devices or hand stamp mail to cancel postage.
- Direct or participate in cargo loading to ensure completeness of load and even distribution of weight.
- Open cargo containers and unwrap contents, using steel cutters, crowbars, or other hand tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Load products into tanks for shipment.
- Load, unload, or position lighting equipment.
- Direct delivery trucks to shipping doors or designated marshaling areas and help load and unload goods safely.
- Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.