Road Transportation Supervisors
Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate staff responsible for operating transport vehicles. They also manage dispatchers and controllers.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
Main tasks
- Supervise and plan the activities of staff responsible for driving transport vehicles.
- Establish work methods.
- Dispatch bus drivers and monitor routes.
- Ensure schedules are respected and solve operational problems.
- Order materials and supplies.
- Solve work-related problems and recommend actions to increase productivity.
- Manage and train staff.
- Ensure compliance with workplace safety standards.
- Draft reports
- Operate and monitor subway signal and switch control panels.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $20.00
- Median
- $30.00
- Maximum
- $42.79
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 16.9% Female
- 83.1% Male
Not available.
- 16.9% Female
- 83.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$73,500
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 48, 4971% of jobs
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NAICS 917% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 563% of jobs
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NAICS 413% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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Others13% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 48, 4971% of jobs
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NAICS 917% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 563% of jobs
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NAICS 413% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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Others13% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in gestion des opérations et de la chaîne logistique
Code : 410A1
Placement rate: 78.7%
17% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Several years of experience as a Driver or Operator of public transit or road transportation vehicles are usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Judgment and decision-making
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Written expression
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Quality control analysis
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Learning strategies
- Monitoring operations
- Operation analysis
- Systems evaluation
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Classification
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Perception speed
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Time sharing
- Processing flexibility
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Critical thinking
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to delegate
- Tolerance to stress
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work in transportation and maintenance
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 72024
Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators
Job titles
- Truck drivers foreman/woman
- Subway controller
- Bus dispatcher
- Chauffeurs supervisor
- Traffic supervisor - motor transport
- Motor transport route foreman/woman
- Subway operators foreman/woman
- Light rail transit (lrt) operators foreman/woman
- Delivery drivers foreman/woman
- Urban transit system foreman/woman
- Truck fleet foreman/woman
- Transit system inspector
- Ground transit inspector - public transit
- Subway system traffic controller
- Trucking contractor
- Transit mobile inspector
- Bus inspector-dispatcher
- Bus inspector
- Traffic inspector - public transit system
- Truck driver-supervisor
- Subway operators supervisor
- Street railway and subway operators supervisor
- Light rail transit (lrt) operators supervisor
- Truck drivers supervisor
- Bus drivers supervisor
- School bus drivers supervisor
- Moving van drivers supervisor
- Chauffeurs and taxi drivers supervisor
- Delivery drivers supervisor
- Street railway operators supervisor
- Terminal supervisor - motor transport
- Mobile canteen service supervisor
Skill type
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
Last update: January 29, 2026
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