Charter and Tour Bus Driver
What the work is
Drives a coach to transport passengers on sightseeing, educational and other tours.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Plans and organises tour itineraries and routes
- Drives a coach to transport passengers to destinations
- Assists passengers with boarding and disembarking the coach
- Provides commentary and information to passengers about points of interest
- Handles customer enquiries and resolves any issues or complaints
- Keeps records of milage, fuel consumption and passenger numbers for reporting purposes
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional city bus depot, with school routes, intercity coach runs and charter tours. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A regular passenger waves from the stop and says good morning like an old friend
- A school run where the kids say thank you as they get off
- A tour day when the group sings along, the sun shines and every stop runs on time
Hard days
- A timetable that cannot be met because the traffic has other ideas
- A passenger who is abusive, and you cannot leave your seat
- A very long day, with the pressure to keep going when your body wants to stop
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 711232, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.