Skills
20 skills are associated with this occupation.
0 skills selected
Essential knowledge
Essential skills / competences
Optional knowledge
No skills in this section.
Overview
Carriage drivers prepare and drive horse-drawn vehicles, assist passengers, keep the journey safe and look after the horses before, during and after trips.
In job descriptions, look for driving carriage, harnessing horses, animal behaviour, passenger assistance, urban routes, vehicle checks, payments, traffic rules and practical horse care.
Explore this occupation
Open in Job ExplorerWork context
The work takes place around passengers, horses, carriage equipment and public routes. A carriage driver prepares the vehicle, harnesses horses, drives safely, answers customers and watches both traffic and animal condition.
Skills and specializations
Useful capability includes animal behaviour, road traffic rules, carriage driving, harnessing, passenger assistance, vehicle checks, customer communication, payment handling and practical horse care.
Salary context
Pay context depends on route type, seasonality, customer service load, responsibility for horses, vehicle upkeep, urban driving, payment handling and whether the role includes training or transporting horses.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward senior carriage work, tour or visitor transport coordination, horse-care supervision, stable operations, driving instruction or broader equine service roles.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names the route, carriage type, horse-care duties, passenger group, payment tasks and vehicle responsibility. Clear roles explain how much time is driving, grooming, harnessing or customer service.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for carriage driver work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Map overview
Zoom and click to see available jobs.
— Jobs total — Countries with jobs
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Drivers of animal-drawn vehicles and machinery (9332)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2c90a752-43f0-483d-8f64-3ce5e4535aa8 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 9332.1 |
| ISCO group | 9332 |
| Concept type | Occupation |