Also called: Motor Carrier Tax Auditor, IFTA/IRP Auditor
Audits trucking companies to make sure they paid the right fuel taxes to every state and Canadian province their trucks drove through.
A trucking company says its 80 trucks drove mostly in low-tax states, so you pull GPS data, fuel receipts and trip logs. You rebuild where each truck really went and find $60,000 in unpaid taxes owed to Pennsylvania and Ohio. Then you explain the bill to the owner across his kitchen table.
State government pay.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in accounting or business.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Accounting, Business Administration, Logistics.
Growing about average. Steady state jobs; electric trucks may change fuel taxes over time.
Medium risk for 10 years. Electronic logs and GPS do much of the mileage math; on-site audits and settling disputes stay human.
Classes: Accounting, Geography, Spreadsheet class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2081.
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