Transport Company Manager (ANZSCO 149413)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Transport Company Manager on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Transport Company Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Transport Company Manager is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, on STSOL — reaching state nomination that neither of its two transport-cluster neighbours, Fleet Manager or Railway Station Manager, can reach. Its own page states the exclusion explicitly and at length: occupations not considered under this code include Fleet Manager, Railway Station Manager, Truck Driver, Taxi Driver, Container Controller, Logistics Manager and Supply and Distribution Manager — a longer exclusion list than either neighbour carries, spanning both management-adjacent and operational driving roles.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code is for running a transport or logistics company itself, not for managing a vehicle fleet, which is Fleet Manager, or driving professionally, which is excluded outright alongside Container Controller and Supply and Distribution Manager, separate occupations again. An applicant whose actual work is fleet maintenance and vehicle scheduling rather than company-level transport operations risks a mismatch nominating this code, even where transport manager appears on their business card.

An honest read on this pathway

This code reaches state nomination but not Employer Nomination or the Skills in Demand main stream — the reverse of Fleet Manager, which reaches direct sponsorship but not state nomination. A genuine transport company manager and a genuine fleet manager end up on opposite sides of the sponsorship and state-nomination divide despite working in the same broad industry, worth knowing before assuming either code is the more favourable one.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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