75200 Taxi and limousine drivers and chauffeurs

What this occupation covers

Taxi and limousine drivers drive automobiles and limousines to transport passengers. Chauffeurs drive automobiles and limousines to transport personnel and visitors of businesses, government or other organizations or members of private households. Taxi and limousine drivers are employed by taxi and other transportation service companies, or they may be self-employed. Chauffeurs are employed by businesses, government and other organizations, or private individuals or families.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 11 main duties for this code.

• Pick up passengers and drive them to destinations in taxicabs or limousines
• Help passengers with luggage and with boarding and exiting vehicles and assist passengers with special needs
• Collect flat-rate or taximeter fares
• Maintain travel logs and record cash and credit transactions
• Maintain contact with taxi dispatch unit
• Clean and make minor repairs to vehicle or take vehicle for servicing
• May provide pick up and delivery services on request.
• Pick up or meet employer according to request, appointment or schedule
• Drive employer to destinations in automobile or limousine
• Perform business and personal errands for employer such as delivering and picking up mail, business documents and parcels
• Clean and make minor repairs to vehicle or take vehicle for servicing.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 11 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 72024 Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators
• 14404 Dispatchers

Excluded from this code

• Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators (See 72024 Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators)
• Taxi dispatcher (See 14404 Dispatchers)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

airport limousine driver · company chauffeur · funeral chauffeur · funeral driver · hearse driver · limousine driver · private chauffeur · private household chauffeur · taxi driver · taxi owner-operator · taxicab driver

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education is usually required.
• A minimum of one year of safe driving experience is usually required.
• A Class G driver's licence is required in Ontario, and a Class 4 driver's licence is required in all other provinces and the territories.
• Taxi and limousine drivers require good knowledge of the geographical area to be covered and may have to pass written street/building location and safety examinations.
• Taxi drivers usually require a municipal permit.
• First aid certification may be required.