There are major changes within and related to the professional driving profession ahead of us that need to be prepared and supported by vocational education and training in order to reach its full potential but also to avoid a further increase of already today’s major deficits of skilled workers in this field that belonged continuously to the Top Ten jobs employers are having difficulty filling over the past decade (Manpower Talent Shortage Survey, Drivers rank on position four within EMEA in 2015). For this purpose it is of major importance to think ahead of time and to develop a vision of this profession in future under consideration of megatrends, trends and innovations influencing this occupational profile in order to get ready for changes that are ahead of us. The FutureDRV project investigates this future of professional driving by taking a look into tasks and role of professional drivers and their qualification requirements in 2030 and beyond.FutureDRV understands the way towards a well qualified future workforce within professional driving as a joined effort that requires the engagement of different groups of stakeholders. It approaches not only a single set of competences or measures to be addressed/ undertaken by an individual stakeholder with its approach but takes this occupation as a whole into the focus. It, therefore, approaches the future of professional driving from different angles in order to address those aspects sufficiently and comprehensively:_It developes a FutureDRV PROFILE describing the professional driver and its future role and the related knowledge, skills and competences within the 4th industrial revolution. The FutureDRV profile aspires to become a major reference on future skill needs within professional driving within the upcoming 15 to 20 years._Exemplary FutureDRV LEARNING SOLUTIONS are developed that support the current workforce to keep up with the changing and increasing qualification requirements. Those learning solutions address learning outcomes new to the current workforce taking up trends within learning and adapting those to the characteristics of drivers. In this way flagship learning solutions are developed pointing the way towards the future of competence-building within this vocational field as part of lifelong learning._The FutureDRV RECOMMENDATIONS address different stakeholders such as employers and VET providers with suggestions how to prepare professional drivers for their future requirements. They identify actions to be taken in the context of individual EU Members States in order to take the characteristics of those systems into account. Finally they address the European level and here specifically Directive 2003/59/EC and its role within preparing professional drivers for the future._Finally, a FutureDRV TIMELINE makes trends and innovations and their interrelations with each other and with qualification requirements on drivers transparent, puts a time dimension to those upcoming changes and defines responsibilities and steps to be taken by different stakeholders. The timeline is therefore a key tool for policy making, VET and career planning and human resource development in the context of professional driving.All together the FutureDRV project results equip the transport sector with valuable tools and recommendations for the development of a professional driver workforce capable of meeting the future needs of the sector across Europe.