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* The Bus Driver, [[spoiler:Nurari]], from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire''. Although this is seemingly just one of his roles, mostly what he does is drive the students around so they can have their own adventures. (As good as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at least a couple times with "Huh? why did he just drive us here and then leave?" reaction.)

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' has two. Vice Granscenic is the helicopter of Riot Force 6 and brings the cast to their missions. The reason he's a pilot? He was once a [[FriendlySniper sniper]], who accidently shot a hostage, his little sister Laguna, in the eye and that event traumatized him to quit his sniper career. He also serves as [[TheGunslinger Teana Lanster]] and [[BridgeBunnies Alto Krauetta's]] BigBrotherMentor and is a friend of [[LadyOfWar Signum]]. But when he's hospitalized after the destruction of the Long Arch, he's replaced by his [[SenpaiKohai kohai]] Alto, a member of the BridgeBunnies who always wanted to be a helicopter pilot. She's a good friend of Subaru and the other Forwards and later becomes one of [[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Thoma Avenir's]] many CoolBigSis figures. Vice gets better during the GrandFinale of ''[=StrikerS=]'' and he not only continues his helicopter pilot career, but also his sniper career, and Alto has become an official helicopter pilot as well and serves as Special Duty Section 6's helicopter pilot.

* Abaddon in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' was a mysterious and menacing figure in his first appearences, but in [[spoiler: the last episode he apperead in ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")]] he was demoted to being pretty much this trope embodied, saying "I help people get to where they need to get to, [[spoiler: John]]. That's what I do for [[spoiler: Mr. Widmore]]".

* This is an entire career path in ''GetBackers'', usually antagonistic to the heroes, who've been hired to retrieve the object being transported. Most notable is StepfordSmiler Akabane Kuroudo, who does just so he can fight interesting people.

* George the taxi driver from [[RushHour Rush Hour 3]] who kept reappearing in the movie to drive Lee and Carter across [[GayParee Paris]] because he loves the action.

* The school bus driver in ''Film/SkyHigh''.

* If you're in the DCUniverse and you're stranded anywhere in the Milky Way, who ya gonna call? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cabbie Space Cabbie]]!
* If you're in the MarvelUniverse and you want to ship something anywhere in the galaxy, you'll want to call [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/archerus.htm U.S. 1]].

* ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' has an unusual case of a driver becoming a main character. Brunhilde "Hildy" Esterhazy aggressively establishes herself as Chip's love interest, demanding his itinerary include ''her'' place when he gets in her cab. In TheMovie, Hildy drives Chip, Ozzie, Claire and Gabey to Coney Island with the police on the chase.

* [[CrazyAwesome The taxi driver]] from ''{{Canaan}}''.

* Chuck Bass' driver Arthur gets to see a whole lot of action on ''GossipGirl''.

* [[FinalFantasy Several of the Cids, with airships instead of cars.]]

* Although all the main characters in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' can turn into birds so they normally don't ''need'' to drive anywhere, when it comes up, Marco is always the one behind the wheel. [[DrivesLikeCrazy Despite the fact that he is a terrible driver]].
-->I [Ax] heard a loud crunching sound. <What was that?> I asked.\\

-->Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.\\
BAM! BAM! BAM!\\
Marco: Okay, so it's four trash cans.\\
Jake: Get off the sidewalk, you lunatic!\\
Marco: (yanks wheel right, bumps the sidewalk, grazes a parked car)\\
BAM! BAM! BAM!\\
Jake: Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!\\
Marco: I can't drive with you screaming in my ear.\\
Jake: You can't drive at all!

Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.\\

-->I heard a loud crunching sound. <What was that?> I asked.\\

* Bus Driver from ''RosarioToVampire''. Although this is seemingly just one of his roles, mostly what he does is drive the students around so they can have their own adventures. (As good as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at least a couple times with "Huh? why did he just drive us here and then leave?" reaction.)

* The cab driver in the pilot of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' pops back up every once in a while.

* ''Cabbie'' (played by Ernest Borgnine) in ''EscapeFromNewYork''.

* Ebony White in ''TheSpirit''.

* Ernie Prang and Stan Shunpike, the bus driver and conductor, respectively, on the Knight Bus from the ''HarryPotter'' universe, are actually two of the most popular "background characters" in those books. And all they do is get Harry to the Leaky Cauldron when he's wandering around after running away from home. Admittedly it's a memorable scene, but one that takes up just a few pages out of thousands in that story.

* Kapp'n from ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''. You and he have a nice conversation at the beginning of the game (disguising the fact that he's configuring the game for you), then he drops you off and except for very specific circumstances, you never see him again. But, ''everyone'' knows Kapp'n.

* [[AcePilot Joker]] of the ''MassEffect'' games, who's a very entertaining DeadpanSnarker as well as the party's transportation. Steve Cortez, the shuttle pilot from ''MassEffect3'', is an additional example, though more angsty and less snarky.

* Moe Shrevnitz, played by the late, great Peter Boyle in the 1994 adaptation of ''TheShadow''. He gets a couple of good lines, but basically he's there to get Alec Baldwin from scene one to scene two and that's all. Amazingly enough, it's done well enough that you don't get the feeling they wasted a great actor on a bit part.

* John Constantine's friend Chas Chandler from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' and the film adaptaion, ''ComicBook/{{Constantine}}''

* The school bus driver in '''SkyHigh''
* ''{{Scrooged}}'': The Ghost of Christmas Past dresses as a cabbie and drives a cab. He takes Frank Cross to various scenes in his past so Frank can learn from them.

* Ernie Bishop in ''ItsAWonderfulLife''.

* Jim Hacker's driver on ''YesMinister'' generally knew more about what was going on than Hacker did. He explains that the ministerial drivers overhear all the secret conversations their employers have and gossip about them during their breaks.

* Your cab driver, Raul, in ''HellCab''.

* Rower from ''NarutoTheAbridgedSeries''.

* Otto Mann, the school (and other) bus driver from ''TheSimpsons''.
* While Uncle Ruckus has a couple dozen jobs, one of his most recurring ones in ''TheBoondocks'' is school bus driver. Another is valet.