Is working in pipeline construction considered transportation industry?

[wallacetax18]

Pipeline moves goods via pipeline and is DOT.

[Coleen3]

No. 

You are in the transportation industry if your work: 

• Directly involves moving people or goods by airplane, barge, bus, ship, train, or truck; and 

• Regularly requires you to travel away from home and, during any single trip, usually involves travel.

Individuals subject to the Department of Transportation's “hours of service” limits include the following persons. 

• Certain air transportation workers (such as pilots, crew, dispatchers, mechanics, and control tower operators) who are under Federal Aviation Administration regulations. 

• Interstate truck operators and bus drivers who are under Department of Transportation regulations. 

• Certain railroad employees (such as engineers, conductors, train crews, dispatchers, and control operations personnel) who are under Federal Railroad Administration regulations. 

• Certain merchant mariners

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p463.pdf