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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Asphalt Raker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Asphalt Raker” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 47% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

60%

“Asphalt Raker” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 60% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Highway Maintenance Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,410
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.72
Available Jobs (US) 151,750
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Highway Maintenance Workers #47-4051
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Highway Maintenance Workers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

  • Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

  • Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.

  • Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.

  • Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.

  • Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.

  • Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.

  • Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.

  • Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.

  • Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.

  • Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.

  • Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.

  • Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.

  • Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.

  • Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.

Technologies & Software

  • Database software
  • Buildots AI
  • Word processing software
  • Procore AI
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Autodesk Construction AI
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Web browser software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • 13000-23000 pound graders
  • Berm drag tractors
  • Self-propelled cranes
  • Athey loaders
  • Pavement joint sealers
  • Dump trucks
  • Bucket trucks
  • Rock drills
  • 8-ton dump trucks
  • Truck mounted cranes
  • Two-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Digger derricks
  • Rakes
  • Windrow loaders
  • Power broom street sweepers
  • Asphalt reclaimers
  • Flatbed trailers
  • Pile drivers
  • Measuring wheels
  • Power screeds
  • Brush chippers
  • Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Gradalls
  • Cherry pickers
  • Paint transfer pumps
  • Concrete mixers
  • Belly dump tractor trailers
  • Towable barricades
  • Tar distributors
  • Tow brooms
  • Pressure washers
  • Screwdrivers
  • Push mowers
  • Self-propelled road wideners
  • Snowplows
  • Impact wrenches
  • Tractor-mounted mowers
  • Mounted pavement breakers
  • Sewer cleaners
  • Pavement grinders
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Snoopers
  • Cold planers
  • Rotary snowplows
  • Bulldozers
  • Tractor disc attachments
  • Patch rollers less than 9 tons
  • Low boys
  • Water trucks
  • Gas transporters
  • Mud jacks
  • Truck mounted excavators
  • Wheeled hydraulic booms
  • Vans
  • Jackhammers
  • Steam cleaning equipment
  • Chemical sprayers
  • Epoxy guns
  • Four-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Tar kettles
  • Tire chains
  • Swinging stages
  • Scaffolding
  • Laydown machines
  • Sand spreaders
  • Pothole excavation milling machines
  • Weedeaters
  • Circuit testing equipment
  • Bush axes
  • Pneumatic tampers
  • Catch basin vacuum cleaners
  • Boom trucks
  • Rear brush hog mowers
  • Stump cutters
  • Theodolites
  • Graffiti removing lasers
  • Concrete saws
  • Pull type pavers
  • Power saws
  • Generators
  • High-pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Hydraulic excavators
  • Light trucks
  • Personal computers
  • 10-ton crawlers
  • Compactors
  • Stone box spreaders
  • Hole diggers/augers
  • Harrows
  • Oil heating burners
  • Sandblasters
  • Aggregate spreaders
  • Shovels
  • Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
  • Concrete paving vibrators
  • Truck low-bed trailer combos
  • Scissor trucks
  • Draglines
  • Pavement rollers
  • Desktop computers
  • Bituminous pavers
  • Swiss hammers
  • Tanker trucks
  • Side-mount rotary mowers
  • Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
  • Graders
  • Picks
  • Portable welding equipment
  • 4-6 ton roller patchers
  • Computerized weed spray trucks
  • Hammers
  • Seeders
  • Transport trucks
  • Two way radios
  • Snow blowers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Concrete groovers
  • Heavy trucks
  • Chip spreaders
  • Thermoplastic applicators
  • Sewer eels
  • 30-ton clam buckets
  • Front end loaders
  • Side dozers
  • 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
  • Rear flail mowers
  • Rock cutters
  • Paint mixers
  • Laser printers
  • Platform trucks
  • Water pumps
  • Hydraulic spreaders
  • Air compressors
  • Machetes
  • Forklifts
  • Chain saws
  • Paint guns
  • Spades
  • Ditchers
  • Self-propelled sweepers
  • Culvert cleaners

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