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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Maintenance Crew Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Highway Maintenance Crew Worker” 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%

“Highway Maintenance Crew Worker” 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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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