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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Technician (Highway Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Highway Technician (Highway Tech)” 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 Technician (Highway Tech)” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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