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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Lane Marker Installer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Lane Marker Installer” 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%

“Lane Marker Installer” 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

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