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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Crew Member” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Crew Member” 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%

“Road Crew Member” 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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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