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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Maker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Maker” 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 Maker” 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 roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

  • 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.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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