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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Oiler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Oiler” 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 Oiler” 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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