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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Oiling Truck Driver” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Oiling Truck Driver” 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 Oiling Truck Driver” 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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • 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

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

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