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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Patcher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Patcher” 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 Patcher” 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 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.

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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