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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Repairer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Repairer” 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 Repairer” 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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