Will “Lane Marker Installer” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
87% Chance of Automation
“Lane Marker Installer” will probably be replaced by robots.
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Job Description
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-4051.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 39,540.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 19.00
- Currently, there are 143,320 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Highway Maintenance Workers”.
Also Known As…
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Truck Driver
- Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)
- Transportation Maintenance Operator
- Highway Worker
- Highway Maintenance Worker
- Highway Maintenance Technician
- Highway Maintenance Crew Worker
- Highway Maintainer
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Transportation Worker
- Traffic Control Specialist
- Traffic Control Flagger
- Striper Paint Gun Operator
- Street Worker
- Snow Plow Operator
- Road Worker
- Road Sign Installer
- Road Repairer
- Road Patcher
- Road Oiling Truck Driver
- Road Oiler
- Road Mender
- Road Maker
- Road Grader Operator
- Road Crew Member
- Road Builder
- Quick Technician
- Patrolman
- Paint Crew Person
- Oil Spreader Operator
- Materials Handling Equipment Operator
- Material Handler
- Maintenance Worker
- Maintenance Technician
- Laborer
- Hot Oiler
- Flagger
- Caltrans Landscape Maintenance Worker
- Caltrans Equipment Operator
- Asphalt Raker
Tasks for “Lane Marker Installer”
- Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- 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.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- 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.
- Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pressure washers
- Mud jacks
- Pile drivers
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Chemical sprayers
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Spades
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Tractor disc attachments
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Swinging stages
- Gradalls
- Snow blowers
- Snoopers
- Compactors
- Paint mixers
- Pavement rollers
- Harrows
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Rakes
- Generators
- Towable barricades
- Forklifts
- Side dozers
- Adjustable wrenches
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Bituminous pavers
- Concrete saws
- Cherry pickers
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- Stone box spreaders
- Seeders
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Rock drills
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Two way radios
- Tar distributors
- Pneumatic tampers
- Power broom street sweepers
- Sandblasters
- Machetes
- Platform trucks
- Pull type pavers
- Boom trucks
- Bush axes
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Gas transporters
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Athey loaders
- Windrow loaders
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Graders
- Pavement grinders
- Self-propelled cranes
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Low boys
- Hammers
- Chip spreaders
- Light trucks
- Epoxy guns
- Impact wrenches
- 10-ton crawlers
- Hydraulic excavators
- Brush chippers
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Shovels
- Transport trucks
- Ditchers
- Concrete mixers
- Concrete groovers
- Sewer eels
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Cold planers
- Circuit testing equipment
- Pavement joint sealers
- Front end loaders
- Rear flail mowers
- Desktop computers
- Push mowers
- Rotary snowplows
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Truck mounted excavators
- Tow brooms
- Sewer cleaners
- Scissor trucks
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Stump cutters
- Measuring wheels
- Digger derricks
- Personal computers
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Air compressors
- Swiss hammers
- Hole diggers/augers
- Picks
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Oil heating burners
- Screwdrivers
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Tire chains
- Rock cutters
- Bucket trucks
- Paint transfer pumps
- Jackhammers
- Chain saws
- Tar kettles
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Berm drag tractors
- Portable welding equipment
- Paint guns
- Snowplows
- Heavy trucks
- Tanker trucks
- Bulldozers
- Sand spreaders
- Flatbed trailers
- Draglines
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Theodolites
- Power saws
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Dump trucks
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Truck mounted cranes
- Aggregate spreaders
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Culvert cleaners
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Power screeds
- Vans
- Water trucks
- Weedeaters
- Scaffolding
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Laydown machines
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Water pumps
- Laser printers
- Microsoft Office
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Database software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word