Will “Road Mender” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
87% Chance of Automation
“Road Mender” 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 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
- Lane Marker Installer
- Laborer
- Hot Oiler
- Flagger
- Caltrans Landscape Maintenance Worker
- Caltrans Equipment Operator
- Asphalt Raker
Tasks for “Road Mender”
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
- 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.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
Related Technology & Tools
- Epoxy guns
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Low boys
- Stump cutters
- Desktop computers
- Forklifts
- Spades
- Personal computers
- Tire chains
- Hole diggers/augers
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Snow blowers
- Circuit testing equipment
- Oil heating burners
- Pavement rollers
- Heavy trucks
- Transport trucks
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Adjustable wrenches
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- 10-ton crawlers
- Swinging stages
- Concrete groovers
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Bucket trucks
- Gradalls
- Brush chippers
- Sand spreaders
- Swiss hammers
- Tow brooms
- Machetes
- Rear flail mowers
- Stone box spreaders
- Laser printers
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Vans
- Light trucks
- Chemical sprayers
- Tanker trucks
- Push mowers
- Tar distributors
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Bush axes
- Cold planers
- Snoopers
- Rotary snowplows
- Boom trucks
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Truck mounted cranes
- Power saws
- Pile drivers
- Hammers
- Self-propelled cranes
- Berm drag tractors
- Measuring wheels
- Scaffolding
- Platform trucks
- Concrete saws
- Graders
- Pavement joint sealers
- Rock cutters
- Power screeds
- Paint transfer pumps
- Digger derricks
- Dump trucks
- Aggregate spreaders
- Power broom street sweepers
- Hydraulic excavators
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Laydown machines
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Jackhammers
- Harrows
- Rock drills
- Cherry pickers
- Windrow loaders
- Two way radios
- Draglines
- Pavement grinders
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Pull type pavers
- Snowplows
- Seeders
- Culvert cleaners
- Bulldozers
- Sandblasters
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Paint mixers
- Weedeaters
- Towable barricades
- Bituminous pavers
- Water trucks
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Paint guns
- Chain saws
- Water pumps
- Chip spreaders
- Generators
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Screwdrivers
- Picks
- Mud jacks
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Side dozers
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Flatbed trailers
- Truck mounted excavators
- Sewer eels
- Pressure washers
- Compactors
- Front end loaders
- Gas transporters
- Air compressors
- Theodolites
- Shovels
- Athey loaders
- Ditchers
- Scissor trucks
- Portable welding equipment
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Rakes
- Pneumatic tampers
- Sewer cleaners
- Impact wrenches
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Concrete mixers
- Tar kettles
- Tractor disc attachments
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Office
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Database software
- Microsoft PowerPoint