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