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.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- 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.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
- Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
- 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.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Rear flail mowers
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Laser printers
- Epoxy guns
- Berm drag tractors
- Seeders
- Portable welding equipment
- Generators
- Platform trucks
- Picks
- Front end loaders
- Hydraulic excavators
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Tire chains
- Push mowers
- Side dozers
- Gas transporters
- Hammers
- Sandblasters
- Tar kettles
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Paint mixers
- Heavy trucks
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Concrete saws
- Truck mounted cranes
- Bush axes
- Harrows
- Oil heating burners
- Bucket trucks
- Weedeaters
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Swinging stages
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- Snow blowers
- Tanker trucks
- Cold planers
- Boom trucks
- Gradalls
- Mud jacks
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Dump trucks
- Two way radios
- Air compressors
- Snoopers
- Sewer cleaners
- Pavement rollers
- Rakes
- Water pumps
- Rock drills
- Concrete mixers
- Screwdrivers
- Self-propelled cranes
- Theodolites
- Forklifts
- Paint transfer pumps
- Aggregate spreaders
- Pavement joint sealers
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Power broom street sweepers
- Pneumatic tampers
- Tractor disc attachments
- Athey loaders
- Spades
- Swiss hammers
- Bituminous pavers
- Flatbed trailers
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Pile drivers
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Light trucks
- Scaffolding
- Paint guns
- Towable barricades
- Cherry pickers
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Measuring wheels
- Stump cutters
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Shovels
- Brush chippers
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Chemical sprayers
- Power saws
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Transport trucks
- Sand spreaders
- Windrow loaders
- Ditchers
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Compactors
- Hole diggers/augers
- Personal computers
- Water trucks
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Snowplows
- Pavement grinders
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Tar distributors
- Pressure washers
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Chip spreaders
- Low boys
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Machetes
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Tow brooms
- Pull type pavers
- Impact wrenches
- Laydown machines
- Concrete groovers
- Truck mounted excavators
- Stone box spreaders
- Draglines
- Rotary snowplows
- Chain saws
- Desktop computers
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Rock cutters
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Jackhammers
- Sewer eels
- Adjustable wrenches
- Circuit testing equipment
- Digger derricks
- Scissor trucks
- Culvert cleaners
- Bulldozers
- Vans
- Graders
- 10-ton crawlers
- Power screeds
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Database software