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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”.

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Tasks for “Truck Driver”

Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
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.
Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
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.
Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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