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Highway Maintenance Workers
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Highway Maintenance Workers
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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.
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Abilities
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Static Strength| | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
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Control Precision| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
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Multilimb Coordination| | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
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Reaction Time| | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
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Trunk Strength| | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. |
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Oral Comprehension| | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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Depth Perception| | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
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Oral Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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Rate Control| | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
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Auditory Attention| | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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Extent Flexibility| | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Response Orientation| | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. |
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Time Sharing| | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
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Arm-Hand Steadiness| | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
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Manual Dexterity| | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
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Deductive Reasoning| | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
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Far Vision| | The ability to see details at a distance. |
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Problem Sensitivity| | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
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Visualization| | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
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Dynamic Strength| | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. |
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Glare Sensitivity| | The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. |
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Gross Body Coordination| | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. |
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Inductive Reasoning| | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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Near Vision| | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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Sound Localization| | The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. |
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Speech Recognition| | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Speed of Limb Movement| | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. |
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Stamina| | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
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Category Flexibility| | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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Hearing Sensitivity| | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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Selective Attention| | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
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Finger Dexterity| | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
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Gross Body Equilibrium| | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. |
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Information Ordering| | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
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Visual Color Discrimination| | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
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Speech Clarity| | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Written Comprehension| | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
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Flexibility of Closure| | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
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Fluency of Ideas| | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
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Originality| | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
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Perceptual Speed| | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
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Peripheral Vision| | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. |
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Spatial Orientation| | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. |
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Wrist-Finger Speed| | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. |
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Memorization| | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
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Night Vision| | The ability to see under low light conditions. |
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Speed of Closure| | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
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Written Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
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Number Facility| | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
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Dynamic Flexibility| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Mathematical Reasoning| | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
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Explosive Strength| | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. |
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Interests
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Realistic| | Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others. |
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Conventional| | Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow. |
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Enterprising| | Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. |
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Investigative| | Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally. |
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Artistic| | Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules. |
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Social| | Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. |
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First Interest High-Point| | Primary-Rank Descriptiveness |
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Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service| | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
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Mechanical| | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
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Public Safety and Security| | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
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Building and Construction| | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
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Transportation| | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
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Education and Training| | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
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Administration and Management| | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
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Engineering and Technology| | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
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English Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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Law and Government| | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
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Mathematics| | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
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Geography| | Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. |
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Clerical| | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. |
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Production and Processing| | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
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Psychology| | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
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Chemistry| | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. |
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Physics| | Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. |
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Telecommunications| | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
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Design| | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
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Communications and Media| | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. |
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Personnel and Human Resources| | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
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Computers and Electronics| | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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Therapy and Counseling| | Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. |
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Medicine and Dentistry| | Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. |
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Economics and Accounting| | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
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Biology| | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
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Sociology and Anthropology| | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. |
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Philosophy and Theology| | Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture. |
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History and Archeology| | Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures. |
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Foreign Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation. |
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Sales and Marketing| | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
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Food Production| | Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. |
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Fine Arts| | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. |
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Wages
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| North Carolina | $24,290.00 |
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| South Carolina | $23,840.00 |
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Related Careers
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Construction Laborers| | Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers. |
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Fence Erectors| | Erect and repair metal and wooden fences and fence gates around highways, industrial establishments, residences, or farms, using hand and power tools. |
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Landscaping & Groundskeeping Workers| | Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. |
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Pipelayers| | Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. Perform any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints. |
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Skills
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Equipment Maintenance| | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
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Coordination| | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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Repairing| | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
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Equipment Selection| | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
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Reading Comprehension| | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
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Instructing| | Teaching others how to do something. |
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Active Learning| | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
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Critical Thinking| | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
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Learning Strategies| | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Judgment and Decision Making| | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
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Active Listening| | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
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Speaking| | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
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Writing| | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
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Troubleshooting| | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
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Mathematics| | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
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Time Management| | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
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Operation and Control| | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
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Monitoring| | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
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Installation| | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
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Social Perceptiveness| | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
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Management of Material Resources| | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
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Management of Personnel Resources| | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
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Service Orientation| | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Operation Monitoring| | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
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Persuasion| | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
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Systems Analysis| | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
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Complex Problem Solving| | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
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Technology Design| | Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs. |
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Quality Control Analysis| | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
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Negotiation| | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Operations Analysis| | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
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Systems Evaluation| | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
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Science| | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
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Management of Financial Resources| | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
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Programming| | Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
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Tasks
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| Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead. |
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| Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic. |
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| Drive trucks or tractors with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, and remove snow and ice. |
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| Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines. |
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| Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement. |
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| Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites. |
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| Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures. |
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| Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders. |
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| Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools. |
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| Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides. |
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| Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures. |
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| Inspect markers to verify accurate installation. |
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| Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents. |
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| Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees. |
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| Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk. |
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| Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers. |
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| Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation. |
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| Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways. |
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Tools
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| Adjustable widemouth pliers |
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| Pliers |
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| Adjustable wrenches |
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| Wrenches |
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| Aggregate spreaders |
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| Hydraulic spreaders |
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| Sand spreaders |
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| Stone box spreaders |
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| Agricultural tractors |
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| Berm drag tractors |
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| Air compressors |
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| All terrain cranes |
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| 10-ton crawlers |
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| Self-propelled cranes |
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| Articulating boom lift |
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| Bucket trucks |
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| Cherry pickers |
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| Axes |
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| Bush axes |
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| Barricades |
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| Towable barricades |
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| Bituminous material distributors |
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| Bituminous pavers |
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| Tar distributors |
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| Blades or tooth or other cutting edges |
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| Stump cutters |
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| Bridge cranes |
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| Snoopers |
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| Burners |
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| Oil heating burners |
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| Cargo trucks |
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| Gas transporters |
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| Chip spreaders |
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| Circuit tester |
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| Circuit testing equipment |
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| Cold planers |
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| Compactors |
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| Concrete mixers or plants |
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| Concrete mixers |
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| Concrete vibrators |
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| Power screeds |
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| Conventional truck cranes |
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| Boom trucks |
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| Truck mounted cranes |
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| Delivery trucks |
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| Heavy trucks |
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| Transport trucks |
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| Derricks |
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| Digger-derrick trucks |
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| Desktop computers |
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| Disks |
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| Tractor disc attachments |
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| Ditchers |
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| Draglines |
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| Drain or pipe cleaning equipment |
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| Catch basin vacuum cleaners |
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| Culvert cleaners |
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| Sewer cleaners |
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| Sewer eels |
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| Dump trucks |
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| 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks |
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| 8-ton dump trucks |
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| Belly dump tractor trailers |
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| Earthmoving buckets or its parts or accessories |
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| 30-ton clam buckets |
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| Flatbed trailers |
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| Low boys |
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| Forklifts |
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| Front end loaders |
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| Four-wheel drive front end loaders |
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| Front-end loaders |
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| Two-wheel drive front end loaders |
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| Gas generators |
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| Generators |
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| Graders |
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| 13000-23000 pound graders |
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| Grouting machines |
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| Pavement joint sealers |
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| Hammers |
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| Swiss hammers |
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| Hand held rock drills |
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| Rock drills |
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| Hand sprayers |
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| Epoxy guns |
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| Harrows |
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| Haymaking machinery |
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| Windrow loaders |
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| Hydraulic pumps |
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| High-pressure hydraulic pumps |
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| Medium pressure hydraulic pumps |
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| Paint transfer pumps |
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| Hydraulic truck cranes |
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| Wheeled hydraulic booms |
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| Impact wrenches |
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| Kettle exchangers |
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| Tar kettles |
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| Laser printers |
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| Lasers |
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| Graffiti removing lasers |
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| Light trucks or sport utility vehicles |
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| Light trucks |
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| Low cab forward tractors |
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| Truck low-bed trailer combos |
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| Machetes |
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| Measuring wheels for distance |
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| Measuring wheels |
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| Minivans or vans |
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| Vans |
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| Mobile excavators |
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| Hydraulic excavators |
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| Truck mounted excavators |
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| Mowers |
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| Push mowers |
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| Rear brush hog mowers |
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| Rear flail mowers |
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| Side-mount rotary mowers |
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| Tractor-mounted mowers |
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| Mud pumps |
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| Mud jacks |
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| Non temperature controlled tanker trailers |
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| Tanker trucks |
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| Paint mixers |
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| Paint sprayers |
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| Paint guns |
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| Paving breaker tools or accessories |
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| Mounted pavement breakers |
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| Paving breakers |
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| Pavement grinders |
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| Pothole excavation milling machines |
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| Personal computers |
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| Picks |
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| Pile drivers |
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| Platform lift |
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| Platform trucks |
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| Pneumatic hammers |
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| Jackhammers |
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| Pneumatic sanding machines |
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| Sandblasters |
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| Post hole digger |
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| Hole diggers/augers |
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| Power chippers |
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| Brush chippers |
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| Power saws |
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| Chain saws |
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| Concrete saws |
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| Pressure or steam cleaners |
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| Pressure washers |
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| Steam cleaning equipment |
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| Rakes |
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| Road pavers |
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| Pull type pavers |
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| Road rooters |
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| Concrete groovers |
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| Road surface heater planers |
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| Asphalt reclaimers |
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| Road wideners |
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| Self-propelled road wideners |
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| Rock cutters |
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| Rollers |
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| 4-6 ton roller patchers |
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| Patch rollers less than 9 tons |
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| Pavement rollers |
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| Scaffolding |
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| Swinging stages |
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| Scissor lift |
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| Scissor trucks |
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| Screwdrivers |
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| Scrubbing machines |
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| Power or tow broom street sweepers |
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| Self-propelled sweepers |
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| Seeder attachment |
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| Seeders |
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| Shovels |
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| Snow blowers |
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| Snowplow attachments |
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| Rotary snowplows |
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| Snow plows |
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| Spades |
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| Sprayers |
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| Chemical sprayers |
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