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PSA: It's Workzone Safety Awareness Week
It's that time of year once again. Construction season is starting up and therefore you will be seeing more constructions zone. Remember that the highway workers would like to go home to their families, too.
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04-08-2014, 12:59 PM | #2 |
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04-08-2014, 01:48 PM | #3 |
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Oh I got stories . As a land surveyor for 35 years working around and on roads, highways and bridges and even airport runways ive got some stories and close calls.
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04-08-2014, 02:12 PM | #4 |
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I have always wondered why they are called workzones? I mean isn't stand around zones a better discriptor?
Also. Why is it that it takes soo long to repair a stretch of highway? I have seen driveways longer get enlace quicker than small sections of road with less people and equipment. And then closing down 10 miles of a lane to do a couple hundred yards a day/week? Now I will say. This is strictly modot. Kansas seems much quicker and efficient. Modot seems like a scam. |
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04-08-2014, 02:32 PM | #5 |
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Good post....let's try to keep those guys safe
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04-08-2014, 02:42 PM | #6 | |
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04-08-2014, 04:15 PM | #7 | |
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And when you drive though a workplace and you see a guy standing around what do you do stop and gawk? That's a bit gay? Most likely you passed through and seen the fellow 5 seconds tops. Ever think that maybe they are waiting on materials or have a break? Sort of like you posting at work or at the coffee pot. You might want to know a little something about highway construction before you claim to know what someone should be doing. Obviously you have no Idea that most of what the DOT do is repair maintenance. The road construction is generally contracted out to private construction companies. Missouri is like in the top 5 states for paved highways and state routes not to mention County Roads. Work is let in stages as money is available. No contractor is gonna work and not get payed. Kansas on the other hand doesn't have near the paved roads or bridges to maintain. As for the KDOT taking less time to pave a highway that depends could be what you saw was a overlayment. Where they co-mill a 3 to 4 inch layer of pavement then resurface. This is completely different that a rehab. A rehab means you completely remove the old pavement rework the sub grade and compact. Then you rebuild new pavement all the while keeping the traffic flowing and open. Buy you knew all that being a sidewalk engineer. All knowing of the schedules and who should be busy and who is a stand around guy. Because we all know full well you have never been seen to be doing nothing. |
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04-08-2014, 04:39 PM | #8 |
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04-08-2014, 04:43 PM | #9 | |
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04-08-2014, 05:03 PM | #10 |
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Well I am not a DOT guy and most likely the guys working behind those orange barrels aren't either. The work for a contractor who has so much time and money to complete the project. No one can predict the weather and neither can the contractor when he bids on a project. Most contracts have a deadline if you dont meet the deadline you start paying a penalty. And by the same token that contractor gets incentives to finish ahead of schedule. Most spread the wealth to the worker who worked the project when you go under time and budget.
DOT clear snow and ice. They mow right of ways. They clear drains and culverts. They replace guardrails and signs. They replace lighting and repair potholes. They don't do much road construction, bridge building, grading or construction of storm lines and culverts. Its contracted out along with the engineering for the most part. I do know one thing believe half of what you hear and even less of what you see. Go out and work a day with a DOT might be in for a rude awakening.My 35 years as a surveyor I have found that the public always knows what should be done and how to go about it. The longer they talk to you the more you relise they dont know nothing. Just like I dont know there job nor how to go about it. Do you? |
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04-08-2014, 05:07 PM | #11 |
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Lol, I have several friends that work fot modot right here in town, they will all tell you they have a cake job, every one of them. They stop by the shop to hang out and usually say we are working too hard.
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04-08-2014, 05:08 PM | #12 |
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I almost hit one of those bastards yesterday, he had to take a goal line dive to avoid my feed truck.
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04-08-2014, 05:48 PM | #13 |
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I don't know when ever Ive done highway rehab surveys for Modt or Kdot Ive had little contact in the field with them other that the mowers or guardrail and sign crews I occasionally see.
But for the umpteenth time the guys constructing highway's and building bridges are contractors and are not employed by the DOT. |
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04-08-2014, 05:51 PM | #14 |
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04-08-2014, 05:53 PM | #15 |
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Most of you probably dont work out in the public eye. Many my guess behind a cubical? And of course its all assholes and elbows behind that cube. Yeah aha when I go in the office from the field 2 out of every four are playing a computer game or are on a social network. But but but but I had to touch a brake on the way to work today. That damn highway guy he was standing. That why im late damn highway orange barrels. That damn guy standing if he was working id punched in on time. Give me a brake.
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