Remember in the old days when the county truck would pull to the side of the road in the area of a pothole, the three (or four or five) workers would all pile out and employ their shovels, scooping the hot blacktop tar into/onto the hole, then stamping it down, thereby effectively filling in said pothole?
Well.
Things have certainly come a long way in the pothole-filling business.
Today I saw the county truck pull up alongside the offending pothole, and a chute on the side of the dump truck pooped out enough hot tar to fill the hole. As I passed, the ONE (!!!) county worker was exiting the truck--I can only assume he was coming to stamp down the blacktop.
No more workers standing around leaning on their shovels?? Say it isn't so!
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I always thought that would be a fun job. Shooting out some asphalt, tamping it down, shooting the breeze, holding a stop sign...getting a nice tan. Now, maybe not so much. Thanks for the update, I'm crossing that occupation off my list. sigh.
I had a friend who did a couple of summers in the Road Kill van. The guys picked up the "stuff" and she made the big bucks sitting in the van.
I used to have a job supervising mentally ill patients as they picked up garbage along the road. Until the one day when one of the guys grabbed a metal trash can lid and chased me all the way around the Lake trying to bash my head in.
No. More. Road. Work.
I would say no more outside for the trash can man.
it's a different world... my bro used to dig ditches for the city. i bet they've found alternatives for that too.
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