Glossary
Highway Maintenance Worker Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential highway maintenance worker terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key highway maintenance worker vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in highway maintenance worker training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Blueprint
- Construction drawing.
- Brine
- Salt solution.
- Cold patch
- Temporary asphalt.
- Culvert
- Drain pipe under roads.
- Guardrail
- Roadside barrier.
- Hot mix
- Permanent asphalt.
- Mowing cycle
- Scheduled roadside mowing.
- MUTCD
- Traffic control standards.
- OSHA
- Workplace safety agency.
- Plow route
- Assigned roads.
- Pothole
- Hole in pavement.
- Punch list
- Final fix list.
- Right-of-way
- Land along roads.
- Snow and ice control
- Winter road treatment.
- Work zone
- Controlled area.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Highway Maintenance Worker practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Highway Maintenance Worker training.
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