One is the contractor's site manager in charge of the job. One is the STMS ensuring the job is being done within the safety plan. Two are the contractor's roading engineers who ensure the road is pointing the right way. One is a Transit roading engineer checking the road points the right way. One is the Transit Regional Area Roading Manager getting his shoes dirty for the day. Two are Traffic Controllers (lollypop men).
One is the OSH wallah ensuring everyone else is wearing day-glo.
The rest of them are the actual workers.Sometimes there are more than one of these.
lookoutas,
Jun 17, 4:57pm
Whoops - shoulda put an e on that wast
xacoon,
Jun 17, 5:05pm
oh dear the human wrecking ballbag is back in action. I think organisation is what is missing with a lot of the roading outfits, for example, in oamaru, they have 2 major projects going at once, both on main thoroughfares. why not pool resources to finish one promptly, then move on, instead both of them are well over shedule and costing businesses a lot of money. maybe its this same lack of organisation that keeps so many leaning on shovels so often!
stevo2,
Jun 17, 5:37pm
Has anyone stopped to think just how much the man leaning on his shovels actually earns per hour! Perhaps thats the reason he's not sweating his arse off. Cheers Stevo opps. I mean "Cheers Stevo2"
lookoutas,
Jun 17, 6:06pm
I should take a shovel to work then! Just been on the phone talking to a mate about this. His son works in a road gang on $29/hr. He has 45 years auto trade experience like me, and on $25! I told him he's lucky.
johnf_456,
Jun 17, 6:20pm
As I said in that same post my spelling and grammar is not tops, after all I don't see the point in message board chat. Not to mention some mistakes you make.
bexx13,
Jun 17, 6:25pm
Man I would LOVE to know what roading contractor pays $29.00 per hour! Ive been lollypop man in all weather, man on the shovel in all weather, man laying pipes up to his knees in shyte in all weather and even man on the digger with the heater and the radio going and do you know what! As a road worker who has frequently stood around with 10 other jokers watching 1 person working I dont really give a fat rats ass what the tax/rate payer thinks. Hahahaha.
brad166,
Jun 17, 6:32pm
jesus F**KING christ john you really are a twit. Have been watching the boards a while and post rarely but have to say you are a F**king dribbling come-monkey who doesnt know when to shut ya flaps to stop the Shite dribbling onto your chin.
Anyway jonf thats all I wanted to say.
johnf_456,
Jun 17, 6:34pm
johnf_456 Ta
brad166,
Jun 17, 6:36pm
jonf-456ta Feel better now
johnf_456,
Jun 17, 6:37pm
Funny guy
brad166,
Jun 17, 6:37pm
Brad166 thanks
movnon,
Jun 17, 6:41pm
lol goodone smurf ( but generally not far wrong)
speedy_11,
Jun 17, 7:08pm
Oh I love the exaggerations on these boards, gives me a giggle after a long day at work.
$29 an hour - yeah right, not likely and I know the rates pretty well due to my own job.
Those of you complaining, will you go to work in all weather, for 10-14 hrs a day, putting up with abuse from the road users, at times risking your life, due to the attitudes of road users towards TSL's! Starting each week fixing the damage the road users created to the site on the weekend.
There are many reasons a crew may seem idle, as someone else stated, not working within the area that machinery is being operated in is just one.
As for comments about the quality of the finished roads, the guys you see on site are not the ones who design the road, or decide what materials are used, or the amount of those materials (depth of seal etc). Blame the engineers that earn the big bucks, if theres faults in the design the buck stops there.
jarrod261,
Jun 17, 8:33pm
Come to aussie and do it. I started on a roadcrew with no experience and make $1100 for 50 hours a week. Traffic controllers make about the same. If you have tickets to operate machinery then you get paid more.
You still have to put up with the whinging morons that complain about roadworks though,Cant escape the idiots.LOL
Aye johnf
unclejake,
Jun 17, 9:49pm
Bloody hell. Get over people abbreviating your forum name or stop posting on the internet.
The latter seems best.
johnf_456,
Jun 17, 9:53pm
Its not hard to use the quote function and I will keep posting.Ta
unclejake,
Jun 17, 9:59pm
I don't know why you put yourself in so much discomfort, but it is (of course) your choice to do so, and I respect your right to make that choice.
Kind regards, UJ, Uncle, Jake, Willma
johnf_456,
Jun 17, 10:02pm
Its far from discomfort I enjoy it, so if people want to make a nickname then it will just be corrected back to them. Pretty simple and politeness.
doublek,
Jun 18, 11:07am
What about johnf456 - is that acceptable!
elect70,
Jun 18, 11:14am
Be self employed , at customers beck & call24/7" get your arse in here now & fix this ficking thing "thencomplain about the$rate , done it for 30years ,wanna swap jobs !
bjmh,
Jun 18, 11:40am
ha ha brightened up a slack fri avo
johnf_456,
Jun 18, 1:04pm
Johnf_456 ta. If road workers are so good why is many auckland roads of poor quality, poor repairs. Like asphalt on one half and then chip seal on the other. That's only the beginning of it, 75% of the time I go past they are standing around.
lookoutas,
Jun 18, 3:03pm
Hey there speedy & bexx (no numbers) a mate of over 40 years told me the $29 thing - I hope you don't want me to call him back and tell him he's a liar. I don't know what capacity his son's work is, but he told me it's stuff-all compared to the A Grade qualifications he and I have got. And I still have to sit exams to keep up to speed.
You do give me a good laugh john - using a name like that does leave you open to someone using a derivative of dunny.
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