How Overpaid Are State And Local Government Workers Compared To Private
That is hard to say, but I knew some real equipment operators on Illinois State Highways.
Local 150 were the Operating Engineers. They would laugh at the State heavies and say, "You guys are not real heavies."
I was Acting Heavy one summer when they were short of operators. The Lead, Lead screwed me out of my heavies pay. he was in 4th wave at Omaha Beach. I bet he is burning in hell now but not for anything he did during the war.
One of the Jew boys said to him once, "All of the confessions you made, and the HaiL Mary's you said will not do you one but of good." ;)
An equipment operator such as a front end loader and a steam roller for asphalt patches. The steam comes from water on hot asphalt. The roller has its own water reservoir. Water keeps the asphalt from sticking to the roller. ;)