We have 16 Twps in my county, instead of TWP road crews, we have what is called a Road Commission that is basically a "contractor" that does as the townships specifies, with advise from the road commission. The road commission is solely responsible financially for the class "A" roads, while the "B", or local roads, are financially covered by the TWP, but if the road commission has enough extra money, they will try to help a TWP financially to rebuild a "B" road. A class "A" road can be gravel or pavement, as a "B" road can also be pavement or gravel. It all depends on the width of the road, the amount of traffic, and the substrate and base of the road. There are many more "B" roads than class "A" roads. That is why townships have such a hard time having the money to pay to have a lot of their roads repaved, as many of them are the class "B" roads that they are solely financially responsible for. But, like I said, the road commission is basically the contractor that all the Twps hire to do their maintenance work, like plowing snow, scraping roads, shoulder gravel on blacktop, cutting and removing trees, patching potholes, ditching, berming, hauling gravel, fixing signs, a fixing washouts, mowing roadsides, etc. We are each responsible for a "territory", which is about a township and a 1/4 of another. 1 person for each territory. We also have 1 grader and an operator for that grader, and same for the excavator. They cover the whole county, doing things we can't do with the trucks. We do turn into a crew when we do chip sealing, I also run the tack truck, and also work as a crew when we crack seal, due to the amount of labor and flagging involved. We sometimes pair up when cutting trees and work together. There is 4 guys that are paid by the state that maintain the state highways that run through my county. Their job is just like ours, only more highway type work oriented, even though they actually work for the road commission. All of us are on call 24/7 for any type of emergency such as washouts, treespecially down in the road, and working on the highway when the state crew gets tired out plowing in the winter. Lots of variety.
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