USA - HOW THEY DO DIRECTION ARROWS?

An astonishing and unbelievable teamwork performed quickly and with high accuracy by company "BC Traffic Specialist" ordered and on behalf of California Department of Transportation (CALRTANS), USA!

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This project is a perfect example of hard working, responsibility, efficiency, efforts, cooperation and teamwork! A project to ensure kid's-, bicycle's, car's, and pedestrian's safety and security in traffic, performed by California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

To keep the roads and traffic secure is one of the most expensive
tasks for the tax payer in California.

Project performed by BC Traffic Specialist.
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These guys are amazing and perform a great teamwork everyday and night across the roads, streets and highways in order to keep a high standard of traffic security.

Everyday, the City need to maintain, replace, or setup new direction arrows and speed limit pavement marks on roads and streets across the city. This is a very complicated task. The safety of the kids, people, pedestrians and traffic has the first priority for each county and city.

Most of the projects starts after midnight or during vacation period so there are less traffic on roads.

The thermoplastic machine in the video is ThermoLazer 300 TC
Thermoplastic Stripers made by the company Graco Corp.
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Thermoplastic material is known for its reflective and long lasting properties, and is used by contractors for striping roads and parking lots. Graco has three models of ThermoLazer thermoplastic stripers:

The ThermoLazer 300TC is easy to maneuver, and extremely productive with a 300 lb. material kettle allowing for more striping time.

The ThermoLazer ProMelt is a patent pending system – the world’s first fast melt on-board thermoplastic striper that melting 300 lbs. of thermoplastic material in less than an hour.

Professional contractors choose Graco stripers for their dependability, high performance, and quality results.

For the reflection purpose of the direction arrows and thermoplastic marks like speed limits pavements glass oxide from Potter Industries LLC is applied.

About Potter Industries LLC.
A leading producer of engineered glass materials serving the oil and gas industry, polymer additives, highway safety, metal finishing, and conductive particle markets.

Through its research and technology advancements, Potters has developed product lines that include hollow glass microspheres used as weight-reducing fillers in fabricated plastics, automotive body putties, as extenders in adhesives and paints/coating formulations and are used as sensitizers in industrial explosives.

Potters is the largest producer worldwide of highway safety marking glass beads, metal finishing beads for cleaning and strengthening metals, glass media for grinding and dispersing, glass microspheres for friction and weight reduction in oil drilling applications and metal-coated particles to provide electromagnetic shielding interference of electronic parts.

On November 7, 2015, the U.S. celebrated 80th birthday of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD). Whenever you see an easy-to-read sign, a bright edgeline marking on a foggy night, the countdown timer at a crosswalk, or a well-placed bike lane, take a moment to reflect on the more than eighty years of progress and innovation that the MUTCD embodies.

For traffic and road sign test visit:
https://www.usa-traffic-signs.com/

Project performed at: S. Espelanade Street. / Fairhaven Ave, Orange, CA. USA.

Published on 6th Sep. 2020.
Project performed on 15 Oct. 2019.
Camera: Mobile phone SAMSUNG GALAXY 8 PLUS.

How much does it costs?

If you know more about the cost of these kind of projects know how much these costs in California, USA let us know.