In the summertime drivers can always expect to come across more work zones on the road, and there is a pivotal role on those crews that ensure cars make it through in a safe and orderly fashion – the ...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation invested in new LED sign paddles in hopes of lowering the number of workers injured or killed on Tennessee roads. For TDOT, Spring means the start of more ...

Q: It is pretty obvious that when a flagger puts up a stop or slow-down sign, we are expected, if not required, to obey. Is this based on some Pennsylvania statute, or is it merely customary? More ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The diamond-shaped orange caution signs as you approach them still show a silhouette of a human worker holding a flag, and maybe they always will. But increasingly, the ...

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Massachusetts has saved nearly $12 million in the year-plus since it started using civilian flaggers to direct traffic at some road construction sites, state officials say, providing factual ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Brandon Thompson stands on his feet for hours, watching as vehicles stream by his latest job site. But the former restaurant worker says he likes being a traffic control flagger ...

When Massachusetts became the last state in the nation to allow civilian flaggers on roads where the speed limit is below 45 mph five years ago, the administration and legislators left a major pothole ...

Surrey’s Jolene James has seen some crazy sights in the four years she’s worked as a flagger for Imperial Paving. “I saw a girl driving and painting her toenails once. Her foot was up on the dash ...