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  • čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
  • Having designed and supervised construction of real highways over the last decade, when I saw Road Maintenance Simulator was a thing I knew I had to play it. Little did I know how much I have missed my day job as a road engineer!! This is part 2 where I paint some road markings, fix a pothole and straighten some signs...
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    About Road Maintenance Simulator:
    Experience the everyday life in a German street maintenance service and complete a variety of realistic tasks in the area of road construction and maintenance! For your work you will have unique vehicles and various usable tools at your disposal.
    Numerous tasks await you! In Street maintenance service, 30 extensive missions await you in a freely navigable road network. Complete a variety of exciting tasks in your daily work, including placing road markings, removing safety barriers, trimming trees, cleaning roadsides, installing traffic signs, crash barriers and delineators, and, of course, repairing roads.
    Choose from a variety of vehicles! Drive in unique vehicles such as platform trucks and all-purpose vehicles in a freely drivable road network with highway, main and country road from your work yard to the site and complete your missions with combination roller and tar machine or even on foot!
    For your work you have various usable tools and objects at your disposal. Among them are motor vibrators, garbage gripper, cordless screwdrivers, signs, delineators and crash barriers.
    30 extensive missions on the highway and main roads
    Freely drivable road network with freeway, main and country roads
    Walkable depot with fleet of vehicles and material warehouse
    More than 8 different road maintenance vehicles, such as bulldozer, all-purpose vehicle, road marking vehicle and dump truck
    Realistic tasks such as securing the work area, removing safety barriers, placing road markings, trimming trees, cleaning guard rails, cleaning roadsides, repairing roads, placing traffic signs, placing guard rails, placing delineators and much more
    Several objects for securing and completing the missions (from barks to guardrail to vibration dampers)
    Openworld map with interconnected road network
    Realistic graphics (Unreal Engine)
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Komentáře • 588

  • @zwilnik
    @zwilnik Před 2 lety +460

    You also can't make your sign posts too strong. As inevitably an architect will be along to run into it. And somehow their lives are still valued more highly than proper signage.

    • @HermanVonPetri
      @HermanVonPetri Před 2 lety +50

      This reminds me of how video games only seem to have two strengths for signage. Either they break away from the ground at the slightest touch, or they are completely impervious, immovable posts that would bisect any car that happens to drive into them at speed.

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +22

      b-but they won't learn any lesson (like not driving like an idiot), I say make the signs even stronger! Darwin award exists for a reason (idiots are meant to off themselves, you see)

    • @Crummieboi56
      @Crummieboi56 Před 2 lety +5

      @@ArinJager1 true, but also: smart people sometimes also off themselves because society is shit to them.

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 Před 2 lety +2

      @@HermanVonPetri Ya, but that's somewhat true to life, most signs are made of either poles thin enough to bend out of the way easily when hit by a car, or they have breakaway bases installed.

    • @jamoecw
      @jamoecw Před 2 lety

      depends on the jurisdiction, some treat signs and super valuable and make them as tough as feasible, others make them bend and bounce back into shape so you can run over them without any worry at all.

  • @konradcool4556
    @konradcool4556 Před 2 lety +378

    10:26 Its a "Priority Roads" (Vorfahrtstraßen) sign to assign right-of-way. Priority Roads are marked with the sign. Traffic on a Priority Road has the right-of-way ("priority") over other traffic at all intersections along the way.

    • @Daeltha
      @Daeltha Před 2 lety +54

      Yes, also all roads merging into the priority road will have either a give way or a stop sign at the merge intersection.

    • @RenneVangr
      @RenneVangr Před 2 lety +68

      Didn't know that these weren't used everywhere.
      I'll always keep calling them fried egg.

    • @DarkInos
      @DarkInos Před 2 lety +22

      @@RenneVangr Yeah now I wonder how do they do it in England.@real civil engineer

    • @ReeEmbrio
      @ReeEmbrio Před 2 lety +10

      @@RenneVangr they quiet common here in czech in cities

    • @ThePapaja1996
      @ThePapaja1996 Před 2 lety +27

      I surpised that uk doesn't have that sign

  • @dallencorry3236
    @dallencorry3236 Před 2 lety +259

    I love watching Matt just explain every little detail that he knows about highway engineering and construction. You can tell he loves it

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety

      _what a nerd!_

    • @RappelzWikiaPolska
      @RappelzWikiaPolska Před 2 lety +2

      sad think is that UK highways heh i mean motorways cuz i never seen any real highway here are badly design as there is not stops non gas stations or petrol whateva.non toilets so if you running 10h drive across UK you have to get near cities to get petrol or even pee... while in rest of europe every so many miles is petrol station or rest carpark. not in uk we use hardshouder for that xD

    • @kadinothebean3419
      @kadinothebean3419 Před 2 lety

      @@RappelzWikiaPolska "hard shoulder" XD. Anyways that is a perfect annalegy of the North/South divide we have. Down in London and the South we have such big services some with fountains, pizza expresses, 3 STARBUCKS FOR NO REASON, perfectly clean toilets with plenty of space and extra urinals (not sure about girls) etc. Wonder how hs2 would help lol

    • @RappelzWikiaPolska
      @RappelzWikiaPolska Před 2 lety

      @@kadinothebean3419 okey i did mention that around bigger cities you have such a think but trust me i been in europe so many times and south london motorway ( only 70mph xD ) is nothing to like german or fance or belgium highways not only because of spped limits are about 80-90mph but also about services every 50km or even less, with lorry parkings , toilets and showers... and dont even try tell me that in UK we do have somethink like that because i have been drivin all around Sussex, Hampshire, surrey, even some berks and wiltshire also about 2 years in Devon and i seen shit. roads are in good condition i give you that but i recomend you to do a small trip around west and east europe to see how they doin that staff

  • @ghostderazgriz
    @ghostderazgriz Před 2 lety +152

    "Probably should have gave way to traffic but whatever"
    Matt learned how to drive like a true American in such a short time span.

  • @Pinguinausquetscher
    @Pinguinausquetscher Před 2 lety +50

    05:40 i think that applies the reflective glass pearls to the fresh markings so you can see them better in the dark.

  • @aCertainZypher
    @aCertainZypher Před 2 lety +159

    Matt casually turning a video game into a professional internship

  • @rawcus918
    @rawcus918 Před 2 lety +24

    I used to work at an ironworks that made sign poles and guardrails and stuff. All the posts were cut on the bottom depending on its structure so that if a car hit it the sign would break first. Was weird after finishing a sign to bring it to the band saw or nibbler.

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Před 2 lety

      knocked one down once, came inches from hitting my mom. terrifying.
      She's the only person I trust to drive 😂
      But no, that sign, scary as it was, helped keep the car from rolling, and i'm very grateful for it.
      Thank you so much for the work you did.

  • @gabnuth1ng559
    @gabnuth1ng559 Před 2 lety +1

    When I used to work for a signs company in Canada, no highway stuff, just in and around the city. We would just ram the pole two feet into the ground and call it a day. And straightening one would be as simple as pulling on it toe the one side and recompacting the dirt around it. Then we would us a pipe wrench to untwist it. Pretty simple.
    And I think the thing on the line painter you were wondering about might be a "glass beed feeder". not too sure how to call it, but it pours glass beeds on the paint so that it can reflect light off your headlights at night to help see the lines.

  • @mikeeasley6670
    @mikeeasley6670 Před 2 lety +43

    The piece on the painter behind the paint sprayer is probably for reflective spheres, basically road glitter. It makes the lines retroreflective.
    Source: I work for a city crew in the US and have used a walk behind unit somewhat similar to what is shown here.

    • @seriousstone2142
      @seriousstone2142 Před 2 lety +1

      In Germany we call the marking type you described "unregelmäßige/regelmäßige Agglomerat-Markierung".

    • @krusty6649
      @krusty6649 Před 2 lety

      @@seriousstone2142 kann man dadurch auch "einstellen" ob die markeirungen ton machen wenn man drüber fährt?

    • @southaussiegarbo2054
      @southaussiegarbo2054 Před 2 lety

      @@krusty6649 nope.

  • @ManioAndLuinio
    @ManioAndLuinio Před 2 lety +47

    The Sign that looks like a egg (Squar White Yellow) means your on the Headroad and the lanes that merch into the street have to give you way so you know you dont have to slow down at a Conjunction :) So the merching lanes have a triangle sign that means stop give way befor driving.

    • @besteleben2032
      @besteleben2032 Před 2 lety +3

      Yep ist true beqause i am German and the shield means u can Drive and the OTHER guis has to wait

    • @datpudding5338
      @datpudding5338 Před 2 lety +5

      confirmed some people call them "Spiegelei" which basically means fried egg due to it's design

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +2

      Hail Hydra! Also: I wonder what sign they have in the UK that serves a similar/same purpose

    • @adamhoughton9516
      @adamhoughton9516 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ArinJager1 We just mark the roads that give way (triangle sign) rather than marking the priority road itself. There also should be a double dashed white line going across the exit of the road that's giving way as well, just in case the sign is obscured

    • @zhyqeX
      @zhyqeX Před 2 lety +4

      @@adamhoughton9516 actually in germany we do both, we tell the people to give way and the people who don't have to do that

  • @Asgar1205
    @Asgar1205 Před 2 lety +117

    As a geologist, the only thing I want to know is. Did you perform a proctor test before compacting the ground to make sure it’s properly compacted and won’t sink afterwards?

    • @toniodu371200
      @toniodu371200 Před 2 lety +15

      As a former worker, I can say nobody will do anything before the architect in charge come so nothing before at least 10am

    • @jtowensbyiii6018
      @jtowensbyiii6018 Před 2 lety +15

      As an American I can confirm that's a no, as most usa roads suck and fail within a few years

    • @zachhabron4463
      @zachhabron4463 Před 2 lety +7

      Better get make sure you do a moisture density check then put down some filter fabric AND geogrid, then your good to go😂😂😂

    • @anonymus2852
      @anonymus2852 Před 2 lety +13

      you know proctor are mostly for granula? For asphalt, you need to take a samples for the labo. Mostly doing a core sample and do compression test, burning some of it to know the % of bitumen and other test too.

    • @Asgar1205
      @Asgar1205 Před 2 lety +10

      @@anonymus2852 don’t tell them that! It’s the only test I remembered from university. I don’t work in that field. I more into petrology, primary and secondary deposits ;)

  • @jakobtheonlyone9983
    @jakobtheonlyone9983 Před 2 lety +12

    10:26 I think this game was developed in Germany because of the German text earlier and these signs are here in Germany, they mean that you get a higher priority of some kind at a junktion(sorry if my english isn't the best).

    • @radtrainlord8126
      @radtrainlord8126 Před 2 lety +1

      Junction
      So almost

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +1

      Hail Hydra! Most of the EU has these signs, only UK is being weird with it (like driving on the left side wasn't enough)

    • @p3chv0gel22
      @p3chv0gel22 Před 2 lety

      I think Aerosoft developed it, which is in fact a German company

  • @dashadowgirl
    @dashadowgirl Před 2 lety +20

    Now that I’m getting all of this knowledge from Matt
    I *REALLY* want to go on a road trip and look for things

  • @shadowkyber2510
    @shadowkyber2510 Před 2 lety +6

    13:40 in australia (atleast where I am) they compact the stuff in the pot hole by driving over it with the truck, looks pretty funny seeing them line up their wheels to run it over

  • @cwoelkers1
    @cwoelkers1 Před 2 lety

    This game shows a proper way of fixing a pothole in asphalt. In the US, at least in Michigan, we do it the cheapest way, by shoveling some cold patch into the hole and bashing it with the shovel until it's kinda level. Leaves a bump but the traffic flattens it out overtime, while spreading bits of cold patch everywhere whenever a car runs over it.

  • @nevengarbin8770
    @nevengarbin8770 Před 2 lety +16

    Here comes the LEGENDARY series.Thank you Matt!

    • @blakborn
      @blakborn Před 2 lety +1

      Wiki: A road marking machine is a machine specially used to mark different traffic lines on road surface, and some can remark on old lines directly. It can screed, extrude, or spray processed road paint onto the road surface to form durable coating lines. A hot melt kettle is used for continuously heating, melting, and stirring thermoplastic marking paints, preparing molten paints for the thermoplastic machine, especially for long-distance road-line-marking work. The molten paint quality can affect the line quality greatly.

  • @Mibris
    @Mibris Před 2 lety +2

    In Germany most of these round speed limit signs are always the same size, the only exception i can think of is the Autobahn (Highway) and there only the digital ones i think 🤔

  • @NFSHeld
    @NFSHeld Před 2 lety

    As many people (Germans?) in the comments pointed out that while+yellow sign means you are on a priority road. It basically has the same function like the "priority on the next junction" sign (red upright triangle with a black upwards facing arrow and a crossing), but it is more assuring - basically means "there will be proper notification before that changes to give-way at some intersection". A very interesting thing about this is that it is more akin to speed limit signs, in that it is placed AFTER a junction to inform newly merged traffic, rather than before any junction. I always found that very exciting as a kid for no reason.

  • @sheller153
    @sheller153 Před 2 lety +1

    That brush machine is probably a snow remover. When I was taking the landscape maintenance classes for my horticulture degree we toured the college’s landscaping workshop and got to see all the tools and vehicles. And later that year after an evening class I saw one in action clearing that day’s snow. They just spin up the brush and go along the sidewalk, slinging the snow forward. It’s nice because it gets all of the snow so there isn’t any left behind where a plow didn’t reach so it doesn’t get compacted down into an ice patch after a few hours of students rambling around. Also kinda scary to see in real life, that thing goes at terrifyingly high speeds, the snow it flings will absolutely knock you on your ass if you’re not at the back half of its range. It’s High on my list of “Machines not to get my hand stuck in”

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety

      it's a big(ger) road sweeper/cleaner (glorified broom on wheels), snow remover would have a plough (then again, these vehicles are modular, so you can attach different accessories, thus the vehicle can service all year long, don't really need snow removal in summer, you see)

  • @michaels.3709
    @michaels.3709 Před 2 lety +4

    Never before have I been so excited about a road resurfacing! I love the relaxed, educational style and am looking forward to the next video!

  • @SmolSir
    @SmolSir Před 2 lety +22

    damn, Matt really got into this game. I would love to be his intern!

  • @waterfox2492
    @waterfox2492 Před 2 lety +1

    10:27 It's a "you have the priority" sign. It's a kind of traffic informer marker which warn you that are on the main road and/or you'll have the priority over the next intersections ; and when this main/priority road end , there's a sign called "end of priority marker".
    Those two signs are a very common one to see in France or in Germany.

  • @sparkselm173
    @sparkselm173 Před 2 lety +1

    9:36 "Depending on your sign depends on how strong your pole needs to be, giggity."
    Who else but Mattmire!

  • @tjorvegro9651
    @tjorvegro9651 Před 2 lety +1

    The white and yellow sign shows that your road has the right of way. You can expect to have the right of way in all future intersection until there is another sign saying you don't have it anymore

  • @ydfhlx5923
    @ydfhlx5923 Před 2 lety +14

    10:26 sign means that you're on a road with priority

    • @historyman9436
      @historyman9436 Před 2 lety

      And for the 2 people without a braincell (/s)
      You have the priority over cars on other roads at the junction

  • @gamefreak22574
    @gamefreak22574 Před 2 lety +3

    As a pipefitter, thats definitely a refrigeration coil on the back, probably for just what you said, blowing AC on the wet paint and instantly cooling it down as it goes.

  • @BrumeNoire
    @BrumeNoire Před 2 lety +1

    10:27 the sign means you're on the headway, every other intersecting roads have to give you way, they will have a stop sign or an upside down red outline triangle that tells them to give way. This rule ends when you encounter the same sign but crossed by a red diagonal stripe. We have these in Europe but I had no idea they weren't used in extra-european countries ! These simulator games are mostly german made if I'm not mistaken so that's probably why you get european roadsigns.

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Před 2 lety +1

      In France the end of priority road" sign is crossed by 1 thick or 3 thin black bar(s) instead of red

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety

      @@Soken50 5 thin black lines where I come from ^^

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Před 2 lety

      @@ArinJager1 a) Which country is that ?
      b) How dare they have even more lines than France ?
      (Kidding but it's fun to imagine countries trying to 1 up eachother on signage stripeyness)

  • @leveillealexandre
    @leveillealexandre Před 2 lety +1

    This game and Infra are so fun to watch. All the little bits of info that we learn is just so cool 😁 Can't wait to mention the road signs sizing at the next family dinner 😅😅

  • @Nicolai0901
    @Nicolai0901 Před 2 lety +7

    the sign that looked like an an egg means that you are on an road that has priority on all upgoing junctions (called Vorfahrtsstrasse in German) and that the speed limit is 50km/h (or higher) so its not to be found in residential zones (speed limit of 30km/h).

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +1

      it's "P 2" in my country (we got the same signs, anway, like the whole EU or mainland Europe has it like that, only the brits are being weird as per usual)
      gotta _love_ idiots that run 100+ km/h in 30 km/h places (seen it way too many times, ugh) -.-

  • @matthewtalbot-paine7977

    Where I live there are 2 bad roads; one I drive on every day and they "fix" the pot holes so often that now they've just given up and put soil and hardcore all over the sides of the road so people can avoid the pot holes. The other road that is bad near me has no pot holes but the road surface is not at all level and I know it's meant to be curved for drainage but this is like driving along straight and then your right side of your car dips down 6 inches.

  • @hakarusummer
    @hakarusummer Před 2 lety

    in his last video when he said "when you are driving down the road and look at the gap between the sign posts.", went to the beach yesterday and I happened to catch myself glancing at the gap between the posts on a barrier and got mad at myself for subconsciously being aware of it and what was behind it for the gaps. lmao. damn you for teaching me subconsciously RealCivilEngineer. And now that he has said it again, I probably will look at sign sizes lolz.

  • @davidholub
    @davidholub Před 2 lety

    10:27 We have those in the Czech Republic. It marks "main" roads and it is at almost every intersection. Every main road has a priority of way. The roads that are connected to the main roads are called "secondary" roads and people that come to the intersection from the secondary roads have to give a priority of way to the people coming from the main road. "Two" roads are main and any other road is secondary. Secondary roads have their own sign too. Every secondary road has a yield sign and under the sign is additionary sign with the map of the intersection. When you are turning at the main road, you have to give priority to the people that come from the "opposite" main road when you are crossing the middle lane (turning left - in the UK turning right). When everyone at the main road passes the intersection, then applies the right side rule - every driver gives priority of way to the right (in the UK it would be to the left). And of course people crossing the middle lane have to give priority of way to drivers that go straight or turn right (in the UK turn left). It sounds complicated, but it's easy when you get the experience.

  • @r.lyster8280
    @r.lyster8280 Před rokem

    Hello from America! I really enjoy watching your videos and especially hearing your perspective on all these things from the UK. I really enjoy hearing the details about your experience as an engineer.

  • @drcreeper4885
    @drcreeper4885 Před 2 lety +2

    10:26 this is a German sign it is called "Vorangsstraße,, (priority street)and they say you can drive along without stopping (but traffic lights are not included), so like a Main road.

    • @jaronics
      @jaronics Před 2 lety +1

      I assume you are from Austria because in Germany it's Vorfahrtsstraße, and it means that all joining roads will either have a give way sign or a stop sign. There is also a sign at the end of the Vorfahrtsstraße.

  • @shawnbolack5703
    @shawnbolack5703 Před 2 lety

    I know in the US, at least on smaller roads they don't have that concrete block at the base of the signs, they are designed to give way in the event of a crash and for emergency workers to be able to remove them to be able to get larger vehicles through traffic jams and narrow roads

  • @iniehawk4472
    @iniehawk4472 Před 2 lety +1

    If you have two terminals, one on each side of the road, it is called a "gate" and is the correct way to mark a change in speed limit. You will then have a mix of terminals and repeaters as needed.

  • @xarin42
    @xarin42 Před 2 lety

    The comp[acter makes me think of a machine I used as a janitor at Walmart. It was one-legged, but instead of a metal plate that bounces, it was an abrasive round pad that spun. You used it with some chemicals to soften and then scrape up the floor "wax". I don't know if it had a more technical name, but it was basically a hard plastic coating at least a couple mm thick that protected the prettier tiles underneath. In a store for a relatively small city with a population of about 10k a pretty large area would be done every night ... about a full aisle, or an equivalently sized section or larger of the bigger paths that don't go between shelves (Walmart calls it an action alley), sometimes multiple of them. The machine that made me think of it was strong enough to yank me around if I wasn't careful even on the dry tile. Of course, the tiles were usually quite wet and slick when actually using it (that you could also use a different pad to polish it afterward is how I know it could yank me when dry) so I almost fell multiple times when learning. Several people really did fall at first.
    Anyways, not closely related, but one-legged machines just awakened memories. I doubt anyone will but I can probably some simple answer questions if people have any. nothing specific like machine names unfortunately though :(

  • @cjhickspe1399
    @cjhickspe1399 Před 2 lety +1

    This game is so detailed you could train Dept of Transportation workers with it. Impressive.

    • @sperzieb00n
      @sperzieb00n Před 2 lety

      now i'm wondering if that's actually already a thing, although probably not common in that line of work

  • @evan-edstrom
    @evan-edstrom Před 2 lety

    14:11 I got to use one of these one time. Quite a lot of fun. Where I am in the US this is called a "whacker packer" which is my favorite name for a tool ever.

  • @blah596
    @blah596 Před 2 lety +2

    The Tokyo Drift bells had me fucking rolling, wonderful touch 😂😂😂

  • @lincreeper5544
    @lincreeper5544 Před 2 lety +32

    is he still working as a civil engineer in real life? Because with his amazing upload rythm he probabaly had to quit his job right?

    • @zohaibtariq7351
      @zohaibtariq7351 Před 2 lety +6

      he retired then he started a CZcams channel

    • @drgs38
      @drgs38 Před 2 lety +2

      He did quit quite a long time ago

    • @zohaibtariq7351
      @zohaibtariq7351 Před 2 lety +3

      @@drgs38 nope he told in one of his old videos that he has retired

    • @Nicolai0901
      @Nicolai0901 Před 2 lety +4

      I think he quit about an year ago to do fulltime youtube.

    • @lincreeper5544
      @lincreeper5544 Před 2 lety

      @@zohaibtariq7351 oh, ok thanks

  • @visekual6248
    @visekual6248 Před 2 lety +1

    Where I live not only are all the speed signs the same size, as it's common to be at 120km/h and suddenly the speed drops to 80 or even 60 followed by a speed camera, yes it causes accidents, but the money from the fines is good, there are cities that live off it, so the mayor doesn't care.

  • @iamprosooyt
    @iamprosooyt Před 2 lety +2

    i think matt is qualified for every single job you could think of ( on the road)

  • @jameswassall2334
    @jameswassall2334 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm not usually one to comment on videos but the explanation on sign sizing was amazing, I could listen to Matt explaining road planning concepts all day!

  • @DomenBremecXCVI
    @DomenBremecXCVI Před 2 lety +1

    This game has quickly become one of my favourites on your channel. I learn so much about something I will never be doing (most likely, life can always bring surprises). Very similar feeling to Infra with the amount of information you like to share about the job.

  • @goldug
    @goldug Před 2 lety

    Been watching for a long time and this is the first time I'm commenting.
    The speed limit signs are different in Sweden. They're all the same size (pretty big). When it's a new speed limit, the sign is on both sides of the road, then a little now and again (like after a crossing or where another road merge onto the road) there's a sign on just the right side of the road (since we're driving on the right side of the road, like most of the world) to remind you about the speed limit. It's a working system where you don't need multiple sized speed limit signs, making for (probably) a cheaper manufacturing process.
    In the USA on the other hand, based on what I've seen in games and other media, it is a tiny black-and-white sign that is easy to miss. That sucks.

  • @mattgrostick1499
    @mattgrostick1499 Před 2 lety +1

    @12:27 I can confirm that U.S. road commissions wouldn't be patching a small crack like that one, either.

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 Před 2 lety

    @5:48 - I'm sure this has been answered, but I think that unit you mentioned is what sprinkles powdered glass on the wet paint to increase reflectivity.

  • @heldderblockmemes8061
    @heldderblockmemes8061 Před 2 lety

    The White and Yellow Sign was a "Vorfahrtschild" it shows that you're the one who has the Right to drive first the Counterpart of it is the "Vorfahrt-währen-Schild" it's like a triangle turned around (Its red and white)
    When you see one of these you have to look for other people who are allowed to drive first
    Stop means basically the same as the red and white but you HAVE to stop and look
    XD Looking forward to the next Video

  • @homeoftheinepttulpagamer

    After working in purchasing for utilities companies this is very accurate.
    Disposes of bucket "wouldn't want to use it again". One of the reasons it costs so much to fix things is the fact that you can't trust the crews.. at all. They were allowed to purchase a certain amount extra materials for jobs over the purchase order for extras (consumables mostly). One guy bought a top of the range £50 hammer. Every day for a month. What he did with over £1500s worth of hammer is up to your imagination but the same was true of road repairs also, do you really need 2 tons of asphalt for a 1ft hole or is someone getting a new driveway?
    The amount of hustles was impossible to keep track of. Bare in mind they aren't badly paid, some of the workers get £50k + bonuses for working on fast roads and so on.

  • @mmetzger713
    @mmetzger713 Před 2 lety

    The yellow sign is where a priority road starts in germany. This sign indicates a priority at all upcoming intersections and crossings. Oncoming traffic must yield.
    Greetings from an „angry“ kind german fan.
    PS: A realy funny word to describe german engineering is „Verschlimmbessern“.

  • @jasonsauntry1052
    @jasonsauntry1052 Před 2 lety

    I love that description about sign sizes. We definitely don't do that in Canada. The 100 speed limit sign on a 18-lane divided highway is exactly the same as the 30 sign by your house.
    Although in fairness, it's not like anyone follows the limit on the highways anyways. Everyone knows the *actual* limit is 120.

  • @Dr_Nick_
    @Dr_Nick_ Před 2 lety +1

    That "Car Wash" is a Mercedes Benz Unimog with a street sweeper attachment.

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +1

      first I was thinking "isn't that too big for a unimog?" then I realized I was thinking about multicar, oops (it IS a sweeper, I knew it! Some bloke in the comments was like: "yeah that's for snow removal" it's not for snow removal)

  • @peta_sramek
    @peta_sramek Před 2 lety +1

    10:26 It's sign for main road. We have it for example in Czech Republic. ;)

  • @erikspyro9801
    @erikspyro9801 Před 2 lety +4

    I don't know if this is just in Sweden but if the speed change, there will be a speed sign on both side of the road, while "repeater" signs will only appear to the driving side.

    • @gelu_4499
      @gelu_4499 Před 2 lety

      Here in Germany they are usually on one side only, except for the Highway wich often has them on both.

    • @erikspyro9801
      @erikspyro9801 Před 2 lety

      @@gelu_4499 I have noteced that while driving through Germany. We have it on basically every road where there is a speed change.

  • @AaronD_
    @AaronD_ Před 2 lety +1

    13:56 saw one of these irl today, reminded my of RCE lol

  • @alexanderschnoder2185
    @alexanderschnoder2185 Před 2 lety

    The paint is sprinkled with glass beads so it reflects light . That's what the blower thing does on the marking machine.

  • @copindeanalex
    @copindeanalex Před 2 lety

    It is so nice that you explain all the facts, keep up the good work!

  • @silveralpaca6037
    @silveralpaca6037 Před rokem

    I know I'm a bit late, but I got some fun fact to tell you as well :) 10:27 I dunno where that game takes place, but we got the exact same sign here in Poland and that means you are on the main road and you have the permission to drive thru the crossroads first. Unless you gonna turn left, then you have to wait for the people from the opposite lane to go first ;P
    Keep the great work m8 :)

  • @TheClone159
    @TheClone159 Před 2 lety

    i really like when u explain about different stuff, like with the signs and other rules, its quite fun to learn.

  • @ZaraZee
    @ZaraZee Před 2 lety

    Im actually genuinely loving this series i can never look at signs the same but i love it

  • @RedHat2023
    @RedHat2023 Před 2 lety

    Proper TMP and plant would have been lovely! TMAs and AWVMS would be a delight!

  • @damianmcwherter2110
    @damianmcwherter2110 Před 2 lety +1

    It’s thermal plastic. The tubes on the back shoot glass beads into it for reflective

  • @rashido_grey
    @rashido_grey Před 2 lety

    Please just keep explaining everything. So much random info that I had no clue about and love to learn!

  • @baystated
    @baystated Před 2 lety

    Here in Mass, they'd spend millions on rebuilding an intersection to make it "safer" instead of just keeping up the painted lines. (Our winters do a number on road paint with salt and sand and ice and plow and so on.) And then the new expensive intersection is even more dependent on fancy lane painted lines that are even more likely to be left to fade away than the old intersection. By the time the highway departments get around to painting, it is hours away from wintertime again, and it's more than just one guy in a van who talks to himself.

  • @IhsaanM
    @IhsaanM Před 2 lety +1

    😂 I'm from South Africa and that at 12:22 wouldn't even be considered a pothole.... We have craters, it's like you have to slalom through town

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +1

      you also have to sleep with a gun under your pillow

    • @IhsaanM
      @IhsaanM Před 2 lety

      @@ArinJager1 nah not really, my pet lion is an excellent deterrent

  • @MasterSonicKnight
    @MasterSonicKnight Před 2 lety

    i gotta say i rly love this channel, i get to learn new stuff i won't ever use in my life while also having a taste of let's game it out
    rly can't ask for anything better

  • @nichtabonnieren
    @nichtabonnieren Před 2 lety

    to explain the white square with the yellow middle, i assume its german so in germany its called Vorfahrtsschild and it basically tells you that you can drive while other cars need to wait. There also is the Vorfahrt gewähren sign that tells you that you need to wait for the other cars to drive first

  • @hubertusheinz5876
    @hubertusheinz5876 Před 2 lety

    The sign was a german street sign.
    It means that the road has a higher priority in driving throw the junction as the other crossing road.
    The name is "Vorfahrtsstraßen" sign

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint Před 2 lety

    thermoplastic with retroreflective particles added, it lasts years longer than pretty much any paint in existence and takes an absolute beating before breaking down

  • @blockstacker5614
    @blockstacker5614 Před 2 lety +1

    love how the mog totally ramped off that poor audi lmao

  • @jamoecw
    @jamoecw Před 2 lety

    in the US they are the same size. each sign (even though they are all standardized) are custom made, making them really expensive. some places still only put the poles into the ground 18 inches with a bunch of concrete to hold it in place (like a post), but with the fad of stealing road signs (and people hitting them, knocking them down) quite a few are put in a few feet into the ground, with concrete to help hold it as well. in fact there are quite a few i have seen that have filled the hollow tube space of the pole with concrete to make it more rigid and harder to bend or steal.
    the device you should not hold it steady in one spot, as it will make a square 'hole' with pronounced edges, rather than a dip. you should add enough material and 'walk' the machine onto the lump and over it, then back and forth so that it becomes level (or at least perceptibly so, you know how measurements go).

  • @sirzanderr3908
    @sirzanderr3908 Před 2 lety +1

    8:20 I think most US speed limit signs are the same size (I have seen smaller ones on highway) but most look the same size whille driving

  • @RFCRoumble
    @RFCRoumble Před 2 lety

    The thing looking like a "Washer" is actually exactly that. its used in Germany to clean the road limit posts

  • @DrShiffles
    @DrShiffles Před 2 lety

    Lol @ that “pot hole”. Here in Michigan that’s just a feature of the road. Pot holes barely get filled when they become the size of an elephant 😂

  • @mgunter
    @mgunter Před 2 lety +1

    12:23 A politician must of complained about that one. They typically need to be 1 foot in diameter and 6 inches deep before any non-private takes care of it.

    • @paulk5670
      @paulk5670 Před 2 lety

      Depends. If it's the end of a budget season and the roadworks department is on a 'use it or lose it budget', you'll see a heck of a lot of cold patch going down everywhere.
      Won't actually *fix* it with fresh ashphalt, of course. That would be job security suicide.
      Don't normally see the compactor coming out, either, just drive the pickup over it a few times.

  • @anonymus2852
    @anonymus2852 Před 2 lety

    funny how people repair road in other country. Here in Canada, some law change so we cant use anymore cold asphalt, we need hot one for most of our work. And that compactor type is for small trench. You need a lot more heavier one for those work. You need glue too to make those asphalt work better.

  • @gelu_4499
    @gelu_4499 Před 2 lety

    The square EGG sign you encountered (White rim yellow interior stands on one edge) is a "Priority Road" sign. It means you have priority on this junction and can expect priority on following junctions as well, if you follow the road without turning off of it.
    I have to admit I thought they were used within the entire EU (and former EU)

  • @kingdweeb5065
    @kingdweeb5065 Před 2 lety

    Any video where you say doodoo within the first 30 seconds is a good video. Nice!

  • @matttori7163
    @matttori7163 Před 2 lety

    Nothing like a good 180 handbrake drift on the motorway!

  • @polares8187
    @polares8187 Před 2 lety

    Learning about these kinds of stuff is always fun

  • @Spaxxist
    @Spaxxist Před 2 lety

    Feels like my internship at the building site a building site all over again, amazing
    Love the content, also love planet crafter a lot

  • @espionx8236
    @espionx8236 Před 2 lety +1

    I have a quote:
    Architect make a bridge stand but don't know why. And an ingenieer make it not stand but know why

  • @timbomb374
    @timbomb374 Před rokem

    The actually carrying items is a nice touch. It's those kinds of things that really make a game feel good. I thought in the future that all games would have tons of little details like that but if anything these days it's gone the other way.

  • @Melv1ns
    @Melv1ns Před 2 lety

    Tip of the day. You should try and look at these speed limiting signs and figure out what speed you're going at. Whattttt, I just normally drive full throttle not looking at any signs😂😂

  • @rokushou
    @rokushou Před 2 lety

    Surprisingly educational series, would like to see more.

  • @nicholaspelz9422
    @nicholaspelz9422 Před 2 lety

    In the US we call the "compactor" a "Jumping Jack", also construction is super fun and I am Studying to be a Civil Engineer

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety +1

      not to confuse with spring-heeled jack, the vigilante that was killing _yahtzees_ during the ww2

  • @QuestingTruck
    @QuestingTruck Před 2 lety +4

    We don't have repeater signs in the USA. I wish we did. Best we can hope for is a crossroad where they will put a new sign up in case someone just turned onto the road.

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety

      the US got quite a lot of "wild" traffic stuff, it's kinda scary tbh

    • @namibjDerEchte
      @namibjDerEchte Před 2 lety

      You also don't do signs, but instead just write words on plates....
      Except stop sign shape and railway crossing cross, at least, from memory.

    • @QuestingTruck
      @QuestingTruck Před 2 lety

      @@namibjDerEchte well we have various sign shapes and colors and they do have meaning. Diamonds tend to be caution or alert for instance. That said we do have plenty of the words on plates signs you mention.
      He talks in this video how signs are bigger or smaller based on how much time you have to read them. In the USA there are way too many of these novels written on signs you can't possibly read hurtling past them. Generally those signs you see and get the gist of what it's supposed to be and look for the relevant key detail. Tonnage limit signs are the most common culprits of this in my line of work. Particularly ones in rural areas.

  • @tarrantwolf
    @tarrantwolf Před 2 lety

    I passed a truck painting the lines on the road this morning on my way to work. They didn't close the road, it was just driving down one lane rather slowly so all the cars had to go around it. Rather meaningless post but it helps feed the algorithm.

  • @Jacob.bar777
    @Jacob.bar777 Před 2 lety +2

    "we will drive out here *hits gate*" lmao

  • @darkmagician1184
    @darkmagician1184 Před 2 lety

    Your pole lesson makes me wonder:
    In the US, the signs (and mailboxes even if they are brick) have to be able to fall over if run into by a car, I can't remember the speed. A lot of our signs are on U channel or Square tube perforated pole. Our light posts are bolted to the ground rather than set in the ground by concrete, I assume because of the sheer strength of the bolts. Our power poles (which we still put above ground in the year 2022) are solid wood and firmly placed in the ground a few feet deep, they aren't going anywhere if a car wrecks into it unless they're starting to rot (since they're made of pine).
    Your description of the speed limit sign though was more akin to when I built my fence with aluminum posts, a couple feet deep (0.5 meters) with a cement footer.

    • @ebnertra0004
      @ebnertra0004 Před 2 lety

      Wooden posts can still be found at most passive level crossings (protected only by signs - no lights/ gates, etc.). They usually have holes drilled through them near ground level to make them break away better.
      Large freeway signs are supported by I-beams with breakaway mounts, as well. I've actually seen signs like that with one beam broken off and the other holding the whole sign. So they're apparently pretty tough.
      About the only signs not designed to break off are ones that reach over the road. Mostly things like overhead sign supports, traffic light mast-arms, and cantilevers used at level crossings. I think some actually _are_ still breakaway, but many are not

  • @henry090801
    @henry090801 Před 2 lety

    I'm currently working in road maintenance and besides the traffic management for the jobs this is pre on point

  • @arti6okk
    @arti6okk Před 2 lety

    "peace love and road maintainance" sounds quite methaphoric to me, therefore relatable, love it!

  • @mayuravirus6134
    @mayuravirus6134 Před 2 lety

    Its a good thing that at my old senior highschool the library has a sign where it explains those same sign you explained

  • @ethaniel_tweedy
    @ethaniel_tweedy Před 2 lety

    12:24 you said it as I was thinking it lol

  • @daveyjahosaphat1428
    @daveyjahosaphat1428 Před 2 lety

    Wow, the British signs are complex!
    In the oosuh, or usa if you wish to use the latin, all our speed limiting signs are the same size.
    From knee to floor - tall
    From elbow to wrist - wide
    Rectangle Sign, 6 foot tall person.
    White sign, black letters n numbers
    Maybe black rim on sign.
    Sign is on a post. Attached with 2 or 4 bolts.

  • @meltedcalippo
    @meltedcalippo Před 2 lety

    This really lives up to the Simulator game genre.

    • @ArinJager1
      @ArinJager1 Před 2 lety

      funny how "all" (most of) these simulators come from germany (this, farming sim, eurotruck sim,...)

  • @CubeAtlantic
    @CubeAtlantic Před 2 lety

    Those machines are so unique, & advanced ngl.

  • @alltaira5922
    @alltaira5922 Před 2 lety

    This reminds me of construction in New Jersey. They literally closed a street down with no warnings or detours and I was driving a tractor trailer. I was like WTF am I supposed to do now...? lol fun days....

  • @owenb6914
    @owenb6914 Před rokem

    10:26 I think this sign means that you are on a road that wil always go first at a junction