Pavement Marking Management System

Reference Manual
June 1999

Minnisota Department of Transportation

Appendix A – Description of Paper Form of Striper Operations Daily Log

The paper form of the Striper Operations Daily Log is a data collection form used to track all pavement marking installations. Once this form is completed, a selected crew, or office employee should transfer the information into the database. If multiple crew are installing markings, and are tracking their own installations they should come to a consensus, or common ground, on everything they are tracking. It is important that each crew tracks, and records the information the same way.

It is recommended that each day a striping related activity is done a Striper Operation Daily Log, or Contract Daily Log should be filled out. In other words, a form should be filled out for each day that: equipment maintenance, material handling (shipping, receiving, or moving), equipment or whether delays, striping related training/conferences was done. To make data input into the computer easier this form has been intentionally designed to look like the computer data-input screen.

The tables (A, B, and C) below are intended to resemble the Striper Operations Daily Log. They will be referred to throughout this description. Again, as it was earlier, the term RUN (or pass) is used. A single striping pass includes all material applied from a beginning reference point (or mile marker), to an ending reference point in one direction. A run is listed on this form on table C under T.H. (trunk highway); therefor, each individual line filled out under T.H. is considered a run, or a pass of the striper.

Table “A” is the top of the Striper Operations Daily Log. This portion of the form will track equipment, employee(s), and employee daily regular and overtime hours. Each column has been given a specific number (i.e., 1,2,3). Use the column number to find the written description for each column.

Equipment: (Table A, Column No. 1)
Record in column 1 the unit number, and the total hours, for each piece of eqipment assigned to that day's operation. Aux. Equip. (i.e., auxiliary equipment) should be used to indicate any additional equipment that is used.

Job: (Table A, Column No. 2)
Indicate in this column each crew members assigned job. For example, on the line that is identified Striper (with the unit number next to it) describe in the job column “operator” to identify the crew member that is driving the striper unit. There are five activities that are associated with striping: 1. Operator, 2. Cons. Op. (i.e., console operator, or button pusher), 3. Nurse truck, 4. Traffic control, 5. Training.

If during a single day a crewmember does two different jobs (i.e., drives for 4 hours, and runs the console for 4 hours) identify this on the form. When the information is entered into the computer two lines will be used to cover this situation.

Employee ID, Last Name, First Name: (Table A, Column 3,4 8 5)
These three columns identify each member of the crew. If additional room is needed turn the form over and identify each additional employee’s information of the back of the form.

Reg. Hrs. and O.T. Hrs: (Table A, Column 6 & 7)
Indicate total daily hours in these two columns. Again, a sheet should be filled out anytime anyone on a crew is doing a striping related function. These include, but are not limited to equipment repair/maintenance, striping related training, and whether delays.

Materials: (Table B , Column 6)
Indicate in this column the type of material used. This is a column that has changed from
the original form. A quick check of this column will reveal if two materials were installed
within a given segment, or within a given day. Notice that two columns are included in
the material section. For most of our day-to-day maintenance operations only one
material will be used. It is important to track whenever multiple materials are used
within the same reference points (e.g., tape centerlines and epoxy edge lines). When
recording a run(s) that have multiple materials within them, please break each nm out by
a single material.