# Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Reading the Traveled Way

USDA Forest Service Video VH-416B Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Reading the Traveled Way Focuses on understanding the condition of the road, so that costly repairs can be avoided through proper, proactive maintenance. Since field conditions are always changing, it is important to use experience to read the trouble signs on the roadway and adjust the maintenance plan as necessary. If the right repairs are undertaken at the right time, by accurately identifying the cause and extent and then repairing according, you will save time and money and minimize the environmental impacts. The causes, symptoms and cures to the following conditions are addressed: rutting, washboarding, potholes, destroyed road template, cracks, flour, loss of surfacing, excessive vegetation, water bypassing the surface cross drains, damaged or filled cattleguards, damage to bridges, and damage to fords.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2002
- By: USDA Forest Service
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fhwa.ttp.vh-416b)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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