As rumble strips become more popular, roadway contractors are facing new pavement marking challenges. This blog is about the challenge of removing a pavement marking that is applied in a rumble strip groove.

A traditional grinding truck has applications that are ideal but removing a marking embedded in a rumble strip is not one of them. See photo below.

If a contractor were to use a grinding truck to perform this removal, the only possible way would be to remove the asphalt to the lowest level of paint, which would cause catastrophic damage to the rumble strips as well as the road. This damage could be potentially life threatening to a motorcyclist or other small vehicles.

Water blasting is an ideal method to remove a marking from within a rumble strip. Watch this video of our Stripe Hog performing a marking removal while leaving the rumble strips completely intact.

Here is a video of our Stripe Hog SH8000 removing a roadway pavement marking that was applied in a rumble strip cut.

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