In March, Roads & Bridges traveled to Las Vegas to cover CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026, and safety was a major theme of the conference. This video shows the highlights from our discussions about work zone safety from CONEXPO.
First, ARTBA’s Robinson Vasquez discussions solutions to prevent death and injury to roadway workers by training new workers about traffic within the jobsite. Next, Alex Parker, owner of Parker Rock ’N Dirt, shares the story of how he escaped death and manages injuries he sustained on a jobsite along a road decades ago. Finally, Oracle’s Josh Kanner breaks down ways in which artificial intelligence can increase work zone safety.
About the Author
Gavin Jenkins, Head of Content
Head of Content
Gavin Jenkins is an award-winning journalist based in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, VICE, Narrative.ly, Prevention, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Beijing Review.
In 2020, two stories he wrote for Pitt Med Magazine earned three Golden Quill Awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. “Surviving Survival” won Excellence in Corporate, Marketing and Promotional Communications – Written, Medical/Health, while “Oct. 27, 2018: Pittsburgh’s Darkest Day, and the Mass Casualty Response” won Excellence in Written Journalism, Magazines – Medical/Health, as well as the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award: Magazines, a Best in Show award.
After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2003, he covered sports for the Bedford Gazette, in Bedford, Pa., and the Martinsville Bulletin, in Martinsville, Va. In 2006, he returned to Pittsburgh to write for Trib Total Media. Based out of the Kittanning Leader Times, he worked for the Trib for two years, and then he moved to Shenzhen, China, to teach English and freelance. After two years in China, he earned an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh.
When he's not at work, he's usually playing with his border-collie mix, Bob.