These blazing hot temperatures might have changed your daily plans.
They've also changed the plans of road construction workers.
If you've noticed, no road construction workers in Missouri were out Friday.
But it's not because this week was so hot.
They have shifted to four 10 hour days instead of five eight hour days.
They also rotate jobs more frequently and spend time in the air conditioned trucks.
You might think that the workers who ride on the heavy machinery have the hottest job.
That's often not the case.
MoDOT Maintenance Superintendent Randy Shubert says, "You're standing on asphalt and or concrete. You're looking at pavement temperatures of 120 degrees in midday. So you're standing there on that pavement, if there's not a lot of breeze movement, then you're getting a lot of heat off that road."
The workers also are given bright neon t-shirts to wear instead of the heavy vests.
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