Drives and maneuvers equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, and rocks, and to distribute and level earth or terrain, without damaging existing signage and structures along canal roads and lateral right-of-way. Starts engines, move throttles, switches, and levers, and depress pedals to operate machines such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, backhoes, 2-ton crane truck, long-reach excavators, and cranes.