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Asphalt Pavers
Contractor Choice: Who Makes The Best Asphalt Paver?
In a post on the Facebook group Asphalt Life, which has a community of almost 220,000 global members, the question of which manufacturer makes the best asphalt paver was discussed across hundreds of comments. The results will surprise you!
Paint & Thermoplastic Materials
Art and Community Efforts Boost Crosswalk Safety in Youngstown, Ohio
No Edge Lines
Where Are All The Workers? | No Edge Lines Season 2 Episode 3
Asphalt Plants
FAYAT Acquires Asphalt Drum Mixers Inc.
Sweepers
Using Independent Sweeping Contractors: Advantages and Pitfalls
Coaching & Consulting
Planning: The Components of Contractor Success
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No Edge Lines
The Future Is Vocational | No Edge Lines Season 2 Episode 2
Brandon travels to see Eosso Brothers Paving in New Jersey, trains on an asphalt milling machine for the first time with a graduate of the local Ocean County Vocational Technical School (OCVTS), tours the program, and takes a stab at sealcoating a Wawa.
Pavement Maintenance
PAVE/X, The Pavement Awards, Top Contractor Lists and Beyond
Lot's of things are going to look different in 2024. If you're in the pavement maintenance industry, make sure you don't miss out!
Sponsored
Make Mastic Patching Safer with the new EZ Patcher
The new Crafco EZ Patcher speeds up mastic patching while keeping your crew safe, thanks to a floating drag box, camera system and in-cab controls.
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Pavement Marking & Striping
Nominations Open for 2025 Pavement Awards
Category awards include paving, sealcoating, striping, video content, a contractor and a sweeper of the year, and more! Submissions close Oct. 4.
Pavement Awards
Frequently Asked Questions to Pavement Award
Pavement Maintenance
PAVE/X Pulse: Project Staging Key to Success
Kenny Roy with Royal Pavement Solutions chats with contractors about how they planned their projects weeks before they arrive onsite to ensure all runs smoothly
Construction News
ForConstructionPros.com's New Award Recognizes Construction Pros in Office and on Jobsite
ForConstructionPros.com launched the PACER award, which recognizes construction pros on the jobsite and in the office for their accomplishments in shaping the construction industry.
Top Contractor Awards
The Pavement Maintenance Top 50 Contractors of 2024
The complex economic factors at work in our industry are impacted by many outside forces. If you only look at the year-over-year figures, you might be discouraged, but we've been tracking things for more than a decade, and upward is still the trend.
Top Contractor Awards
Top 50 Pavement Repair Contractors 2024
Of all the categories that we took survey data on, the Pavement Repair sector seems to be holding the most consistent and predictable growth over the last ten years.
Sponsored
Make Mastic Patching Safer with the new EZ Patcher
The new Crafco EZ Patcher speeds up mastic patching while keeping your crew safe, thanks to a floating drag box, camera system and in-cab controls.
Top Contractor Awards
Top 50 Sealcoat Contractors 2024
Sealcoating over the last ten years has seen a steady decline in gross sales and that trend continued this year. There may be outside factors influencing this trend, but the profit margins of those contractors still doing the work are strong.
Top Contractor Awards
Top 50 Paving Contractors 2024
Despite a small contraction in the market's overall grosses, as well as in the area of paving specifically, there might be a trend revealed within the data to explain why profit margins stay strong even in years when less asphalt goes down.
No Edge Lines
The Future Is Vocational | No Edge Lines Season 2 Episode 2
Brandon travels to see Eosso Brothers Paving in New Jersey, trains on an asphalt milling machine for the first time with a graduate of the local Ocean County Vocational Technical School (OCVTS), tours the program, and takes a stab at sealcoating a Wawa.
Excavators
Cat Launches Versatile Grading Beams For Excavators
A new tool, potentially useful for a wide range of dirt work situations, including sub-base and sub-gradations for asphalt and concrete pavements.
Construction Technology
How AI, Automation, and Tech Are Shaping Asphalt Industry
The machines that we use to pave, mill, and compact are getting smarter at an increasingly fast pace. Data capture and telematics give us all the pieces of the puzzle. How long before a system can put them all together better than human operators?
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
Technology Makes Teamwork Even More Effective
The technology your company employs on the jobsite should boost the effective communication and efficiency of your crew. It should reduce friction and make what you do well, even better.
Patching Equipment & Materials
Asphalt Pavement Repairs 101
The arrival of spring and early summer means shifting into high gear on pavement maintenance and repairs. The winter months and spring rains always take their toll on pavements, so it’s good to review a few basic, timely repair strategies.
Pavement Maintenance
Backed By Private Equity, Heartland Paving Partners Acquires Fifth Company
As a platform for private equity group Soundcore, Heartland Paving Partners buys Klekamp & Company, based in Cincinnati, OH, expanding its foothold in the midwestern region. This is the second acquisition for the group in the last five months.
Video Network
PAVE/X Pulse: Keys to Successful Parking Lot Striping
This month, Mark Estrada with Marathon Solutions discusses the elements of proper planning and layout for achieving perfect striping results.
Labor & Workforce Development
A Better Hiring Mindest: What We Can Offer You
Jose Hernandez and his brother Pete started their asphalt business with nothing, but discovered an out-of-the-box recruitment method to find quality employees.
No Edge Lines
Love & Asphalt | No Edge Lines Season 2 Episode 1
Brandon heads to his first-ever World of Asphalt in Nashville, TN, where he walks the showroom floor, talks to attendees, and ultimately ends up on a river boat party. Checkout the first episode of an all-new season of No Edge Lines.
Sponsored
Make Mastic Patching Safer with the new EZ Patcher
The new Crafco EZ Patcher speeds up mastic patching while keeping your crew safe, thanks to a floating drag box, camera system and in-cab controls.
Asphalt Plants
Russell Standard Acquires Asphalt Terminal in Delaware, Expands Northeastern Reach
Exclusive comments from the company's CEO, Matt Johnson, about their latest moves, as well as, where they intend to take things in the near future.
Coaching & Consulting
The Cost of Quality
The Cost of Quality is zeroed out when we do things right the first time.
No Edge Lines
No Edge Lines Season 2 Is Going Places
What do you do if you weren't "Raised On Blacktop" and you're also the editor for Asphalt Contractor magazine? You go to school! The soon to launch second season of No Edge Lines is headed to more than twice as many jobsites as season one!
Pavement Maintenance
The Top 25 Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction Products 2024
After a few years hiatus, the Top 25 Pavement Maintenance Products is back and will be better than ever!
Coaching & Consulting
5 Steps to Effective Hiring in the Trades
Getting the right people on your team is critical to the sustainability of your business. High turnover rates or underperforming team members can have a detrimental impact on your business and profitability.
Sealcoating Equipment & Materials
SealMaster Continues Western Expansion
SealMaster acquires Martin Marietta Miramar sealcoat manufacturing plant.
Coatings & Sealants
Pecora Offers Pecora-Deck HB1100-SA Coating
The Pecora-Deck HB1100-SA Coating is applied as a one-step traffic coating system that includes an integral aggregate and functions as both a waterproofing and traffic bearing deck coating system.
Pavement Marking & Striping
What Does The Future of Striping Look Like?
To elevate your striping game, it's all about the technology and the tools.
Compaction Equipment
Breaking Down Dynapac’s SEISMIC Asphalt System
The technology is designed to increase compaction quality while also decreasing complexity for operators.
Pavement Maintenance
Why Aegis Asphalt Has A Bright Business Future
Out in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, the weather is against you, the time is against you, and in the case of Aegis Asphalt Construction, they've had to start from the literal ground up, growing the business by leaps and bounds.
Pavement Maintenance
PAVE/X Pulse: The Importance of Project Pre-Planning
In this month’s jobsite beat, Brandon Leone, Division President, Alpha Paving - Dallas, takes us out on a jobsite and talks about the importance of a pre-con and daily huddles that keep everyone on the same page, working towards the same goal.