Most of us have heard the following before, three things are important for highway pavements: drainage, drainage and drainage. However, we do not generally consider the drainage...
In August, while meeting for its annual executive session, the AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Joint Committee signed policy statements addressing work-zone safety and the traveling public, ...
Contractors and highway agency personnel continue to be optimistic about the outlook for a steady road construction market in 1996 and 1997, according to responses from readers...
This is the '90s, and ways of doing business have changed with the times, even for those in the asphalt-paving industry. While most paving projects are "kicked off" ...
The first true hot-mix asphalt (HMA) roads laid in the U.S. were put in place just over a hundred years ago. The technique these pioneering 19th century contractors employed to...
Logistics. That's the new buzzword in truck management, and truck management has a way of attracting buzzwords. About 25 years ago, full-service leasing was advanced as a plan...
There are currently two types of hot-mix asphalt plants used in the U.S.: batch plants and drum-mix plants. The results of each type of plant-a hot, homogeneous blend of aggregate...