October 2002

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Grim truth beats grim reaper

Oct. 18, 2002
Last spring, there was a forecast to the effect that if only half of the grim predictions about what was coming this fall in the big truck and diesel engine fields proved true...
Asphalt

Back to Being Super

Oct. 18, 2002
Although some form of pavement recycling was practiced as early as 1915, the first sustained efforts to recover and reuse old asphalt paving materials were conducted in the mid...
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Roads Report: Stupid is as stupid does*

Oct. 18, 2002
La solution qui pave Anyone who's ever visited Europe knows about its horrendous lack of parking. Well, finally someone is fighting back. The Parisian Asphalt Initiative ...
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The Common Cold?

Oct. 18, 2002
Roughly 30 years ago, Bomag pioneered some of the first cold in-place asphalt recyclers in the roadbuilding industry. This was not only a new piece of equipment, it was the introduction...
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Do Not Throw Out

Oct. 18, 2002
Here's a knock-knock joke for you: You're sitting at home one night when the folks at Coca-Cola arrive at your doorstep. They tell you they're here to collect any empty cans or...

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Asphalt

A Love For the Crush

Oct. 18, 2002
Created in 1980 as an offshoot of Independence Excavating, whose resume includes demolition, sewer services and major earthwork--including site work at Jacobs Field, the home ...
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Paying in sand dollars

Oct. 18, 2002
In my column last month I discussed an Ohio case on home office overhead. This month I will discuss a recent Interior Board of Contract Appeals decision which allowed a contractor...
Asphalt

Stationary Test Trucks Results

Oct. 18, 2002
Every six seconds, a full-size truck axle rolls silently over the pavements constructed at the Civil Infrastructure Systems Laboratory at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan...
Road Construction

The Customer Exits Happy

Oct. 17, 2002
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the older limited-access highways in America, with its first four-lane, 160-mile stretch opened to the public in 1940. Over the years, the ...