BRIAN THORNTON
ASPHALT ANSWERS
It’ s Go-Time!
It will help drive and grow your business in 2025
T oday, it is nearly 80 degrees here in Maryland, my lawn is starting to green and so is my black car. Flowers and trees are blooming, the birds are chirping and spring is springing. If you have ever traveled Maryland’ s eastern shore this time of year, there is a particular pungent odor that fills the air, as the farmers prepare their fields with“ natural” fertilizer for the upcoming planting season— it’ s often described as“ smelling like money” around here. However, there is another more pleasant nuance of money in the air for those of us in the asphalt industry that have waited months to smell it again, as we follow those black tire tracks
BRIAN THORNTON
down the road to see who is paving and where. IT IS GO-TIME! Having just wrapped up the 2025 show season last month with“ Pave / X” and“ World of Asphalt,” it is finally time to ditch the fancy shoes and clothes and get back to doing what we do best. Weeks of training classes, shows and some preventative maintenance, and we are ready to put our noses to the grindstone and not take a breath until the leaves go away. One thing I believe I learned most while attending shows this year, is that optimism is the best I have seen in sometime. The booths were packed with visitors that traveled long distances to see what the man-
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