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asphalt by doing small patching work?
Are you the small family business that
only does driveways, or the bigger commercial
class paving contractor that
handles parking lots and municipal
road work. Does your operation also
own its own asphalt plant and material
or part of the highway paving firms? It
doesn’t matter what size your company
is, it matters more what you’re good at,
and known for and finding your niche
in your market to make a very good living
by doing what you love. Hats off to
all of you working in and during this
Covid-19 Virus 2020 year as an essential
business. We hope that all of you
and your crews are staying safe during
this virus timeframe.
Where do you get the knowledge to
be in the asphalt paving business these
days? College? Maybe. Trade and tech
schools? More likely. Growing up in
the asphalt business? Yes. Working with
an asphalt paving crew and learning it
from the lute rake up? Yes. But in the
end, learning to lay a beautiful asphalt
mat with a paver is an art. For most
highway work these days, you’ll have
systems that can work with a paver to
lay exactly what you need, like a grade
control system for one. On down to the
patching crew that has to do it all by
eye, feel, and your gut. The pressure is
Where do you get the knowledge
to be in the asphalt paving
business these days? College?
Maybe. Trade and tech schools?
More likely.
on to make sure it all works for drainage
and it looks good when completed.
Ours is an industry that can take
a young, hardworking employee fresh
out of high school and put him to work
making a respectable wage. In a few
years, that worker who has shown some
passion for what he does, has now been
promoted into a position of responsibility
with higher pay and higher benefits
and, in some cases, higher than his
friend that just graduated college with
debt that won’t be paid off for many
years.
In today’s world the asphalt paving
crew is viewed similar to the farmer. No
understanding of what you really do.
And certainly no respect for your talent
and the hard work or the conditions
you all have to work in most of the time
to get the job done. But those of us in
asphalt paving love what we do, and respect
everyone in this industry, because
it’s one of the hardest working and rewarding
business to be in. I encourage
all of you to share your job successes
and your love for this industry. And we
thank all of you for being in this asphalt
paving business, this country needs all
of you. Our driveways, parking lots and
roadways depend on you!
Bryce Davis, Director of Sales,
STE LeeBoy. [email protected].
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