Super Pave
Richmond, VA
Male, 33
I have been a supervisor of large paving projects for VDOT and other agencies for 13 years.Mostly interstate.See the guys or girls working behind the orange cones on the road? that's me! ask me anything
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No it's never happened to me but your car exshaust runs about the same temp as freshly made asphalt.Your talking serious 1st degree burns depending on the contact with it.But we wear work boots with steel toe that does protect our feet from the temp.And there's really no reason why it should ever come in contact with any other part of the body.The guys that paint the lines on the roads for all of us.They have the real danger..They control the paint spraying from the trucks rear and all the air,hydraulic,and supply lines run right by the seat they operate it from.They have to heat that paint up to like 300 degrees before spraying and I've heard some bad horror stories of lines busting.
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My company does it but I don't like it.It's called crackfill and its supposed to stop cracks from getting worse and potholes forming.I can tell you I think it's a cheap band-aid on a problem that most people don't want to spend money on.I milled a highway last year(milling is a machine that grinds up the asphalt and loads it in a truck and is recycled)The city had just spent $300k on crackfill against pro advice.Yeah it continued to crack anyway and they had to pay us to mill the asphalt,the crackfill,and pave the road.
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Yes they are.Putting an angle in the center of the road kind of like the roof on your home is called a "crown''.It's purpose is to force water to the gutter pans and out of the road.There is a new type of asphalt that is still in some what of the development stages that water flows directly through the asphalt making drains or ditches unnessecery.
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They spin in order for the cement to not set up.They have flights inside kind of like a clothes dryer.When the truck arrives at the job the drum spins backwards to force the concrete out of the truck.
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My company does not do driveways.We do however do large shopping center parking lots.An example driveway say big enough for two cars about 50' long would be something around $5,000-$8,000.
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The City or the many I have worked for use a computer program to select routes to pave.It's based on things like traffic volume and last time it was paved.But yes the people speak and they shall be heard! I have been on a job may times and get a call that we have to move a road up on the list because of the complaints.
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