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Rainy days, or training days? ⛈️⛈️ Make the most of rain days with Asphalt Paving 101, an online course covering all the paving basics.
Learn more:
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Happy international friendship day to the two best buddies an asphalt pro could ever have 🥰
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🧡 Show us your orange! 🧡
Today is Go Orange Day for National Work Zone Awareness Week. Post of pic of your orange-sporting crew in the comments 👇
#WorkZoneSafety
#NWZAW
#Watch4Us
#HighwayHero
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Today is
#WyomingDay
! 🤠 And what better way to celebrate the cowboy state than this wild new textured screed concept from Axenox out in Powell, Wyoming!
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”Asphalt is for racing. Concrete is for sidewalks.”--Dale Earnhardt Jr.
It’s NASCAR Day! So, we thought we’d share a few of our favorite pics from asphalt paving jobs on high-speed tracks of all types.
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This 1896 bicycling map of Detroit highlights the asphalt roads. Did you know that cyclists were some of the strongest early advocates for asphalt pavements, due to their smooth, comfortable ride?
#throwbackthursday
#nationalbikemonth
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GSSI’s new field puck kit is trying to put an end to coring on the job site, when paired with its PaveScan system 😱
@GSSI_GPR
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Who doesn’t love a nice notch wedge?!?
What’s your top longitudinal joint tip? Let us know in the comments 👇
📸: Schellinger Construction Hits Notch Wedge Joint Density Specs |
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Let's get back to basics! Here are three tests you don’t want to skip for mix design:
- Hamburg Wheel Tracking Test (HWTT)
- Semi-Circular Bending (SCB) Test
- Disc Shaped Compact Tension (DCT) Test
Read more:
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What a shot for
#WorldPhotographyDay
🤩 Reply with the BEST photo you’ve taken from one of your 2022 projects 👇 We just might feature your project in one of our fall issues 🍂
📸: Dusty Bailey,
@asphalt_space_ranger
on Instagram
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It’s Go Orange Day!
Show your support on social media by posting your orange pics and use the hashtags
#NWZAW
and
#Orange4Safety
!
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Just a couple
#NAPAannual
snaps! Who else loves the new I Love Asphalt logo from
@NAPATweets
? ✋
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Today is International Women’s Day! AsphaltPro is proud to spotlight amazing Women of Asphalt in every issue 🦸♀️♀️🙌 Read our Women of Asphalt archive:
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April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Remember: All it takes is one second, one text, one distraction to change someone else’s life forever.
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How we feel, knowing the end of the paving season is just around the corner. 😭😭 Can you believe it’s October 1 already??
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Happy International Women's Day! Did you know
@womenofasphalt
has a mentorship program? When the program kicked off last month, it already had more than 165 participants and 80 matches!
Read more:
#womensday
#womenofasphalt
#womeninconstruction
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🚘 Today is National Road Trip day! 🛣️ What’s the most scenic road you’ve ever paved?
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It’s National Fossil Day! 🦖 Post a pic of a dinosaur that’s still roaming around your crew in the comments 🦕
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Have a wonderful Labor Day! Thank you for all the hard work y’all do to keep America moving!
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This
@asphaltroads
graphic is great for business owners who may not know why asphalt is the best choice for parking lots! Worth a share!
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🎼 Ooooooklahoma, where the asphalt lasts for 50 years! 🎼
On
#OklahomaDay
, let’s look at a perpetual pavement project on the Sooner State’s US-69. Read more:
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We're just days away from Work Zone Awareness Week (and NAPA's Watch For Us Work Zone Safety Campaign). How do you plan to participate this year? Let us know ⏬
📸: Air Brake Warning System Earns Award-Winning Safety |
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#WorldOfAsphalt
| Stop by
@ElementSix_
at booth 1657 to check out their synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide milling teeth 💎💎
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In 1957, the Bopparder Maschinenbau Gesselschaft (BOMAG--get it?) manufactured the world's first BW60 double vibratory roller--What a world of difference 60+ years makes!
#throwbackthursday
#tbt
#throwback
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Merry Christmas to all our asphalt pros out there, every one 🙏🎄🎁
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Old school traffic control! Check out this flagger directing traffic for the repaving of campus drive in Morgantown, West Virginia, circa 1959, with West Virginia University Stadium in the background.
#throwback
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
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It would take 25 Tier IV 2021 machines to equal the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a single Tier I 1990s-era piece of construction machinery! Read about how OEMs are working to make construction equipment more sustainable.
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What is your top paving ‘don’t’?
Check out John Ball’s top 10 paving don’ts:
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.
@WirtgenGroup
’s new F series milling machines are looking 🔥🔥🔥 in their carbon fiber wrap kit!
Imagine customizing your milling fleet in your company colors?!?
This is the world premiere of the F series—with more than 400 changes from previous models!
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A paving crew repaves Los Angeles’ 3rd Street, near Figueroa, in March of 1944 in this
#throwbackthursday
shot!
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Happy Earth Day! 🌎
Did you know? Asphalt is already the
#1
recycled product on the planet and gets greener with each passing year. ♻️
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We asked folks for pics of the most picturesque paving projects they've ever been on. Tim Hoknes
@Relic75
👊 knocked us out 👊 with this amazing pic of E-Construction paving in Jasper National Park up in Alberta, Canada!
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Which do you prefer first thing in the morning - the smell of coffee or the smell of asphalt?
If you could only pick one…
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Let’s hope Punxsatawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow today so we can get to paving a few weeks earlier! 🙌🙌
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High school graduation is only a month away. Dropping this here for inspiration and shares…
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Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Who else feels a sense of pride working with ♻️ THE MOST RECYCLED ♻️ material on the planet? 🙌
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What’s the best compaction you’ve ever gotten off the screed alone? 👇 Let us know in the comments!
📸: Fuel-Resistant Asphalt Binder Resists Asphalt Breakdown in St. Augustine |
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☘️ There’s a pot of black gold at the end of that rainbow! 🍀 Happy St. Patty’s day! ☘️
(Pictured: A double-rainbow over Morgan Asphalt)
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Generation Z2 round-shank picks from Wirtgen feature TwinStop clamping sleeve, extra carbide, and extended service life - and they’re now available in the U.S.!
Learn more:
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Happy International Women’s Day to women of asphalt everywhere!
If you're a woman in the asphalt industry, we want to share your story and let you encourage others to succeed. Reach out to us at AsphaltPro to be highlighted!
#womeninconstruction
#womenofasphalt
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Seeking expertise on setting up plant components? Looking to optimize air quality? Stop by booth L1005 at World of Asphalt 2022 to ask our resident plant expert, Malcolm Swanson, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on March 29 & 30
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Match the Joint:
1. An inch of overlap is great for matching the joint
2. The clean endgate shoe glides atop the mat
3. Endgate springs have good spacing in them
4. The screed has good contact with the mat
5. No lines behind in the mat means good balance of screed & extension
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Now this is a cool one! Pennsylvania Avenue, connecting the White House with the US Capitol, paved with Trinidad Lake Asphalt in 1875.
#throwbackthursday
#TBT
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So many of our lives' journeys start on asphalt...Check out this 1957 ad from the Asphalt Institute.
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
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We loved hanging out with other women in asphalt at the Women of Asphalt Council meet & greet today at
#worldofasphalt
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Remember when we knew how to get places without GPS? AsphaltPro remembers…
Have a nice, safe weekend!
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Check it out! Peckham Industries gives the asphalt industry a blueprint on how to showcase an environmentally friendly pavement maintenance method to multiple state agencies. 💪🙌 with help from
@astecindustries
, The Gorman Group, and Suit-Kote
Read more:
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Paving crews: What is the most difficult part of your job to accomplish when you have to stay 6 feet away from one another? And, how are you overcoming the challenge? Reply to let us know.
(Photo: Superior Bowen)
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☀️ Summer’s coming!!! ☀️
🌻 Did you finish your spring planting? 🌻
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🌴🌊 Happy Hawaii Day! 🌺⛱️
Who else would like to pave in a paradise like this? ✋
📸: HAPI photo contest winner 2020, Keola Goo from Road Builders Corporation
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Don’t forget to pick up a free copy of AsphaltPro at the WOA/AGG1 tradeshow today! And come meet us at booth L1005 in the lobby!
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How simple the first asphalt plants were...Asphalt producers: post a pic of your company’s first-ever plant in the comments below!
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
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During
#NWZAW
share the message to WATCH FOR US with friends and family outside our industry, because our safety is their responsibility, too!
Hear directly from men and women in the road construction industry about the dangers they face
#watchforus
#WorkZoneSafety
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In 1970, Vogele’s Super 80 was a big deal - able to take on 10 tons more mix than its predecessors!
#tbt
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Throwing it back to the days where it was common to cast mix across the mat 😅 Check out this picture from a paving project near Ices Ferry Bridge in West Virginia from 1965
#throwback
Here's a tip to stop the crew from casting mix across the mat:
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Today, we celebrate the Beaver State - OREGON!
When Crestline Construction won the bid to rehab and replace Taxiway A at a regional airport in The Dalles, Oregon, it knew that the facility’s relatively small size was irrelevant. Read more:
@topcon_today
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Almost 119 years ago to the day! Workers paving Mission Street at 18th in San Francisco, December 9, 1910.
#TBT
#throwbackthursday
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Did you know that back in the 1870s, when companies began to patent asphalt mixes, trade names ran the gamut: bitulithic pavement, wilite, romanite, national pavement, imperial, indurite and macasphalt, to name a few!
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
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Wirtgen’s wide range of training programs on applications, operation & technology trains folks how to use their WIRTGEN GROUP machines effectively & profitably. After all, training is a basic requirement for the long-term, optimum use of machines
Enroll:
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What’s your favorite way to improve density at the longitudinal joint? Notch wedge? VRAM? Infrared heat?
AsphaltPro discusses the continuing trend of heating longitudinal joints during construction to improve density at the joint and achieve full pay:
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Happy Cinco de Mayo to all our amigos del asfalto who love the smell of asphalt as much as we do!
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We love this throwback from the McLean County Museum of History, showing paving on the 400 block of North Main Street in Bloomington, Illinois, back in 1938. And look at all the bystanders watching them go!
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
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This is a must-read for prospective women of asphalt! Superior Asphalt Inc. employs a number of women from diverse backgrounds and experiences who are making a name for themselves in the asphalt industry. Here, 17 of the share a bit about their experiences
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How do you turn the crew newbie into a skilled asphalt professional? Reply to let us know ⬇️
Here's AsphaltPro's
#1
way to train the crew newbie:
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Imagine trying to retain heat in this bad boy!? Higher carrying capacity, better insulated beds, and tarps to boot...today’s haul trucks are a whole lot different than the ones delivering mix to this job on Highway 50 in 1962!
#flashbackfriday
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We’re putting together a blog post about why it’s awesome to work in the asphalt industry. Let’s brainstorm! What do you love most about working in our industry?
(Photo: The Gerken Companies)
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It’s happeninggg! Like this post if you’re already ✨ getting things started ✨ this spring.
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“I hear all the time, ‘We’ve been through basic milling training. We want advanced milling training.’ But advanced milling training is the basics.” - Tom Chastain, milling product manager, Wirtgen America
Here are 8 best milling practices:
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The Voyager 140 from
@astecinc
is a 140 mtph counterflow, portable plant. It processes up to 50% RAP and features Astec's fancy V-flights for a good veil
#ConExpo
#conexpo2020
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Get back to basics to bid a profitable commercial project!
While there are many projects you could take on, the foundation for estimating and bidding remains the same. Let's look at some nuances to help you estimate smartly on those fine details:
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Even back in 1915, the asphalt industry was experimenting with pavement designs (Location: Edmonton, Alberta; Source: Provincial Archives of Alberta, A3399)
#throwbackthursday
#tbt
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How long has the asphalt company you work for been in operation? For Pike Industries, that magic number is 1872! Pike sets the standard for quality paving in the Northeast from 1872 forward. Read their story:
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It’s
#WyomingDay
! Let’s take a moment to look at the origins of the Oxclaw® textured screed plates and Bullox® modular screed plate system originally from Axenox Inc., Powell, Wyoming. Read more:
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We've seen way too many unsafe selfies taken on paving trains 😬😬 Let’s all put safety ahead of selfies. Post a pic of your crew staying safe out there. Let’s call it a
#safie
😜😜
(Photos: Brannan Sand & Gravel)
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How can we put plastic waste products into asphalt mix designs safely while maximizing performance and minimizing our carbon footprint?
Here are a few ideas:
📸: Central Asphalt Paves Dow’s Elvaloy into RPMA Overlays
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It’s not often we get
#throwback
pictures from the lab. Check out this one from 1966, mixing asphalt at West Virginia University’s civil engineering laboratory to test for durability. The canisters in the background contain aggregates from areas around the state.
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Happy Michigan Day! And what a better story to highlight than the many women of asphalt making waves at Superior Asphalt in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read their stories:
@womenofasphalt
@gr_superior
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It's National Pothole Day. Let's make it National (No) Pothole Day!
Anyone out fixing potholes today? Post a pic below!
(Photo:
@NPDay2020
)
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That’s a wrap on World of Asphalt 2024! It was great catching up with industry friends new and old, brainstorming fresh ideas for the rest of the year and beyond, and seeing what OEMs have been cooking up lately.
See you in St. Louis in 2025!
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Happy President's Day! Here are a few fun facts about presidents throughout history who have had a big impact on our country's transportation infrastructure!
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It’s National Engineers Week! Thank you to all the engineering asphalt pros who help make our roads long-lasting, strong and safe! 💪 @ Mention an engineer who deserves 🙌 in the comments
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