Maintenance Toolbox Tips

Proper distributor spray nozzle alignment helps crews achieve uniform, accurate application rates for tack, emulsions, sealcoats and other asphaltic materials.

Learn how to mix sealcoat sealer and sand at the proper ratios and agitation speeds to maintain suspension, friction properties and consistent application.

Proper chip seal timing helps crews achieve aggregate embedment by coordinating emulsion temperature, rolling and brooming before opening the roadway to traffic.

Proper striping machine tire pressure helps prevent wobbly skip lines and keeps pavement markings evenly spaced and accurately calibrated.

These are the Dog Days of Summer for North America and your entire paving crew can tell you why. To keep workers healthy, you must track their heat exposure. Because […]

While much of the asphalt industry knows we use safe products when sealing pavements, much of the public does not know this. (There are a handful of tar-based sealcoat products […]