Top 5 Jump Scares of Pavement Repair for Halloween

The Asphalt Pro supports cautious and safe asphalt paving and pavement maintenance practices at all times. But sometimes, it seems like a poltergeist gets into the equipment. (At the bottom of this note, we have a link to a serious article about staging equipment properly, but here’s a “holiday” list of the top five reasons your pavement maintenance foreman might want to take Halloween off.)​

5. The tack wagon showed up at ambient temperature. As you suspected, there’s a thick sludge of goo inside. But you’re in a hurry, so one of the laborers starts filling a pothole without the tack.

4. At the back of the hotbox, a laborer pulls out a 6-inch chunk of material. You hear him say, “This can’t be! The thermostat reads 500 degrees!”

3. A new worker is attempting to clean yesterday’s caked-up shovel with what smells strongly of diesel…while an unmanned plate compactor vibrates past him.​

2. The utility mill operator has just backed his own machine off the lowboy, barely missing a vehicle that’ll have to be towed before cold planing can begin, and announces with pride, “Hey, look! Only knocked four teeth off it this time!”

1. You head back to your work truck, hoping to start his day over, to find the customer standing at your door. He asks, “Could you put a couple speed bumps in this other parking lot today? I mean, since you’re already here.”

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