New Post: What Type Of Equipment Is used In Asphalt Paving & Milling? -
The most asphalt paving businesses ever talk about is identifying asphalt issues or the ideal times to budget for your next paving maintenance run. That can take out the fascination in how the actual paving occurs. No one talks about the asphalt paving equipment because, of course, the client is concerned with that pristine blacktop.
DG Pavement Solutions will take you behind the curtain and show you the types of heavy machinery they use for their projects in Bonita Springs, FL.
Dump Trucks
No paving business is complete without a dump truck service. Whether self-owned or outsourced, dump trucks are essential to getting the hot asphalt to the paving site. There are varieties in dump trucks: the bottom belly that unloads via gates on its underside, the end dump truck that uses hydraulics to unload the asphalt down their tailgate, and the Flo-Boy dump truck with a conveyor for a truck bed to move the hot asphalt out.
Material Transfer Vehicle
An MTV is a piece of equipment designed to help feed the hot asphalt into the asphalt paver's hopper from the dump truck payload leading the front. The windrow elevator and the shuttle buggy are two such examples. They are also designed with augers to remix the asphalt as it is being fed to the paver.
Milling Machines
These vehicles are fitted with a rotating drum facing the pavement. The drum is studded with carbide cutting blades that mill the
