Don’t Waste Time When Haulin’ Asphalt
Make HMA Cooler with Your WMA System Save Lives: Kiewit’s Program
Award on the Edge Avoid Terminal Explosions Take Equipment Needs Online Break Cultural Barriers for Safety April/May 2011
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MCL in Canada gets an innovation award with the Carlson Vibratory Beveled Edger. See related article on page 14. Photo courtesy of Morsky Construction Ltd., Saskatchewan.
RMM uses Maxam’s WMA system to make a cooler hot mix. See related article on page 10. Photo courtesy of Maxam.
April/May 2011 Departments
Articles
Letter From the Editor 5 Put the Phone Down
14 Take Safety to an Award-Winning Edge by Sandy Lender
Around the Globe 6
18 Make Money from Safety by Matthew Giles
Safety Spotlight 8 Prevent Refinery, Terminal Explosions From Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation division of NIOSH
22 Don’t Waste Time When Delivering Asphalt by John Ball
Project Management 10 Enhance Your HMA Coating with WMA Process While CDOT considers warm-mix, Rocky Mountain Materials gathers numbers, improves HMA production, strength with WMA system by G. E. Gulick
24 Develop Safety Incentive for Your Cultural Mix by Carla Lopez del Puerto and David Gilkey 28 International Online Marketplace by AsphaltPro Staff 30 Winter Shows Prove Industry Excitement by AsphaltPro Staff
Pexco is one of many companies discussing safety products at CONEXPOCON/AGG, at the Rental Show and in the pages of AsphaltPro. Photo courtesy of Davidson Traffic Control Products.
Equipment Gallery 31 Kasi Infrared Takes Paul Gustafson From Operator to Asphalt Repair Owner by Del Williams Here’s How It Works 38 Navman Wireless’s Qtanium 300 36 CEI Enterprises’ Vent Condensers Last Cut 40 Yesterday’s Unrest Affects Today’s Crude Price by AsphaltPro Staff Resource Directory 42
Safety is a big-picture item that can save a company big dividends on the bottom line. From the factory to the plant to the work zone, safety starts from the top. See related article on page 18. Photo courtesy of Davidson Traffic Control Products.
28 It’s a seller’s market. It’s a buyer’s market. When IronPlanet holds one of its weekly auctions, it’s an international marketplace. See related article on page 28. Photo courtesy of IronPlanet. www.theasphaltpro.com | ASPHALT PRO 3
April/May 2011 • Vol. 4 No. 7
Put the Phone Down editor’s note
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Smart phones bring a new level of control and communication to the foreman on the paving site. With today’s fleet tracking telematics, the foreman or supervisor can touch a button on the phone’s screen and see any number of facts about the haul trucks and tonnages en route to his project. Think the clouds on the horizon look ominous? Hit the weather app and check into it. We could brainstorm a hundred reasons to have a smart phone, an iPad and/or walkie talkies on the paving site including communication with the plant operator, DOT inspectors, dispatchers, quality control personnel and other crew members who aren’t close at hand. Those are wise uses of technology for ground personnel at the plant or foremen out on the road. But smart phones have weaseled their way into dangerous positions in our work zones, too. From paver operators to the folks driving 33-plus horsepower compaction equipment through the work zone, construction personnel are taking risks by playing with technology toys at the worst of times. When you’re in the control house, on the paver, on the roller, in a haul truck or working in any construction-related capacity, the last thing you need to be doing is sending text messages or visiting with buddies on the phone. You might think you can multi-task with the best of them, but you’re slowing your reaction time and dividing your focus. I ask you to stop that. Four or five years ago, would you have stopped the paver at a rest stop, hopped down while it was still running, and made a personal phone call to your wife or CPA or fishing buddy from the pay phone next to the rest room? Of course not. To leave a paver running while unattended is unheard of. So why would you run a roller while talking on a cell phone to a friend? Why would you run a paver while texting your picks for the next fight to your bookie? Why would you risk quality or safety by dividing your attention between the job you’re being paid an hourly wage to do and personal riffraff? Don’t try to justify unsafe practices by texting about work, either. If you have information about the equipment you’re operating, the mix you’re laying or the mat you’re compacting to communicate to a supervisor, there are signals in place to get that information across. Since the dawn of paving, we’ve used flags, lights, whistles, hand signals and our voices to communicate more efficiently than putting a phone to our ears amid the engine noise on a paving project. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood may irritate the stuffins out of me when it comes to his policies on high speed rail and funding, but I have to agree with him on his push to get cell phones out of drivers’ hands. Distracted driving too often results in deaths and injuries that could so easily be prevented. Let’s not get into the habit of distracted paving. Stay Safe
Sandy Lender
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AROUND THE GLOBE Industry News and Happenings from Around the World Australia
Southern Quarries Pty Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia, won the CCAA Health & Safety Extractive Environmental Innovation Award at the end of 2010. As the contracted agent for Fisher Industries, Tempe, Ariz., Southern Quarries uses the Fisher Air Separator to produce manufactured sand by removing unwanted fines while maximizing water and waste management. See the HHIW feature in the upcoming June/July issue.
Canada
Major Wire Industries Ltd., Quebec, has named Valley Equipment Co., Inc., as its new screen media authorized dealer in Oregon, eastern Washington, northern and southwestern Idaho, and Hawaii, to offer Flex-Mat® 3, OptimumWire® woven wire and other products. Contact (800) 315-5004, sales@valleyequip.com or visit www.valleyequip.com.
Dubai
The 2nd Middle East Bitumen Event (MEB) 2011 will be held at the Shangri-La Dubai May 2 through 4. Its theme is Opportunities & Challenges in Bitumen Trade & Technology for Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Visit www.cconnection.org/conference/MEB/2011/MEBHome.html for more information and to register.
United Kingdom
UK South bitumen prices increased 11 percent in April over January prices according to Petrosil’s Bitumart.
Alabama
Henry Hawkins, County Engineer for Chambers County, Ala., received the Asphalt Recycling and Reclaiming Association’s 2011 Award for Excellence in Full Depth Reclamation (FDR) for his pioneering promotion of the process over the years.
Florida
NAPA’s Vice President of Research & Technology Dave Newcomb was elected president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists at the annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., April 4.
Illinois
Barry Heinrichs of Burris Equipment Co., Waukegan, Ill., won the engraved iPAD from Allmand Bros., Inc., Holdrege, Neb., at the Rental Show in March. 6 April/May 2011
Maryland
Get $50 off your Diamond Achievement, Quality and Paving Commendation application fees from the National Asphalt Pavement Association, Lanham, Md., if you send in your renewals before June 30. Visit www.hotmix.org to complete your applications for 2011.
Michigan
The Michigan Department of Transportation broke ground late March on a $90 million highway reconstruction project that will reduce congestion on I-94/I-69 near the U.S./ Canadian border. Funding includes $77 million in Federal highway funds, a $30 million Transportation Investment Generating Economy Recovery grant to replace the Black River Bridge, and $13 million from the state. Source: AASHTO
Minnesota
Until May 31, 2011, Schwing America, Inc., Saint Paul, Minn., guarantees to have its top selling 100 parts, which are posted on www.schwing.com, in stock. If they don’t have the part you need from that list available when you order, they deliver the part to you with free shipping.
Nevada
Mellott Co., Las Vegas, has joined an alliance with Acme Machine to offer crushing and screening solutions to the aggregate and other industries.
North Carolina
Dominion-Carolina Sales, Inc., High Point, N.C., won the 2010 Merwin Award from parent company Eriez, Erie, Pa. Eriez specializes in magnetic lift, separation, metal detection, screening and other advanced technology for the recycling, mining, aggregate and other industries, and offers this annual award to its most outstanding U.S. field sales office, although 21 Eriez field offices exceeded their full-year sales goals to become Merwin Award finalists last year—a sign of economic improvement everywhere.
Ohio
A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center, Clayton, Ohio, sponsored by Ohio CAT, won the 2011 AEM Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The teens competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada during the CON-
EXPO-CON/AGG trade show in Las Vegas March 22 through 24 for the title.
Oklahoma Larry Patrick, an asphalt industry veteran with 37 years of practical experience, takes the helm as the new executive director of the Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association (OAPA) as of March 21. Jim Meisner, OAPA board member and chair of the executive search committee, said Patrick is recognized and respected throughout the state as an expert in asphalt pavement mix design, application and quality control.
Tennessee NAPA’s Asphalt In Depth Conference will be held June 1 and 2 at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. Call (615) 255-8400 for hotel reservations. Visit www.hotmix.org/asphaltindepth to register.
Texas Start planning now to attend the 5th Asphalt Shingle Recycling Forum Oct. 27 through 28 in Dallas at the Double Tree Hotel near the Galleria. Visit www.shinglerecycling.org to register.
Utah Intermountain Slurry Seal, Salt Lake City, has won the International Slurry Surfacing Association’s 2011 President’s Award for the company’s exemplary performance in completing the Grand Canyon National Park pavement preservation-north rim project.
Washington, D.C. • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that traffic fatalities in 2010 dropped to their lowest levels in 60 years. • Have you registered to participate in the Transportation Construction Coalitions’ Legislative Fly-In this May 24 through 25? As a member of the asphalt industry, you can influence your representatives to shape and vote for a long-term authorization bill that fully funds and protects the Federal highway program. This year is vital to your future. Visit http://www.hotmix.org to join the National Asphalt Pavement Association contingent visiting Capitol Hill in May.
SAFETY SPOTLIGHT Prevent Refinery, Terminal Explosions From Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation division of NIOSH
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uring the repair of an out-of-service, 54-inch coke oven gas (COG) pipe in Michigan Jan. 5, 2008, pieces of pipeline and explosive forces struck and killed a 27-year-old male pipe technician. The decedent and two crew members were hand-tapping and using a pneumatic drill to affix the second of two gasketed steel claddings to patch the pipe when the pipeline blew apart. Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (MIFACE) investigators and Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) personnel looked into the incident and offered recommendations to other facility owners with hot oil and gas piping for safe procedures. First, the company for whom the decedent worked had been in business for more than 30 years at the time of the incident and employed 12 workers. He had been working at the site in question for six months. He wore the required personal protective equipment (PPE) for the job: hearing, eye, hand and respiratory protection; hard hat; fall protection; and air monitoring equipment for carbon monoxide (CO). With the exception of the day of the incident, all appropriate work permits had been pulled and air monitoring performed, according to investigators. Combustible gas levels were at 0 percent through the duration of all testing on the unused pipe. MIOSHA Construction Safety and Health Division issued the alleged Serious citations citing The Control of Hazardous Energy Sources, Part 85, at the conclusion of the investigation. AsphaltPro staff includes these findings to help readers evaluate their safety protocol. 1. Rule 1910.0147(d)(5)(i): Insure that following the application of lockout or tagout devices to energy isolating devices, all potentially hazardous stored or residual energy shall be relieved, disconnected, restrained, and otherwise rendered safe. In the example cited here, MIFACE investigators found that employees failed to ensure that piping was adequately bled or purged before attempting to drill and tap into the 54-inch coke oven pipe line/outside blast furnace area with a pneumatic drill. 2. Rule 1910.0147(c)(4)(i): Develop, document and utilize procedures for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in service or maintenance of machines or equipment where unexpected energization, start-up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury. 3. Rule 1910.-147(c)(7)(i)(a): Provide training to each authorized employee on the recognition of applicable hazardous energy sources, the type and magnitude of the energy available in the workplace, and the methods and means necessary for energy isolation and control. In light of the tragedy in 2008, NIOSH’s FACE division investigators recommend that employers should always treat pipes as active. Employers should test pipes for explosive gases before initiating or continuing any work on the pipe after a period of inactivity. 8 April/May 2011
"In light of the tragedy in 2008, NIOSH’s FACE division investigators recommend that employers should always treat pipes as active. Employers should test pipes for explosive gases before initiating or continuing any work on the pipe after a period of inactivity." In the example cited here, the company owner didn’t consider the pneumatic drilling as “hot work,” yet sparks from contact of the pneumatic drill and the metal pipeline may have initiated the explosion, according to FACE investigators. If the line had been tested at various areas of the pipeline, the flammable gas may have been detected and the incident avoided. FACE investigators also recommend employers who are performing work on machines or equipment where unexpected energization, start-up or release of stored energy could occur should always place their own lock(s) on the machinery or equipment if their workers are scheduled to be the first to perform work. Finally, FACE investigators recommend that site owners and subcontractors should ensure that effective communication is established for all site work. While the investigation revealed that several meetings occurred in the days preceding the incident, the site owner indicated that he didn’t know work was scheduled to be performed on the 54-inch line on the day of the incident. The purge procedure called for the site owner to perform air monitoring of a pipeline. If the site owner had been informed of the upcoming work, the line could have been tested and the incident may have been avoided. The staff at AsphaltPro sends our condolences to the family and the co-workers who lost a loved one and a colleague Jan. 5, 2008. We hope that by highlighting the recommendations that investigators made after the fact, some good for others may come from this tragedy.
A Checklist for Any Terminal’s Pipes
While there are myriad safeguards to include in a refinery or terminal’s safety program, here are a few direct results from the example in this month’s Safety Spotlight that address pipe safety. • Treat all pipes as “active.” Test the air within the pipe prior to performing any work. • Perform a “hazardous job assessment” on all pipeline work. • Develop a comprehensive checklist to cover hazardous work; don’t rely on personnel’s knowledge. • Hold comprehensive refresher training on a regular basis. • Develop a health and safety committee that meets on a regular basis. • Develop a safety incentive program; preferably behavior-based. • Review and update the entire safety program on a regular basis.
project management Enhance Your HMA Coating with WMA Process While CDOT considers warm-mix, Rocky Mountain Materials gathers numbers, improves HMA production, strength with WMA system by G. E. Gulick
The MAXAM AQUABlack feeds into the existing system for Rocky Mountain Materials.
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arm-mix asphalt (WMA) and the advantages it offers for both asphalt producers and DOTs has been sweeping the nation. There is a variety of new production equipment available that can be used to produce asphalt mixes at “warm” temperatures ranging from 212 to 285°F. Many producers are making the capital investment that will allow them to move into the growing WMA market. At the same time, there are other producers who have discovered another way to profit from that technology without actually using it to produce the WMA. Instead, these producers are continuing to produce hot-mix asphalt (HMA). They’re doing it in a cool way that results in better pavement quality. One of those producers is Rocky Mountain Materials and Asphalt, Inc., Colorado Springs. Rocky Mountain Materials and Asphalt has been in business since 1978, starting out as a supplier of excavating services and aggregate materials. They transitioned into the asphaltproduction business when they bought their first production facility
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in 1985. Today, the company operates one stationary plant and one portable plant. According to Rob Mangone, vice president of Rocky Mountain Materials and Asphalt, their market area is Freemont County, Pueblo County and El Paso County. Last year, Rocky Mountain Materials and Asphalt retrofitted its ADM stationary plant with an AQUABlack® Warm-Mix Asphalt unit from Maxam Equipment. According to Mangone, they were interested in Maxam’s system for several reasons. Mangone pointed out that most WMA producers are drawn to the process because of its ability to produce mix at lower temperatures, thereby permitting longer haul times and achieving compaction at cooler mix temperatures. “Those are valid points,” Mangone said. “But we were thinking in a different direction. We were convinced that the Maxam equipment could also produce HMA of better quality. We were right. “Our main goal is to achieve a better product for paving,” Mangone continued. “We want to produce something that is going to last longer. The way we are doing that is by using the Maxam AQUABlack
temperature range that represents the higher end of the conventional mix specification. In other words: We are making cool hot-mix…about 20° cooler.” Mangone went on to explain that the aggregate is coated better at the cooler temperatures. “And the compaction at the job site becomes easier when we have better coating on the aggregate. In short, we don’t have to run at the higher temperatures to achieve good compaction. And of course, in asphalt paving, compaction equals strength.” Pavement quality was the main reason Rocky Mountain Materials and Asphalt invested in the Maxam AQUABlack System. “There are other types of systems and chemical additives out there, of course. But we felt that coating the aggregate was the most important feature. The easier the coating, the better the coating, the better the compaction—and the better the end product on the road.”
“It’s important to continue testing until all of the state and local agencies accept WMA.”
The warm-mix system has minimal components.
System in such a way that we achieve much better coating of the aggregate. When the aggregate has a better coating, compaction becomes easier. And that results in a better product out in the field. It’s that simple. “The Maxam system has been operational in our stationary plant at full production since May 2010. It is still rather new to us, and we’re still doing a lot of testing. But we have a good comfort level with the system now and we just have to prove ourselves to our customers.” Mangone said that they run in-house testing because of their concern about quality control and quality assurance. One of their concerns has to do with the extreme freeze-thaw cycles of Colorado. “We just want to see what the Maxam system can do under those
“HMA produced at cooler temperatures can result in better coating, easier compaction.” conditions. So far, the results have been excellent. We see no difference between the conventional HMA production and that of the Maxam system—even though what we are doing is not considered ‘conventional’ by most people.” Mangone spent some time describing how they use the Maxam system. “We are running our plant at the very bottom end of the HMA specification when it comes to temperature. With the types of oils we are using, we prefer to run at 290 to 292°F, instead of the 310 to 320°F 12 April/May 2011
Mangone said that eventually, they will move into the lower portion of the temperature specification—the portion considered appropriate for WMA. “But until we have universal acceptance of the WMA concept by our state and local agencies here in Colorado, we will continue to make hot mix at the cooler HMA temperature. And that is what the Maxam system allows us to do. “Right now, we are taking baby steps toward universal acceptance of WMA. Eventually, it will come to all of the state, county, and city agencies. But now we are involved in a tremendous amount of testing on the materials we are producing. So far, we have seen no difference in the voids in the asphalt, the oil content or the performance of the wet-dry tests. We run a lot of those tests here in Colorado. We live and die by the freeze-thaw cycles because of the severe temperature changes. We can see a cycle between freeze and thaw every day for three months in the winter. “We have run a lot of in-house testing with our freeze-thaw cycles using the Maxam WMA application on our plant, just to see what the system would do. We have a very extensive lab…probably one of the best in the state. So far, the results have been excellent. We see no difference between the HMA and the Maxam WMA system.” When asked what he would say to another producer in today’s market, Mangone’s reply was simple and straightforward: “This industry is quality-driven. Of course, profit is always a consideration. It’s not a dirty word by any means. But the main thing I have seen in my fellow producers and competitors is a desire to deliver quality. My advice is simple: If you don’t plan on having good quality, then don’t get into this business.” Mangone said he is excited about seeing the evolution of WMA as the next major change in the industry. “I think we’re going to enjoy some more changes and some new technology. And those things will provide our customers with better end products. That’s what we’re thinking…and that keeps us excited.”
Take Safety to an Award-Winning Edge
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ou may have heard of Morsky Construction Ltd. (MCL), Regina, Saskatchewan, from their outstanding feature article in Canada’s Aggregates & Roadbuilding magazine last winter. As that magazine pointed out, MCL leapt back into the asphalt industry in 2010 with all cylinders firing and the purchase of an ADM Milemaker series plant. What you may not have noticed is MCL’s award-winning safe-pavement project leads a trend in safe practices. Here’s how they built a safe pavement edge using the Vibratory Beveled Edger from Carlson Paving Products, on a 15-mile (25-kilo14 April/May 2011
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meter) stretch of pavement on Highway 35, about 15 miles south of the Town of Tisdale in northeast Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure served as the owner/agency for the project. MCL’s general manager, Allan Barilla, shared most of the story. “In our province, we’re not allowed to leave a vertical edge on the outside of the shoulder on the highway. For years contractors have constructed their own drags to make an edge slope. When Bill Wright from Carlson came out to our job for a visit he couldn’t believe
we were allowed to slope the edge off with no compaction and also leave such an open texture. Bill said that in most states this wouldn’t be allowed at all.” The reason states spec compaction for an edge is Paving 101: If the roadway edge is left open and uncompacted, moisture sets in, allowing premature deterioration of the shoulder. “Bill gave us information on the Carlson Vibratory Beveled Edger and suggested that even though this product was not meant to slope off our shoulder edge it would certainly work in that capacity,” Barilla continued. “This attachment is also heated like our screed and endgates; the result would be a slope with the same texture as our main screed. It’s a win win situation for us if we can leave our finished product looking better and increase the longevity of our product.” The pavement design included two lifts of asphalt. The mix was a Saskatchewan Type 3 Mix with Type 150-200A asphalt bituminous binder. The virgin aggregate blend was 30 percent rock, 44 percent natural fines, 20 percent dust and 1 percent lime. The crew totaled 67,000 tonnes over a remixed base structure, and Barilla spoke proudly of his team’s work concerning the base. “First of all, the road substructure was excellent to lay an asphalt mat on. The remix crew led by Darren Peill with supervisory assistance from Lorne Shiels handled a water sensitive base to meet contract specifications. Stewart Dorma, who is the most senior employee in the company, operates the finishing grader and is very particular about every road top ride and cross slope that he does; like all good finishing grader operators, he is fussy to the extreme.” For compaction, they used a Dynapac CC524HF for breakdown, an Ingersoll Rand PT-240R rubber roller for intermediate and an Ingersoll Rand DD-118 to finish. The team also used warm-mix asphalt technology on this project. Barilla explained. “The warm mix asphalt trials that we performed incorporated Advera and Evotherm and the addition of the Carlson Vibratory Beveled Edger to our screed. The heated edger really interested the Ministry staff because we do have issues in the province with shoulders deteriorating before they should. Both the Ministry and our crew were very happy with the results that the edger produced.” Barilla attributed the team’s success to a variety of factors, including the individual members’ experience from MCL’s original asphalt
The MCL crew uses the Vibratory Beveled Edger from Carlson Paving Products to construct a safe tapered edge to the pavement and to compact it to keep moisture out.
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The MCL crew uses a Roadtec paver on their award-winning Highway 35 project.
The Dynapac roller served in the breakdown position for the crew.
MCL won a Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association innovation award for its Highway 35 project and an SHCA environment award for its new ADM Milemaker series plant.
business. The company was founded back in 1980 to focus on grading, sub-base and base projects, but added the asphalt component in 1989. During the five years from 2005 to 2010 that the company spent “away” from asphalt production and paving, they specialized in mulching with Gyrotracs, remixing projects with Wirtgen WR2500Ss and micro-surfacing with Valley Slurry Seal Macropavers, but the employees didn’t forget their asphalt skills. “Because MCL paved for many years with our first plant, there was a good base of employee experience to start from,” Barilla said. “Jarvis Campbell was the plant supervisor and Regan Mooney was the main loader operator with the first plant so they adapted quickly to the new ADM plant. An experienced loader operator, ground man and truck driver team 16 April/May 2011
were added to the plant production and road delivery group. “For the road crew we were fortunate to have our previous breakdown roller man Richard Jensen to lead the new roller operators. The new Roadtec RP190 paving crew included Dave Balazi, Dallas Astrope and Alex Csoka; Dave and Dallas were from our microsurfacing crew and even though they knew nothing about paving, they caught onto the paver in no time. “Everyone helps with the plant setup, take down and mobilization. Everyone was eager to learn and produce a high quality end product. There was ride bonus throughout the project and no penalties for segregation. Fifty lane kilometers or 30 miles without any segregation speaks highly to the crew, the Roadtec paver, the Carlson paver screed and edger and the ADM plant.” For all that good work, the company found itself a recipient of the SHCA 2010 Innovation Award, which was given at the association’s annual convention in November 2010. “The Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association (SHCA) gathers the information from the various projects throughout the province and then a panel selects the winners,” Barilla said. “MCL is very pleased with our decision to go with the Carlson EZIV screed. The screed left a consistent mat with no noticeable defects; it is one of the most consistent mats that we have seen. We found the screed very easy to work with. Roadtec and Carlson were on site to orient our crew; there has been ongoing follow up support even if we do not request that support. We truly believe that if we start out with high quality great products and great people… only great things can happen!” With the asphalt component back in place for MCL, the company anticipates more great things in the future. While many in the industry fear fewer projects and see a tightening of financial resources, MCL has hope in their area. “Saskatchewan has an extensive road network to service numerous natural resource and extensive farming activities,” Barilla said. “Because of the increased heavy truck traffic, improved road structures and ride quality has become necessary. With the addition of new asphalt plants in the province, there is now very competitive bidding to obtain work. MCL invested in an asphalt plant again to better serve ourselves to obtain work; as a complete package, MCL can now bid more projects as a general contractor.” For more information about MCL’s services, contact Allan Barilla at (306) 949-3099.
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t’s possible to make money by being safe. With a good safety program built from the top down, a company realizes benefits that lead to motivated workers and a healthier bottom line. You can lower insurance premiums, enhance employees’ productivity, realize fewer lost days due to injury, eliminate medical bills, reduce injury frequency, and decrease time spent handling injuries and paperwork affiliated with them by being consistently vigilant about safety. Those are benefits you can take to the bank. By focusing on safety, you also enhance your and your company’s reputation. You don’t want an accident at any time, but you certainly don’t want a poor safety record or bad incident to make headlines on the front page of the local paper. Potential clients will remember headlines and make decisions based on what they perceive about your organization. You want potential clients—and potential skilled employees—to see a clean, safe work area. Your safety performance should set you apart from your competition. Be mindful that your clients, competitors and future employees are always watching how you conduct business. A poor safety attitude affects employee morale negatively. When employee morale is low you can bet that safety, quality and production lag as well. Here are the steps I recommend for building a good safety attitude and program. 1. A successful safety program starts with management. I believe that without management’s involvement, a safety program will almost certainly fail. Management’s lowest expectation is often an employee’s highest, so you want to have management set the bar high. Managers should go out to the job site, out to the plant yard, into the lab, and let the crew see the boss making a double-check of their work. If it’s important to the boss, it becomes important to the employee. This is true of safety as well. 2. Training is essential to a successful safety program. This, too, is management’s responsibility. Training includes learning the technical aspects of our industry, such as how to appropriately compact asphalt to meet project specs. Training also includes how your organization expects work to be performed to avoid injury and losses. 3. Execution is the third step. Execution includes the planning stage of a project. Plan the job or task so that everyone understands how to complete the task and what he or she is to do. Your training supports the execution phase of your safety efforts. Your employees use their training to identify potential hazards and solutions before moving to the site to begin their tasks. 4. Hazard recognition is the fourth step. During execution you planned for hazards you knew would be present at the site, such as live traffic
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next to the paving spread. Hazard recognition is a process of identifying hazards you could not have anticipated. Extreme weather, utility work, other operations and differing traffic patterns are examples of potential hazards you may not have anticipated. Take a minute to look at where you’re sending your crew. Ask them what they see so that they are active participants in their safety. Remember that not all hazards are obvious, so dig into the details. Will the crew require hearing protection? Will there be a crane on the site? Check out the swing radius of the crane and make sure workers know to stay out of that area. Do they know what the drop zone is? Teach them to recognize the hazards of equipment they may not be as familiar with as their everyday paving equipment. 5. Adaptation is a step that requires critical thinking. Encourage employees to look for changes in the work zone/environment. Let them know that they are empowered to speak up if they see new hazards as the work progresses. Is there mud on site today? Maybe an embankment won’t support the roller today because of rain last night. That’s a hazard the crew didn’t have yesterday. Critical thinking and adaptation could save the roller operator from a serious injury. Adaptation is changing your plan to work safely in the environment you are presented with today. 6. The saddle-up stage is when the crew gets to work. Simply put, at this point the crew can implement the changes they identified during the adaptation phase and continue on with the task at hand. This is the crew’s “Time to Ride.” 7. Employee ownership is the “promised land” of safety. If your organization has reached employee ownership, your employees are asking management for specific training; they’re giving ideas because they know they’re being treated fairly and taken seriously. They are correcting observed hazards and verifying that each crew member is working safely. This isn’t an easy state to achieve, but when attained it frees management for other business tasks. It’s important to get everyone on the team, from top managers to the newest recruit, excited about the safety in your organization. Managers need to connect with employees and build relationships with them. Safety is not a sometimes proposition, and it is not any single person’s responsibility. Together, you build the safety program that saves the company money, time, energy and, most importantly, lives. Matthew Giles is the safety director for Kiewit Infrastructure Group, Littleton, Colo. For more information, contact him at (303) 979-9330 or visit www.kiewit.com.
This haul truck has made it safely from the plant to the work zone with its perishable asphalt mix. Photo courtesy of Morsky Construction Ltd., Saskatchewan.
Don’t Waste Time When Delivering Asphalt by John Ball
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t bears repeating: we work with a perishable product. When a haul truck leaves the asphalt plant with a load for the paver, the driver of that truck needs to take the most direct and timely route to the work zone as possible. There shouldn’t be stops along the way for coffee or even tank fill-ups. The foreman on the project has calculated the day’s yield based on many factors, including how long each truck will take to complete the circuit from loadout to loadout. As I’ve outlined in these pages before, on a perfect day, it takes 3 minutes for the truck to get loaded at the plant, another 3 minutes to upAQUABlack the loadout getsystem the tarp in place. If the work zone is The pick MAXAM feeds ticket into theand existing for Rocky Mountain Materials. 15 miles from the plant, you can figure it’ll probably take the truck 20 minutes to get from point A to point B. It should take another 20 minutes for the truck to back into position, charge the hopper in an even manner and move to the designated area for a quick clean-out. It’s 20 minutes back to the plant and 4 minutes in line to loadout. That kind of calculation is valuable to the foreman and others on the paving crew. Truck drivers need to be educated as to why a mess-up in that schedule is detrimental to the crew’s success. One of the problems a driver creates if he performs maintenance items or personal business during the route is getting trucks out of number order. The foreman wants to keep the trucks in sequence to keep the mat temperature consistent. Truck 4 should not bypass Trucks 2 and 3 on the way to the paving site because this sets up the crew for mix temperature and compaction variations behind the paver. If a truck driver thinks he or she needs to stop for fuel, which would take the truck out of sequence, the foreman needs to tell him that fueling is a house-keeping item to address when the bed is empty. Fuel up before the shift or, if necessary, on the way back to the plant. A truck 22 april/may 2011
that takes too long getting to the site and is too far out of sequence suddenly has a load of expensive RAP to haul back to the plant. Another idea I recommend is traveling the route before the project begins. If the foreman can assess traffic patterns and when interruptions in traffic patterns might cause asphalt delivery delays, he can adjust the route haul trucks take during peak traffic times or set up an alternate route altogether. For instance, if the most direct route between the plant and the work zone takes drivers past a school that experiences heavy bus and carpooling traffic—not to mention children on foot—at regular times in the morning and afternoon, the foreman may suggest a different route that is less direct, but more timely and more comfortable for the community. Maybe the foreman can arrange the paving schedule so deliveries aren’t necessary during the affected hours of peak traffic. Whatever scenario you arrange, taking a pre-project drive of the delivery route will ease the foreman’s mind and set the haul truck drivers up for success. Tracking haul trucks has become easier with all the GPS products on the marketplace today. I’ve mentioned Minds Inc. before. Navman Wireless—featured on page 38—is another company with GPS tracking software for fleets. These and other companies offer products that give owners the ability to check on truck staging and timing. When a haul truck reaches the plant, the foreman can receive a ring on his phone. He gets another ring when the truck departs. When the truck stops, the GPS lets the system know. Truck drivers get paid by the hour, so GPS tracking can help cut wasted time and money in some situations, and definitely help track the cycle of our perishable product and its best window of opportunity for perfect laydown and compaction.
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employees learn safe work principles and practices in different ways for different reasons. Learning styles range from auditory, visual and kinesthetic to any combination thereof, and are naturally influenced by cultural upbringing and language barriers. It’s important for management to address learning style preferences, primary language skills and cultural influences. It’s best to incorporate a multi-faceted approach to teaching and learning while factoring in language and background influences employees to train essential safety principles and practices for each and every member of the crew to ensure safe work behaviors and environmental conditions for all workers. For instance, Latino crew members may perceive risk and safety culture differently than the Anglo crew members because of the language and cultural differences. Three hundred and forty construction workers were surveyed in the Denver Metro area about their perceptions of risk and safety culture in their workplace. The survey revealed that Latino workers are more likely to agree that management place most of the blame for an accident on the injured employee. The surveys also showed that Latino workers are more likely to agree that the company for which they work places higher priority on work productivity and quality than on work safety. Those same Latino workers believe some safety rules and procedures are difficult to understand. 24 april/may 2011
To improve safe work practices for Latino and Anglo construction workers and supervisors, and to reduce the disproportionate risk and injury burden suffered by the Latino minority group and provide safer work conditions for all workers, we recommend a two-prong program. First, provide insight and understanding about the dominant Anglo culture, including expectations relating to the construction workplace, to Latino construction workers and supervisors. Teach them basic English for construction.
Multi-Cultural Goals a To help workers of all cultural backgrounds achieve and maintain a safe work environment a To improve safe work practices for all construction workers a To reduce the risk and injury burden suffered by the Latino minority group a To provide safer work conditions for all workers
Second, provide increased awareness, insight and understanding about the Latino culture to non-Latino construction workers and supervisors. Teach them basic Spanish for construction. To help workers of all cultural backgrounds achieve and maintain a safe work environment, safety directors and managers often implement safety incentive programs throughout the company. Incentive programs allow managers to reward employees based on safety outcomes or behaviors. There are two types of safety incentive programs: outcomebased and behavior-based. continued on page 27
Latino crew members may perceive risk and safety culture differently than the Anglo crew members because of the language and cultural differences.
Safety Words Translated Editor’s Note: Many words in the Spanish language are similar in appearance to English words. Their pronunciation differs, of course. I took a few semesters of Spanish in high school and college, and couldn’t hope to summarize an entire grammar, syntax or verb system for you in one easy sidebar. What I can do is provide a few safety and asphalt-related words for your use in the workplace. Remember that sites such as BabelFish and SpanishDict.com offer free translation engines online, but they’re not always exact. For instance, if you enter the English phrase “put that down,” you will receive two different translations. “Deje eso” is the translation from SpanishDict.com, and “Puesto eso abajo” is from BabelFish. If you’re in a hurry to warn a co-worker of danger, you’ll go for the shorter phrase, but do you feel confident you have the most germaine connotation? A dictionary such as the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s Construction Spanish offers a litany of construction words to help workers communicate. I’ve gathered some from a variety of sources to help you dive into multi-culturalism while you wait for your dictionaries or language consultants to arrive. Asphalt = el asfalto
Oil leak = una fuga de aceite
Be careful = tenga cuidado
Hard hat = el casco
Careful = cuidado
Help = ayudar
Dangerous = peligroso
Help him = ayudelo
Don’t use that = no usarlo (no utilice uso)
Help me = ayudeme
Don’t move = no se mueva
Hurry = rapido
Fire = el fuego Fire extinguisher = el extintor
Hot = caliente Poison = el veneno
Fire hazard = peligro de incendio
Safety glasses = los lentes de seguridad
First aid = primeros auxilios
Safety vest = el chaleco de seguridad
Flashlight = la linterna
Seat belt = el cinturon de seguridad
Light = la luz
Stop = alto
Fuel leak = una fuga de combustible
Turn it off = apagar (desconectar)
Grease leak = una fuga de grasa
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Incentive programs allow managers to reward employees based on safety outcomes or behaviors.
The main advantage of outcome-based incentive programs is that they are easy to measure. An example of an outcome is the number of accidents. In this example, if there are no injuries on the job—for a period of time that management establishes—then the employees receive an incentive or reward. The down-side of outcome-based incentive programs is that they are lagging indicators of work practices. Employees may underreport accidents in order to receive the incentive. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released the following statement regarding its position about safety incentive programs: “It’s one thing to reward [workers] for doing their jobs safely, but OSHA will not tolerate programs that discourage workers and managers from reporting injuries and illnesses….We have found that incentive programs based primarily on injury and illness numbers often have the effect of discouraging workers from reporting an injury or illness. We cannot tolerate programs that provide this kind of negative reinforcement…” (2010) Behavior-based incentive programs recognize and reward employees for safe work behavior. This type of incentive program requires greater management and employee commitment and is more time consuming, involves everyone in the company and is harder to measure. Work practices and safety behaviors have to be observed to determine whether or not workers are being safe. The theory behind behavior-based safety incentive programs is that safe behavior leads to fewer accidents. Safe work behaviors are greatly influenced by the safety culture of the company and considered leading indicator that are foretelling of what is to come. The literature supports this positive approach as effective in reducing the number of accidents and injuries on the job. OSHA is more supportive of behavior-based incentive programs than outcome-based. “Good incentive programs feature positive reinforcement when workers are rewarded for demonstrating safe work practices.” (OSHA, 2010) You can reduce injuries with behavior-based incentives, making the program an effective part of your safety program. OSHA is more supportive of behavior-based incentive programs than outcome-based. “Good incentive programs feature positive reinforcement when workers are rewarded for demonstrating safe work practices.” In summary, culturally diverse construction jobsites can be safe environments if workers receive effective training that addresses their needs and differences and where safe work behaviors are observed and encouraged. It is important to assess safety programs periodically to determine if such programs are achieving the desired outcomes.
Carla Lopez del Puerto, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Department of Construction Management at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. For more information, contact her at carlalp@colostate.edu. David Gilke, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. For more information, contact him at dgilkey@colostate.edu. www.theasphaltpro.com | ASPHALT PRO 27
International Online Marketplace
by AsphaltPro Staff
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ince 1999, IronPlanet® has been conducting online auctions of used heavy equipment. While this international sales force isn’t a new kid on the block by any stretch of the imagination, their sales continue to be eye-catching. CEO Greg Owens discussed the company’s success at a March 23 CONEXPO-CON/AGG press briefing. In 2010 alone, the company solicited 2,200+ unique sellers in 33 countries and 8,600+ unique buyers from 15,500+ unique bidders in 101 countries. This activity generated less than 10 percent growth in 2010, but growth nonetheless. IronPlanet has seen 30 to 35 percent growth each year in the years prior to 2010 and saw international activity become “significant” with 34 percent of equipment sold to international buyers in 2010. The company added 28 people to its sales force last year and now has 290 employees worldwide with operations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, but a reach into the United States, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. Just this March 17 through 18, the company held a record-breaking two-day online auction in which equipment sales totaled $26.7 million. Let’s take a look at that particular auction, and then discuss IronPlanet’s international reach as described during the company’s press briefing. As part of the March 17 and 18 sales, IronPlanet executed a comprehensive marketing initiative in support of the equipment liquidation facilitated for Triangle Grading Contractors. Wayne Thompson, vice president of Triangle Grading Contractors noted, “The auction was pretty awesome. The auction and resulting price performance exceeded our expectations and we sold more than 160 pieces of equipment.” Ronald Brack, fleet manager U.S. Eastern Region of Lafarge North America had a similar experience. “We first used IronPlanet last year when we had equipment at one of our remote locations that we needed to sell,” he said. “We didn’t want the added transportation expense, so we decided to give IronPlanet a try and were very happy with the results. 28 april/may 2011
This last auction proved just as satisfying. IronPlanet has a great business model and their team is great to work with.” The team that Brack refers to includes inspectors, 140 direct sales people who meet with sellers and financial institutions every day, and a global inside sales team that works to field proxy bids prior to the auction. During the press briefing at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, company officials reported that the cost of transportation of equipment can be in excess of 10 percent of the cost of the equipment. This makes selling on consignment from multiple sites advantageous for the seller and the buyer. The inspectors on the team play a key role in IronPlanet’s success. According to the company’s press briefing, these people go through a certification process before becoming members of the IronPlanet team. Seventy percent of the equipment inspections are performed through a
IronPlanet Celebrates Customers’ Success The March 17 through 18 online event broke records and set a new standard for auctions. Here are some stats. • More than 60 consignors offered equipment. • IronPlanet sold more than 1,099 items. • More than 14,500 auction attendees participated in the March 17 event. • Attendees participated from 150 countries. • More than 60% of equipment received international bids. • 26% of the units sold to international buyers. • The auction produced IronPlanet’s highest single-day auction sales total to date, surpassing $22.8 million.
certified inspector network throughout the world. The other 30 percent are performed by certified IronPlanet employees. The lead time for an inspection is a week to 10 days and the end result is an IronClad Assurance guaranteed inspection report that accompanies the piece of equipment in the auction. This gives international bidders confidence in the equipment’s condition. The seller can elect not to have the inspection for a piece of equipment. This saves the seller a couple hundred dollars, according to Owens, but takes a bit of confidence out of the buying experience. Another way sellers—and thus buyers—can save some dollars is by opting not to make minor repairs on equipment prior to the auction; sell it “as is.” IronPlanet makes note of this for bidders. The cost of the equipment reflects maintenance work it requires. If the bidder is willing to take on a few maintenance details after the sale, he or she can get the equipment at a lesser cost than a piece that a seller has put last-minute cash into. According to Owens, used equipment prices are up virtually across the board now. He pointed out the obvious market signs for equipment seekers to keep in mind: “Demand for used equipment is not hugely increasing, but it is still increasing. The rental fleet has aged in the past three years. OEMs have throttled back the past three years. Things have been hot and demand is high in South America and Southeast Asia.” With these truths in mind, those seeking to add equipment to their fleets or move equipment out of the fleet have an international option in their backyard when considering IronPlanet to assist them in selling or buying. The global marketplace is not difficult to tap into when someone with a solid platform can send an inspector to your yard to check out the equipment you wish to sell. For more information about IronPlanet, contact Stephanie Milo at (404) 242-4388 or visit www.ironplanet.com.
Top: IronPlanet inspectors deliver the Ironclad Assurance guaranteed inspection report to give international bidders confidence when selecting their next equipment purchase. Middle: The IronPlanet auctions feature all forms of used heavy equipment from agriculture to construction to mining and everything in between. bottom: This Hamm single-drum vibratory roller sold in one of IronPlanet’s weekly online auctions.
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Winter Shows Prove Industry Excitement by AsphaltPro Staff
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ot all of our readers made it to the recent big shows. You can catch tons of photos from the Rocky Mountain Asphalt Conference Expo and Show (RMACES), which was held Feb. 22 through 26 in Denver, and from CONEXPO-CON/AGG, which was held March 22 through 26 in Las Vegas, at the AsphaltPro’s facebook page. Visit “Asphalt Pro magazine” on facebook.com. In the meantime, here’s a quick recap of these energizing events where positivism and equipment orders ran high. The RMACES brought plenty of educational opportunities to 830 producers and contractors in the western region. Add to that another 125 tradeshow-only registrants and you have an impressive number of asphalt attendees learning from 28 technical sessions, 21 educational sessions, an outdoor demo and an HMA plant tour. CONEXPO-CON/AGG, which co-located with IFPE, was the overwhelming experience it always proves to be. IFPE had 430+ exhibitors while CONEXPO-CON/AGG had 2,000+, which drew more than 120,000 overall attendees to the tradeshow floors. Education, new technologies (especially Tier 4 engine implementation), upgraded equipment lines and safety information (including the safe pavement edge) popped up everywhere you looked. You’ll find new equipment in this and the next few issues of AsphaltPro in our Equipment Gallery and Here’s How It Works departments. AsphaltPro reader Mitch Wicker of Barriere Construction got his copy of the magazine signed by Discovery Channel’s Mike Rowe at the world’s largest construction show. Wicker won the opportunity playing a game at the Association of Equipment Manufacturers’“I Make America” booth.
Jan Callahan, president of Palmer Paving, and John Ball, proprietor of Top Quality Paving, answered questions at the AsphaltPro booth during our Ask The Expert sessions at CONEXPO-CON/AGG.
Caterpillar launched a host of new products at their booth at CONEXPO-CON/AGG.
Guests recognized the group of men who helped found the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association during the CAPA asphalt awards dinner and program in February by inducting them into the Colorado Asphalt Hall of Fame. From left, Bill Lauer of Sterling Companies, Mike Mikkelson of Western Paving Construction Co., Bob Bisgard of Asphalt Paving Company, Bill Paukovich of Brannan Sand & Gravel, Curt Marvel of Brannan Sand & Gravel, Ira Paulin of Carder Inc., Herman Altergott of Best Way Paving Inc., Swede Kamm of Faris Machinery Inc., Dennis McCarron of Flatiron Paving Company. (Not pictured are Skip Bettis of Siegrist Construction Co. (deceased), and John Boring (deceased).) 30 april/may 2011
New Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Don Hunt spoke at the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association asphalt awards dinner and program Feb. 23.
EQUIPMENT GALLERY Kasi Infrared Takes Paul Gustafson from Operator to Asphalt Repair Owner by Del Williams
Not long ago Paul Gustafson, Woodbury, Conn., operated traditional asphalt repair equipment and was living paycheck to paycheck like many working Americans. Now he owns CT Infrared, Woodbury, Conn., an asphalt repair company that’s tripled its business and profit with half the labor in two years, and is on track for $1 million in sales this year. Real success, however, didn’t begin until about two years ago when Gustafson switched his business from conventional “saw, cut and remove” and “crack filler” asphalt repair techniques to innovative infrared asphalt repair. While conventional repair requires the labor and equipment-intensive removal of old asphalt from a damaged site and its replacement with new asphalt, the infrared technique expedites repair by heating, fusing and compacting recycled asphalt with minimal equipment, labor and new material. When Gustafson first looked into infrared technology, his future success was almost deterred before it started. “I called one manufacturer of infrared asphalt repair equipment and was put off by a guy who acted like I was taking up his time,” he said. “Finally I found one manufacturer, Kasi, willing to walk me through the infrared process and my fortune changed.” Kasi Infrared, Claremont, N.H., a leading manufacturer of infrared equipment worldwide, is one of the few manufacturers in the industry that offers hands-on training, support and guidance for those new to the technology. “Going from traditional cut-and-remove asphalt repair to infrared repair with Kasi has tripled our business and profit, while cutting our costs in half,” Gustafson said. “Instead of cutting, removing and throwing away a traditional asphalt patch, we can use mostly recycled material. We can do a typical 5 by 7-foot repair in less than 20 minutes with one piece of equipment, a truck and two guys. Since cars can drive on it immediately, there’s almost no traffic disruption. “Before we were throwing away five tons of asphalt a day from cutting and repairing,” Gustafson continued. “Now we’re able to reuse that
Paul Gustafson, owner of Connecticut Infrared Asphalt Repair, said his crew can perform a seamless repair even in snow because the workers are butting hot asphalt against hot asphalt.
asphalt, which for us is a savings of about $650 per day.” To do the same 5 by 7-foot cut-and-remove asphalt repair would typically take about five or six laborers several hours of work using a pavement saw to cut a straight edge around the damaged area, a jack hammer to break up the existing pavement, a bucket loader to excavate material, two trucks (one to remove excavated material and one to bring fresh asphalt), and a roller to compact the repair. It would also require enough new asphalt to replace all the excavated material. Infrared asphalt repair is developed to withstand weathering and traffic to last much longer than conventional repair as well. “When a utility company did a compaction test on my infrared repair, it had a 95 percent compaction rate [density], which is phenomenal,” Gustafson said. “Eight months later, the repair looked the same as the day we left the job. I had to get out of my truck and search for it because it blended so well with the existing roadway.” Kasi’s infrared asphalt repair has no seams for water and ice to penetrate. Instead, its infrared restorations fuse to the existing pavement, creating a continuous surface. This eliminates
Gustafson reported he was able to triple his business by switching to the infrared asphalt repair technique.
the need for tack-coating the edges, enhances durability and allows roads to be opened to traffic immediately. For entrepreneurs like Gustafson, another plus of infrared asphalt repair is the ability to work through snow and cold weather. “Since we’re putting hot asphalt to hot asphalt at a workable temperature, we can do a seamless repair even in snow, and there are no cold joints,” Gustafson said. “That means we can work year-round….People are stopping us; they want our cards and brochures. They’re going to our website and hiring us to fix their parking lots in winter.” www.theasphaltpro.com | ASPHALT PRO 31
Because of infrared asphalt repair’s advantages, Gustafson has rapidly expanded his business into new markets. “Before, to compete with a utility contractor, we would’ve had to spend about $700,000 in equipment,” he said. “But we spent just $150,000 on Kasi equipment and are doing the same jobs the big guys are doing, only better and faster.” Gustafson has found that infrared asphalt repair virtually sells itself once he gives a free demonstration to prospects. “The demos have opened up a huge new customer base for us and have about a 90 percent close rate,” he said. “When property managers for cities, malls, condos, offices or even homeowners see how the technology can repair their asphalt for one-third the traditional cost, we get the contract.” Kasi’s infrared asphalt repair equipment is commonly used by both public and private maintenance/transportation managers for asphalt repair of potholes, utility cuts, trenches, depressions, joints and other irregular pavement issues. Lab studies show there is no change in asphalt integrity from the use of its infrared equipment. The company offers a complete line of asphalt repair equipment worldwide including infrared heaters, asphalt reclaimers, asphalt rollers, rakes, brooms, shovels and more. For more information, or to view a step-by-step video of how the asphalt infrared repair process works, visit www.kasiinfrared.com, or contact
(800) 450-8602 or info@kasiinfrared.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine.
The Competition’s PERC™
Dale Fisher, the executive director of the National Pervious Concrete Pavement Association (NPCPA), spoke during the Propex, Ringgold, Ga., press briefing at CONEXPO-CON/AGG March 22 about stormwater runoff. The NPCPA membership believes it can address the problem of stormwater runoff by creating parking lots and other paved structures that allow rainwater to drain through a concrete pavement. Propex engineers have developed a technology called Fibermesh® to assist. The asphalt industry’s competitor uses the product in the following manner. First, workers man-handle the 150-pound bolts of Fibermesh infiltration fabric known as PERC™ into place directly on top of a soil layer. The PERC fabric is rolled out by hand. The Fibermesh is designed to allow 200 gallons per minute per square foot of water to flow the soil below. The manufacturer stated this is 30 percent greater water flow rate than typical 4-ounce geotextile fabric used in similar applications. Next, the team dumps aggregate onto the PERC geotextile. The team pours the pervious concrete on top of the aggregate layer. PERC will be sold in 500-square-yard rolls directly to ready-mix contractors who
will sell it to the end user. The official launch is at press time—mid-April. The product has the environmental benefit of incorporating 3,350 recycled plastic bottles in each roll, but the press briefing did not disclose the amount of energy required to break those bottles down for the PERC manufacture. For additional information on this competing product and process to porous asphalt, visit www. fibermesh.com.
Davidson Traffic Controls’ Posts
Poly-urethane channelizer posts have proved their mettle in a recent report Davidson Traffic Control Products, Tacoma, Wash., released. The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of safety products makes the Flexi-Guide FG 300 series of posts for directing traffic. The manufacturer states that the Model UR posts are highly visible and clearly delineate driving lanes with bright colors and reflective sheeting. To reduce the risk of fatal accidents, FG 300 posts are placed at critical points along roadways where safety hazards exist, such as work zones. The news is these posts have been tested independently and proven to last three to five times longer than traditional channelizer posts, according to the manufacturer. In an effort to test the outer limits of the FG 300 UR posts, they were subjected to an endurance test at Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) where all posts survived 50 impacts at 60 miles per hour. Readers can view and download the durability study at www.davidsontraffic.com/TrafficChannelizers.aspx. The unique clover-leaf design provides inherent rebound. The poly-urethane plastic provides durability, which means reduced maintenance and longer life. They are heat resistant, cold resistant and UV-stabilized. Nine colors are available. For more information, contact Peter Speer at (253) 284-8000 or peter.speer@pexco.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine.
Allmand’s Light Tower Material
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four-point stabilizer system helps keep it from blowing over. It features two sliding side outriggers with swivel screw jacks, as well as swivel screw jacks on the trailer drawbar and the rear of the enclosure. The manufacturer states that, when properly deployed, the PRO II can withstand wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour. Captive lock pins hold the outriggers in place in the extended or stowed positions. All Night-Lite PRO II V-Series light towers feature a hydraulically-actuated vertical only tower that can be fully raised or lowered in 20 seconds with one switch. For more information on the Night-Lite PRO, contact Marianne Chesterman at (800) 562-1373 or visit www.allmand.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine.
Hydronix’s ThermoTuff Thermometer
among other qualities. Known for its light towers, Allmand Bros. unveiled its new Night-Lite PRO II™ at the Rental Show in Las Vegas in March. The company touted its most obvious change as the “gullwing” style doors, which are impact-resistant and rust-proof, and offer full access to all major service components in the enclosure. What makes them, and the rest of the unit, special is the material from which it’s all made. A light weight plastic enclosure, manufactured by Osborne, that protects the Night-Lite PRO II is made of Telene® DCPD resins, available in the United States from Zeon Chemicals’ branch in Louisville, Ky. Telene is a low-viscosity liquid processed using reaction injection molding equipment with a self-cleaning mixing head. The two-component system is based on extra high purity dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) reacting via a ring opening metathesis polymerization. That’s a lot of scientific talk that means the DCPD gave Osborne and Allmand engineers enough flexibility to replace several metal components with a light-weight cover that looks good while holding up to harsh conditions. At the Rental Show, booth visitors were invited to hit one of the doors with a rubber hammer to “test” its resilience. Contractors will be interested to know that the light tower features a newly designed plug-in light ballast with replaceable components. A new
Depending on the location of the plant, stockpiles and feed bins, aggregate temperature can change dramatically over the course of a few hours. That difference in temperature can affect the rate of hydration in your asphalt mix, and that means trouble-shooting on the fly, which affects your fuel efficiency. The researchers at Hydronix Ltd., Surrey, England, have developed the ThermoTuff temperature sensor for harsh environments such as aggregate bins so you can track temperature—thus condensation/hydration—changes in your aggregate sources. Its unique electronic design enables two-wire current loop connection with a linear output over a range of 0 to 80 degrees C. What makes the Thermo-Tuff ideal for the abrasive environment of the cold feed bin is its design. Its high speed electronics are thermally isolated from their surroundings with a choice of fixing options. The Thermo-Tuff comes with a mounting collar for some applications and an extension mounting sleeve for aggregate bins. It features a 4-10mA linear output for easy connection to any control system. The manufacturer also states it has a rugged, compact and selfcontained design. For more information, contact Hydronix at +44 (0) 1483-468900 or enquiries@hydronix.com or visit www.hydronix.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine. www.theasphaltpro.com | ASPHALT PRO 33
Safety Vision’s SV-1500
It’s more than a flashlight. Safety Vision, Houston, offers a light source that also documents an incident for operators in the field. The three-in-one device is the SV-1500 DVR Flashlight that serves as a flashlight, a still-photo camera and a handheld video recorder. As a DVR, the SV-1500 allows video capture, recording up to 8 GB of video/photos to a microSD™ card. Recorded content can be accessed by connecting a USB cable to the flashlight. As a DVR, the SV-1500 allows you to capture a scene for documentation. As a camera, it has 17 infrared LEDs and enables you to take crisp color photos by day and clear black and white photos in low light. As a flashlight, it offers you three brightness levels. The SV-1500 includes three NiMH rechargeable C batteries or you can use alkaline batteries. Recharge using the car adapter in your vehicle or the 12V AC-DC adapter for in-house charging. For more information, contact Safety Vision at (800) 880-8855 or email@safetyvision.com or visit
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Pulltarps Slope Detector IV
As this month’s themes suggest, delivering material and safety go hand in hand. Not every spot you select for dumping a load will be as level and smooth as the asphalt pavement that brought you there. Owners take an element of risk out of the hauling equation for a driver when they install something as simple as the Slope Detector IV™ from Pulltarps Mfg., El Cajon, Calif., at the rear axle and in the cab of a vehicle. The detector is designed to reduce the risk of trailer tipovers. Here’s how. First the level sensor unit is attached to the rear axle. The cab unit is mounted in the cab. A key turns the system on. The signal from the sensor unit is resident in the truck’s electrical system, which eliminates the need for a plug between the tractor and trailer. The system can be programmed to stop the hoist if the level sensor unit detects that the vehicle has encountered a condition that is past the set limit.
The hoist can then be lowered and the trailer repositioned to a level position. The operator cannot override the setting once the key is removed. If each trailer and tractor of a fleet is fitted with a Slope Detector, the owner can hook up any tractor with any trailer. They are interchangeable between trucks without reprogramming. Mike from Horizon Trucking, Colo., shared his experience. “We have three end dumps and all of them have Slope Detectors,” he said. “It gives the drivers peace of mind. They know they can rely on the Slope Detector to help keep them out of trouble.” For more information, contact Midwest regional manager Bob La Rue at (303) 288-6390 or the Pulltarps at (800) 368-3075. Visit www.pulltarps.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine.
Volvo’s Articulated F-Series Haulers
The new Volvo F-Series articulated haulers includes four models ranging in capacity from 26.5 tons to 43 tons. Each is equipped with a Tier 4i engine featuring Volvo Advanced Com-
bustion Technology (V-ACT), which provides the engine with high torque at low revolutions to improve fuel efficiency, reduce noise levels and increase engine life. The Tier 4i engine is stocked with a variable geometry turbocharger and high pressure fuel injection to improve air handling, enhance performance and promote high fuel efficiency while improving engine response and high torque at low engine speeds. A cooled exhaust gas recirculation system lowers the temperature of combustions, which reduces NOx emissions. Particulate matter emissions are reduced to regulation standards with the diesel particulate filter. Regeneration, which can take place during operation, cleans the filter to maintain engine performance. The haulers feature Automatic Traction Control (ATC) standard. In normal mode, ATC selects 6 by 4 drive and only engages 6 by 6 drive when the operating conditions call for it. The dump lever is now electrohydraulic, allowing for in-cab adjustments of dump body heights and promoting smooth lowering of the dump body. CareTrack telematics from Volvo Construction Equipment is now standard on all machines 12 tons and over. This system manages the machine’s productivity, etc. For more information, contact Jean Hiller at (515) 557-2008 or visit volvoce.com/na.
Bluebeam® PDF Revu® 9
Enhance your communication options with streamlined PDF-based digital workflows from Bluebeam Software, Pasadena, Calif. The company launched its new Bluebeam PDF Revu 9 platform technology March 22 during CONEXPO-CON/AGG to provide a solution to create, view, mark up, edit, process, share and manage project files in a paperless construction atmosphere. Because the software allows 3D viewing, users can navigate through complex models on screen to rotate, spin and zoom to gain a
dynamic view of the project. Users can refine their perspective making transparent layers and animated features. The exclusive new VisualSearch™ function lets users highlight a specific visual element or symbol to find and Revu 9 searches for instances of that element across the current document, all open documents, recent documents or files in a specific folder. Users can apply markups and hyperlinks simultaneously to all identified VisualSearch results, which eliminates a time-consuming manual update process. Bluebeam has taken the language barrier down, as well. Improved foreign language support enhances global collaboration. New Unicode text support lets users add textbased markups in any left-to-right reading language. Also, a markup translation feature instantly translates markups to more than 55 languages. Users can even dictate their markups verbally through a microphone while Revu 9 converts them to text markups on any PDF. For more information, visit www.bluebeam.com.
Grasan’s KRHT-60E
Grasan, Mansfield, Ohio, announces a new, custom designed, tracked 3000-tons-per-hour horizontal impactor plant for aggregate crushing operations. The KRHT-60E plant uses a New Holland type Williams 3-blow-bar impact crusher with Williams 6-foot by 50-foot apron feeder and Simplicity 7-foot by 20-foot grizzly bar scalping screen that can handle material up to 60 inches lump size. The new plant measures 47 feet high, 39 inches wide, 122 feet long (183 feet with discharge conveyor) and weighs 1.2 million pounds. The 120-ton hopper is 24 feet wide, 29 feet long and 9½ feet high. A built-on BTI hydraulic hammer breaks up oversize incoming materials. The plant was custom designed and built by Grasan for a large quarry in the southeastern United States.
The chassis mounting consists of two pairs of custom designed B9 tracks with 40-inch wide smooth pads and self-leveling stabilizer legs. The twin-track unit is powered by two 300-hp electric motors, travels at ½ mph, and can turn at various angles up to 90 degrees. The standard Williams crusher design has been modified to enlarge the hydraulic inlet opening for easier maintenance and replacement of the 1,000-pound blow bars. Two 500-hp electric motors supply power for the 3000-tph impactor. The 60-inch by 75-foot discharge conveyor is powered by twin 100-hp electric motors. The PC-based electrical control system monitors every function of the crushing plant and will shut it down if any problem occurs. The system includes Allen Bradley full-voltage and redundant motor starters: 4161-volt for motors 200 hp and over; 480-volt for all others. The plant has the same kind of sophisticated filtering and sensing system as an aircraft. And outside programmers can access the system from a remote location for troubleshooting if necessary. “This is the latest in a line of big, tracked crushing plants we’re custom designing for customers; and each one could end up being a oneof-a-kind machine,” Vice President Ed Eilenfeld Jr. said. “However, each custom-built machine could also provide the basis for a similar or even somewhat different machine that could be right for other customers’ operations. We can incorporate a variety of types of equipment by various manufacturers to meet our customers’ precise needs and preferences. “Grasan can do material analysis, product specifications tests and system capacity checks, as well as flow charts to show how the system will work—including all components and their production capacities,” Eilenfeld added. “And we’ll specify equipment, itemize costs and spell out options to show costs versus benefits.” For more information, contact Grasan at (419) 5264440 or visit www.grasan.com. Tell them you saw it in AsphaltPro Magazine.
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CEI Enterprises’ Vent Condensers
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n the asphalt industry’s continuing work to eliminate what’s left of emissions at the asphalt plant, producers turn to the tank farm and may see vapor. The engineers at CEI Enterprises, Albuquerque, N.M., developed vent condensers for asphalt tanks to capture asphalt vapor emissions and return them to the storage tank in liquid form. Here’s how it works. The vent condenser sits atop the vertical asphalt storage tank with finned pipes to provide plentiful surface area for heat to dissipate. The condenser’s size depends on the tank’s size and volume. As the unloading pump fills the tank at a rate of X gallons per minute, it displaces air in 36 april/may 2011
the tank at a rate of Y volume per minute. Engineering Manager Scott Cloninger of CEI states that a typical CEI vent condenser is sized for 300 gallons per minute. Asphalt vapors pass upward from the storage tank into the vent condenser’s finned pipes. Larger models can have as many as 16 tubes. Cooler ambient air circulates around the finned pipes. This dissipates heat and cools the asphalt vapors. Asphalt vapors cool and return to a liquid state. The liquid asphalt drops back down into the storage tank.
For more information, contact Mike Bremmer at (800) 545-4034 or visit www.ceienterprises.com.
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Navman Wireless’s Qtanium 300
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racking each machine in the fleet involves more than location and recovery. You want to gather information for efficient maintenance scheduling, among a multitude of other data points. The engineers at Navman Wireless, Glenview, Ill., have released the Qtanium 300, a GPS tracking device for all makes and models of off-road construction equipment that is designed for use with the company’s OnlineAVL2 fleet tracking and management system. Here’s how it works. First, a mechanic installs the Qube (for onhighway vehicles) or Qtanium 300 (for off-highway equipment) tracking device, which has a compact footprint of 8.5 by 7 by 2.5 inches. For on-highway vehicles, the Qube is generally installed under the ignition of the vehicle to be managed. The IP-67 rated Qtanium 300 gets
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installed anywhere the end user desires. The tracking devices tie into the machine’s battery, but have their own 24-hour backup battery— when in full operation—and five-month backup battery, ensuring the vehicle can still be located even if a thief cuts the wires. Next, the Qube or Qtanium tracking devices receive signals from global positioning satellites, which triangulate the machine’s exact location. Cellular networks then relay the location, ignition on-off status, sensor readings and other critical data points to Navman Wireless’s secure hosted service center. At the service center, the OnlineAVL2 software instantly organizes the incoming information into a centralized, comprehensive view of everything the end-user owns for display on his computer or handheld device. New asset-specific map
icons identify vehicles in user-defined categories, enabling at-a-glance differentiation of vehicle types ranging from front-end loaders and backhoes to pickup trucks and vans. Dispatchers, fleet managers and executives can view and monitor real-time information to optimize operations in one place. Finally, the end user generates new OnlineAVL2 construction-specific reports with the Qtanium data. These reports document asset use, asset location, engine hours and sensor-based equipment information such as how many times a hopper wing wired to the Qtanium unit by a sensor raised up or down. End users can see their entire fleet in a single view. . For more information, contact Renaat Ver Eecke at (847) 832-2363 or renaat@navmanwireless.com or visit navmanwireless.com.
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the last cut Yesterday’s Unrest Affects Today’s Crude Price by AsphaltPro Staff
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e’ll start this month’s Last Cut article with a couple of truths. 1) The markets hate uncertainty. 2) Gasoline prices are out of control when they’re making the nightly news—nightly. As an asphalt industry member, you don’t need this column to tell you that crude oil prices, thus liquid asphalt cement (AC) prices have risen grossly this winter. The Energy Information Administration offers this concise reasoning and some statistics from its March 9 This Week In Petroleum update. “Crude oil prices during the month of February rose with the spread of political unrest in North Africa, including violent uprisings in Libya that have led to the shutdown of much of its oil production. The spot prices for West Texas Intermediate (WTI), a midcontinent crude oil benchmark, increased $15.52 (17 percent) from Feb. 1 to March 8. During the same time period, Brent, a similar North Sea oil grade, rose $11.92 (12 percent). Increasing uncertainty about oil supply, not just from Libya but other countries in North Africa and the Middle East, as well, have quickly pushed oil prices to levels not seen since 2008.” The “unrest” led EIA to increase its crude oil spot price forecast from $93 per barrel in its February Short-Term Energy Outlook to about $102 per barrel in its March 8 Outlook. Its forecasted average cost to refiners changed from $91 per barrel to $105.
Liquid Asphalt Cement Prices "average per ton" Company, State
Those numbers reflect a change that won’t self-correct anytime soon. The events in the Middle East and North Africa have resulted in supply disruptions that have short-term effects and long-term effects on oil production. EIA looked at a handful of “unrest” events in recent history that have affected oil production and showed that their effects on oil production were long-lasting. We haven’t room to dissect them here, but one example shows that the Venezuelan strike, which began in December 2002, took more than a year to resolve, and to this day the country has not returned to pre-strike production levels. What does that mean for the nearly complete shut-in of Libya’s oil production? Consider the variables that the marketplace is weighing: political outcome, the Libyan people’s acceptance of their new government, lifting of sanctions, repair of damaged infrastructure, education of new workers and more. No wonder crude oil prices drift higher with each passing day. To look at another price matter for our industry, diesel is outpacing gasoline at press time. In early April, the national average diesel price topped $4 per gallon for the first time since September 2008, making it $1.01 per gallon more expensive than it was at this time last year. It’s not a goal we were shooting for. EIA breaks down the regions experiencing diesel price jumps for you in its April 6 This Week In Petroleum report: “Midwest diesel prices were up almost 11 cents per gallon, which was the biggest regional price increase in the Nation. East Coast diesel prices also saw a double-digit gain of 10 cents per gallon. The West Coast and Gulf Coast both saw increases just under 10 cents per gallon. The Rocky Mountain region marked its 20th consecutive weekly increase by adding eight cents to [the week of March 28] average price.”
Jan ’11
Feb ’11
Mar ’11
$482.50
$482.50
$502.50
NuStar Energy, Ga.
455.00
495.00
530.00
NuStar Energy, N.C.
455.00
495.00
530.00
NuStar Energy, S.C.
455.00
495.00
530.00
NuStar Energy, Va.
466.67
495.00
520.00
Assoc’d Asphalt Inman, N.C.
475.00
485.00
485.00
Assoc’d Asphalt Inman, S.C.
475.00
485.00
485.00
Assoc’d Asphalt Inman, Va.
475.00
485.00
485.00
Marathon Petroleum, Tenn.
460.00
460.00
505.00
Feb 21
3.573
Marathon Petroleum, N.C.
455.00
455.00
500.00
Feb 28
Valero Petroleum, Va.
470.00
470.00
500.00
Massachusetts Average
467.50
487.50
California Average
477.10
Missouri Average
450.00
ConocoPhillips, Tenn.
futures spot data
stocks
Feb 18
$86.20/bbl
346.7 m bbl
3.716
Feb 25
$97.88/bbl
346.4 m bbl
Mar 7
3.871
Mar 4
$104.42/bbl
348.9 m bbl
520.00
Mar 14
3.908
Mar 11
$101.16/bbl
350.6 m bbl
488.90
586.30
Mar 21
3.907
Mar 21
$101.07/bbl
352.8 m bbl
451.25
467.50
Mar 28
3.932
Mar 25
$105.40/bbl
355.7 m bbl
Data for Southeast region, Source: ncdot.org; Data for Massachusetts, Source: mass.gov; Data for California, Source: dot.ca.gov; Data for Missouri, Source: modot.mo.gov 40 april/may 2011
U.S. Crude Oil Activity
Diesel Fuel Retail Price (dollars per gallon)
Source: Energy Information Administration
Source: Energy Information Administration
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resource directory ACE Group..................................................11,23 Contact: Carl McKenzie Tel: 888-878-0898 sales.enquiries@ashaltacesales.com www.asphaltace.com
CEI......................................................................4 Contact: Andy Guth Tel: 800-545-4034 info@ceienterprises.com www.ceienterprises.com
Maxam Equipment...........................................9 Contact: Lonnie Greene Tel: 800-292-6070 lgreene@maxamequipment.com www.maxamequipment.com
Stansteel..........................................................19 Contact: Dawn Kochert Tel: 800-826-0223 dkochert@hotmixparts.com www.hotmixparts.com
Asphalt Drum Mixers.......................... 20-21, 33 Contact: Steve Shawd or Jeff Dunne Tel: 260-637-5729 sales@admasphaltplants.com www.admasphaltplants.com
E.D. Etnyre.......................................................16 Contact: sales@etnyre.com Tel: 800-995-2116 www.etnyre.com
NAPA................................................................37 Asphalt In Depth.............................................26 Warm Mix Conference www.hotmix.org
Tarmac International, Inc.........................25, 27 Contact: Ron Heap Tel 816-220-0700 info@tarmacinc.com www.tarmacinc.com
EZ Street..........................................................17 Tel: 800-734-1476 Info@ezstreet-miami.com www.ezstreetasphalt.com
Reliable Asphalt Products............... Back Cover Contact: Charles Grote Tel: 502-647-1782 cgrote@reliableasphalt.com www.reliableasphalt.com
Transtech Systems................ Inside Back Cover Tel: 800-724-6306 Sales@transtechsys.com www.transtechsys.com
Asphalt Plant Products..................................42 Contact: Tom Holley Tel: 866-595-3268 Cell: 706-466-3678 www.asphaltplantproducts.com B & S Light.......................................................13 Contact: Mike Young Tel: 918-342-1160 Sales@bslight.com www.bslight.com Bullis Fabrication............................................29 Contact: Greg Bullis Tel: 866-981-8965 gregbullis@bullisfabrication.com www.bullisfabrication.com
Heatec, Inc. .......................... Inside Front Cover Contact: Sharlene Burney Tel: 800-235-5200 sburney@heatec.com www.heatec.com
Rotochopper, Inc............................................39 Tel: 320-548-3586 Info@rotochopper.com www.rotochopper.com
Hydronix..........................................................34 Tel: 888-887-4884 or 231-439-5000 Enquiries@hydronix.com www.hydronix.com
Stansteel AsphaltPlant Products...................41 Contact: Tom McCune Tel: 800-826-0223 tmccune@stansteel.com www.stansteel.com
Wirtgen America...............................................7 Tel: 615-501-0600 Info@wirtgenamerica.com www.wirtgenamerica.com WRT Equipment..............................................34 Contact: Dean Taylor Tel: 800-667-2025 or 306-244-0423 dtaylor@wrtequipment.com www.wrtequipment.com
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