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Meany Asphalt Forms After Amicable Business Division By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT

Meany Asphalt & Construction in Pisgah Forest, N.C., got its start in 2006 when owner John Meany took an early retirement after working for 20 years as a linesman for the local power company. “The way all this came about was that my next-door neighbor Theron McCall was in the grading business,” Meany explained. “He and I had talked about the possibility of me joining the business as a partner. After I opted for early retirement, we finalized our partnership and on Theron’s suggestion we expanded the business to include paving. The logic was that the grading business was saturated in our part of the state, but there were very few paving contractors.” The partnership began in May 2006. Shortly after, it took a different direction. “In December of 2006 Theron came to me and said, ‘John, I hate to pave,’” Meany explained. At that point, the two amicably dissolved the partnership and Meany bought out the paving side of the business. “We decided that I would take the paving part and open my own company, and he would take the grading, and we split the partnership up with no hard feelings,” Meany explained. “In fact, we actually still share an office, an office manager and a shop, but we have two separate companies.” After a couple of years of working with his original equipment, Meany knew it was time to trade, and he called Mark Glass at ACS Volvo to see what was available. “Mark said he didn’t have anything in my size,” Meany said. “They had bigger equipment for interstate work, but nothing in the 15,000 to 20,000 pound range. But he said he would look into it.” John Meany (R), owner and operator of Meany Glass found a possible paver with a Mauldin model. Asphalt and Construction LLC and the Mauldin The two took a trip to the Mauldin facility in Greenville, 1750 C paver that was the first equipment purS.C., and were impressed with the entire operation. As a chase he made when he expanded his business. result, Meany got his paver, and ACS Volvo now carries the Mauldin line of equipment. “The Mauldin folks came to my site several times and actually helped with the training process,” Meany said. “I’m going to make it work even “Paving is not just a matter of dumping a load of asphalt and taking a bull dozer or a skid steer and rolling it out. through tough times, and it’s all There’s a lot to know, and everybody’s been very helpful.” because I want to make this Meany noted that he’s always been a hands-on person. While he was in high school, he actually worked for company the best that I can.” a grading outfit for about three years before he began with the power company. During that time, he learned to John Meany weld. Meany Asphalt and Construction LLC Meany’s Peterbilt dump truck fills the Mauldin paver with “In the wintertime when it’s often too cold to pave, I did asphalt.

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The South Carolina State Department of Transportation received bids for transportation-related improvement projects. Following is a list of some of the projects let. These results are from bid tabulations, which are not final results and are subject to change. County: Oconee S.C. File No.: 37.039310. Project: Road work including reclamation of various roads. Distance: 3.6 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • King Asphalt Inc., Liberty, S.C. — $1,296,760. • Ashmore Brothers Inc., Greer, S.C. — $1,331,292. • F&R Asphalt Inc., Easley, S.C. — $1,385,919. Completion Date: Sept. 30, 2010. County: Lexington S.C. File No.: 32.144B. Project: Roadway improvements on SC 602 from S-168 to 1 mi. west of SC 6. Distance: 6.337 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Eagle Construction Co. Inc., Newberry, S.C. — $20,637,260. • U.S. Group Inc., Columbia, S.C. — $20,647,597. • Sloan Construction Co. Inc., Duncan, S.C. — $20,762,864. • REA Contracting, Division of Lane Construction, Charlotte, N.C. — $20,791,514. • United Infrastructure Group Inc., Great Falls, S.C. — $22,274,624. • C.R. Jackson Inc., Columbia, S.C. — $22,325,385. Completion Date: May 31, 2013. County: Georgetown S.C. File No.: 22.2001.2R1. Project: Drainage improvements on U.S. 17 (Fraser Street) from S-87 to U.S. 521/17A. Distance: 1.388 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Republic Contracting Corp., Columbia, S.C. — $14,549,124. • R.H. Moore Company Inc., Murrells Inlet, S.C. — $14,550,498. • Don Moorhead Construction Inc., Belton, S.C. — $16,046,647. • Boggs Paving Inc., Monroe, N.C. — $16,132,287. Completion Date: May 31, 2012. Counties: Georgetown, Horry, Marion S.C. File Nos.: 22.038437, 22.038483, 26.038484, 34.038439, 34.038485C. Project: 2009 Federal Aid resurfacing. Distance: 23.81 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Palmetto Corp. of Conway, Conway, S.C. — $7,496,939. • Boggs Paving Inc., Monroe, N.C. — $7,518,992.

• C.R. Jackson Inc., Columbia, S.C. — $7,533,885. • Southern Asphalt Inc., Conway, S.C. — $7,591,141. Completion Date: Nov. 30, 2010. Counties: Edgefield, McCormick, Newberry, Saluda S.C. File Nos.: 19.038462, 33.038465, 36.038420, 36.038466, 41.038467. Project: 2009 Federal Aid resurfacing. Distance: 12.56 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Satterfield Construction Co. Inc., Greenwood, S.C. — $4,386,908. • Reeves Construction Co., Macon, Ga. — $4,511,870. Completion Date: Sept. 30, 2010. County: Beaufort S.C. File No.: 07.039220. Project: Resurfacing various roads. Distance: 5.09 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • APAC-Southeast Inc., Savannah, Ga. — $3,898,690. • REA Contracting, Division of Lane Construction, Charlotte, N.C. — $3,991,911. Completion Date: March 31, 2011. Counties: Bamberg, Orangeburg S.C. File Nos.: 0538.100B, 05.119B, 05.119B.1, 38.180B.1. Project: Bridge and approach work including three bridge replacements and approach work on U.S. 78, includes construction of a 1,250 ft. bridge with prestressed 72 in. modified bulb tee beam spans over Edisto River and two 240 ft. bridges with RC flat slab spans over Edisto River and overflows.

Distance: .884 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • United Infrastructure Group Inc., Great Falls, S.C. — $10,761,451. • Republic Contracting Corp., Columbia, S.C. — $11,657,000. • Carolina Bridge Co. Inc., Orangeburg, S.C. — $13,787,192. • Cape Romain Contractors Inc., Wando, S.C. — $13,823,258. • U.S. Group Inc., Columbia, S.C. — $14,788,406. • REA Contracting, Division of Lane Construction, Charlotte, N.C. — $15,019,403. • Dane Construction Inc., Mooresville, N.C. — $15,682,310. • Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc., Wilmington, N.C. — $16,245,222. • R.R. Dawson Bridge Co. LLC, Lexington, Ky. — $16,478,606. • Rogers Bridge Co. Inc., Atlanta, Ga. — $16,586,388. • Scott Bridge Co. Inc., Opelika, Ala. — $17,483,048. Completion Date: Aug. 31, 2012. County: Aiken S.C. File No.: 02.038818. Project: 2009 Federal Aid resurfacing. Distance: 6.08 mi. Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Satterfield Construction Co. Inc., Greenwood, S.C. — $1,337,451. • Reeves Construction Co., Macon, Ga. — $1,450,493. • Beam’s Contracting Inc., Beech Island, S.C. — $1,613,583. Completion Date: Aug. 31, 2010.

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Making Plans to Hand Business Down to Next Generation MEANY from page 1

a lot of welding…that’s kind of where I cut my teeth,” he said. “I actually kept up with that on the side while I worked for the power company. I have an office and shop at my house, and I welded for several contractors in my area. I still do it to this day. I’ve never stopped.” Meany has two sons. Beau is a senior in high school, and Brett is a freshman. “Beau loves the paving business,” he said. “He’s been very much a part of it for the last three or four years. He works while he’s not in school, and plans to attend a university close by, get a business degree and one day take over the business. Brett is part of it too and is getting his feet wet. That’s one of the reasons I looked at taking an early out from the power company. I wanted to go into business and hopefully have something for my kids to walk into and take over.” Meany explained that the company’s work area spans about a 50-

mi. (80.4 km) radius in order that he and his nine employees can be home every night. His half million dollar equipment base includes the Mauldin 1750 C Paver, an 8,000lb. roller, a 4,000-lb. roller, motorgrader, skid steer, dump trucks, various pickup trucks and trailers. He noted that he doesn’t do highway projects, but instead specializes in jobs such as subdivision roads, driveways and parking lots. “We really focus on two to three day projects,” he said. “And that can be anything from a very simple inexpensive job to one that is more complicated and costs several hundred thousand dollars. We work in the private sector as well as for local municipalities.” In each of the last two years, the company has grossed more than $1.5 million per year. “For a new company, that’s good,” Meany said. “What it takes is to put your head down and plow on. I’m going to make it work even through tough times, and it’s all because I want to make this company the best that I can. Everybody

Meany’s crew putting down a smooth stretch of highway.

knows how the economy is today, and so far, so good. I’ve kept a backlog, and my guys have worked every day that we could work. The only thing that kept us from working is weather. We have not missed a day because of not having something to do. I think a lot of that has to due with doing quality work at reasonable prices, and taking pride in the work. I keep my trucks clean, and I keep my equipment looking good. Maintenance is a big issue with us,

and we are well known in the community. Our guys are friendly to everybody, and we make it a point to go back and sweep up after ourselves when we’ve done a job. Quality control is a big issue, too. For me, the job’s not finished until the customer is completely satisfied. We want to please our customers.” Meany noted that times have changed in the last two years. When he first got started, there were two or three contractors his

size bidding on jobs. Today, contractors who typically bid only on the largest jobs are competing for the mid-sized and smaller jobs. “It’s not uncommon to have 12 or 13 contractors with anywhere from two to 100 employees bidding on all the same jobs, he said. “It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.” Meany is hopeful that the economy will turn around and start coming back, and that most companies will be able to pull through the recession. “In reality, the economy is going to sort out a lot of companies,” he said. “I can’t say that I’m not going to be one of them. I don’t know. No one can predict the future, but I think success amounts to smarts, hard work and making good decisions. You gotta be smart in business. I hope everybody makes it.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG

Perdue Says New N.C. Highway Projects Fund Needed By Gary D. Robertson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Mayors joined Gov. Beverly Perdue on May 24 to urge the Legislature to create this year a dedicated fund to build urgent road and other transportation projects they said are needed to keep the state’s economic engines roaring in the decades ahead. Perdue wants the General Assembly to create the North Carolina Mobility Fund, which the governor said would generate up to nearly $300 million annually by 2013 through higher driver’s license fees, the end of a trade-in sales tax break on new car sales and shifting around other pots of money. The governor said the Department of Transportation would use the fund to pay for efforts to ease congestion with projects of statewide significance. The current roadfunding formula punishes regions that want to spend money on large projects, making them hard to accomplish. The fund likely would first be used to widen several miles of Interstate 85 close to

the Yadkin River Bridge in Davidson and Rowan counties — a key shipping corridor between Atlanta and points north. Work is about ready to start to replace the aging bridge by issuing bonds. “North Carolina values the safety of our businesses and the people who call North Carolina home and travel through North Carolina,” Perdue told reporters at a news conference. “It’s our obligation to make our traveling public safe.” A portion of Mobility Fund money also would go to interstate maintenance, city transportation projects and improving the state’s ports to attract industries that rely on shipping. “The Mobility Fund is all about job creation,” Morehead City Mayor Jerry Jones said. “We need to find new revenue.” Perdue inserted the fund in her budget proposal in April, but Senate Democrats declined to put the measure in their $19 billion spending plan. Senators didn’t have enough time to consider the idea in the first week of the session but they’re “open to new ways to fund transportation and are studying

this issue,” said Schorr Johnson, spokesman for Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare. The House is now considering its own version of the budget. While some House members back the idea, Sen. Nelson Cole, D-Rockingham, co-chairman of the House budget transportation subcommittee, isn’t sold on it when the state unemployment rate is more than 10 percent. “I don’t think this is the time to be enhancing revenue,” said Cole, adding that people are “looking for a paycheck, not a way to pay us in taxes.” The North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association also said it was concerned about what it called a “double taxation” strategy to build up the fund starting in 2012 by eliminating a provision that allows consumers to reduce their sales tax bill on car purchases if they trade in an old car. For example, trading in a car valued at $10,000 reduces the sales tax on the new car by $300. Cole is a retired automobile dealer. State schools superintendent June Atkinson, speaking earlier May 24 at a news conference of officials representing teachers,

school boards and the PTA, said schools should come in the budget before filling potholes or other government priorities. “That work doesn’t go away. Those kids still have to be transported to school, they still have to be fed, and they need instruction in an environment that provides for the individual needs and is safe,” North Carolina Association of Educators President Sheri Strickland said. Perdue’s proposal would increase some fees in the coming year, including raising annual state vehicle registrations from $28 to $35 for cars and light trucks. Perdue said it would be shortsighted of the Legislature to avoid the issue because of what she called election-year worries over fees or taxes. “I don’t know of any business, both in North Carolina now and outside North Carolina, who will ever walk away from laying down jobs in this state because of what the cost of a DOT fee is or what the cost of a registration fee is,” Perdue said. “They will walk away if the infrastructure doesn’t meet their needs to do business.”

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