It Was a Very Good Year

by Rebecca Wasieleski
Created: January 18, 2006

Mike Cleck’s dream of owning a paving company comes true, with a successful first season and plans for expansion in year two.

Train Your Paving Crew at NPE

Contractors looking to improve their paving operation can take a big step forward by attending some of the 17 paving-related programs at National Pavement Expo, Feb. 15-18 in Charlotte, NC. Among the paving topics are:

“Applying Best Practices to Your Paving Operation,” John Ball, Top Quality Paving

“Improve Your Paving by Improving Your Paving Crew,” Tom Skinner, Skinner Consulting Services

“Be Different and More Profitable: Add Value to Your Paving Operation,” Bob Anderson, Permaloc

“Perfecting Asphalt Overlays” and “Pavement Design for Contractors,” both by Alan Curtis, CHEC Consultants

“Improve Your Asphalt Paver Operations” and “Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Mat Problems” by Jim Scherocman, consulting engineer

“Best Practices for Installing Paving Fabrics,” Mounque Barazone, Geotextile Apparatus Co.

In addition, NPE offers several compaction-related sessions including “Effective Compaction of Hot Mix Asphalt” by Scherocman; “Paving and Compaction Principles for Commercial and DOT Jobs,” Chuck Deahl, Bomag Americas; and “Plate Compaction

Tips and Techniques,” John Vitko, Vibco Inc.

For descriptions of these and other NPE seminars visit www.nationalpavementexpo.com