When West Virginia’s Miller Sealcoating & Striping acquired a local competitor in 2008 the contractor also acquired a second bulk storage tank. It sat unused until 2011 when owner Dan Miller installed the tank in his yard, next to a bulk tank for asphalt sealer and a 30-ton sand silo. To give his customers a choice, empowering them as they make their buying decision, he filled this second tank with a polymer-modified coal tar sealer. A rebuilt 100 gpm chocolate pump (as in Hershey’s chocolate), converted to handle sealer, pumps material from tank to truck, and now one driver can fill a truck in 10 minutes, pull beneath the sand silo, and be out of the yard in less than 30 minutes.
To read more about Dan Miller’s efforts to help his customers make their best decisions read “Empowering the Customer” in the June/July issue of Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction.
