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Dust Control, Construction Site Sweeping Leads New President to NAPSA

North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA)

New NAPSA President Scott Duscher, Agua Trucks, looks to the future of the sweeping association

Today Agua Trucks operates five water trucks, seven large construction sweepers, two parking lot sweepers and a variety of support equipment. The 26-person company generates 15% of its revenue from parking lot sweeping and 85% of its work from use of its water trucks and construction sweeping.

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7 Ways to Annoy — and Lose — Your Customers

How to avoid the 7 most-common customer service crimes.

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A Workable Training Model for Construction Crews

Learn how to implement a tested training model for construction crews.

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Advance Construction Explained

Your state’s use of advance construction (AC) strongly influences highway construction projects.

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Material Management Tools Control Costs & Improve Asphalt Quality

Technology like the Mat Manager from MultiFit can help contractors better understand their hot mix needs in real-time

While having proper calculations in advance is necessary to control costs, technology today is allowing contractors to manage how much material they’re using in real-time so adjustments can be made to prevent costly overruns.

Asphalt Paving: How to Compact Unsupported Joint Edges

Here's the only way to successfully compact unsupported joint in asphalt paving

[VIDEO] Washington DOT Uses Robo Flaggers to Keep Workers Safe

New flagging technology is designed to remove flaggers from traffic, keeping workers safe from distracted driving

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Protecting Pavement with Gilsonite at Iowa State University

Iowa State protects pavement using Gilsonite

Sprayed on the pavement, gilsonite-based sealer is a chemically engineered asphalt preservation product comprised of a cationic emulsion with a modified sealer-binder, rejuvenators and specially selected plasticizers.

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Policing the Work Zone

Having police officers present during active highway construction is helping to deter speeding and distracted driving to keep workers safe on the job site

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Snow Melter Newest Tool to Clear Parking Lots

Lyons Landscaping uses portable snow melter instead of plows to clear parking lots

Using the CT-15 Trecan Snowmelter takes three commercial haul trucks off the road for every hour of use. The unit can melt a 2-yd. bucket of snow in less than 50 seconds, up to 15 tons per hour.

Caterpillar & Trimble Update eRoutes Paving App Based on Contractor Feedback

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eRoutes 3.0 gives customers a proven, scalable process control solution that helps coordinate and synchronize the timely delivery of asphalt to the job site, a key to paving efficiency and quality.

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Pavement Test Tracks Advance Asphalt Design in Safe, Collaborative Manner

Through research and partnerships, innovation to build better roadways nationwide is happening very quickly in Alabama and Minnesota

The seventh cycle of accelerated performance testing at NCAT began in 2018, providing unique opportunities to determine the field performance of breakthrough materials and concepts without the risk of failure that local and state agencies are unwilling to accept.

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