Your 'tax dollars' at work.

[Big_Dave]

This is the direct link to the pic. Once there, you can click on the pic to enlarge it.

Count the trucks sitting along side the highway (yes, there's a dry van passing by). The paving crew foreman 'forgot' to call the asphalt plant and have them hold us up there. Instead, all 26 trucks were loaded and sent out. I was 'first' in line when they decided to pull the paving machine back to the start point to pave the other lane. I sat alongside the highway for 2 hours! :wow:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/Big_Dave_2006/009-5.jpg

[Kranky 1]

Good thing it was warm outside, or the loads would have started to jam up in the trailers.

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[Bikerboy]

i have sat on the road for almost 4 hours to unload asphalt before.

[PartTimeDweller]

Your 'tax dollars' at work................

Actually, that is our tax dollars at work, but not the way you think. This is a prime example why road jobs are bid, so when a contractor has his head up his ass, as in Dave's example above, the contractor eats the loss, not the taxpayer.

As far as sitting with a load of asphalt, around here there is a minimum temp the asphalt must be or it gets rejected, which is checked before the truck dumps. Obviously, this time of year a load can sit quite a while and still be hot enough.