Vibratory soil compactors are usually the least conspicuous machines on road-building projects. Either they're long gone before the more glamorous paving train arrives, or they're working so far ahead ...

Often, one of the last and most critical steps in building roads is when compactors roll down that last mile. Accurate compaction can be overlooked in the rush to finish that last pass before the ...

Flint, Mich.-based Ajax Paving handles both government highway and demanding private asphalt and concrete paving duties from its headquarters and asphalt jobs from a subsidiary in Fort Myers, Fla. But ...

It’s been a rocky road for an unusual asphalt compactor design that once showed clear signs of outperforming traditional compactors. The Ministry of Transportation Ontario had been very keen on the ...

The new joystick control in Hamm’s pavement compactor has 15 plastic components, some very complex. Time-to-market was short, and the run was only 5000 pieces. No problem. A mean set of wheels. The ...

Not to be outdone by telematics advances in earthmoving equipment, paving equipment OEMs—and familiar technology companies such as Topcon and Trimble—have introduced systems with increasing levels of ...