I was told once it’s because cities project the job to take say 5 weeks, so they rip it up the first week, leave it for 3 weeks, then repave the last week. And they do this so everyone gets a paycheck for the full 5 weeks. Surely there has to be a different reason?
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I do road construction.
95% of the time, it’s just scheduling.
Sometimes we do get everything done quickly, with crews coming in back to back, but that’s only if the contract requires it.
Otherwise, the milling crew will come first, and then the paving crew comes whenever it works in the schedule.
That also includes waiting on confirmation from the client, or an engineer’s report or some other thing that’s out of our control.
We’ve had jobs that were supposed to be done in 2 weeks, only for them to delay or postpone it, and the road staying milled for over a year.
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