I understood that you work for a company Truck. Here, most of the Trucks are owned by independant dudes who join an Equipment and Truck rental platform, they "only" take you 7% for their service ! We don't have concrete roads here, they are all made of asphalt, or bitumen surface coatings with 1 or more layers of gravel and emulsion bitumen usually made of 60% pure bitumen. I worked 45 yrs in the Construction field, vertical and horizontal Contructions ! Bonne journée Amigo ! Or rather "good night" I should say ! Here in the deep south of France near the Pyrenees, it's 10 o'clock !
Just in the past 10 years they have been making our major interstates out of a mix of asphalt and concrete. They will do 1-2 layers of asphalt with concrete on top of the asphalt, or do a layer of concrete, then asphalt with another top layer of concrete. To be honest, neither one of them hold up very long. The problem with concrete is that over time it cracks, breaks and shifts. Asphalt doesn’t hold up to harsh winters and forms pot holes. The roads just don’t hold up as well as they used too. I’m not sure why.
@@thatdumptruckdude Yes, your analysis is very correct. The major problems of a road are rain (mostly) and a wrong sizing of the structure (too thin or poor materials). And "cherry on the cake", today road construction companies (especially the big ones !) want to work faster and faster, always faster, with less and less really qualified crews ! Therefore, the job is often sloppy and poorly done, and they have to come back to fix the BS and the failures they have made ! That's the reality here buddy ! Exactly the same with single-family homes, 30 or 40 yrs ago the houses were strong and well made by skilled artisans, today they build BIG BS !!
