Exactly right. When we are exhausted, dehydrated and pouring sweat while paving roads that cannot be closed to traffic and you see so many people giving you dirty looks it can be frustrating. While they pass by in their air conditioned vehicles, it does not occur to them that they only have good roads to drive on because of those people out there busting their butts. (We don't have one of those large crews with guys always standing around. Every one of our guys work their butts off all day long.)
The amount of times I have been yelled at by people for fixing their roads is mind blowing. I have had people throw change at me, m80s, full soda cans, you name it. People really do take road workers for granted and we’re looked at as a inconvenience.
Are these guys seriously taking a ruler and sticking it down in the asphalt and bending down closely to read it instead of using a preset depth stick to check how thick the asphalt is?
6:42 "You have all the rock that comes in by rail..." THAT explains why the P&W delivers so much aggregate to the NY&A. I never realized it was going to hot top plants, which just makes so much sense as all the paved parts of Long Island need to get repaved every so often.
I being running a wheel graddall excavator for 8 years In the thing about construction it gets in yuor blood ,the hazardous and fast pace makes more exiting and if yuo make good wages is even better.....
Love how you guys went to my home island and ya the road closer is cool but SUCKS, also the LIE isn’t really an interstate or should even be in the interstate system because all it does is connect Riverhead NY to midtown Manhattan NY which is the only interesting that doesn’t end or start connecting to an interstate
@@nypyrogroup181 oh shit there doing the southern state I didn’t even know, thanks guys and thank god the state finally gave us funding to fix the highways out here. Thanks for your guy’s work to fix our class A shit roads lol
Found this channel while taking a break from writing my thesis for my degree in transportation engineering. Amazing video. Would love to work on a runway while planes are landing
Im a CMT tech we just finished concrete paving at a regional airport for a taxiway also at night, not the exact same but still super cool seeing this. Swapping the slump cone for the gauge
@@AaronWitt no disrespect intended. I live here the interstate is 495. Pretty sure that you were on the southern state parkway judging by the guardrails.
Late reply but Posillico is a union company. Machine operators and laborers are Union. The truck drivers usually are and are hired separately by Posillico but for some reason the company seen in the vid is a non union trucking company. However, to be allowed to work this job they are paid prevailing wage which means union scale + the benefits package all paid outright per hour. Plus they get night differential So these drivers are making somewhere in the ballpark of $90-100 per hour possibly little more depending on job location
