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When it comes to compaction — whether it’s soil or asphalt — many contractors rely on past experience with similar materials to set amplitude and frequency, the number of passes and roller speed. Yet, ...

A construction worker who lost control of an asphalt roller and fell off it on Friday was run over by it. The man was gravely injured, but was able to freed from beneath the machine and airlifted to a ...

This is the horrifying moment a road worker was run over by an asphalt roller in front of shocked colleagues. The victim suffered a fractured pelvis and was taken to hospital following the incident in ...

A kit that retrofits static and vibratory steel rollers and challenges the long-standing method of relying on vibration to compact asphalt pavement is under development and is being tested in Canada.

To illustrate the intelligent-compaction (IC) roller’s potential to increase production, Kevin Garcia—road and paving construction segment manager for Trimble Navigation—relates an experiment Trimble ...