I've been paving asphalt driveways and walks a long time. We're a family asphalt paving contractor in Charlton, Massachusetts, which includes my son Jake and my longtime crew members and friends. We go the extra mile in digging out a driveway, and we do the utmost to make sure your asphalt driveway is going to last. When I give a paving estimate you can trust what you're going to get both in our terms and the quality of your asphalt paving contractor. Just ask my customers. It's our motto, on all our trucks: "Good, Honest Work."
Many paving contractors show up to do jobs with only a Bobcat or skid steer machine to do the prep work, and that works fine if you're only touching up existing gravel or adding gravel or even smaller simple dig outs. But what happens if you run into a really big rock or a stump? They usually just get buried "out of sight out of mind." We have a full-sized backhoe for digging stumps, rocks or laying drainage pipe if needed. We have two dozers - the bigger one works well for big dig outs and heavy excavating and the small dozer is good for smaller jobs and perfect for fine grading driveways.