Make sure to thank the federal government for their part. I think some of that is due to the nationwide implementation of a new asphalt system "super pave". It all sounded great but like anything you try to scale up you find issues. This new system just couldn't take into account all the local variables in climate, traffic, and materials. For decades engineers had tuned local mixes to get the best bang for their buck then we just started training all the new engineers to work the new system and demanded it's use by states to get back the road funds, all at once. Some places have recovered better than others but there is a pile of poor quality asphalt all over this country that isn't going to get near it's projected lifespan. But yeah, the asphalt institute put a ton of data together that sure showed "superpave" to be the schit, even "greener" imagine that. I wonder what percentage of the asphalt industry Old Castle controls now, 7 years ago they owned all 5 asphalt companies allowed to bid our federal work in Iowa, saw the same in several areas around the country, some technical crap considers them separate companies for bidding but they all run the Old Castle logo somewhere, could be capturing an industry dealing with new standards across the board is a cheaper way of monopolizing?
Damn government can't fix potholes........