Respect your haul roads: focusing on road conditions and proactive road maintenance can help you get the most from your equipment investment

Pit & Quarry, Feb, 2005 by Dave Poole

The best results have come from sites where an extensive inspection and survey period preceded any application. There is a learning curve that must be climbed by all parties involved, and this two-way process is absolutely critical to a successful outcome.

When you consider how much a stabilization project is intertwined with daily operations, you will appreciate extra care taken in developmental work. Failure happens much too often in dust control and stabilization attempts. It is usually a direct result of short changing that learning curve.

Challenge

Properly maintaining quarry haul roads.

Solution

Nonwater soluble stabilization agents.

Tip

Eliminate watering and you can reduce 10 to 25 percent of your tire-replacement costs.

Edwards, Mine & Quarry Specialist, at Midwest Industrial Supply Inc., 330-284-1454, lynn@midwestind.com.

Road-stabilization experts

* Midwest Industrial Supply Inc. has been involved in road stabilization for nearly 30 years and has experience with haul roads and operational roads across the country. The company's method of stabilization is to improve environmental conditions. Thinking out of the box in terms of planned maintenance and stabilization can bring benefits you may not have considered.

* Midwest Industrial Supply Inc. can design programs that guarantee road emission limits, meeting any permit requirements. Midwest has trained professional operators that already have MSHA schooling. Your personnel can continue uninterrupted in what they do best.

* All Midwest Industrial Supply Inc. products are designed, engineered and manufactured to be free of volatile organic compounds, semi-volatiles and heavy metals. All of the company's stabilization agents are nonwater soluble upon cure to eliminate leeching and groundwater contamination. All were developed to ensure environmental stewardship, which remains the company's hallmark.

Dave Poole is a field sales and service representative for Midwest Industrial Supply Inc. He can be reached at 330-284- 0127, or davep@midwestind.com. To learn more about stabilization and dust control at your operation, contact: Lynn