The Cat® PM622 cold planer helped the crew at Tri-City Blacktop Inc. meet tight milling specifications on time

Road construction is all about precision work and meeting deadlines. Not only must jobs meet tight specifications, they must also be completed on time. Tri-City Blacktop, Inc. accomplished both of these goals at a milling job for the city of Bettendorf, Iowa.

In 10 days, one of the city’s worst streets became one of the smoothest. A Tri-City Blacktop crew milled concrete at a depth of 2½-inches (64 mm) for the 0.8-mile (1.3 km) Middle Road resurfacing. Milling was completed in four days. Cleaning and prepping the milled surface took another two days, and paving was finished in four days.

A Cat® PM622 Cold Planer helped the crew mill 5,600 square yards (4682 square meters) daily. With a milling width of 88 inches (2.2 m), the PM622 is 50 percent more productive than previous mills the crew operated.

“We’re able to make a wider cut, for one thing,” says Luke Carpenter, field superintendent. “We had high expectations for the PM622 on this job, and it exceeded them. We had a 4,000 square yardage goal every day, and we exceeded that every day that we milled.”