What is the commonly used road building machinery?
Bulldozers - heavy tracked machinery with a large blade, used for removing material. Scrapers and Spreaders - do the opposite; pick up road making materials and spread them over a road surface (particularly the sub base (lower) layers. Compactors - heavy equipment designed to compress and compact road making materials Graders - medium heavy equipment with a blade designed to level off a compacted surface Rollers - used to produce a hard, level surface on compacted or laid materials Asphalt laying equipment - used to lay upper surface asphalt (black top) road surfaces Concrete laying equipment - used where a concrete road surface rather than an asphalt surface is required. Dump trucks and tipper trucks - used to transport materials to or from the site. Front end loaders or bucket loaders - used to pick up materials and place them in dump trucks. Excavators- tracked machines used to dig out materials
