What paving crews, drivers and inspectors call the asphalt plant. The word separates it from the ready-mix concrete plant and the crusher on shared quarry sites, and calling the hot plant is how a foreman orders more trucks, a temperature change or a mix adjustment. Plants usually fire up an hour or more before paving starts to bring the drum and silos up to temperature.
Heard on the job
Call the hot plant and tell them to hold the last five loads, rain's ten minutes out.
Also heard as
- plant
- asphalt plant
- hot mix plant
Related terms
Drum plant
A continuous asphalt plant that dries the aggregate and mixes it with binder in one rotating drum.
Batch plant
An asphalt plant that weighs and mixes each load in separate batches in a pugmill.
Load ticket
The printed slip that travels with every truck showing mix type, tonnage, time and plant data for that load.