Hackman Paving, Inc.

Hackman Paving, Inc. is an asphalt paving contractor based at 240 Michters Road in Newmanstown, Pennsylvania, a small community in Lebanon County near the Berks County line. The company handles asphalt installation and related earthwork for residential, agricultural, commercial and municipal clients throughout the surrounding region, taking projects from initial site preparation through final surface course. The business can be reached at +1 717-949-2133.

Newmanstown sits in the Millcreek Township area of eastern Lebanon County, within easy reach of Myerstown, Womelsdorf, Robesonia, Schaefferstown, Richland and the larger markets of Lebanon and Reading. This part of Pennsylvania is a mix of farmsteads, rural residential properties on long private lanes, small industrial parks and older borough housing stock, and the paving work reflects that mix: long farm driveways, equipment pads, church and business parking lots, and residential drives that often need regrading before any asphalt goes down.

Services

Hackman Paving works primarily in hot mix asphalt, with the supporting site work that a durable asphalt surface requires. Typical projects include:

• New residential driveway construction, including long rural lanes and circular or side-entry drives
• Resurfacing and overlay of existing asphalt driveways and lots
• Removal and full-depth replacement of failed or badly cracked pavement
• Commercial and institutional parking lot paving for businesses, churches, apartment properties and similar facilities
• Equipment, garage, shed and storage pads, including level pads prepared to a specified elevation
• Stone and modified base installation, including driveways finished in crushed stone rather than asphalt
• Excavation, grading and contouring to establish proper slope and pitch
• Drainage work associated with paving, including pitching surfaces away from structures and tying runoff into pits, basins or existing drainage
• Patching, repair of low areas and correction of settled or damaged sections
• Widening of existing drives, aprons and transitions to the road
• Edge work and finishing around walkways, stone facades, curbing, garage aprons and other fixed features

Because the region has clay-heavy soils in places and a freeze and thaw cycle that punishes thin or poorly drained pavement, the base and grading portion of a job carries real weight here. Work of this type generally involves stripping unsuitable material, establishing a compacted stone base at an appropriate depth, and setting grades so water moves off the surface rather than pooling on it. Projects on older properties frequently start with correcting problems created by decades of settlement, added fill, or earlier surfaces that were laid over inadequate bases.

How Projects Typically Work

Paving jobs in this area usually begin with a site visit and a written estimate. For a driveway or pad, that visit establishes the existing grade, where water currently goes, where it should go, how thick the base and asphalt should be, and whether any excavation or removal is needed before new material arrives. Access matters as well, since paving equipment, dump trucks and rollers need room to maneuver and a route in that will not damage lawns, septic areas, or existing concrete.

Once scheduled, most residential driveways and pads are completed in a single day or across two days, with base preparation and compaction on the first day and the asphalt placement following. Larger parking lots may be staged in sections so that access to a business or facility is maintained. New asphalt is generally kept free of traffic for a day or more, and full curing takes considerably longer, so homeowners are usually advised to avoid sharp turns, kickstands, jack stands and heavy point loads on a new surface through its first warm season.

Season is a factor in Pennsylvania. Hot mix asphalt requires ambient temperatures warm enough for proper compaction, which in practice means the paving season generally runs from spring into late fall, with plants closing for the coldest stretch of winter. Excavation, stone base and preparation work can extend somewhat further into the shoulder seasons, weather permitting. Because of this compressed window, scheduling in the spring for summer or fall work is common practice in the trade, and lead times lengthen in peak months.

Company Character

Hackman Paving is a locally operated contractor rather than a regional or franchised outfit, and the day to day contact for customers tends to be the same people who price the work and oversee the crews. Greg and Warren Hackman are the names most often associated with estimating and project coordination, which means the person who walks a property and explains what the job will involve is generally connected to the crew that performs it.

The company sends a full crew with its own equipment to the site, and jobs are organized so that grading, base work, placement and rolling proceed in sequence without long gaps. That structure suits the kind of work common in the area, where a single property might need excavation, stone, drainage attention and paving handled by one contractor rather than coordinated across several.

The company also takes on corrective work, including repairs to surfaces that have failed prematurely and projects left incomplete or improperly finished by others. Remediation work of this kind requires diagnosing why a pavement failed, which is usually a base, drainage or thickness issue rather than a problem with the asphalt itself.

Practical Information for Customers

• Location: 240 Michters Road, Newmanstown, Pennsylvania 17073
• Phone: +1 717-949-2133
• Business type: Paving contractor specializing in asphalt, grading and site preparation
• Service area: Lebanon County and surrounding communities in Berks, Lancaster and Schuylkill counties

When requesting an estimate, it helps to have a general sense of the dimensions involved, whether the surface is new construction or a replacement, and any known problem spots such as areas that hold water, soft ground, or places where vehicles have rutted the existing drive. Property owners should also note the location of septic tanks and laterals, well lines, buried utilities, irrigation and invisible fencing, since paving involves excavation and heavy equipment loading.

For commercial clients, useful details include expected vehicle weights, whether tractor trailers or loaded farm equipment will use the surface, required striping and traffic flow, and any hours during which the lot must remain accessible. These factors influence asphalt thickness, base depth and how the job is sequenced.