Alires Asphalt Maintenance

About Alires Asphalt Maintenance

Old Town Pocatello still carries its rail-yard bones — brick warehouses and asphalt lots laid down when the Union Pacific ran full shifts through the Gate City — and those same lots need careful clearing once the snow starts stacking up. Alires Asphalt Maintenance runs a blade set high enough to push snow off without gouging the seal coat underneath, then follows with salt so the freeze-thaw cycle common to this high desert doesn't crack the surface further. The crew works the district's smaller commercial lots and back-alley loading areas, the kind of asphalt that takes a beating from delivery trucks even without winter added on top. Pocatello's storms tend to come in fast off the Portneuf Gap, and having a plow already scheduled for those lots means a business isn't discovering three inches of snow on its own front step at opening time. The work stays steady and low-drama: clear pavement, an intact surface, open doors.