RJ & Sons Paving

About RJ & Sons Paving

The call comes at three in the morning, which is when snow work in Glen Burnie actually happens. Ritchie Highway is empty, the traffic lights blinking to nobody, and the lots along the corridor lie under six inches of the wet, salted-looking stuff a storm gathers coming across the Patapsco. RJ & Sons Paving is a paving outfit, so it knows those surfaces the way you know a room in the dark — where the grade pitches, where meltwater runs, where a blade should ride and where it should lift. The plowing and clearing get done so the first cars of the morning find pavement instead of ruts. By the time the sky over the harbor turns the color of steel, the lots are open and the aprons are cut square. That is the whole point of getting up.