Commercial Asphalt Repair, Inc. (CAR, Inc.)

About Commercial Asphalt Repair, Inc. (CAR, Inc.)

The first real storm usually comes in November, when the ground is still warm enough to make everything heavy and the town wakes to eight inches nobody quite believed in. Commercial Asphalt Repair, Inc. (CAR, Inc.) is on the route by then, clearing parking areas and driveways across Grand Rapids and stacking the banks where they won't block a sight line at the street. There is more to it than pushing: the ice that forms under a downspout, the drift that rebuilds itself in the same corner every week, the apron the county truck refills an hour after you leave. Handle those and a lot stays usable all winter instead of shrinking a foot at a time. On a bright morning after, with the banks cut square and the brick of the old school tower catching the light downtown, the work looks like exactly what it is — somebody came through here early.