A-Line Asphalt Maintenance, Inc.

About A-Line Asphalt Maintenance, Inc.

Before the commuter line backs up along Mill Plain Boulevard, the plows are already out on the lots that keep Vancouver moving. A-Line Asphalt Maintenance, Inc. clears snow and ice off parking lots and driveways in the dark hours when a freeze off the Columbia Gorge has glazed every stripe and curb overnight. The crew knows which lots slope toward drains and which corners catch the wind, so the ice melt goes down before the first cars arrive. A lot scraped back to clean blacktop, edges square and salt laid even, is finished before most of Vancouver has poured its first cup of coffee. Nobody driving in at eight o'clock will ever know the ice was there at five — which is exactly how the crew likes to leave it.