road machinery

Rhyming text and illustrations show how a road is made, from planning to moving dirt, laying asphalt, putting up signs, and landscaping.

Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

From pushing down trees to moving piles of rocks and dirt, bulldozers have a lot of jobs! Beginning readers can learn basic facts about these powerful machines.

This volume provides youth a methodical chapter-by-chapter approach, from general information about this job sector, to early classes to take, to interviewing for and starting work on a road crew. With an emphasis on concrete steps, this book paves a straight path for teens hoping to break into this stable, productive, and important career.

A look at the rugged machines used in highway construction.

Introduces the reader to the machinery that is used in making roads, from the backhoe loader to the pavers and chippers.

Photographs and text provide an introduction to road scrapers and how they work, and their role in preparing the way for roads, parking lots, and buildings.

Photographs and simple text teach young readers what road milling machines are, how they work, and what they are used for.

Illustrations and simple text teach young readers about the different kinds of machines used to work on roads.

Traces each step in the design and construction of a highway and describes the machinery used.