The balancing act, as Hood sees it, is finding the right mix of equipment and a crew you can easily move around. “Obviously, you’re going to have to have a trailer to haul that equipment package around,” he notes. “And you’re going to need three to five guys to run a small paver. So they’ve got to be transported as well. But you want to make sure you don’t get so spread out with the equipment that your transportation costs rise – where you’ve got to have two or three trucks and trailers to haul everything around. Ideally, you want to pull onto a jobsite with the paver, roller and skid steer on one trailer and ready to go work.”