Lead by Sloan’s Training Specialist, Danny Doetch, PAC provides classroom & hands-on opportunities for paving operations personnel to expand their job knowledge and be exposed to other areas of the operations outside of their current responsibilities. During the paving season, the principals learned in the previous winter’s PAC training are expanded with field crosstraining to provide opportunities for continuous growth and advancement.

PAC I is the study of basic paving principals and methods, including the electronics and paving math and measurements with the goal of building a foundation that will enable employees to gain a higher level of knowledge and skill to assist in ensuring quality paving and production. Hands-on exercises reinforce the daily classroom material by allowing the students to apply the techniques in a simulated paving operation laying sand at a designated training area at the Duncan Plant. More often the class is attended by the paving foremen and their crews, but recently has included more superintendents, project engineers, project managers, senior management, QC techs and managers, as well as LEAP participants.

PAC II introduces paving crews and support personnel to the operations and benefits of the specialty equipment, such as the shuttle buggy, roto mill, road widener, and Bobcat with a little mill – in order to assist the employee with knowledge to ensure the safe and appropriate operation of the equipment when it is used on their project. Morning classroom sessions include a review of the procedures of operation while the afternoons are spent with hands-on exercises allowing each trainee to operate the individual equipment as they would in an actual paving operation.

PAC III has a primary focus centering on training for paving lead men, foremen and superintendents in leadership skills, communication, quality and production, as well as company policies and procedures, with an introduction to computers. The training for this level is structured somewhat different than PAC I and PAC II in that it encourages the trainees to discuss methods for improvement in quality and production and building communications between the paving operations personnel and all other support areas of the business.

PAC IV is currently being developed and will focus on training field operations in commercial-type grading and paving operations and applications.