Those yellow Pilgrim Paving signs at the ends of South Shore driveways turn up in the reviews themselves — a 2023 customer used them as shorthand for how much of the local asphalt this Hanover company has laid. It works residential and commercial jobs across the South Shore, Boston and the Cape: driveways and parking lots, plus sealcoating, walkways, berms and line striping. The Better Business Bureau's file dates the business to 1976 and its LLC incorporation to 2019, with six employees, and grades it A+ while noting it is not BBB accredited. The company describes itself as family-owned.
Owner Bill Dyer keeps turning up in reviews by name, which is unusual at this size. A July 2026 customer traced the whole job — the demo crew, then the digging, pitching and grading, down to the hand-operated roller at the end — and had something kind to say about every person on it. In June 2026, another wrote that Dyer steered them away from what they'd asked for, suggested a change based on experience, and turned out to be right. Speed comes up repeatedly: a May 2024 homeowner watched a seven-man crew tear out and replace a long, 25-year-old driveway in seven hours. An April 2025 reviewer liked the office side too — digital quote, text reminders, a job coordinator to call.
Two things deserve attention before you sign. First, pitch and drainage: a June 2024 reviewer said the owner came back to address water that iced up over winter and, while it improved, ice still formed between parked cars. Settle the grading and where water will run, in writing, before the trucks arrive. Second, and separate from the paving: a June 2022 article on grimytimes.com reported that William E. Dyer, 57, the owner of a commercial and residential paving business in Hanover, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in a tax evasion scheme — and the BBB profile lists Mr. William Dyer as Pilgrim Paving's owner. Nothing customers have written ties that to the work itself, but it is public reporting a homeowner should know about.
Scheduling has slipped now and then. A 2021 reviewer said nobody called back about an estimate, and a 2022 customer who still gave five stars for the finished job was left waiting past a two-hour arrival window with no heads-up.
For a driveway tear-out, a widening, or a small parking lot on the South Shore, the paving draws steady and specific praise across five years of reviews. Ask for the drainage plan, confirm the date the week before, and get the full scope — depth, base, edge treatment — written onto the quote.