Riverside Asphalt Services Inc

Riverside Asphalt is not the outfit you call to redo a driveway. The Hyde Park company sells, hauls and sprays liquid asphalt and emulsions — tack coat, chip seal, crack sealant — for highway and road projects across eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, which puts its work with paving contractors and road agencies rather than with homeowners. Crack filling, seal coating, chip sealing and aggregate finishes are the line items on its Better Business Bureau profile. The family tells the origin story plainly: started in 1989 with one used truck and a small sealcoat tank, now running distributor trucks and transport tankers, 37 years on. The BBB file fills in the corporate side — incorporated in Massachusetts in 1993, six employees, Doreen Fulmore as president with Paul Fulmore as operations manager — and shows the profile as unaccredited and Not Rated for want of information. The company also states it is woman-owned and certified as a WBE by the state's SOMWBA agency; that is its own statement, not something confirmed against the registry. Public accounts of the company are few and dated. The single written review, from September 2020, is not about a job at all: a motorist described a company truck running the third lane of a highway at 75 to 80 mph and throwing rocks into windshields, and called the driving careless. Federal OSHA records carry an inspection of the company, and a safety-record aggregator counts three inspections. If you are a paving contractor sourcing emulsion or a municipality weighing a chip seal, ask for recent project references, current insurance, and the fleet's DOT compliance record. Homeowners wanting a driveway paved are looking for a different kind of contractor.