THE PAVING CONTRACTOR UNDER PRESSURE
A paving crew without material is a paving crew standing still. A paving crew without the right equipment is the same. Every gap between the plant and the mat costs tonnage.
These are structural realities of running a heavy paving operation, not technology problems.
Scheduling runs on spreadsheets. Multiple crews across multiple jobs, each with different tonnage targets, equipment needs, and material types. Conflicts are invisible until the day starts.
Keeping the mat fed depends on one dispatcher. Whether the contractor runs their own trucks or hires haulers, the paver cannot stop and restart without quality consequences.
Visibility ends at the job site boundary. The superintendent, the dispatcher, and the PM are all working from different pictures of the same day.
Equipment moves on phone calls. Pavers, rollers, and milling machines move between jobs constantly. A breakdown mid-job idles an entire crew.
SCHEDULING AND THE CREW DAY
The schedule is the single most consequential decision the paving contractor makes each day.
It determines which crews go where, which equipment moves, what material gets ordered, and how many trucks are needed. Three crews across four jobs, two rollers shared between them, a milling machine that needs to move overnight. The schedule lives in a spreadsheet. Conflicts are invisible until the morning when it is too late to fix them.
XBE has managed more than 1.8 million job production plans.
The Board gives the contractor a single view of every crew day — production plans broken into segments with tonnage targets, trucking needs, and labor and equipment assignments.
The scheduling board consolidates foreman, project manager, and equipment views with drag-and-drop assignment and draft mode for sandbox planning. Pre-flighted actions flag conflicts before a plan is submitted. The trucking demand forecast shows truck shortages before the first crew rolls out.
The schedule becomes a forward-looking plan instead of a daily negotiation.
TRUCKING AND KEEPING THE MAT FED
The paver cannot stop.
Once the screed is hot and the crew is set, every minute without material is a minute the mat cools and the day falls behind. In-house trucks and third-party haulers cycle between the plant and the job site, coordinated by one dispatcher who holds the full picture in their head. When a hauler is late, the superintendent finds out when the truck does not show up. Night paving makes every gap worse.
XBE has coordinated more than 3.5 million driver shifts.
Trucking Shift Lineup Management keeps every scheduled shift, tender, assignment, and real-time driver movement in one dispatch view.
Trucker recommendations score candidates across seven-plus factors including distance, trailer match, and assignment history. Tender management handles the full offer-accept lifecycle with automated notifications. One-step driver movement lets dispatchers reassign a driver mid-shift with a single action.
The mat stays fed because dispatch sees the full picture, not a piece of it.
EQUIPMENT ACROSS JOBS
A paving crew without the right iron is a paving crew standing still.
Pavers, rollers, milling machines, MTVs, brooms, and tack trucks move between job sites constantly. Where each piece is, when it needs to move, and whether a rental is arriving — that coordination runs on phone calls. A breakdown mid-job means an idle crew and a cooling mat, and there is no view of where the nearest replacement sits.
Equipment movement planning assigns dispatch trips from creation through drag-and-drop dispatch to inbound and outbound tracking.
The location manager shows all equipment, current locations, and time on station. Rental management tracks the full lifecycle — requested, rented, returned — alongside owned fleet. Labor and equipment requirements on production plans specify which equipment each crew day demands, so planners and dispatchers work from the same picture.
The iron is where it needs to be because the plan accounts for it.
THE REST OF THE OPERATION CONNECTS TOO
Those three challenges are where most paving contractors feel the pressure first. But the day does not stop there.
XBE puts the same live day in every seat — including the field.Plan monitoring gives a real-time view of production progress across all active jobs. Personalized dashboards surface active jobs, shifts, drivers, and alerts to every role without calling the office. Broadcast messaging reaches crews, haulers, and the superintendent at the same time, in seven languages.
E-Ticketing captures tons, hours, and mat temperatures as the work happens — not rebuilt from paper after the last truck returns.On DOT work, that is the compliance trail. Project financial accounting tracks margin in real time from estimate through close-out, so the contractor knows where margin is being won or lost while the work is still in progress.
Put the paving contractor’s day in one system of action.
XBE connects scheduling, dispatch, equipment, ticketing, and financial close into one operating record. Put it against your real crew day.
