Fresno County · Highway 168
Paving in Clovis —
done once, done right.
Looking for asphalt paving in Clovis? Here’s the honest version: we’re one established Fresno shop (paving the Valley since 1990), and Clovis is 15 minutes from the yard. No frills, no franchise, the same crews that have been doing this for decades.
Clovis sits immediately northeast of Fresno — same metro area, different town. The historic core around Old Town Clovis has its own character, and the newer subdivisions stretching east along Highway 168 toward Friant are where most of our recent residential paving has been.
We do the new driveways and walkways in the master-planned HOAs, the parking-lot work for the shopping centers along Herndon and Shaw, and the maintenance schedules for several of the larger apartment complexes here. Most jobs run on the same lead time as Fresno proper.
What we see in Clovis: master-planned communities with strict HOA paving specs, restaurant and retail lots that can only close half at a time, and builder-grade driveways where the base prep ran thin the first time around. The route out is Highway 168 — a run our crews have made more times than anyone’s counted.
Paving in Clovis
What the job includes.
New asphalt installation and overlays for driveways, parking lots, private roads and farm approaches. The work that matters most happens before the asphalt truck arrives: subgrade evaluation, base rock depth matched to the loads the surface will actually carry (a passenger driveway and a packing-house yard are different animals), and drainage planned so water leaves the pavement instead of living under it. In the Valley’s expansive clay soils, base prep is the difference between a 25-year surface and a 5-year regret.
How we run a paving job.
We quote from a site walk, not a satellite photo. Overlay candidates get an honest call — if the existing section is too far gone, an overlay just buys a couple of years and we’ll say so. New installs get compacted Class II base, machine-laid hot mix, and rolled compaction checked at the edges, where driveways actually fail first.
Why this shop
What the quote includes.
We’d rather lose a Clovis bid than win it with a thin section. The spec gets written down — materials, prep steps, coverage — so you can compare quotes on substance instead of price alone.
Call (559) 442-4105 for a free estimate in Clovis, or send the form and we’ll call you back within one business day.
Paving questions
Asked before every
Clovis job.
How thick should driveway asphalt be?
For a passenger-car driveway in Valley soil, the honest spec is 2.5–3 inches of hot mix over 4–6 inches of compacted base. Trucks, RVs, or ag equipment need more section — that's a conversation at the site walk, not a one-size answer.
Does the summer heat affect paving?
It helps and it hurts. Hot mix stays workable longer in a Fresno summer, which is good for compaction — but subgrade prep matters more because the same heat bakes expansive clay hard and the winter rain swells it back. The section has to be built for both seasons.
Do you really cover Clovis?
Clovis runs on the same lead time as Fresno proper — it’s 15 minutes from the yard. Estimates usually happen within a couple of days, and same-week starts are normal once you sign off.