John Taylor

John Taylor grew up next door to Cook's Farm in Charlton, MA, where he enjoyed working as a youngster until he followed a detour in his mid-teens. It was a summer job doing driveway paving work for a local asphalt company. John and paving quickly caught on with each other. It is this affinity that has given J. Taylor Paving a reputation as a quality asphalt paving contractor. John handled all phases of driveway paving, from digging out old driveways and reconstructing from scratch to resurfacing and new construction.

Many paving contractors show up to do jobs with only a Bobcat or a skid steer machine to do the prep work. That works fine if you're only touching up existing gravel or adding gravel, or even smaller, simple dig-outs. But what happens if you run into a really big rock or a stump? They usually just get buried and end up "out of sight, out of mind." We have a full-sized backhoe for digging stumps, and rocks, or laying drainage pipe if needed. We have two dozers - the bigger one works well for big dig-outs and heavy excavating, and the small dozer is good for smaller jobs and perfect for fine grading driveways.

We tell you upfront the thickness of the asphalt and the gravel base, and that's how much asphalt and gravel we use. We have a great reputation in a business that has seen too many questionable driveway contractors come and go. We plan on keeping it that way, and we're a family company that's sticking around. We've been installing asphalt driveways and walkways for over 20 years, and John has been involved in asphalt paving in Central Massachusetts for 50 years, from Oxford and Dudley out to Brookfield.