Paved driveway options

DO NOT get an asphalt drive way. Roads rely on traffic to compact them. When I worked for a paving co I asked about them doing my drive way when a road close by was on the schedule....the owner,his son and the superintendent told me go concrete vs paving. Milling along with crush and run for a "not dirt" road is a different story
 
I went asphalt. 310 square yards of 3 in thick. The company had all the right equipment from asphalt layer to steam roller and also regraded, laid new base, and compacted that before asphalting
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Looking from about a third of the way down
 
I would look at concrete over asphalt if your planning on staying long term. If concrete is put in correctly it should be about maintaince free. Asphalt you will have to reseal or potentially repave and will fail sooner under heavy traffic in hot weather.
 
I’m getting ready to get a quote on more of my driveway. Concrete 200ft more. I’ll hopefully know something this week
 
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I'm in the same boat, and a lot of my customers are in both businesses (paving and/or concrete). Concrete folks say pave it and asphalt guys say concrete it. Asphalt requires maintenance, and concrete gets a "dirty" appearance, excuse my OCD, but it is what it is. I live almost a mile down a county gravel dead end road, so really no point in doing mine, I guess.
 
I’d look at asphalt millings as an option. If you get them this time of year when it’s hot, spread them out and rent a roller, they’ll roll down tight and be very hard and last quite a long time
 
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