Allan Myers: From Cattle to CCPR
Read the full article in the Winter 2025 NAPA Quarterly.
Allan Myers played host to NAPA staff at two facilities in the Mid-Atlantic in Fall 2025, and NAPA Quarterly Editor Ty Johnson tagged along to chronicle the work being done across the region.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) became the latest to hear the story about how Allan Myers got its start in infrastructure during a tour of the company’s New Kent asphalt plant in Virginia’s Tidewater region east of Richmond in September.
Allan Myers Area Manager Rob Schwear told Wittman about how in 1939, the Worcester, Pennsylvania-based family dairy business – which was then a father-and-son team – was down on its luck, leaving Allan A. Myers and his son, Allan C. Myers, to sell off six dairy cows to make the down payment on a new dump truck.
It’s a humble origin story for a company that today has a road construction footprint that stretches across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, and one that Wittman could appreciate. Wittman, an avid hunter, told workers at the plant that he uses reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) millings to create paved hunting paths through the forests where he hunts.
Wittman’s familiarity with RAP and infrastructure meant he brought energy and insightful questions to the New Kent facility. In his time in Congress, his infrastructure priorities have included easing congestion on Interstate 95 as well as improving traffic and safety on Interstate 64.
“It was great seeing Congressman Wittman at Allan Myers New Kent Facility,” said NAPA Government Affairs Director Mitch Baldwin. “Educating policymakers on the importance of infrastructure and asphalt at a plant is one of the best things our industry can do to advocate for good policy and adequate funding. The Allan Myers facility was superb, clean and tidy – and the team was equally impressive. We look forward to having Congressman Wittman back to tour the I-64 project in the spring!”
INNOVATING AIRFIELDS
Allan Myers won the 2023 Ray Brown Airport Award and credited that success to teams that collaborate across state lines, ensuring the same best practices and expertise the company employs at larger airports, like Baltimore-Washington International (BWI), are also deployed at smaller, regional airports, like in Lititz, Penn.
Sharing institutional knowledge is part of the Allan Myers makeup and furthering that knowledge is what brought the company together with NAPA to undertake pavement performance evaluations at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center near Atlantic City, N.J.
Over the summer and fall, crews began experimenting with cold central plant recycling (CCPR) at the facility, eventually constructing a series of test strips to be evaluated with special equipment that can emulate the pressure conditions of heavy aircraft as a measure of performance. The fire truck-sized apparatus can be customized to simulate the conditions of several airplane models, with an even more specialized tool inside the National Airport Pavement Test facility at the Hughes Center capable of simulating the pavement stress equal to some of the largest aircraft on earth.
