With more than 6,000 holes to drill, a Tennessee highway and bridge contractor uses a portable magnetic drill to complete a Virginia bridge rehabilitation project.After World War II, along with the baby boom and the housing boom, there was the highway boom that made the U.S. a mobile society Now, half a century later, with current traffic levels beyond the imagination of 1950s planners, the highway infrastructures created during the boom years are in need of rebuilding and rehabilitation to meet today's travel volumes. For firms like Jones Bros. Inc., a highway and bridge contractor headquartered in Mt. Juliet, TN, that means plenty of work. Founded in the 1950s, the company helped build the original system and now is leading the way to its refurbishment.
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