Road Base Delivery in Utah County & Salt Lake County

The material almost every project starts with

If your project involves anything sitting on the ground — a driveway, an RV pad, a shed, a paver patio — the first truckload is almost always 3/4” road base. It’s crushed rock, three-quarter inch on down to dust, and that mix of sizes is the entire point: under a plate compactor, the fines lock the larger rock together into a surface hard enough to drive on. We load it at local pits and deliver it anywhere in Utah County and most of the Salt Lake Valley.

It’s also cheap insurance. At $18–30 per ton for material, road base is one of the least expensive things you’ll buy for the project, and it’s the layer that decides whether everything above it stays flat through a Utah winter.

What people build on it

• Gravel driveways — 4–6 inches compacted, crowned slightly so water sheds off
• RV and trailer pads — 6 inches if you’re parking 15,000+ lbs; tongue jacks punch through anything less
• Shed and garage pads — 4 inches compacted gives you a level, stable footprint that won’t heave
• Paver patios and walkways — 4 inches of compacted base under an inch of bedding sand is the standard Utah detail
• Pre-concrete base — flatwork contractors spec compacted base under driveways and slabs for a reason

If your job is bulk filling a hole rather than building a surface, you may not need road base at all — pit run or fill dirt does that job for less money. We’ll tell you which one on the phone rather than sell you the more expensive ton.

Order math you can do in your head

Road base weighs about 1.4 tons per cubic yard. Two shortcuts:

• At 3 inches deep, 1 cubic yard covers ~100 sq ft
• At 4 inches deep, 1 cubic yard covers ~80 sq ft

So a 20’ × 50’ driveway (1,000 sq ft) at 4 inches is 12.5 yards ≈ 17.5 tons. A 12’ × 40’ RV pad at 6 inches is about 9 yards ≈ 12.5 tons — almost exactly one 10-wheeler load. Order about 10% extra; compaction consumes more material than people expect, and a short pile at 90% done is the most annoying way to end a Saturday. The calculator does the same math with your exact dimensions.

Tailgate spreading: ask for it

A dumped pile is free to make and expensive to move — 15 tons spread by hand is a brutal weekend. Where access allows, we spread the load out of the tailgate as the truck rolls forward, laying a rough, even lift down your driveway line. It isn’t finish grading, but it turns a mountain into a layer and saves you hours behind a rake. Tell us when you order so the driver plans the approach.

One access note: a loaded 10-wheeler weighs upward of 25 tons and the bed tops 20 feet when raised. Check gate width (10 feet minimum), overhead lines, and soft ground before delivery day, and flag anything sketchy when you book.

Contractors: base on schedule, spoils on the back leg

For flatwork and excavation crews we run multi-load base days, sequenced so your operator is never waiting on rock. If the same job is exporting native material, we’ll haul spoils on the return legs — the truck runs full both ways and your trucking line item shrinks. Homeowner or contractor, call or text (385) 284-6232 with square footage and depth, and you’ll get one number that covers rock and trucking.