We’ve all heard a lot of cliches about roads and bridges, The road to hell and a bridge to nowhere come to mind. There a hundreds, if not thousands just like them. Here in NE Florida, we even have a road named, Noroad!
Some would say, “a road is just a road.” That may be true. But if so, I would say, a road is just a road until something changes. Roads take us from one place to another. Often we drive along and our minds are miles away. But when something changes, that road begins to take a special place in our mind, sometimes our heart and most often in our conscious memory.
Think about it. It could be that special feeling when you turn on that road, the final leg of your family vacation, perhaps at the beach. All of a sudden, that road takes on importance. Even more so, when that journey has been made year after year, reinforcing and strengthening that connection to that road. Then that road is no longer just a road, but some place special.
We and others often call our company ATCO. We do do not build roads. We sell road building materials. Pipe for cross drains and side drains. Bar Grates to keep unwanted things from entering the pipe. It’s a safety measure. Manatee Grates and other steel fabricated pipe for DOT/Municipal infrastructure. We also sell other drainage materials such as Trench Drains, Slotted Pipe, Basins, Clean-Outs and Utility Trenches.
The newest member of our group of manufacturers produces Duckbil check valves and Flap Gates Valves for specific areas such as ports, estuaries and other civil applications.
Our purpose is to help build a better infrastructure system than existed before. Many times, such as the leg of SR 23 in NE Florida, we provided Reinforced Concrete Pipe to the project. Prior to, there was no road there to improve. The same is true with the many subdivisions we have supplied drainage pipe to.
Our goal is to provide quality products and customer service that exceeds expectations of our customers.
Wayne Atkinson, Inc. 