Upcoming Trainings

2025 Building Better Gravel Roads – Optimization & Performance Standards

Dr. David Jones, University of California – Davis will present how to use performance-based specifications to reduce your maintenance costs and improve the performance of your gravel roads. He will discuss the small changes to your existing test methods that will give you the data you need to better understand and predict how your roads will perform and what you can do to improve that performance. You’ll learn how to combat common performance problems like washboarding, raveling, eroding surfaces, and excessive dust. Web-based tools for blending gravel and chemical treatment selection will be demonstrated.

2025 Meetings that Work: Skills for Navigating Difficult Situations – Apr

In this webinar you’ll learn how to:In this webinar you’ll learn strategies for facilitating a difficult meeting. Whether you’re dealing with attendees going off on tangents, discussing contingent topics, or heated disagreements that come up in the moment, this webinar will give you the skills to handle whatever your meeting throws at you.
• Facilitate meetings to achieve a specific outcome.
• Prepare attendees to increase engagement.
• Write and effective agenda.
• Manage your meeting time.
• Assign action items.
• Follow up after the meeting to assure follow through.

2025 Asphalt Pavement Lunch & Learn Series

Join us for this three-part series led by Chuck Mills from the Asphalt Pavement Association.
• Asphalt Pavement Pre-Production Meetings Explained
• Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Sampling and Testing
• Nonstandard Asphalt: Sport Courts, Trails, and More

2025 Concrete Lunch & Learn Series

Join us for this three-part series led by staff from the Michigan Concrete Association.
• Basics of Concrete Pavement
• Concrete Pavement: Field and Lab Testing Explained
• Construction Inspection for Concrete Pavements

2025 Michigan Highway Maintenance Conference - Mt Pleasant & Virtual

Tuesday: 12:00-4:00pm (ET) – Bridge Maintenance Workshop
Wednesday: 8:00am-4:00pm (ET) – Conference Sessions
Thursday: 8:00am-12:00pm (ET) – Pavement Preservation Workshop

2025 PASER Training - Class 1 Webinar (May)

This class covers distress identification for asphalt, concrete & sealcoat roads and sets the foundation for the PASER visual rating system. Please note that registration for PASER Class 2 is separate.

2025 Welding for Maintenance Workers (2-Day Training) – Grand Rapids

This class will cover welding & cutting safety, duty cycle, welding defects, equipment maintenance, demonstrations, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW.

2025 PASER Training - Class 2 Webinar (May 14 & 15)

This class includes TAMC updates on data collection & council info, rating rules & tips, interactive rating exercises on asphalt/concrete/sealcoat roads. Attendance is required both days. Please note that registration for PASER Class 1 is separate.

2025 PASER Training - Class 2 (Houghton)

This class includes TAMC updates on data collection & council info, rating rules & tips, interactive rating exercises on asphalt/concrete/sealcoat roads. Please note that registration for PASER Class 1 is separate.

2025 Welding for Maintenance Workers (2-Day Training) – Escanaba

This class will cover welding & cutting safety, duty cycle, welding defects, equipment maintenance, demonstrations, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW.