Manny R Paving & Contracting Inc

Driveways are the through-line here. Almost every homeowner who wrote about Manny R Paving & Contracting describes the same job — a residential asphalt driveway, poured, extended, or resurfaced — and the East Taunton company's own site rounds that out with sealcoating and crack sealing, pavement markings, parking lot upkeep, and asphalt hauling across southeastern Massachusetts. Its BBB page names Manuel Rodriguez as president and lists a one-employee corporation; the company describes itself as family-owned and a "Certified Minority Contractor." The written record is small and it splits hard. On Google the company sits at 3.6 across 22 ratings, and the reviews on file run from 2022 to 2025 with no middle ground: five-star accounts of clean, on-schedule driveway work sitting beside one-star accounts of the opposite. A homeowner writing in December 2024 said he called several local asphalt companies for a small driveway in Middleboro, got the best price here, was fit in just before the end of the paving season, and had a grading issue spotted and corrected. A 2022 reviewer said two driveways were still looking new three years on. The complaints are the specific kind worth reading twice. A 2022 review alleged the finished asphalt came in at roughly half the two-inch depth that was paid for, with jogging lines and chipped concrete aprons. A May 2024 reviewer said plants were pushing through asphalt laid three years earlier and was told upkeep was on him. In a December 2023 review, a homeowner described being promised a start date repeatedly, then getting no response at all. Two things don't line up. The company's site says it has been paving "Since 1985," while its BBB profile records the business as started and incorporated in March 2014 — a 30-year gap in the same story. And nothing here is recent: the newest written account is from May 2025, so there is no current run of work to judge. For a straightforward residential driveway where price and scheduling matter, the positive accounts are consistent and specific. Before booking, get the asphalt depth and the compaction spec in writing, pin the start date down on paper rather than by phone, and ask what the company's own maintenance expectations are after the job — that last one is exactly where one homeowner and the company ended up disagreeing.