Tate Brothers Paving

Tate Brothers Paving works out of 72 Old Derry Road in Hudson, New Hampshire, and southern-NH homeowners hire it for driveways: new installs, widenings, tear-out-and-replace, and the grading and drainage work underneath. Its Better Business Bureau file dates the business to 1968, records incorporation in 2005 and accreditation since 1990, and names William Tate as president; the same file lists Tate Bros. Paving Co., Tate Paving and Dana Consolidated Paving as alternate names. What comes through the reviews is that the problem under the asphalt is the job. One homeowner got three quotes and says Tate Brothers were the only ones to correctly diagnose the drainage issue causing puddling and frost heaves, then graded it and added more material than expected. Another had a major sinkhole under a driveway that turned out far bigger than it looked, and says it was assessed, repaired and finished quickly. A third had a crumbling driveway with a drainage problem "noone wanted to touch," and reports no flooding since. A 2026 customer describes seven truck loads of rock going back into a hole dug more than fifteen feet down. The finish work draws the same kind of specific praise: surface smoothness and pitch, the precise way the asphalt met a garage and front steps, permits pulled and Dig Safe called before the crew started, a driveway laid thicker than quoted. Josh is the name that recurs — responsive, answering questions, describing the process before the work, and getting back to people the same day. Several reviewers are repeat customers, one on their third job with the company, and another says Tate did their first driveway 35 years ago and it still looked good when they enlarged it. Word of mouth in r/newhampshire matches. Commenters in 2023 and 2026 threads name Tate for driveways in Hudson and Derry and for fixing a sink hole, one noting a driveway that still looked great after ten years and another that their parents' driveway from twenty years back has held up. Price is the honest caveat. Reviewers describe Tate as the pricier option — "not the cheapest of the four estimates," "pricey but lasts," "you get what you pay for" — though one 2021 customer found the quote on the low end of several, and a condo association customer calls the work reasonably priced. If you are choosing on lowest bid, this is probably not the quote that wins; if the driveway has a water or base problem, the record here is about companies that dig into that rather than pave over it. Ask for the base and drainage plan in writing, and ask about the multi-driveway discount one reviewer mentions.