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Long rural driveways make this the county's most scam-visited trade: traveling crews, leftover-asphalt pitches, cash deposits, and inch-thin jobs that fail by the second winter. We pulled every registration, and the results below include two Expired statuses the review sites won't show you. Nobody paid to be here, and nobody can.
7 checked · 2 we'd call first
Flemington, Hunterdon County
Flemington, 35+ years, and reviewers keep mentioning that the owner is physically on the job. Excavation and drainage capability in-house, which is what long rural driveways actually need. The cleanest record in the category. Registration verified Active.
Hampton, Hunterdon County
The maintenance specialist: sealcoating and crack repair rather than full paving. Registration verified Active. Extends a driveway's life for a fraction of replacement cost, which is exactly the advice a paver selling you a new driveway won't give.
We pull credentials from the official registries ourselves and print the date next to every status — paving contractors register as Home Improvement Contractors with the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs, and we pull that registry directly — in the most scam-prone trade in rural New Jersey, that pull does most of the filtering by itself. Picks are editorial judgment on the checkable record: years in the trade, complaint patterns, review consistency, real presence in the county. No company paid to be listed, none can pay to become a pick, and when a pick has a weak spot we print it. Here are the full rules.
| Company & services | Based in | NJ HIC # | Registry status | BBB | Reviews (as reported) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A&S Paving & Excavating Registered as A&S Paving and Excavating, LLC Asphalt driveways (new and replacement) · Excavation and drainage · Belgian block · Grading | Flemington In county | 13VH06348200 | ✓ Active · 2026-07-14 | A+ | 4.8 (Angi) |
| Beckage Sealcoating Registered as A Patullo Sealcoating LLC DBA Beckage Sealcoating Sealcoating · Crack filling · Line striping | Hampton In county | 13VH07420500 | ✓ Active · 2026-07-14 | Not rated | 4.7 (Angi) |
| Hicks Paving Registered as Hicks Paving LLC Asphalt driveways · Tar-and-chip surfacing · Stone driveway regrading | Hampton In county | 13VH03410200 | ✕ Expired · 2026-07-14 | A+ | 4.6 · 117 reviews (Birdeye) |
| Richard's Paving & Sealcoating Registered as Richard's Paving & Sealcoating LLC Asphalt driveways · Sealcoating | Flemington In county | 13VH09899500 | ✓ Active · 2026-07-14 | Not rated | 4.1 (HomeAdvisor) |
| D&R Paving Registered as D&R Paving LLC Asphalt driveways · Parking areas | Lake Hopatcong | 13VH10093400 | ✓ Active · 2026-07-14 | A+, accredited | 5.0 (Houzz) |
| Henry's Asphalt Paving Registered as Henry's Asphalt Paving LLC Asphalt driveways | Washington | 13VH00192200 | ✓ Active · 2026-07-14 | Accredited Feb 2024, accredited | 3.9 · 62 reviews (aggregate) |
| Productive Asphalt Paving Asphalt driveways | Whitehouse Station In county | 13VH00660500 | ✕ Expired · 2026-07-14 | Not rated | 4.4 (HomeAdvisor) |
Registry status comes straight from the state's verification system on the date shown, and you can rerun any number there yourself in about two minutes. Review scores are what the named platforms report and we have not audited them. BBB grades as of July 2026. "Based in" is the registered address city, which sometimes differs from where a company says it operates. An active registration is the floor, not an endorsement; the picks we would actually call are above.
Sourced ranges: asphalt runs $7 to $15 per square foot installed in 2025 guides, so a 1,000+ square foot driveway lands at $7,000 to $15,000. The suspiciously low quote is buying a thin lift over a bad base; see the guide below.
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It's priced per square foot and moves with asphalt prices, base work, and drainage, so treat any sight-unseen number with suspicion — especially a shockingly low one, which is the classic setup for the thin-layer job. Get three written quotes with identical scope: thickness, base preparation, and drainage.
They must be registered as a Home Improvement Contractor (13VH number) with the state, and the number legally belongs on their contract and advertising. Unregistered home improvement work violates the Consumer Fraud Act. Check any number in two minutes at newjersey.mylicense.com — or with our license checker.
Legitimately worth it as maintenance every few years on a sound driveway, and much cheaper than paving. The racket version is the sprayed-on job from a truck working the neighborhood cold. Same rules apply: registration, written scope, no cash.
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