A New Driveway You're Not Locked Out Of For a Week
Conventional wisdom says keep cars off new concrete for about seven days. Rapid-set designs shrink that wait dramatically — and because we batch in your driveway, you pay for exactly the yardage your slab takes, at rates published right on this site.
The real cost of a driveway is the week you can't use it
Replacing a driveway has a hidden line item: the days your cars live on the street while the slab cures. Conventional mixes want about a week before vehicle traffic. In a PNW rain window, that week also has to dodge the weather.
Rapid-set designs attack both problems. Accelerated chemistry reaches drive-on strength dramatically sooner, and reaches rain-safe protection strength faster too. And because the mix is batched fresh in your driveway — not ridden across town in a drum — it arrives with its full working window for your finisher, in exactly the quantity your forms take.
- Exact yardage — no paying for the half-yard that goes home in the truck.
- Published pricing — the rates below are the rates; dispatch confirms, not negotiates.
- Weather-savvy scheduling — accelerated designs shrink the window rain can ruin.
- One visit, many pours — driveway, walkway, steps and pads batched per-element.
Transparent pricing. No surprises.
Driveways usually land on the 4000 PSI design. Multiply your yardage by the rate, add the flat delivery and fuel — that's the concrete side of your project, no games.
| Mix design | Material rate |
|---|---|
| 3300 PSI / CDF | $215 / yd³ |
| 3500 PSI | $231 / yd³ |
| 4000 PSI ★ most specified | $247 / yd³ |
| 4500 PSI | $263 / yd³ |
| 5000 PSI | $279 / yd³ |
| Base delivery | $200 |
| Fuel charge | $25 |
Published rates as of July 2026 — confirm current rates and yardage with dispatch at (503) 925-1002. High-early and specialty admixture designs are quoted per spec.
From tape measure to parked car
Measure & call
Length × width × depth — or just call dispatch with the dimensions and we'll do the math. The online estimator prices it live too.
Forms ready, truck arrives
Your contractor preps and forms; we time the pour to the crew and batch the exact yardage on site.
Park on it sooner
The mix is chosen against your calendar — conventional cure or rapid-set drive-on, your call, priced up front.
Also planning a patio, footings or a shed pad? Small quantities are our specialty — see short-load concrete delivery.
Dispatched from the Tualatin Valley. Serving the I-5 corridor.
Residential pours run daily across the Portland metro — Tualatin, Tigard, Beaverton, Sherwood and Lake Oswego are home turf, and the whole corridor is in range.
Outside these cities? Call — corridor jobs and DOT work are routed case-by-case.
More rapid-set resources
Frequently asked questions
How long until I can park on a new concrete driveway?
Standard guidance for conventional mixes is to keep vehicles off for about 7 days. Rapid-set and high-early designs are engineered to reach drive-on strength far sooner — often within a day, sometimes hours, depending on the design and weather. Tell dispatch when you need to park and the mix is chosen to make that date.
How much concrete does a driveway take?
A typical two-car driveway (roughly 16×20 feet at 4 inches) runs about 4 cubic yards; length, width, depth and any aprons change the math. Our website's project estimator does the volume arithmetic live — or dispatch will run it with you on the phone. Volumetric batching means the estimate doesn't have to be perfect: we pour what the forms actually take.
What will it cost?
Material runs $215–$279 per yard by PSI (4000 PSI at $247 is the workhorse for driveways), plus $200 base delivery and a $25 fuel charge — the same published rates as every pour. A 4-yard driveway's concrete, delivered, prices out in one phone call.
Do I need a contractor, or do you pour it too?
We're the concrete supplier: professional-grade mix, batched at your forms, timed to your crew. Demo, base prep, forming and finishing belong to you or your flatwork contractor — and good finishing matters even more with accelerated mixes, so line your crew up first.
Is rapid-set overkill for a driveway?
Not if the driveway is how you get to work. The premium buys back days of parking on the street and rolls the rain-window dice fewer times — in a Portland winter, that's often the whole ballgame. Plenty of customers still choose a conventional 4000 PSI pour; dispatch will price both paths.
Can you do small add-ons — a parking strip, a walkway, a pad?
Yes, and ideally in the same visit: volumetric trucks change quantities (and even mixes) at the controls, so the driveway, the walkway and the trash-can pad each get exactly what they need from one delivery.
Get your driveway back on your calendar.
Homeowners and contractors: one call covers yardage, mix, timing and the published price — no mystery quote theater.
(503) 925-1002