#57 Crushed Stone Delivery in Quincy, MA

Quincy sits on Boston Harbor, and #57 crushed stone delivery in Quincy, MA covers everything from compacted driveway bases to drainage backfill on the city's older, tightly packed lots. This stone moves by the ton, not the cubic yard, and every price and tier below reflects that. What follows covers where the stone gets used locally, how many tons a typical job needs, how fast it arrives, and how the delivered rate is put together.

Quincy's Coastal Lots and Older Housing Stock

Quincy is a coastal city on Boston Harbor, part of Greater Boston and only about 8 miles from downtown Boston itself. Its population runs close to 103,000, and the housing stock leans older, with narrow lots and construction that predates modern drainage codes, so managing water around a foundation or a driveway is a routine project here. Cambridge sits roughly 14 miles north, Brockton is about 11 miles to the southwest, and Lowell is close to 32 miles inland, all within the same delivery network that serves Quincy. Coastal winters bring repeated freeze and thaw cycles, which is part of why a compacted stone base outlasts bare soil under a driveway.

Best Uses for #57 Crushed Stone in Quincy

most often goes down as the compacted base beneath a paver or gravel driveway, since the packed subgrade common on older lots rarely drains on its own. It also lines French drains and footing trenches on the low ground near the harbor, where a high water table makes standing water a recurring complaint after coastal storms. Retaining wall contractors use it as backfill on the sloped yards set back from the waterfront, since the angular stone drains instead of trapping moisture against a wall. Homeowners with gravel parking areas near the water choose it for the same reason: it compacts firm and does not turn to mud the way bare soil does after a nor'easter. Pea gravel, river rock and topsoil. Mulch breaks from that pattern and prices by the cubic yard instead.

Figuring How Many Tons You Need

Start by multiplying your area's length and width in feet, then multiply that by the depth in inches, and divide the result by 324 to land on a cubic yard figure. Because #57 stone runs about 2,700 pounds to the cubic yard, multiply that yard figure by roughly 1.35 to reach the ton count you actually order. As a rough guide, a ton of this stone covers about 60 square feet at a 4 inch depth, less if you spread it deeper and more if you go shallower. Rather than run those steps by hand, the #57 crushed stone calculator converts your square footage and depth straight into a ton figure. Most driveway base jobs around Quincy land somewhere between 8 and 15 tons, depending on the length of the drive and how deep the base needs to run.

Delivery and Lead Times in Quincy

Delivery timing follows the same three tiers as pricing. Orders under 8 tons typically ship within 1 to 2 business days. Orders of 8 tons and up typically qualify for same or next-day delivery. Cross the 15 ton mark and delivery is free, which is where most driveway and drainage jobs around Quincy already land. Delivery in Quincy covers current scheduling and the service area for this city in more detail.

Pricing Notes for #57 Crushed Stone

Three tiers apply here. Orders of 3 tons or more run $197 a ton, delivered in 1 to 2 business days. Orders of 8 tons or more drop to $110 a ton, with same or next day delivery in most cases. Orders of 15 tons or more bring the rate down to $85 a ton with free delivery included. The exact delivered total depends on your ZIP code once you check out, since local hauling distance factors into the final number.

Ordering #57 Crushed Stone Delivery in Quincy, MA

Ordering takes a ZIP code, a ton count and a delivery date, and picking the tier that matches your job usually saves more than rounding down to shave off a few tons. For pricing across the rest of the state, the #57 Crushed Stone in Massachusetts hub lists every city currently served. Most residential orders placed in Quincy fall in the 8 to 15 ton range, whether the stone is headed under a driveway or into a drainage trench.

About #57 Crushed Stone

#57 crushed stone is a gray, angular aggregate produced by crushing quarried stone and screening it down to a consistent three quarter to one inch particle size. The broken, angular faces are what separate it from naturally rounded material like pea gravel or river rock: under a plate compactor, those faces bite into each other and lock the layer in place instead of rolling or shifting. A cubic yard of this stone weighs roughly 2,700 pounds, heavy enough that it ships and prices by the ton rather than the cubic yard measure used for lighter materials such as mulch. Water passes through the gaps between the angular pieces instead of pooling, which is the property that makes it useful anywhere drainage matters more than a smooth finish.

That drainage behavior is why the stone shows up most often as a compacted base layer under driveways, as backfill behind retaining walls, and packed into French drains and footing trenches. It also works as exposed surface stone on equipment pads and low traffic parking areas, where a firm, draining surface counts for more than a walkable texture. The grading standard for #57 stone is set nationally, so a load ordered here matches the size and performance of the same material ordered from any other yard in the network.

What #57 Crushed Stone costs in Quincy

In the Quincy market, #57 crushed stone is sold by the ton and priced at the gate before delivery is added on. Send your ZIP and load size and we will send back a same-hour quote with the truck rate and the per-ton figure spelled out. One ton covers about 80 sq ft at a 3 inch finished depth, so a 400 sq ft driveway pad runs roughly 5 tons.

How crews use #57 Crushed Stone in Quincy

Crews working out of Quincy tend to call for #57 crushed stone on a few repeat jobs each week. The first is driveway gravel, typically laid in tight urban lots and infill builds with a base lift compacted before the finish course goes on. The second is drainage gravel, which lands here in dense neighborhoods where curb access is short and usually ships as a 4 to 8 ton order. With a population around 103,434, Quincy pulls a mix of single-truck homeowner orders and contractor full-loads through the season.

Delivery day in Quincy

On the day of the drop, the dispatcher pulls the closest yard, batches your ticket with other Quincy stops, and sends a window the night before. Tandem-axle dumps need at least 12 ft of clear width and 14 ft overhead to set the bed; tri-axles need 14 ft of clearance on both counts and a level pad to tip safely. Standard lead time on this lane is Mon-Sat, with same-day windows held open for orders that hit the desk before 11 AM and clear payment.

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