Yellow trucks with "the Velotta Co." inscribed on their doors will be in Benwood Monday as the company begins resurfacing of a W.Va. 2 bridge.

Velotta, of Sharon Center, Ohio, won a state bid to resurface a bridge near the former Bellaire Toll Bridge interchange in Marshall County.

The $340,000 project is part of the overall $211 million earmarked for state highway jobs as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

West Virginia Division of Highways District Six engineer Robert Whipp said Velotta will remove the existing latex modified concrete overlay from the bridge and replace it with another overlay.

"Velotta has been doing bridge overlays statewide for several years," Whipp said. "It is one of the things they specialize in."

Whipp said the bridge was built in the 1960s and the state removed two inches of the original surface in the early 1990s.

"We removed a couple of inches of surface and any deteriorated material and put an overlay on it," Whipp said. "An overlay is only good for so many years but is less expensive to do than replacing the whole deck."

Whipp said the bridge will remain open to one lane of traffic and work should be completed within a week.

Velotta's last project in the local area, the eastbound Wheeling Tunnel tube renovation, didn't go well. Awarded a $5.7 million contract in 2006 to renovate both tunnel tubes, Velotta began work on Jan. 17, 2007, with plans to complete the eastbound tube in 111 days.

The project ended up taking nearly two years to complete, with the eastbound tube running more than $1 million over the budget set to renovate both tubes.