12 the supply container 14 holds a supply of the material which serves to produce the road covering the still hot road building material is transported from the supply container 14 by a conveying unit 24 formed by way of example as a scraper conveyor against the production direction 13 to the rear end 15 of the road paver 10 the rear end 15 of the road paver 10 is located behind the drive undercarriage 12 and the drive unit 11 seen in the production direction 13 at the rear end 15 of the road paver 10 there is a spreading auger 16 and at a distance behind this a paving screed 17 the spreading auger 16 and the paving screed 17 are capable of moving up and down for this purpose the paving screed 17 is suspended from support arms 18 the support arms 18 are mounted for pivotable movement on the drive undercarriage 12 of the road paver 10 hydraulic cylinders or the like pivot the support arms 18 in order to lift and lower the paving screed 17 in order to supply the road paver 10 or supply container 14 with road building material a truck not shown backs up against the end 19 of the road paver 10 and pours the road building material into the supply container 14 so that the sump capacity of the supply container 14 has maximum size two container halves 20 21 of the supply container 14 are unfolded fig2.