Resources
The latest in the world of road
maintenance and pothole repair.
GUIDE
ROAD MAINTENANCE
REVOLUTION
A 37-page comprehensive guide on why and how to make the transition to preventive road maintenance.
Maintaining Roads That Can’t Be Closed: What Remote Communities Need from Road Repair
Most road maintenance programmes are designed around the assumption of abundance: enough crew, enough traffic management resource, enough proximity to a depot, enough alternative routes for drivers while...
How to Get Spray Injection Patching Into Next Year’s Capital Budget
Most roads engineers who have seen spray injection patching in action reach the same conclusion fairly quickly: this is better than what we’re doing. The repair is faster. It holds longer. It costs...
Who Pays When a Pothole Damages a Vehicle? (And How Councils Are Reducing That Liability)
UK local authorities paid £34.3 million in compensation for pothole-related vehicle damage and personal injury in 2024/25 — up 32% on the previous year. Behind those numbers is a system that works against...
Before the Pothole Forms
The Hidden Cost of the Cheapest Machine
When a procurement team evaluates road maintenance equipment, the instinct is to compare purchase prices. It’s a natural starting point. The number is visible, concrete, and easy to put in a comparison...
Kier Highways: “Once We Tried Roadmaster, We Didn’t Need to Look at Any Other Machine”
From two-operator machines, regular overspray property claims, and reactive-only patching — to one operator, zero overspray incidents, full road sections repaired in a single pass, and repair lifespan...
Why Emergency Pothole Repairs Cost 40% More
Every spring, road maintenance teams face the same crisis: a winter’s worth of freeze-thaw damage surfaces at once, the public starts calling, and the pressure is on to fix roads fast. The problem...
The Safest Road Repair Method Nobody Talks About
Every day, across the UK and Ireland, roads maintenance workers stand in live traffic. They stand in it while they set up traffic management. They stand in it while they unload equipment. They stand in...
Road Repair Is One of Your Biggest Carbon Costs. Here’s What the Data Shows.
When local authorities audit their operational carbon footprint, highways maintenance rarely gets the scrutiny it deserves. Streetlighting gets measured. Fleet electrification gets strategised. Buildings...
MGroup: “10 Machines. Then 10 More.”
From two-operator machines, overspray liability, and a supplier that couldn’t keep up — to one operator, 10× efficiency, 90% less carbon, and a full fleet renewal already in negotiation. One of...