Company Profile • JCB PotholePro JCB has developed a highly
dreadful problem and as a British manufacturer I am fixated on finding a solution. We simply cannot allow our road network to continue to be blighted by potholes. JCB’s solution is simple and cost effective and fixes potholes permanently, first time. Once the machine has done its job all the contractor then needs to do is just add tar.” Tests with contractors and local authorities show the JCB PotholePro can complete a pothole repair in less than eight minutes – equivalent to 700
productive single-machine pothole repair solution to fix potholes permanently, first time, without the need for labour intensive repair methods or additional expensive machinery. The company has launched the PotholePro - a machine that can repair a pothole in less than eight minutes - four times quicker than standard methods and at half the cost of current solutions.
potholes per month. With a 40km/h travel speed, the machine can rapidly relocate between sites without
“JCB’s solution is simple and cost effective and fixes potholes permanently, first time”
The machine’s development has been personally led by JCB Chairman Lord Bamford. He said: “Potholes really are the scourge of our nation. Our country is quite rightly fixated on this
additional transport costs. The JCB PotholePro is equipped with a modified Simex planer, with integrated dust suppression, mounted on the machine’s rear →
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