With hundreds of thousands of tonnes of material moving through our machines each year a robust maintenance regime is essential. Built to last, our machines are designed and manufactured to withstand heavy usage. After working throughout the winter months, all machines will be returning to base in rotation over the coming weeks for a full… Continue reading Velocity’s fleet gets set for a record year
Jesse Norman MP praises impact of additional £5.1 million investment in county’s roads The Minister of State for Transport, Jesse Norman MP, visited Hereford on Friday (25 January) where he lauded the benefits of an additional £5.108 million Department for Transport investment, which is already improving roads across the county. The money will allow the… Continue reading Additional road improvements great news for Herefordshire
Road repair specialists Velocity have invested in new machines to meet the increasing demand for their services from local authorities and term-maintenance contractors throughout the UK. Two new machines have joined the fleet, each with the capability to repair up to 200 potholes and other defects per day. Velocity pioneered spray-injection patching to carry out… Continue reading Velocity invest in capacity to meet increasing demand for pothole repairs
Road repair specialists Velocity put their expertise under the spotlight as they went head-to-head in the battle against potholes on the BBC’s flagship magazine programme, The One Show. Dubbed ‘Pothole Wars’, Velocity performed under the watchful eyes of an expert panel to determine the best way to tackle the potholes. The panel was headed by… Continue reading Velocity win the ‘Pothole War’
It’s the very essence of a double-whammy. Another wet winter followed by freezing conditions means the pothole backlog is once again threatening crisis for our highways, the indispensable backbone of Britain. At the same time, local authority budgets continue their year-on-year reductions. Car-damaging, bike-toppling, ankle-turning potholes are the bane of road-users and local authorities alike.… Continue reading Road preservation…
State-of-the-art machines have been utilised to repair more than 1,300 potholes and similar defects on many of Neath Port Talbot’s rural roads. The Velocity patching machines were used to repair some of the worst-hit roads during a month-long blitz. The works were identified via annual network condition surveys and the repairs have already resulted in… Continue reading HI-TECH MACHINES TACKLE NEATH PORT TALBOT POTHOLE PROBLEMS
This feature appeared in the July 2013 issue of Highways magazine. Phill Lewis of road preservation experts Velocity reflects on how the UK’s authorities are increasingly changing priorities and opening up to new thinking in these times of austerity There was a time, not so very long ago, when the challenge of the UK’s… Continue reading Highway to hell?
ROAD preservation experts Velocity have described Britain’s local roads as “a mess” in the wake of alarming new figures that reveal the country now has a pothole for every mile of road. Part of the Reece Group of Companies, Velocity are calling on more local authorities to take preventative action to tackle the growing pothole… Continue reading Call to Action to tackle the “mess” of local roads
Staff at road preservation experts Velocity, part of the Reece Group, have celebrated success as North East export champions… with the launch of a new £150,000 machine specifically designed to tackle the pothole backlog here in the UK. The Sunderland firm won the North East Exporter of the Year award at the Stadium of Light… Continue reading Full speed ahead for award-winning velocity
The ground-breaking technology of road repair specialists Velocity has won high praise after helping Dorset County Council win a leading public services award. Dorset won the Best Service Team award for Highways, Winter Maintenance and Street Lighting in a prestigious ceremony organised by the Association of Public Service Excellence. The award was presented by Emmerdale… Continue reading Velocity put dorset on the road to success
About Velocity
Velocity transformed the traditional approach to highways maintenance with the development and introduction of spray injection patching.
Today, Velocity repair over half-a-million potholes and other defects per year in the UK.
Designed and manufactured in the UK, the innovative technology is exported globally.
