24/7 cover · Nationwide from Oxfordshire
The Midlands · east & west
The busiest motorway network in the country, dense urban ring roads and continuous logistics traffic. Midlands schemes live or die on timing and geometry, and we design them around both.
Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Northampton · M1, M6, M5, M42, M40 corridors · Sector Scheme 12D crews · 24/7 call-out · £10m public liability.
25
Years in traffic management
~300
Operatives & staff
~150
Lorries, vans & cars
£10m
Public liability cover
24/7
Cover, including call-outs
Local coverage
We work across the West Midlands — Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall, Dudley and the Black Country — and the East Midlands, including Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Northampton, Milton Keynes' northern fringe and the towns along the M1 and A5.
The Midlands carries the densest motorway network in the UK: the M1, M6, M5, M42, M40, M69 and M54, plus the A5, A38, A45, A46 and A50. Freight and logistics traffic runs continuously through it, so there is far less genuine off-peak capacity than the raw traffic figures suggest.
Urban schemes here are shaped by post-war road building: wide ring roads, grade-separated junctions, underpasses and dual carriageways running straight through city centres. Those roads move a lot of traffic, but they leave very few diversion options when one direction is taken out.
The work includes utility and civils programmes across the conurbations, long-duration development and logistics site accesses, ring road and dual carriageway lane closures, motorway corridor schemes under 12D, rail and infrastructure project support, and event traffic management at the region's venues and arenas.
Services in the Midlands
Everything a Midlands scheme needs, including the high-speed capability and the night-shift resourcing that this network demands.
M1, M6, M5, M42 and ring road dual carriageway works under Sector Scheme 12D by ticketed crews.
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Complete schemes with design, approval, equipment and our own crews, across both Midlands regions.
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Lane closures and contraflows on urban ring roads where diversion options are limited and volumes are high.
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Night shifts on freight corridors that cannot be occupied by day, plus 24/7 emergency response.
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Portable and vehicle-actuated signals for busy Midlands junctions, installed and maintained for the hire period.
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Permits and TTROs across multiple Midlands authorities, each submitted to its own permit scheme.
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Barriers, ground protection and manned accesses for logistics and distribution sites with round-the-clock deliveries.
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CAD drawings for grade-separated junctions, underpasses and ring road arrangements taken through to approval.
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Coordination across multi-phase urban programmes, with incursion prevention and warning systems where risk demands.
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Local conditions
This is a region built around movement of freight and around fast urban roads. Both leave very little tolerance for an arrangement that is slightly wrong.
Distribution centres across the region run around the clock, so HGV volumes stay high overnight. The quiet window that makes night works simple elsewhere is much narrower here.
Arrangements must accommodate HGV swept paths and long-vehicle turning at every point, because a layout that only works for cars gets driven over.
Post-war urban road building produced high-capacity ring roads and dual carriageways with grade-separated junctions and underpasses. Take one direction out and there is often no equivalent parallel route.
That makes lane arrangements, contraflows and tightly managed overnight windows more common than closures, and the geometry has to be right at the first attempt.
Works near M1, M6, M5, M42 and M69 junctions frequently involve National Highways alongside the local authority, and slip roads carry high speeds with short decision distances.
High-speed schemes are delivered under 12D with correct tapers, safety zones and advance signing — and queue risk on approaches has to be considered, not just the working space itself.
Victorian terraces, post-war estates and modern commercial development sit side by side, so street geometry and excavation conditions vary sharply within a single programme.
Older areas bring unrecorded apparatus and growing excavations; newer estates bring narrow adopted roads and parked cars that leave no room for a working space at all.
Large urban regeneration and logistics developments create long-duration accesses and multi-phase arrangements that change repeatedly over months.
Those schemes fail through drift: missing signs, moved barriers, undefined phase transitions. Inspection, resetting and planned phase changes are what keep them compliant.
Dark, wet winter conditions on high-speed urban roads cut sign conspicuity, and spray from heavy traffic dirties signage quickly.
Sign condition, cleaning, lighting and inspection frequency are part of the scheme here rather than an optional extra, particularly on night shifts.
Our process
Step 1
You send the location, the works and the dates. We check the road type, the speed limit, the highway authority involved and any local constraints before quoting.
Step 2
We produce the temporary traffic management design and scheme-specific CAD drawings for the arrangement your works actually need, not a generic layout.
Step 3
We submit to the local highway authority and manage the process end to end — permits, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders, notices and conditions — and confirm approval in writing.
Step 4
Crews, signals, signage and barriers are allocated from our fleet of around 150 vehicles and team of around 300, and booked to the dates you have been given.
Step 5
Carded and ticketed operatives working under our supervision install to the approved drawing, with the arrangement checked against the drawing before works start.
Step 6
The scheme is inspected and maintained, damage and displacement dealt with including out of hours, phases changed as planned operations, and everything collected at completion.
Certificates are issued for your pre-qualification pack on request. We work direct for end clients and as a subcontractor to principal contractors.
Straight answers
Yes, both East and West Midlands — Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall, Dudley and the Black Country, plus Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Northampton and the towns along the M1 and A5.
The southern Midlands borders our Oxfordshire base, and the wider region is a routine coverage area resourced from around 300 staff and around 150 vehicles. Planned works are booked to your dates and approved window; emergency call-outs run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It depends on the road type and speed limit, the arrangement required, the permitted working hours, the equipment on hire, the duration and the crew requirement, plus authority permit or TTRO fees. High-speed and night working carry more cost than a daytime residential scheme, so each is quoted in writing.
Yes, 24/7 rapid-response call-outs for burst mains, carriageway failures, collisions and damaged temporary traffic management on both urban and high-speed roads.
Yes. Motorway and dual carriageway schemes are delivered under Sector Scheme 12D registration by ticketed crews, in windows agreed with National Highways, with correct taper lengths, safety zones and advance signing.
Yes, and these need careful design because parallel diversion routes rarely exist. Lane arrangements, contraflows and tightly managed overnight windows are usually the workable answer, with the geometry checked before submission.
Frequently. Freight traffic keeps many corridors loaded overnight, so night schemes are planned as night shifts with lighting, conspicuity and enough operatives to install and remove inside the window.
Yes — access geometry and sight lines, holding areas so HGVs wait on site rather than on the carriageway, pedestrian arrangements across the access, barriers, ground protection and marshalling where movements are constant.
Yes. Permits, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders, notices and conditions are handled end to end with each relevant authority, and approval is confirmed in writing before you mobilise.
Sector Scheme 12 registration across 12A to 12D, Chapter 8 and NRSWA compliance, Constructionline, BM Trada, CHAS, Acclaim, Achilles UVDB, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with £10 million public liability and £10 million employers' liability.
Temporary traffic management in Oxfordshire from our county base: road and lane closures, traffic light hire, permits and TTROs with Oxfordshire County Council. 25 years, 24/7 cover, £10m insurance.
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Traffic management across North and South Wales: Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Wrexham and rural routes. Closures, convoy and stop-go, signals, permits and TTROs. 24/7 cover, £10m insurance.
Traffic management across the South East and home counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire. Closures, signals, permits, TTROs, night works, 24/7 cover.
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Give us the road, the works and the window. You get a written estimate covering the design, the authority approval, the equipment and the 12D-ticketed crews where they are needed.
25 years · Sector Scheme 12A–12D · £10m public liability · 24/7 cover
Road type, duration and start date is enough to price it. We reply to every enquiry.
