Road Maintenance & Line Marking

Routine road maintenance is where traffic control earns its keep — rolling closures, narrow windows, fast setup and just as fast breakdown, all while live traffic rolls past at posted speed. Our maintenance crews are built for exactly this: compliant under AS 1742.3:2019 and the TfNSW TCAWS manual, but fast enough to keep up with line marking, patching, crack sealing, spray seal, kerb repair, signage replacement and pothole work without bottlenecking your asphalt truck.

For council asset contractors we regularly run rolling closures across multi-suburb programs — a typical night might cover six or eight streets in a single LGA, with a single TGS template and a crew that can set and break three or four sites before dawn. We work to your specification, deliver daily dockets with start/finish times, setup photos and square-metre coverage if you need it, and we close out the job with proper as-constructed records.

Line marking is a specialty in its own right. Thermoplastic and waterborne paint both have tight cure times, and the traffic control needs to protect the curing line while the crew moves on. That means compliant tapers for the line-marking truck, controllers spaced per TCAWS to handle both the work area and the curing zone, and a clean breakdown sequence once the paint's trafficable. We've worked alongside most of the NSW line-marking contractors and we understand their tempo.

Resurfacing — whether profiling, asphalt overlay, microsurfacing or spray seal — is the biggest maintenance category. The TGS has to handle the profiler, the sweeper, the bitumen tanker, the paver and the rollers, all in sequence, usually at night. Our crews are across the detour logic, pedestrian management, heavy-vehicle access and the clean-up stage. For spray seal in rural NSW we also handle stone sweep-up traffic and the return-run protection required before the seal fully cures.

Crack sealing, pothole repair, failed-patch reinstatement and shoulder grading are the bread-and-butter jobs that most councils now outsource. For these we keep our rates tight and our crews small — typically a two-person stop/slow setup for a single lane plus a buffer, sometimes with a shadow vehicle if the posted speed is over 80 km/h. We don't over-man a job and we don't under-man one either.

TfNSW's Road Maintenance Council Contract (RMCC) and similar regional maintenance contracts have specific TGS and reporting requirements — we're familiar with them and we provide the documentation your contract manager needs. That includes pre-start photos, mid-shift traffic checks, incident logs and any near-miss reporting required under your Safety In Design framework.

We also handle bridge maintenance, guardrail repair, signage renewal and crash-attenuator replacement. These are different again — often short closures during off-peak daytime hours on classified roads, sometimes requiring full carriageway closures with local detours signposted for multiple days. We coordinate with TfNSW Traffic Operations (TMC), build compliant VMS messaging, and make sure our detour signage reads correctly from vehicle speed, not desk speed.

For sealing and stabilisation works in regional NSW we can crew multi-week campaigns with standing rosters, accommodation coordination if required, and fatigue management that meets Heavy Vehicle National Law. Remote stretches of the Pacific, Princes, Hume, New England, Oxley and Sturt highways are all familiar work for our Hunter, South Coast and regional crews.

Finally, we can bundle our own line marking and asphalt partners where you want a single invoice. For smaller councils and developers this often saves a full round of subcontractor management — one purchase order, one site contact, one daily diary.

If you're a road maintenance contractor looking for a TC crew that keeps up, supplies the right gear and writes clean dockets, we'd like to talk. We don't mind early starts, we don't mind night shifts, and we don't mind regional travel — that's the nature of the job.