Roads minister Lilian Greenwood will visit a JCB factory in Derbyshire on Wednesday to meet some of the company’s engineers and test its Pothole Pro machine. The DfT said the device can fix a ...

Pothole Pro works by incorporating three functions; cutting, cropping and cleaning. According to JCB’s website, the machine has an average pothole repair time of eight minutes and costs half as ...

Here, she operated the firm’s Pothole Pro machine, which is currently used by 20 local authorities – with the device taking eight minutes per repair, at a cost of around £30 a go.

Designed and created by JCB, the "Pothole Pro" is a cutting-edge solution to pothole filling and can tackle unsightly and dangerous potholes in a quarter of the time it takes traditional methods.

Roads minister Lilian Greenwood will visit a JCB factory in Derbyshire on Wednesday to meet some of the company’s engineers and test its Pothole Pro machine. The DfT said the device can fix a pothole ...