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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...