Blakedale News

This week we are exhibiting at Traffex Seeing is Believing (SIB) at the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Our team will be showcasing our three latest Traffic Management (TM) Vehicles designed to support and protect maintenance crews on urban and rural roads.

Blakedale's Road Marker Posts division has been making headlines again with an article highlighting the use of our Flexible Cable Route Marker Posts at five ScottishPower Renewables operated windfarms in Scotland and the North of England. The story has so far been published in the March IHE Technical Bulletin, an online publication for the Institute of Highway Engineers and on HighwaysIndustry.com. 

Our Road Marker Posts division has branched out by supplying more than 6,000 Flexible Cable Route Marker Posts to five ScottishPower Renewables operated windfarms across Scotland and the North of England. Almost four years after installation these posts are still standing strong at Coal Clough Windfarm in Burnley (pictured). 

Our Road Marker Posts division has been featured in the January IHE Technical Bulletin, a publicaton for the Institute of Highway Engineers. Joint Managing Director, Carmen Bowley highlights Blakedale's Advanced Warning Maintenance Indicator (AWMI) posts and the role these are playing in making emergency refuge areas on smart motorways highly visible. 

We are very proud of our Fleet and Compliance Manager, Vicky Brown for having her own feature Fleet News. Vicky has risen through the ranks since joining Blakedale as an adminstrator a decade ago. In her spare time she works as a TV extra and has appeared in popular soaps, dramas and even a Hollywood film. Read her full interview in the January 2018 edition, also pictured here. 

Blakedale has been featured in a publication for the Institute of Highway Engineers. Under the headline "Investing in road worker safety" our Joint Managing Director, Carmen Bowley explains why a more widespread adoption of Impact Protection Vehicles (IPV) and CCTV technologies is needed to make the job of working on the UK's roads safer.