Trackway Hire for Utility Projects
Utility infrastructure often runs through remote, rural or difficult-to-access locations where permanent roads are limited or unavailable. Our aluminium trackway creates reliable temporary routes for vehicles, plant and engineering teams, helping you reach essential assets without unnecessary delays or ground damage.
From start to finish, we’ll help you carry out planned maintenance, network upgrades or emergency repairs, by creating practical access routes that support safe, efficient work in challenging conditions.
You find a route, we’ll find a way.
Why utility companies use Trackway
Access can be one of the biggest challenges when maintaining and upgrading essential infrastructure. From fields and verges to remote compounds and construction areas, our trackway gives you:
- Access to remote infrastructure – create temporary routes to substations, pipelines, water assets, transmission infrastructure and other locations away from established roads.
- Heavy plant and vehicle access – provide stable routes for HGVs, excavators, cranes, MEWPs and specialist vehicles required for installation, maintenance and repair works.
- Emergency and reactive access – establish dependable access quickly when faults, outages or infrastructure failures require urgent intervention. of normal accessable areas.
- Ground protection – spread vehicle and machinery loads to help reduce rutting and surface damage across farmland, grassland, verges and other sensitive areas.
- All-weather reliability – maintain access across soft, wet or uneven ground, helping teams continue working when changing conditions would otherwise restrict vehicle movement.
Trackway Heavy Duty Aluminium Panels
Dimensions: 3m x 2.497m (10ft x 8ft)
Axle Load Capacity: 12-tonne per axle
Trackway Aluminium Steerable Panels
Dimensions: 3m x 1.5m (10ft x 5ft)
Axle Load Capacity: 12-tonne per axle
Trackway Aluminium Rolls
Dimensions: 3m x 25m (10ft x 82ft)
Axle Load Capacity: 7-tonne per axle
Trackway Medium Duty Ground Protection Mats
Dimensions: 2.44m x 1.22m (8ft x 4ft)
Axle Load Capacity: 5-tonne per axle
Temporary Roadways
- Direct access to remote substations, pumping stations, and telecoms sites.
- Stable travel routes for repair crews across boggy or rural terrain.
- All-weather access routes for emergency infrastructure repairs.
Our aluminium roadway panels are engineered for heavy loads, with cross-serrated surfaces for traction and a heavy-duty reverse for larger vehicles.
Temporary Pedestrian Walkways
- Cross-serrated pedestrian routes for off-grid infrastructure sites.
- Stable pathways to protect maintenance crews from slips and trips.
- Hazard-free public diversion walkways during major street works.
By turning panels to the textured side where needed, we create safe, non-slip walking surfaces that still protect the ground underneath.
Ground Protection Trackway Systems
- Protection for sensitive rural land and moorlands against machinery churning.
- Load-bearing surfaces for heavy lifting during pipeline and cable installations.
- Safeguards for private land and easements from heavy tyre damage.
By distributing heavy vehicle and machinery loads evenly across a larger surface area, our load-bearing panels minimise ground pressure to prevent rutting and preserve sensitive terrain.
Temporary Site Access
- Access to off-grid utility assets across challenging woodland or steep environments.
- Reliable transport routes for heavy replacement parts and machinery.
- Durable, temporary build platforms for ongoing routine utility inspections.
If your venue includes Sites of Special Scientific Interest, historic driveways or other sensitive areas, we’ll design routes that minimise impact while still giving you the access you need.
How it works
A clear, managed approach from our team of trackway experts
Free site survey
We walk the site with you, calculate your required parking capacity, map out traffic flows, and assess ground conditions, gradients, gateways, and overhead services.
Bespoke plan and quote
You receive a detailed site plan showing recommended driving lanes and parking layouts, an accurate panel count, risk assessments, method statements, and a transparent quotation.
Installation by trained crews
Our operators arrive with specialist vehicles, unload the panels, and lay each one methodically, bolting them into place and configuring surfaces where extra grip or vehicle traction is needed.
On-site flexibility
If your parking footprint needs to expand due to weather changes or altered project timelines during installation, we adapt on site and only charge for the panels actually deployed.
Removal and reinstatement
Once your hire period is complete, we return to lift the panels cleanly, remove all equipment, and hand the site back to you with minimal ground disturbance and no messy clean-ups.
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Plan your utility site access
with us
Whether you’re maintaining existing infrastructure, delivering a network upgrade or responding to an emergency, we’ll help you create reliable temporary access for your teams, vehicles and equipment.
Share your site location, programme and access challenges with our team, and we’ll recommend a trackway solution designed around the demands of your utility project.
You find a route, we’ll find a way
Get in touch today to talk through your project
Contact UsWorking alongside our sister company Generator Power, we can also bring temporary power and access trackway together as a single, joined-up solution.