Ground Protection Standard Ground Protection Mat
The everyday 4x8 ground protection mat — black HDPE / plastic ground protection sheets, reversible tread, hand-portable, reusable for years.
- 4×8 ft
- 1/2 in
- ~37 kg
Products / Roadway Panels
Temporary Roadway Panel
A large-format temporary roadway mat — a composite/HDPE panel for instant heavy-duty access roads that minimises joints per metre of road. Overlapping flanges and a heavy locking-pin system give a rigid, high-PSI driving surface installed by forklift.
2×4 m~385 kg828 psi
Instant heavy roads with fewer joints
A temporary roadway mat in large-panel form — roughly 2×4 m, about 8 m² a panel — is how you build a heavy access road fast with the fewest joints per metre. Fewer joints means a flatter, more rigid driving surface and quicker installation, because there are simply fewer pieces to lay and lock over a given length of road.
A rigid, high-bearing surface
The composite/HDPE panel is engineered for a high-PSI driving surface — around 828 psi bearing — so it carries the heaviest plant and constant truck traffic without flexing into ruts. Overlapping flanges and a heavy locking-pin system tie the panels into a continuous slab rather than a row of loose boards.
Installed by forklift
At about 385 kg a panel, this is a forklift or telehandler install, not a hand lay. That is the trade: you give up two-person portability and get a road that goes down quickly and stands up to sustained heavy use — the right call for a site entrance road or a crane standing platform that has to last the project.
Where panels beat mats
Reach for these temporary roadway mats over a hand-portable interlocking access mat when the road is long, the traffic is heavy and continuous, and you have plant on site to place them: site entrance roads, crane standing and working platforms, and delivery routes that must take articulated trucks — see a temporary roadway over soft ground in practice.
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Key features
- ~8 m² coverage per panel — fewer joints
- 828 psi bearing for the heaviest plant
Ideal for
- Site entrance roads
- Crane standing & working platforms
- Event vehicle routes
Specifications
| Size | 2 × 4 m (~6.5 × 13 ft) |
|---|---|
| Thickness | ~37–50 mm |
| Weight | ~385 kg (~860 lb) |
| Bearing | ~828 psi (~58 kg/cm²) |
| Joint | Flange + locking pin |
| Material | HDPE / composite |
Quoted load figures assume a competent, evenly prepared sub-grade. A mat spreads and distributes load — it does not turn soft ground into hard standing — so size to ground bearing pressure (load ÷ contact area).
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