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Line marking
Road line marking services for major infrastructure works across Victoria, and the ongoing maintenance that keeps civil projects, car parks and access roads compliant.
Trusted by councils, VicRoads and civil contractors 
What it is
What the crew does on site.
The installation of road markings across entire road networks, subdivisions, highways, freeways and major construction projects — from a few kilometres to a major arterial road upgrade.
On the maintenance side: safety audits deem line marking faded and unsafe for motorists, and the Department of Transport and Planning or a council asks us to refresh it back to reflectivity requirements. We can run those audits ourselves, or come in and mark what an audit has already flagged.
Why Southern Highway
Family-run since the backyard. Built for network scale.
Two generations of the same family, out of Geelong and Horsham, with the plant and the people to hold a contract that runs the length of Western Victoria.
Meet the crew- 70+ Plant, and the crew to run it 25 team members and 70+ items of plant.
- Same day Depots across the South West Multiple depots across South West Victoria — same-day turnaround where it is urgent.
- 20 yrs Time served on the road Three or four of the crew have passed 20 years of service, and decades of industry experience between them.
- One Supplier, works and controls In-house traffic management, so the works and the controls come from one supplier.
Who it's for
Line marking for government and industry.
Department of Transport and Planning · Councils across Western Victoria · Tier 1 civil contractors · The Victorian Sealing Alliance.
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Continual client satisfaction across South West Victoria with DTP and councils including City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast, Glenelg, Corangamite, Horsham Rural City and City of Ballarat.
When we're needed
If this is on your desk, it's a call.
Line marking gets specified for a handful of reasons. These are the ones that reach us.
- Resurfacing and reconstruction
- New roads and subdivisions
- Redesign and blackspot upgrade works
- Safety audits finding marking faded below reflectivity requirements
- Urgent maintenance where road users have been deemed at risk
How it runs
Purchase order to invoice.
The same sequence every time, so a project manager knows what lands on their desk and when.
Start a job- 01 Quote
Scope priced against the plans and the length of road involved.
- 02 Schedule
Booked day or night to suit the road and the traffic it carries.
- 03 Permit application
Memorandum of authorisation where the works require one, plus any specialised traffic management plan.
- 04 Set-out
The job spotted and marked out on the ground before a drop of paint goes down.
- 05 Surface preparation
Surface cleaned and made ready to take the line.
- 06 Application
Line marking executed to the approved set-out.
- 07 Quality control
Checked against AS 1742 and captured on the job sheets we keep for the record.
- 08 Invoice
Issued on completion with the job record behind it.
What turns up
Plant, materials and the standard.
Everything on this list is owned and run by us — no hired plant, no subcontracted crew.
- Vehicles
- Truck-mounted line marking vehiclesSpecifically designed small line trucks for car parks and intersection worksTruck-mounted attenuators for safe operation in live traffic
- Machines
- Airless line marking machines
- Materials
- Waterborne and solvent paints, with the glass bead grade chosen to the requirement
- Standards
- All work to AS 1742
Asked on every quote call
The questions before the question.
What project managers and council engineers ask us before they ask for a price.
Ask us something elseWhat type of material do you use?
Waterborne and solvent paints, with the glass bead grade chosen to the requirement. All of it applied to AS 1742.
When do you need to be on site?
It depends what put the job on the table — resurfacing and reconstruction, a new road or subdivision, a redesign or blackspot upgrade, or a safety audit finding marking faded below reflectivity requirements. Where road users have been deemed at risk we treat it as urgent maintenance, and multiple depots across South West Victoria mean same-day turnaround is possible.
Do you need plans to quote?
Scope is priced against the plans and the length of road involved, so plans are the fastest way to a firm number. Send what you have and we will tell you if anything is missing.
Can you work in live traffic, or at night?
Both. Work is booked day or night to suit the road and the traffic it carries, with truck-mounted attenuators for live-traffic operation and in-house traffic management, so the works and the controls come from one supplier.
Who signs off that the marking is right?
The job is set out and spotted on the ground before a drop of paint goes down, then checked against AS 1742 on completion and captured on the job sheets we keep for the record.
Accreditation and assurance
Covered, checked, on the record.
The cover and standards behind every job. Certificates of currency and the capability statement are available on request — ask when you enquire and they come back with the reply. What we can send is listed on the capability page.
- Standard AS 1742 Work checked against the Australian standard for road markings and traffic control.
- Liability $20M General and products liability insurance, with certificates of currency available.
- People WorkCover WorkCover insurance across the whole crew.
- Fleet Insured Fleet motor vehicle insurance across 70+ items of plant.
- Procurement Fair Jobs Code Pre-assessment held for Victorian government work.
Enquire
Get a line marking quote.
Tell us the length of road and whether you have plans, and the first reply can carry a price rather than another round of questions.
Or call 03 5245 7662 — reception is a person, in Geelong.
Where we work
Geelong to the South Australian Border and Beyond!
The workshop is in Geelong and there are crews out of Horsham, so the west of the state is serviced from inside it rather than driven to from Melbourne.
Key coverage areas
- Geelong
- Surf Coast
- Ballarat
- Bendigo
- Horsham
- Western Victoria
- North-west Victoria to the South Australian border and into SA
Department of Transport and Planning areas
Loddon–Mallee · Grampians · Barwon South West.