Area Wide Protective (AWP) is America’s Traffic Control Leader. Our commitment to traffic safety directly reflects our mission, which is to protect your people, your business, and your time. We deliver comprehensive traffic control services in support of infrastructure projects, construction, and utility work that improve roadways and communities across the country. We specialize in supplying the manpower to guide traffic safely around work zones. We also provide traffic consultation and traffic design services, as well as traffic control equipment rental.

Protecting Your People

AWP provides best-in-class safety training and equipment. Every work zone that we develop complies with the appropriate local, state, or federal agency’s regulations and standards. All of our team members in the field are required to complete 40+ hours of training during their onboarding process. This onboarding training includes ATSSA Flagger training, temporary traffic control training, state-specific TTC training (as required), First Aid & CPR training, Smith System Defensive Driver training, and other health and safety training classes. We equip our people to keep your people safe.

Protecting Your Business

Our goal is to serve as an extension of your company by providing safe, comprehensive traffic control service as efficiently and economically as possible. With more than 60 offices across 20 states, you greatly benefit by having just ONE traffic control provider to work with across multiple states and regions. You have the advantage of our expertise in local regulations and our existing working relationships with regulators. AWP also protects you with significant liability coverage on every project. Furthermore, our strategic initiatives team is dedicated to ongoing business development, which assures that you are partnering with an aggressive team committed to continual process improvement that helps protect your business.

Protecting Your Time

At AWP, we understand the value of time. Our business is streamlined to efficiently and effectively handle your every traffic control need. From planning through implementation, our team provides seamless protection on every project, on or near public roadways. Our company-owned fleet of over 1500 fully-equipped pick-up trucks and traffic specialty vehicles, operated by highly-trained Traffic Control Specialists, ensure that we deliver safe, compliant, and on-time traffic control equipment and services to every job site. We continue to streamline our operations with modern, time saving innovations, including the use of tablet technology in the field. This technology automates processes and increases project transparency and efficiency so that your time is protected.

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