The distress in the asphalt concrete pavements such as rutting can be better quantified by a creep and recovery experiment. In this investigation, asphalt concrete specimens with nominal maximum aggregate size of 19 mm and air void content of 7 % were subjected to trapezoidal loading cycles with a fixed loading and unloading rate. After each loading cycle of 0.4 s, a recovery period of 0.6 s was applied. The samples were tested at unconfined and confined (100 and 200 kPa) conditions. All the experiments were conducted at 20, 40, 55 °C temperature. A three stage creep curve was observed under certain conditions of confinement and temperature. The Francken model was used to interpret the experimental data and a parametric analysis was carried out to quantify the influence of confinement conditions on the onset of tertiary stage.