Council Gritting - WHY?

[S2red]

07:30 this morning Bothwell St Glasgow temperature +4 degress forecast +5ddegress no ice or frost overnight so why. apart from wasting money, are two mini gritters out gritting pavements?

[flyboyben]

6am South Deeside Road, Aberdeen this morning and yesterday morning a gritter shot blasted the front of my car....5oC on the temp guage both days

[dram]

Same in Morayshire !!!
When it is +5C seems to be gritters everywhere ?
When the snow & ice actually settles on the road my daily 44 mile return commute along the A96 to Keith , not a gritter to be seen anywhere on the A & B routes
They still have not got it right after all these years... !!
Regards
B

[gofasterrosssco]

Preventative measure? It doesn't have to be bang on 0c on our (supposedly accurate) in-car temp gauges for the road surface to be just off, or about to, freeze..

[S2red]

At +5degrees?

[MacW]

S2red said:

At +5degrees?

They have to do it then.

It's against Health & Safety for the gritter operators to be outside working if the temperature drops below 3deg C.

[mph1977]

MacW said:

S2red said:

At +5degrees?

They have to do it then.

It's against Health & Safety for the gritter operators to be outside working if the temperature drops below 3deg C.

any basis for this statement -credible source please

[OlberJ]

They do do it before hand from what i remember. The more that's out there without being washed away, the better it works when the ice and snow arrives.

[Georgeous129]

If they're gritting pavements, it prevents pedestrians from having to walk in the road to avoid the icy pavements so they don't slip. My view anyway

[S2red]

Guys the temperature all week is forecast to be well above freezing point 11degrees on Thursday and not below 4degrees at night!

Edited by S2red on Tuesday 18th December 17:44

[downthepub]

Guess the councils are damned if they do and damned if they don't. It's the winter , so use a snotter if your PnJ is too precious for the odd bit of council sponsored pebble dashing.

I'd rather too much grit, than too little, especially as the weather can be changeable, for instance the Met Office had an ice warning from 5pm Mon until 11am yesterday (for the NE of Scotland).

Edited by downthepub on Wednesday 19th December 13:32

[monthefish]

mph1977 said:

MacW said:

S2red said:

At +5degrees?

They have to do it then.

It's against Health & Safety for the gritter operators to be outside working if the temperature drops below 3deg C.

any basis for this statement -credible source please

[JM]

downthepub said:

Guess the councils are damned if they do and damned if they don't. It's the winter , so use a snotter if your PnJ is too precious for the odd bit of council sponsored pebble dashing.

I'd rather too much grit, than too little, especially as the weather can be changeable, for instance the Met Office had an ice warning from 5pm Mon until 11am yesterday (for the NE of Scotland).

Or if everyone used winter tyres they wouldn't need to use as much grit and salt.


Was frosty with ice lying in Lochgilphead yesterday morning.

[rb5er]

They grit when the temperature is expected to be 3degrees or less.

[MacW]

monthefish said:

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[johnycarrera]

OlberJ said:

They do do it before hand from what i remember. The more that's out there without being washed away, the better it works when the ice and snow arrives.

They were doing the M8/ M77 at 0330hrs at +6 degrees a short while before the torrential rain came down to last the next two days! Total waste of money!