Gritters - the lack thereof

[anonymous-user]

So, this afternoon at about 3 I came from Harrogate home

A59, A1, A63 (that's a fair way down the A1), reasonably heavy snow settling onto the road

Not a single gritter or evidence of one seen anywhere at all on the whole route

[R1 Loon]

I've just driven along the M62 from the NW to Goole and the whole of the M62 is caked in salt, so they must be doing some.

They don't have to keep going up & down the same roads as long as there's some down it should do it's job.

[Dave^]

I thought grit was more for ice than snow?

[Escort2dr]

Seen quite a few ploughs/gritters around the Pocklington area over the last few days. Looks like they are being proactive for once. Having said that, it's snowing so fast the roads are getting a good covering anyway.

[philmots]

Needs gritting for the ice under the snow, if it's just fresh snow on dry tarmac there's a suprising amount of grip.

Judging by the amount of snow Newcastle has had over the last few days you'd of thought there would be more gritters out up there, but this morning there was none hence why a Tranny van lost it and collected a Yaris on its way to the central barrier right infront of me, it was sheet ice under the snow.

Not good enough imo,

[mybrainhurts]

They're all over in Sheffield.

Even done my road, which is very unusual...