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You'll Hate this Gritters.
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When at work a colleague & I were stood waiting for the workshops to open, one of the workmen (called Gary) turned up spreading rock salt on the icy path, my mate pipes up “hey up, it’s Gary Gritter”
Just grit your teeth & get on with it.
Joking aside, gritters are employed by the council, they will have their own drivers so I don’t think there’ll be a problem, unless they’ve got rid of their gritters & contract out.
Which is the most likely
Er, why is it the most likely?
My mouth doesn't get icy so what's the point of that?
The gritter lorries were out here about a month ago. Apparently they do a dry run of the whole area with all the trucks to make sure everything is accessible and to know their routes. Whether the will be any grit when we actually need it is another thing of course. I bet right now there’s a panic buyer grabbing as much grit as they can because someone somewhere told them there will be a shortage.
I’m ok though, plenty of rolls of sandpaper in my workshop, I’ll just glue some to my tyres. It’ll work trust me!!!
I’m ok though, plenty of rolls of sandpaper in my workshop, I’ll just glue some to my tyres. It’ll work trust me!!!
And as if by magic….
West Sussex gritters take to the roads in 'dry run' for winter
The weather is monitored by West Sussex County Council and a daily decision made on weather to grit.
www.bbc.co.uk
There were a few moaners when this happened saying the drivers should be driving the fuel trucks etc etc and of course the usual ‘we pay our council tax for empty lorries to be driving around, why aren’t they emptying my bins’. It’s usually the people that get away with not paying their council tax that do most of the complaining.
It seems outsourcing is the way
Not here, it isn’t. Not yet, anyway.
See loads of them up and down the country over the last week or so including today around the M25And as if by magic….
West Sussex gritters take to the roads in 'dry run' for winter
The weather is monitored by West Sussex County Council and a daily decision made on weather to grit.www.bbc.co.uk
One summer I once overtook a gritter on the A1 just before Scotch Corner. It was a hot sunny day and it was spreading something, don't know what but it made a mess of the bike and my left leg. I'm assuming it was a dressing if the roads too hot and tar starts to get too soft.
we never seem to have our roads gritted, I did get over taken in Death Valley, it must be where they have gone too