Council gritter in action

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  29 January 2009     22:5914296
  #1      
  no cheap comments please!!
  
  1830 hours and a sita flat bed truck with all lights flashing came past dispensing grit onto the roads.
  
  the forecast is a cold snap but not snow, full marks to the sitapersons for not taking a chance.
  
  i have to say that some of our local motorists did not do themselves justice though.
  
  emergency lit vehicle and a chap with high viz jacket on the end proffering to the car behind a shovel full of grit.
  fairly obvious what point he was trying to to make, eventually the car turned right leaving him the chance to dump the grit, within seconds another car is right on the tailgate of the sita truck.!!!
• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 5,673
  29 January 2009     23:0114297
  #2      
  The do our little road nearly every time the temperature has dropped recently which is helpful
  
  Snow forecast for Monday though
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  29 January 2009     23:1114299
  #3      
  They have been very good this year by keeping on top of it and just think about the lifes it has saved well done to the K.K.C on this one
  
  Vic M
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
  • Posts: 7,819
  30 January 2009     08:4814311
  #4      
  Yes it seems there is a possibility of some snow and/or ice this weekend. Ive seen the gritters out in action all through the current winter and as said above they really are brilliant nowadays and well on top of the job. Once upon a time the gritter situation used to be hopelessly haphazard and sporadic but nowadays its very good indeed. One of the success stories.
  
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 2,262
  30 January 2009     11:0514325
  #5      
  The gritters have certainly got the situation in hand and are doing a splendid job, they are up and down our road at the crack of dawn and again early evening, its a great help particularly with this cold snap of weather we are having at the moment. Another success story