| Highways England's gritter drivers have noticed a growing problem with road users veering onto the hard shoulder to avoid being struck by salt. |
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| A FLEET of 25 gritter trucks are now on standby in Birmingham poised and ready for the next big freeze. |
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| Road chiefs have been told to have thousands of gritter lorries on standby. |
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| It was also converted to a gritter using the grain chute, capable of blasting grit through the windows of nearby cars. |
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| Forecasters warn that ice is the biggest danger overnight as snow which has fallen freezes over, with the Highways Agency gritter fleet out in force. |
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| Glasgow City Council, who dispatched a gritter on a 40-mile route around the city on Tuesday, yesterday began paying the Met Office to provide daily weather forecasts. |
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| I and many others have not seen a gritter in Cardiff since Saturday. |
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| Last week we told how the road was so bad that the bin lorry, snowplough and gritter could not reach Arnish at the end of the two-mile stretch that Calum built. |
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