FOR EVERYONE WHO COMPLAINS THAT "
THEY NEVER TOUCH MY ROAD AND IT'S SHOWN IN PINK ON THE MAP!!"
(Biker1)Problems with 'salting' or gritting.
1. Lay it too soon, it gets covered with snow and doesn't react properly
2. Lay it when it's too cold and even if it DOES react with the ice/snow, there's a finite temperature where EVEN salt water freezes so the salting become ineffective and turns to 'black ice'..
3. Lay it when there's a bit of surface water, it gets washed straight down the nearest drain and into the nearest watercourse... (Great for the local eco-system and does nothing for clearing the road)
4. Lay it when it's too dry, the wind turbulence of passing traffic will just blow it to the edge of carriageway where it's ineffective and wasteful.
4. Lay it when there's not enough traffic to 'crush' the salt and cause the reaction with ice, it'll just lay there.
5. Lay it between 11pm and 6am when the routes are clear enough to allow efficient laying to take place in readiness for the following morning's traffic? Well "nobody sees it" because everybody's tucked up in bed while the gritter lorry drivers are working their little butts off!! Reason Number One for everyone to say "I never see a bleedin' gritter truck down this road". It take 10 seconds to drive past your front door. Unless you happen to be stood outside having a fag you ain't going to necessarily see it. What do you think the lorry driver should do? Honk thier horn every 2 seconds?! Have a merry tune twinkling away like an ice cream van?
Problem 6 with salting: Lazy fekers who never clean their cars from one year to the next will find that the salt has been chewing on their chassis throughout the summer and find the next time they slam their anchors on in the snow, their foot goes through the floorpan...