Sun 29 Mar 2009 22:20 Spreading salt today - ringwood

Jus come back along the A45 in Northants with a white dust hanging over the road. Eventually caught up with a gritter throwing loads of damp but dusty salt onto the road. Is this the 'new' salt they bought when they run out in the snow in Feb? It covered the car and wheels, looks much more harmful by the way it gets everywhere. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Sun 29 Mar 2009 22:51 Spreading salt today - frazerjp

The spreaders were out on the A404 in Wycombe last night on way back home. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Sun 29 Mar 2009 22:57 Spreading salt today - gordonbennet

Good job we didn't do our final underbody washes yet, the lads have got till the end of the month to get the O/T in. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Sun 29 Mar 2009 23:25 Spreading salt today - Bromptonaut

Live about a mile from A45/M1 junction. Outside an hour or so ago to put the bins out and thought (clear sky, zero wind etc) that we were set for a frost. No surprise that the Council were gritting. Edited by Bromptonaut on 29/03/2009 at 23:27 Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Mon 30 Mar 2009 02:26 Spreading salt today - Dave_TD

They gritted in Leicestershire on Saturday night. The temperature outside at 7am BST was -1deg C but there was no frost on any parked cars or the grass. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Mon 30 Mar 2009 09:40 Spreading salt today - daveyjp

I know a gritting contractor and he is using stocks of table salt. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Mon 30 Mar 2009 10:00 Spreading salt today - Armitage Shanks {p}

Hard frost on cars in my road on Sunday mornng and OAT -2C @ 0800 Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Mon 30 Mar 2009 10:03 Spreading salt today - Old Navy

At least we havent got anyone blaming the councils lack of gritting for causing their accident - yet. Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Mon 30 Mar 2009 21:17 Spreading salt today - redviper

they where on the A66, with what looks like, and sounds (as i drove through it to get past the gritter) normal grit. Just the a66 was done though, and it was getting to be freezing, as about 1am sunday morning the car outside temp display was reading 0.5 (+) Reply | Report as offensive | Link

Tue 31 Mar 2009 20:58 Spreading salt today - ringwood

Looked the car over tonight as it hasn't been used since we got back 2 days ago, and where mositure has got into the white 'dust' it has marked the paint. Washed and polished it so hopefully no permanent damage. However, if the councils have tonnes of this stuff bought as a panic buy, it may not be used agaian til the autumn. It definitlyl is less friendly to cars than the more commonly used 'grit'. Reply | Report as offensive | Link