Travelling from London to Scotland and back again over the past couple of days, I haven't been able to avoid gritters pebble dashing my paintwork. They drive in the motorway middle lane making it impossible to pass without receiving a pasting. Not only that, the lorries in front of me threw up grit onto the screen, Then trying to clean the screen to see through the salt, grit lying on the wiper blades had made some nice scratches on the glass.

So for my sins of attending a funeral, I have scratched paintwork. Scratched screen and a couple of chips from the larger grit pieces. I understand gritting at night with temperatures at or below zero, but when my reading is 3 degrees during the day, cant the gritting be done with a little more consideration for peoples property when its actually icey.

All along my route I had sign messages showing "Salt Spreading", Well I have no objections to dropping salt everywhere, its a lot softer, but the grit. The salt would still do the same job. The grit gets blown or shoved to the edges of the carriageway over time, Its the salt that actually gets into the crevices of the road to dry it out.

More salt less grit please HA.

Edited by Ben 10 on 24/01/2013 at 12:09