CENTRAL Bedfordshire’s new gritters will be led into the battle to keep Leighton’s roads free from ice and snow by a ‘White Knight’.
The lead gritter has been named ‘White Knight’ by a four year old Dunstable child afer she came first in a competition run by the council.
As part of this year’s maintenance programme ‘White Knight’ and the fleet will be carrying out as many as six daily salting runs in the most severe weather. The 18-strong vehicles will also carry real-time tracking so base crews can see where they are, how fast they’re moving and how much salt they have spread.
Roads carrying the highest volume of traffic are gritted when road temperatures are expected to drop below zero and when they are expected to be damp.