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The gritters join Dermot Snow Cleary and Spreddie Mercury in Essex’s winter fleet.
A naming competition has been launched for 25 gritting vehicles in time for Essex Highways’ winter service.
The gritters will be based at Springfield depot and the new Dunmow depot to help keep Essex roads free of ice as the days get colder.
They join 34 other gritters named by Essex residents in previous years, including Dermot Snow Cleary, Volder Grit, Gritty McGrit Face, PLOWIE and Spreddie Mercury.
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The salting routes are shown as a blue line on the map. You can also see our fleet of vehicles in their current location as they travel around the county on the map below.
We have 49 routes this year covered by 55 machines with ploughs. We also have 2 mini gritter routes covered by 2 mini gritters to treat weak bridges and roads.
Look out for our current named gritter on the map. These are Monster Meltdown, PLOWIE, Gritty Gordon, Dermot Snow Cleary, Volder Grit, Grit Dunsnow, Gritty McGrit Face, Frosty, Maldon Salt, Colchester Gritty, Rupert Grit, Grit Expectations, Salty Snowflake, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Grit Notley, Jennifer, Gritta Thunberg, Weeley Salty, Gustav, Edward, Big_G, Slush Puppy, Dawn Raider, The Grit Gatsby and Spreddie Mercury.
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Essex is separated into five different weather domains, which helps us to target our gritters depending on local forecasted road surface temperatures and conditions.
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