Name A Kent Gritter
Name a Kent Gritter
Ben Pearce on Getting You Home (4-7pm) gave a shout out to all of Kent's hard working gritter lorry drivers on the show recently, and played you their version of 'Ice Ice Baby.'
And for main one you have been waiting for, here’s ICE ICE BABY! 😁🥶❄️ We would like to thank all our gritter drivers who work all hours, on shift day and night, including Christmas Day and battle wintery conditions to get the job done. On behalf of KCC and Kent Highways, we'd like to thank the teams for doing a great job, and we know from this page what fantastic feedback they get! They really do appreciate it, so thank you. 😀👍 You can find out more about our winter service on our website www.kent.gov.uk/winter. But for now, here's some info about Gritting Kent: - We have 64 gritters covering 58 primary main routes - We treat over 1,300 miles of road - We have over 14,000 tonnes of salt - We cover main A and B roads - National Highways treat Motorways and trunk roads - 3000 Salt bins are located for use on public highways (not for private property) - Weather stations are placed across the county to give us road surface temperature readings. Road temperatures will vary across the county. - We have a fleet of farmers who help out when the weather gets very wintery
Posted by Gritting Kent on Thursday, December 7, 2023
These wintry conditions see the fleet treat the roads overnight by laying salt, so they are safer to drive on during your commute to work.
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Gritting Kent information:
64 gritters covering 58 primary main routes
They treat over 1,300 miles of road
Over 14,000 tonnes of salt
-They cover main A and B roads
3000 Salt bins are located for use on public highways (not for private property)
Weather stations are placed across the county to give them road surface temperature readings. Road temperatures will vary across the county.
Already named Kent gritters
Eddie BI-Izzard
Snow Patrol
Snowbuster
Saltin it out
Hans Snowlo
Darth Gritter
Brad Gritt
Ice ice baby
Usain Salt
GetAGrit
Snowball
Basil Salty
David Plowie
Here we snow
Little Gritz
Spready Mercury
Name a Kent Gritter
The Winner
After nearly 400 votes, Kent's next gritter has officially been named! The winning name, announced on Getting You Home with Ben Pearce, is Grittersaurus Rex.
Grittersaurus Rex was suggested by Katie Charlier from Dover who received a surprise phone call from Ben Pearce on his show to reveal that her suggestion will be printed on the side of the vehicle
See Katie’s reaction here
Some entries that narrowly missed out on being finalists included Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Taylor Drift, Snow-oel Ghallagher and Jennifer Snow-plez.
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