Staffordshire County Council's gritters hit the streets ahead of winter

Staffordshire County Council's gritters have bee spotted on the streets as they prepare for the coming cold season

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00:00Another year.

00:04I'm Sean, I've worked here for now for 15, 16 years.

00:07We've been out testing all the gritters to making sure everything's okay

00:11when the bad weather does come, so we know that everything's going to be alright for us to do our job.

00:16We had the health and safety this morning, checking all the laws and regulations

00:21and making sure everything's okay for what we're doing and when we're out and about with the wagons.

00:26Well, we have to load the gritters up, take them out, we've all got our own routes,

00:30finish all your route, come back to the yard.

00:32Sometimes, if the weather's still bad, you go out again and do the same

00:35and it's just to keep everybody safe on the roads.

00:38When we do get in the lorries, we have to do a full check, a 10-minute check,

00:43to check everything's okay, all the bulbs, all the lights are working, everything's okay on,

00:48so everything works while we're out and about.

00:51The grit bins, they've all been filled up and everything will be good

00:54so people can help themselves putting it across the footpaths if needs be,

00:59if there's roads where we can't get the gritters down.

01:01Through the winter, we do work nights from October through to April.

01:06We're on permanent nights and every day we get a message whether there's no action

01:11or whether we need to be out gritting and they give us what time to start

01:14and we're all here ready for that then.

01:16Once everything's done, we make sure everything's okay and then at least we know we can get here to work

01:22and get home back from work because we've put all the grit down on the road

01:25so it makes it safer for everybody who's out and about.