Need for winter preparation highlighted

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK has reminded transport operators and highways authorities of the need for adequate winter preparation.

CILT Chief Executive Steve Agg says: “Individual companies should take every measure possible to ensure their services can continue. In addition, highway authorities must do all they can to ensure that adequate stocks of salt and grit are available to deal with similar conditions to those experienced last January. 

“CILT is concerned by the recent statement from the Local Government Association which warned that 'a proportion of councils do not have as much salt in their storage facilities as they would like'.
 
“On behalf of both the road based logistics and passenger transport sectors, CILT calls for those highway authorities which consider themselves short of adequate supplies of salt and grit to correct the shortfall before the bad weather arrives. 

“Failure to keep our roads open inevitably results in safety issues, extra costs, and social and industrial inconvenience which we must avoid, if at all possible.”