Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs....

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    ...showing salt spreading in progress. It was 20+degrees C and I honestly can't think of one logical reason why, am I missing something??
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    may have been a spillage at some point today oil or fuel
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Never thought of that tbh, good one cheers
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Result! Found out what it was, the heat starts to melt the Tarmac so gritters are sent out to spread crushed rock, apparently it's better than the risk of chunks of Tarmac being ripped up by vehicles!! So there we go, gritters in summer, I'm not going mental after all!! Lol
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    How come the tarmac in Spain doesnt get ripped up then???
     
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    Tarmac mixed with amber solare
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Factor 50.
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Different ingredients in the road surfacing in different countries. Over here we have road surfaces that have to cope with (or don't, as the case may be) +30C to -30C!
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Every year we get tarmac melting in this Country, why not just alter the bloody mixture a little????
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    You'd think.
     
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    Re: Can anyone explain why I've just passed a gritter on the M5 with the matrix signs

    Way too difficult, far easier to keep grinding the country to a halt doing re-surfacing.
     
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