Gritting Vehicles - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Gritting Vehicles
FOI Number
15783
Date Received
10/11/2021
Type of Request
EIR
Request or Question
I am requesting the following information under FOI.1. How many gritting vehicles the local authority has available to deploy over the winter period2. What number of these vehicles are A) hydrogen, B) electric or C) hybrid powered
Response
1. Scottish Borders Council currently have a total of 76 winter vehicles made up of:34 lorries ( Mixture of fixed/swap body systems)
9 pickups (demountable gritters)
7 large agricultural tractors
24 compact footpath tractors
2 snow blowers
