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Mr. Gritter and his colleagues have since taken the concept one step further.

After a while the young mouse ventured to pick up the sword which lay near Gritter.

Indeed, the gritter is so commonly seen on winter service vehicles that the terms are sometimes used synonymously.

Gritter drew his sword and walked uphill towards her.

Are you a shopkeeper, delivery driver, gritter or postie who's battling to work?

Cristina Monet took the classic song and reworked it to a gritter version in 1980.

At Laide the council gritter was getting petrol at the shop.

A gritter at work in Perthshire.

The 188 slaying happened so quickly that Gritter and Bluddnose had not seen it.

A gritter, also known as a sander, salt spreader or salt truck, is found on most winter service vehicles.

Christopher Gritter John Neville revolts against the suburban conformity of his parents.

She sat staring at the carcasses of Crableg and Gritter, unable to comprehend what had happened.

"It's not the same to be pen pals as it is to be part of a clan," Mr. Gritter said.

It was also converted to a gritter using the grain chute, capable of blasting grit through the windows of nearby cars.

The Council Gritter (Issues 162 - 171)

Gritter, tell the crew to put some vinegar into their oarstrokes; 'urry now, matey.

Headley Gritter (The Party Show)

Spurs are as good on the road when it matters as a council gritter on day five of a cold snap in Kent, says the Bung.

Jeramy "Rainbow" Gritter is now performing his mix of Rock and Rap under the name Beardo.

Bleeker, Wouter, Bill Davis, Herman gritter, and Alan G. Jones.

"Nay, it weren't no snip of a squirrelymaid did fer two tough rogues like Crableg an' ole Gritter.

Providing timely information during winter weather is a vital service: A large number of councils have taken the 'Twitter gritter' approach in recent years and the service has proved popular.

Gloucestershire county council has set up a "Gritter Twitter" feed to give drivers updates on which roads in the county have been gritted, reports the Daily Telegraph.

"The stereotype from 20 years ago was that birth parents were wild and reckless people from the other side of the tracks," said Jim Gritter, a child welfare supervisor at the agency.

A weasel called Floater swapped his own chipped and rusted sword for the better blade that Gritter had once owned, and scoffed aloud, "Vanished me tail!

Salt trucks often then return to deal with any remaining ice and snow.

"It keeps coming down they'll get the salt trucks out.

The sanitation department began storing snowplows and salt trucks on it.

He told how he came up behind a salt truck and got blasted with it, like shrapnel hitting the car.

If a blizzard is bad enough, snow plows and salt trucks won't even brave the elements.

The streets here may never see a snowplow or salting truck, but hundreds of new potholes seem to appear each day.

The municipal salt trucks, for example, do corrode from salt, he said, but preventive maintenance can make a big difference.

A gritter, also known as a sander, salt spreader or salt truck, is found on most winter service vehicles.

But on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the frolicking must be done quickly, before the salt truck arrives.

Those salt trucks, they pile the snow up down the middle of the street and then haul it away, I believe dump it in the river."

IOWA, like many states, once had a system for dispatching highway snowplows and salt trucks that had an obvious shortcoming.

Salt trucks outfitted with snowplows plodded along Interstate 70, clearing the outside lane while depositing a layer of salt in their wake.

A dispacher in Carroll County, Md., said, "Everything's stuck -troopers, salt trucks, everybody."

Last Saturday a salting truck loaded with a mixture of salt and sand making a round on the narrow ice-packed roads near his house skidded into the woods.

Finally, city officials admitted that the District had too few snow-removal vehicles and salt trucks and that many were inoperable because of insufficient financing to fix them.

If the forecasts indicate that the road surface temperature is likely to stay above freezing during a light snowstorm, for example, Mr. Marineau said, the city's salt trucks will stay parked.

Besides reducing the danger and delays caused by icy pavement, the new system should reduce corrosion (on the bridge and on the cars that use it) and free up salt truck drivers.

Yesterday at South Mountain Arena, the Devils skated hard and the snowy powder scraped up from the ice looked like the New Jersey Turnpike in winter before the salt trucks arrive.

Although the Department of Sanitation had long parked its snow plows and salt trucks there, something about the almost triangular space was, as one resident put it, "too perfect and geometric for a parking lot."

But during the Dec. 5 and Dec. 25 snowstorms, when all the county's plows and salt trucks were out, there weren't enough public works drivers, so they had to call in drivers from other agencies.

At the Sanitation Department garage at 56th Street and 12th Avenue, Stanley W. Lopez was pumping diesel fuel into his salt truck as he took a brief pit stop from the route he had been treating in lower Manhattan since 5:15 A.M.