Our teams have been working tirelessly throughout the winter period  to keep trunk roads throughout the North West safe and manage them in a way that causes as little disruption as possible for the travelling public.

Faced with many storms bringing challenging weather conditions, with ice, rain, wind and snow in abundance, our dedicated team and their fleet of winter maintenance vehicles have tackled wide-ranging adverse weather.

Since BEAR Scotland’s Winter Service began in the North West in October, the Met Office has issued over 60 Weather Warnings and there have been six named storms, with storms Arwen, Malik and Dudley in particular impacting the North West area. Our dedicated team has responded quickly and effectively to these prolonged periods of extreme weather and has spread 38,000 tonnes of salt on the trunk roads, used 2,000 sandbags to combat wet conditions, and has cleared an estimated 808 trees during the storms across many routes. The A84 Stirling to Lochearnhead saw the highest figure with 241 fallen trees along the route!