Gritting and salt spreading

Ground Control Gritting is a specialist winter gritting provider. We have been gritting car parks, private roads, estates, and facilities across the UK and Ireland since 1973.

We have built a powerful reputation, developing bespoke winter maintenance plans for every client. 

Gritting services near you

We operate nationwide from over 200 gritting teams and depot locations, from which we deploy our fleet of salt spreaders and winter gritting lorries. Working with local teams, we are permanently close by, at your service whatever the weather. Being local, helps us reduce our carbon footprint.

Proactive gritting service

Our proactive service ensures that your site has a winter maintenance plan, which is necessary to ensure your business stays safe and open through the winter. Service is triggered based on the weather forecast for road conditions.

We apply salt before frost, ice, or snowfall forms. This activates the salt to prevent bonding with the road surface.

No frost, no cost with pay-per-visit winter gritting services

In warmer winters, with fewer callouts required we offer pay-as-you-go gritting contracts.  When a cold weather threshold is met, our local gritting teams are automatically sent out with no callout required. Customers are only charged per visit so if there is no frost, there will be no cost.

Award-winning technology

All visits are reported on our bespoke portal, TotalView. This Queens Award-winning technology includes vehicle tracking and gives clients complete transparency of our work in real-time. This evidence is essential for ensuring quality and providing evidence in the unlikely event of a legal claim.

Salt and grit

Ground Control Gritting stores over 50,000 tonnes of salt stock for winter gritting, providing 20 days’ worth of salt stock at all of our depots. We have additional emergency salt stored across the UK in the event of prolonged periods of cold or icy weather conditions.

Other winter gritting services we provide include support with self-service gritting such as the supply of grit bins and snow shovels, an automated grit bin refill service, and the supply of loose gritting salt.