Statistics
45 salting routes are directly managed by Hampshire County Council on the county road network
The average length of each salt route is 35 miles
The average length of each snow route is 20 miles
Five tonnes of salt are carried by each lorry on a salting run
The average cost of salting one priority route is £400
The cost of a complete county-wide salt run is £22,000
It takes between 2½ to 3 hours to salt the entire priority road network
The entire county's maximum stock of salt is approximately 12,500 tonnes