Gritter drivers in #Leicestershire have told Capital they sometimes get a hard time on the road, when they're trying to do their job

Gritter drivers in Leicestershire have told Capital they sometimes get a hard time on the road, when they're trying to do their job.

Some of the team at the salt depot in Mountsorrel say it worries them that other drivers don't slow down when they're out gritting.

There's a severe weather warning for ice in the East Midlands this morning from the Met Office, with temperatures only getting up to 3 degrees.

We met Karl Burdett and Andrew Warner at the depot; Karl drove gritters for years and now he's the Operations Supervisor at Leicestershire County Council, Andrew has been loading gritters there for 25 years: