Scotland TranServ, in conjunction with Transport Scotland, is launching a Road Worker Safety campaign, asking South West Scotland’s drivers to help stamp out the shocking levels of abuse suffered by our operatives as they work to maintain the region’s trunk roads.

The staggering statistics reveal:

• 77% of our road workers had been verbally abused
• 43% of our road workers have had missiles thrown at them
• 17% of our road workers had been physically abused, and
• 15% of our road workers had received an injury as a result of an incident

Andy Fraser, Scotland TranServ’s Operating Company Representative said:

“More than two-thirds of our employees work on the trunk roads in the south west of Scotland every day. Their accounts of dangerous driving and the missiles thrown at them are concerning. Our operatives are real people, with real lives and real families; families who want their partners and parents to come home safely at the end of the working day.”

The campaign has been created to highlight the unsafe, reckless and anti-social behaviour of some road users which is putting workers lives at risk as well as the abuse that the teams experience from passing motorists on a daily basis.

It comes on the back of a survey among trunk road operating company employees across Scotland, including Scotland TranServ, BEAR Scotland and AMEY into the levels of unsafe driver behaviour and abuse that teams have experienced in the past year.