Ardchatton Community Council serves an area on the north shore of Loch Etive, reached by a narrow and winding single-track road between Bonawe Quarry and the main A82 road from Glasgow through Argyll to Fort William and Inverness. It is putting serious local concerns to Ennstone Thistle, operators of the historic Bonawe Quarry and to other companies using the quarry.

Residents have been made anxious by erratic lorry driving on this dangerous road and by the drivers’ habit of using their mobile phones while driving the route.

Ennstone Thistle says that the volume of traffic using the road has reduced significantly over the past two years and that it has installed additional passing bays on the road.

Iain MacDonald, Chair of Ardchattan Community Council defends Ennstone Thistle drivers, saying they are: ‘hugely professional and immensely courteous’ and says squarely that the problems lie with drivers from other companies coming to collect aggregates from the quarry. He is to contact all companies using the quarry to ask that they all adopt a single code of responsible practice on this road.