Alloa has been an industrial town for centuries, and glass container manufacturing is still carried on beside the Forth. To the west, around Cambus and Blackgrange, are extensive whisky maturation warehouses and associated cooperage and bottling activity, all of which generate regular lorry movements on the A907.
Access improved markedly when the Clackmannanshire Bridge opened, giving a direct route over the Forth towards the M876 and M9, and the railway to Stirling was reopened around the same time. Since then housing has expanded on the edges of Alloa, Sauchie and Tullibody. Sweeping work reflects all of this: factory and warehouse estates, development sites, and road maintenance.
Coverage in Alloa and Clackmannanshire
Sauchie, Tullibody, Cambus, Clackmannan and Kincardine are covered with Alloa, as are the Hillfoots towns of Menstrie, Alva, Tillicoultry and Dollar along the A91. Clackmannanshire is compact and close to Stirling and Falkirk, so operators serving those areas usually cover it, depending on their workload at the time.