What will the criteria be in order to qualify for Advance Standby?

• Vehicles carrying time-critical food or shellfish 

• Emergency response, medical and military vehicles 

• Customers with urgent medical appointments (excluding where NHS protocol applies) 

• Close family critical Illness, death or funerals 

• Urgent vet appointments 

• Vehicle bookings impacted by service disruption 

• CalMac operations: critical travel during incident management. 

• Hospitality - customers with confirmed accommodation bookings on the island (proof must be given) 

• Offshore workers returning home  

• Council response vehicle bookings - i.e., replacement/additional gritting vehicles (only in times of inclement weather) and landslip repairs, burials, social care requirements (emergency/urgent appointments) and education requirements (supply teachers travelling to and from school).