With steves scottish post being so popular i stuck the camera on to record as i cut across the A889 from Laggan to Dalwhinnie last friday at 5pm to get back on the A9 to go south, you can see the landscape change as you come out of the valley at Laggan and rise up through the snow gates to the top of the hill at the back of Dalwhinnie where i stopped to let the traffic pass, might be of interest to the poor folk on here who spend there working life on a motorway , it may seem a bit lethargic in places but i had 27 ton of sawn timber on the back ( ignore the quality in the first few seconds it gets better)
Anyway
Gis a job 
Cracking vid mate and s cracking choice of music. There is not many finer on a guitar than Mark Knopfler 
Im up there every week so you tend to forget how nice it actually is
looks good ///about as many other vehicles as I see at the highways job I’m on in well rural prairie Canada… school bus and a few locals in the morning and then in the late afternoon. lol …still 2 convoy trucks and full stop /go men full signage. aye miss the auld country when I see videos like this 
Most of us would give our back teeth to drive on roads like that, thanks for sharing
Can we have another video, but in landscape mode…■■
Imagine the views then?
Luvverly. Great music too.
heres the donegal equivelent…at least when theres crashes they tend to be slaughtered as the normal is to come out the pub bladdered,no taxi,no public transport,yur too drunk to walk,so 8 int a passat or similar,and rally the thing home…once its in the field and theyve all ran away,they dont mess about with recovery trucks when theres a good tractor handy. 
Quality!!
You should do another one and back it with Knopflers track about the Albion. He was brought up in Scotstoun , Glasgow, close to Albion Motors works, and wrote a song about them. One of the lines goes “six speed and lever,she needs the heel and toe”
Reckon you’d get a few blank looks from today’s charioteer with that one!
Twoninety88:
Most of us would give our back teeth to drive on roads like that, thanks for sharing
I know what you mean but spot the pot-hole!
global.
Glad you liked it, really is stunning this time of year
chaversdad:
Glad you liked it, really is stunning this time of year
Good vid.
My job’s stunning all year round, trundling about the country-bumpkin back roads of anywhere between Lancaster and Stranraer.
I go into the Lakes, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, etc., open my butty box and think, “I’m getting paid for this”.
Just a shame that I’ve got an “Eastie-Beastie” planner who’s ■■■■■■■ the job right up. 
I’d walk tomorrow, but these people will not win.
chaversdad:
With steves scottish post being so popular i stuck the camera on to record as i cut across the A889 from Laggan to Dalwhinnie last friday at 5pm to get back on the A9 to go south, you can see the landscape change as you come out of the valley at Laggan and rise up through the snow gates to the top of the hill at the back of Dalwhinnie where i stopped to let the traffic pass, might be of interest to the poor folk on here who spend there working life on a motorway , it may seem a bit lethargic in places but i had 27 ton of sawn timber on the back ( ignore the quality in the first few seconds it gets better)
Anyway
Hi, thanks for posting the great video, you have shown all the nice stuff about driving on the A86-A889-A9 I will now give the down side ( I think I am qualified to do this after living up that end of the country for the first 45 years of my life and driving hgv to all the distillerys in Scotland for twenty years, although the Laggen road has improved over the years it is still scary when you meet the tourist with his caravan using the whole of the road then you have the wood tinks who drive as if they own the road and use there metal plated mirrors to bully you on to the verge, and as said by another driver the Glenffinan road to Malaig is a bit of a challenge to say the least, as for the winter when the snow comes you have to carry lots of supplies as when you get stuck in the snow you can be left for a LONG time before you can get rescued, I have loaded Ben Nevis distillery on a Friday and not been able to get back home until the Sunday because of snow, and anyone who knows Fort William knows there is not much to do there in the winter,it’s not unusual to be -18 at night so the night heater is on all the time, then when any of these roads close summer or winter then it’s never a short detour, I moved to Yorkshire 5 years ago and have never looked back, the only down side is the M62 belt but once you are off that you are in some wonderful country side, then you have all the great city’s, York, Leeds, Doncaster, it took me a 45 minute drive on a good day to get to the nearest supermarket before I moved here.
Now after all that doom and gloom it was really nice of you to post the video and I wish you all the best.
This road was once voted the most dangerous road in britain, apparently twice as dangerous as any other road in the UK
The A889 has almost double the accident rate of the next most dangerous road, the A537 from Macclesfield to Buxton.
theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb … port.world
I used to drive that road all the time, up the A9 and across to Spean Bridge then onto to Malaig, fantastic drive but could be a bit of an endurance test some days, (especially before all the improvements in the late 90s) never seen any prangs on the A889 but seen some bad ones on the bit between Laggan & Spean Bridge. Just one of those mad roads that is too wide to be a single track but not really wide enough for a car and wagon to pass with comfort. I remember they removed the centeral white lines from in once to try and improve matters.
I run this route a week ago on Holiday and pulled in to the layby shown at 3 mins 39 seconds. The amount of rubbish thrown out into the field beside is a disgrace to be honest and a real shame that some folk don’t appreciate what this country offers us.
It is nice up there had to get the train to Dalwhinnie couple years back as was going up to Fort William where my x used to live ( now in South Carolina ) couldn’t drive due to my accident so was driven the weather was lovely then as well
danch4:
chaversdad:
With steves scottish post being so popular i stuck the camera on to record as i cut across the A889 from Laggan to Dalwhinnie last friday at 5pm to get back on the A9 to go south, you can see the landscape change as you come out of the valley at Laggan and rise up through the snow gates to the top of the hill at the back of Dalwhinnie where i stopped to let the traffic pass, might be of interest to the poor folk on here who spend there working life on a motorway , it may seem a bit lethargic in places but i had 27 ton of sawn timber on the back ( ignore the quality in the first few seconds it gets better)
AnywayHi, thanks for posting the great video, you have shown all the nice stuff about driving on the A86-A889-A9 I will now give the down side ( I think I am qualified to do this after living up that end of the country for the first 45 years of my life and driving hgv to all the distillerys in Scotland for twenty years, although the Laggen road has improved over the years it is still scary when you meet the tourist with his caravan using the whole of the road then you have the wood tinks who drive as if they own the road and use there metal plated mirrors to bully you on to the verge, and as said by another driver the Glenffinan road to Malaig is a bit of a challenge to say the least, as for the winter when the snow comes you have to carry lots of supplies as when you get stuck in the snow you can be left for a LONG time before you can get rescued, I have loaded Ben Nevis distillery on a Friday and not been able to get back home until the Sunday because of snow, and anyone who knows Fort William knows there is not much to do there in the winter,it’s not unusual to be -18 at night so the night heater is on all the time, then when any of these roads close summer or winter then it’s never a short detour, I moved to Yorkshire 5 years ago and have never looked back, the only down side is the M62 belt but once you are off that you are in some wonderful country side, then you have all the great city’s, York, Leeds, Doncaster, it took me a 45 minute drive on a good day to get to the nearest supermarket before I moved here.
Now after all that doom and gloom it was really nice of you to post the video and I wish you all the best.
I only really it posted it to show the difference in traffic volumes at 5 on a friday between the north and the south , the scenery was just bonus, for what its worth i actually prefer the road in the winter, bloody camper van drivers who think there vans are 15ft wide do my head in this time of year
Excellent video!
The first thing that came into my mind was the opening scene to The Italian Job, the sound of Matt Monroe with ‘On days like this’ would of been a suitable soundtrack but Mark Knopfler is equally as good.