Don’t know what all the fuss was about on Friday?
I went from Canterbury - Bristol - Worcester - Bristol - Evesham.
The only time my wheels stopped moving was when i wanted them to…on a bay, fuelling up or parked for the night!
Saw one accident during that time…
One of the easiest days driving this year…especially the M5 bits, ok, only 2 lanes open, but road was no worse than a rainy day.
a lot of people stayed at home on friday,which helps alot.the biggest problem in this country is the fact that our roads are running at near maximum capacity during rush hour.
you only have to slow the traffic down a few mph,and gridlock ensues.
Bad snow day?
I find a lot of drivers, car and truck, are reluctant to drive in lane 2 of a dc when there is a snow covering, so lane 1 ends up being chocker and very slow, I obviously don’t mean on 6inches of snow or when it turns to ice 
, but on a thin dusting of snow whats the problem? Coming back up the A1 friday night I pulled out to lane 2, and got a lot of disapproving looks and shaking of heads, but after half a mile or so I looked in my mirror and had a line of traffic following me, it’s all about judging the conditions and situation on the day…AND you can tell yourself in your head, when bored, you’re an “Ice road trucker” 
i had a tip in mold and rudheath , then back over woodhead to worksop to load , back to newark , and the hardest thing was doing 50pmh on the a50 and slowing down for speedcameras
Don’t know a303 was very poor as there was no grit and people stoping at the bottom of the hills
Old Man Winter isn’t finished with us yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/21109995
I hit the M25 at the M40 on Friday about 17:15 and was flat out past Heathrow all the way back to Guildford. Weird for a friday.
Had the same Leeds to Donnie then down to Thamesport… Dartford crossing was clear at 18.00 unheard of… Back to Fxto sat morning home in Clacton by 9.00… Snowing heavily outside now lets see what tomorrow brings 
No pictures but I was out in the snow at 4am in the lorry, some interesting times…
Normally takes me 40 mins to get to Wells from Bristol in the lorry, 2 hours on Friday morning 
Then took nearly 20mins trying to get into customers yard.
Hit the M5 after following the slowest vehicles ever for just a little bit of snow on the Glastonbury road, then stayed in lane 2 pretty much all the way form Bridgewater to Exeter as everyone else was in lane 1 crawling along when there was no reason too. Conditions were not very bad, just like driving in rain really and most of the snow in Devon was just wet stuff unless you were on the high ground.
Up the M5 back to Bristol, hardly out of lane 2…
robroy:
I find a lot of drivers, car and truck, are reluctant to drive in lane 2 of a dc when there is a snow covering, so lane 1 ends up being chocker and very slow, I obviously don’t mean on 6inches of snow or when it turns to ice
I remember something very similar a few years back. I was heading up the A1 north bound, somewhere north of Newark with a load I’d brought up from Switzerland where I’d experienced some very severe snow compared to what was then currently taking place on the A1, a slight dusting like you say and all the cars where bunching up in lane one doing the usual game of braking and excellerating and most of the trucks, me including bombing down lane 2 on the limiter. Anyhow as times goes along some idiot in a car swerved out infront of me, put his brakes on so I had to emergancy brake and then shook his arm out of the window at me with a look of absolute anger on his face that I could see in his mirror. Now as the road was not slippery I was fine and braked without a problem, but it does beg the question, if he was under the impression that it was dangerously slippery, why the hell would he pull off such an idiotic manouver when by his own judgement of the situation would have seen me go in to the back of him and no doubt killed him and anyone else nearby.
robinhood_1984:
I remember something very similar a few years back. I was heading up the A1 north bound, somewhere north of Newark with a load I’d brought up from Switzerland where I’d experienced some very severe snow compared to what was then currently taking place on the A1, a slight dusting like you say and all the cars where bunching up in lane one doing the usual game of braking and excellerating and most of the trucks, me including bombing down lane 2 on the limiter. Anyhow as times goes along some idiot in a car swerved out infront of me, put his brakes on so I had to emergancy brake and then shook his arm out of the window at me with a look of absolute anger on his face that I could see in his mirror. Now as the road was not slippery I was fine and braked without a problem, but it does beg the question, if he was under the impression that it was dangerously slippery, why the hell would he pull off such an idiotic manouver when by his own judgement of the situation would have seen me go in to the back of him and no doubt killed him and anyone else nearby.
Self-appointed Traffic Police who wasn’t half as clever as he thought he was, absolute ■■■■■■ of the highest degree
DonutUK:
Don’t know what all the fuss was about on Friday?I went from Canterbury - Bristol - Worcester - Bristol - Evesham.
The only time my wheels stopped moving was when i wanted them to…on a bay, fuelling up or parked for the night!
Saw one accident during that time…
One of the easiest days driving this year…especially the M5 bits, ok, only 2 lanes open, but road was no worse than a rainy day.
Was that the Boxter on the M4 Westbound? I passed it the other side.
friday on the A50 between stoke and uttoexter had 5 accidents 4 on westbound and a fed ex on eastbound, took me 6 hours to get from runcorn to kings lynn, mainly due to over cautious drivers.
tonight between toddington and crick turnoff on M1 there was 3 accidents. either drivers being too careful or not careful enough
robroy:
robinhood_1984:
I remember something very similar a few years back. I was heading up the A1 north bound, somewhere north of Newark with a load I’d brought up from Switzerland where I’d experienced some very severe snow compared to what was then currently taking place on the A1, a slight dusting like you say and all the cars where bunching up in lane one doing the usual game of braking and excellerating and most of the trucks, me including bombing down lane 2 on the limiter. Anyhow as times goes along some idiot in a car swerved out infront of me, put his brakes on so I had to emergancy brake and then shook his arm out of the window at me with a look of absolute anger on his face that I could see in his mirror. Now as the road was not slippery I was fine and braked without a problem, but it does beg the question, if he was under the impression that it was dangerously slippery, why the hell would he pull off such an idiotic manouver when by his own judgement of the situation would have seen me go in to the back of him and no doubt killed him and anyone else nearby.Self-appointed Traffic Police who wasn’t half as clever as he thought he was, absolute [zb] of the highest degree
had the same thing friday night.
did basildon, to coventry and back. left at 530pm and the m25 was nice and quiet.
m1 pretty good, apart from 14-15 with a couple of minor shunts, m6 was ok aswell.
roads pretty clear, but some of the divs on them were a disgrace.
coming back, on the m6, i pulled into lane 2 to overtake a tesco wagon, lane 1 and 2 clear, lane 3 a very minor covering of snow.
a focus caught me, pulled into lane 3, then half way through passing me his bottle seemed to go.
so now he is flashing his lights and beeping the horn
but he just stayed there next to me, could have stuck his toe down and got by easily, or backed off and dropped in behind.
i was doing 56, tesco about 52, so it didn’t take long to get around the tesco wagon.
when i got back into lane 1, the focus tore by, pulled into lane 1 and started dabbing his brakes
muppet, i just ignored it.
Snow 
we’ve had SNOW must have missed that then 
Is it me, or are people actually paying heed to the usual instruction given out “Is your journey really necassary?”
More are taking it to heart, judging by the lack of not only traffic, but 4x4 traffic to boot!
I thought this kind of weather was what people brought the damned things for in the first place?
…Unless of course it’s merely a willy extension. That includes the ones driven by girls as well! 
It realy does my head in …dithering drivers for wot ammounts to a bit of snow ! never stopped me from going anywhere in a car or truck…and the only four wheel drive i ever owned was an Audi …even our school is closed up the road so my little ones at home…namby pamby society we live in now , bugger me it never stopped us getting to school 2 miles away ! not up the bloody street ! differant breed back then we didnt ■■■■ our selfs when we got a couple of inches of snow… 
Not really much you can do if all the traffic slows down and both lanes are slow … I bet alot of the people on here that are giving it the whole “i was flat out in the snow, look at me i can drive”, are the same people that ■■■■ about on singles doing 40!
I bet the bloke standing in the fast lane of the m1 near tibby services,with his car pointing the wrong way…minus it’s front lights(due to the fact he’s wiped the front end off),wished he’s gone a bit slower.