Spun round and came to a stop this morning at my delivery point, only to have the trailer pull me backwards downhill. Luckily didn’t hit anything and no damage. Never pressed a brake pedal so hard! 
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Yard must be on a nice slope, yet they still can’t be arsed to grit it either by hsnd pulled gritter or pay one of those private companies to do it.
Wonder what H&S would say if there had been a serious accident. They never heard of having a duty of care towards staff and visitors.
Glad you came out without damage.
I was watching one of thise private companies gritting the yard at B&Q Doncaster the other day. I swear you could physically count each grain of grit being dispensed as it was coming out that slowly 
Met a gritter tonight on the way home, estimate he was doing just about 50mph, not a wide road, two trucks meet you would just hug the verge and carry on, the gritter, most of the grit being sent into the hedges, very little landing on the road.
Judging from the rainbow on the front, thats a poor show from Sainsbugs. I would have expected better with all the H&S you get with supermarkets. All our yards are drenched in that white salt stuff from pretty much October to March
Fuzrat:
Judging from the rainbow on the front, thats a poor show from Sainsbugs. I would have expected better with all the H&S you get with supermarkets. All our yards are drenched in that white salt stuff from pretty much October to March
It’s not their land so they only grit the yard just past my trailer
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At least it wasnt as bad as this youtube.com/watch?v=9w4zH91HiKU&t=480s 
that’s where you went wrong, never touch the brakes when you sliding in winter.
bbez:
that’s where you went wrong, never touch the brakes when you sliding in winter.
What else could I have done? There’s a building directly behind me. I’d have ploughed straight through it
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Google cadence braking. May not have helped at all in this situation mate, but you never know.
I think his issue is that he stopped using all of his brakes, but once stopped and on the handbrake it started rolling back down the slope.
Most drivers who regularly drive/drove on ice carry/carried some sort of chock to quickly put under the nearest wheel after applying the handbrake. Austrian motors, in particular, were fitted with them as supplied new, there was a mounting for them on the rear wing
It was always a bit scary trying to walk & stay upright on ice and get the chock in place while the whole rig was slowly sliding downhill
It also helped that we could shut off air to the trailer, hand levers on the valves not allowed now.
It’s not something we normally think about, but with all wheels free to rotate, that puts a lot of responsibility on the drive axle brakes to hold a fully freighted vehicle on ice.
I never drive my car in snow. Ever.