They have just given this number out on BBC for anyone stuck in the area.
Its Strathclyde Police.
0141 732 7000
Good luck and stay safe up there.
gogzy:
fun times for everyone 2moro
Looks like you’re going to need a pair of thermals under your kilt for the next few days G 
dukeofdirt:
Last week I’m sure switchlogic had to use the hard shoulder on the 25 for his 9 off need to be done for 7 too, no chance at this rate! Not seen a copper all day either been in it since half 9 this Mornin!
I did indeed, was 10 hours by the time I bothered to get up. As many of you know I drive an Irish truck so VOSA like persecuting us. I got a £200 fine from them in Kent last month for the sake of 15 minutes last month so sod them I’m stopping on hard shoulder. At least if Police move me they can sign the printout. The authorities over zealous policing of the rules is causing more problems than it solves. I see more and more people taking 45 mins on hard shoulders after traffic now. I for one won’t be taking any chances from now on, and if that means a rest on the hard shoulder because the Highways Agency have ballsed up so be it.
nickb67:
newmercman:
DaiDap:
There’s a Samworth driver here too who’s getting nervous cos we’re all eyeing his trailerGallows humour at it’s best
gogzy:
fun times for everyone 2moroApart from said bloke who’s gonna have to explain why he’s woken up already tipped!
I was only joking. Besides, he had a mean padlock. 
There were 4 of us spent the night in lane 2 of the A725. I woke up at 6.30 by the sway of something going past. I pulled the curtains to find that i’m on my own and traffic is filing past in lane 1. Ah, time to move then.
From there down to the M74 it was an obstacle course picking your way around abandoned cars and truckers who like me had parked where they stood last night. The M74 was just lined with cars and trucks on the hard shoulder. Hundreds of em.
I’ve just got to my 2nd drop in Glasgow 22hrs after i left the 1st in East Kilbride.
Last week in France we were parked up because of snow and no sooner had we parked up than the French Red Cross turned up with a small packet of sandwiches and biscuits followed by the Gendarmes with a container of coffee who actually returned next morning with more coffee before we were able to move on,on a road that had been cleared overnight.You guys parked up in Scotland what has the Scottish Red Cross brought you for your breakfast??
Is there a Scottish Red Cross?
I think that answers your question.
switchlogic:
dukeofdirt:
Last week I’m sure switchlogic had to use the hard shoulder on the 25 for his 9 off need to be done for 7 too, no chance at this rate! Not seen a copper all day either been in it since half 9 this Mornin!I did indeed, was 10 hours by the time I bothered to get up. As many of you know I drive an Irish truck so VOSA like persecuting us. I got a £200 fine from them in Kent last month for the sake of 15 minutes last month so sod them I’m stopping on hard shoulder. At least if Police move me they can sign the printout. The authorities over zealous policing of the rules is causing more problems than it solves. I see more and more people taking 45 mins on hard shoulders after traffic now. I for one won’t be taking any chances from now on, and if that means a rest on the hard shoulder because the Highways Agency have ballsed up so be it.
Don’t blame you one bit mate. I couldnt even get to the hard shoulder lane 2 moved at about 1 mph for a couple of hours lane 1 was total gridlock!! By the time I cleared the traffic the hard shoulder was about a foot deep in snow there’s no way I would of got off it in the morning so I just thought balls to it and cracked on to cairn lodge. 9 and a half hours drive. 17.5 hour shift 
this is getting 2 mins at most on sky 
. if this was down south the softie brigade would be going mad 
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, thank god I’m done! It was bad enough driving for a living in this weather blowed if I’m going to now I don’t have to!
Good luck guys, just make sure you get through to Morrisons or Lidl’s in Felixstowe for supplies, you know the necessities of life, tea, milk, porridge, bread etc, and I don’t even care if Stobarts (spit, spit) deliver the stuff.
newmercman:
gogzy:
fun times for everyone 2moroLooks like you’re going to need a pair of thermals under your kilt for the next few days G
nah ill just stay in bed 
the m8 is still a car park, aint open between edinburgh/harthill j1-j5
3 hours to get from dunfermline to bathgate only to be told to go home lol
now im off to asda to do some shopping lol
gogzy:
newmercman:
gogzy:
fun times for everyone 2moroLooks like you’re going to need a pair of thermals under your kilt for the next few days G
nah ill just stay in bed
the m8 is still a car park, aint open between edinburgh/harthill j1-j5
3 hours to get from dunfermline to bathgate only to be told to go home lol
now im off to asda to do some shopping lol
Gogzy - get some beers from asda and bring em down the M8 for us will ya?
Dying for a beer
Thought you scots could drive in the snow? Lmao
west bound m8 still closed just been on sky hoping to open it for rush hour dont think there will be any -7 now was -15 this morning grit wont shift it
Stuck on the M80 for 8hrs ran out of time and abandoned it in stirling town centre for 9hrs, woke up spent 2 hrs digging 
Then drove up to callender cut across took the A81 back to glasgow, all the motorways where closed so i had to think outside the box. That road is a bit wild in the pitch dark with ice
Never in my life have i seen anything like it, that wasn’t normal snow or minus -15 that was end of days ■■■■!!!
Ive got a few pics i’ll get upload, trucks for a far as the eye could see.
m8 westbound will be re mane closed tonight unitil morning they can not get rid of the ice . bbc news
Fun and games
Last few pics is the police reversing trucks down the wrong way of a onslip, if i had benny hill music i would have been in tears
how are things now? im starting work in bellshill at half 7 tonight, possibly going to aberdeen
scanny77:
how are things now? im starting work in bellshill at half 7 tonight, possibly going to aberdeen
South of Perth the roads are murder but just about passible, north of perth they are fine still icey but fine. Roundabout the bellshill area where i have just came from is chaos especially in the righead
im driving for nampak over the other side past MAN. it was bad enough on sunday night so i really am dreading tonight, especially the A80 which the news is reporting as one of the worst places but there is no real alternative from falkirk. cheers for the info
On BBC news specialists are putting ‘‘a large part of the blame’’ on hauliers for chaos due to jackknifes
Heard it all now
End of days weather, forecast of 1-3 centimetres of snow which turned out to be a foot , diddies in charge of our transport system no go a large part to play in this
I sick and tired of listening to this transport minister, id love to smash his ■■■■ in. ‘‘we’ll learn lessons’’ same old pish ya prick!