Thought i’d share a few pics of last monday on the A725 East Kilbride to the M74.
This is the service road leaving my 1st drop in East Kilbride around 10.30.
Now, do i go through town to my 2nd drop in Glasgow or do i use the main trunk roads? I’ll use the main road cos the gritters and ploughs will have looked after them eh? Errr… No.
Passing the Hamilton turn i come to this… Mr. Kipling making an exceedingly good road block
It took over an hour for that lot to get past and up the hill and then it was my turn. I hung back so i could have a run.
Got as much speed as i could, but as i got close to him the tracks sort of took me towards him, so had to ease off. I squeezed by but the lost momentum cost me dear and i failed to get up the hill. Got as far as those people near the top but just couldn’t do it. So i reversed back down to where i was and had another go. Again i couldn’t really gun it and again i failed. So i reversed back down and put the handbrake on. Let others have a go.
Rigids and cars could get up there but artics couldn’t. Not until much later, but i’d already booked off by then. The snow on top of the mirror is what fell in 3 hours. It kept snowing for another 2.
So i took some random pics
At 9 o’clock a 4 wheel drive shovel turned up and pulled Mr. Kipling and a Fowler Welch who had a go and got stuck up the hill. The road beyond the hill was blocked anyway due to the chaos on the M74 so it would’ve been pointless going up anyway. So me and a Stobart and a Pollock and Samworth stopped the night in lane 2.
I awoke at 6.30 the next morning by the sway produced by something going past. I cracked the curtains to find i’m on my own in lane 2 and everything is filing past in lane 1! Ah, time to go then. I got up the hill and picked my way round the abandoned cars and randomly parked trucks and headed for my 2nd drop. Took me over an hour after tiptoeing over the compact ice which was bloody lethal, and i got there nearly 22 hours after leaving the 1st.
Taken after my 2nd drop.
