No snow here in west Dorset 
last decent snow fall here was 1963/64 
Climbed out of my bedroom window onto the snow, front door was under the snow 
Tiger.
Fastrantiger:
No snow here in west Dorset
that would be when I was 5 or 6 years old and was living in Chessington (not the zoo !!) - I remember that snow - just
gogzy:
and this was 2 hours later when i went out to my car
whitewall tyres are so out as well gogzy!! 
it’s better when it snows overnight, people will stay at home. but when it snows in the day, they will drive home no matter what.
i love driving in it, it’s peacefull.
why the [zb] do they grit the roads? it’s pointless. just drive in a decent manner and it’s safe enough.
all they have to do is plow the thick bits. ok, i know it’s probably against the human rights act to plow bmw drivers.
There’s no business like snowbusiness…
Think I had better leave after that 
Tiger.
limeyphil:
i love driving in it, it’s peacefull.
Me too
why the [zb] do they grit the roads? it’s pointless. just drive in a decent manner and it’s safe enough.
That’s true. When it snows, and they put salt, it’s melts and you have this brown mud everywhere on the road. Then it freezes back, but this time into ice.
In Poland I always used to choose the B-class roads when it was snowing, as they weren’t gritting them - only plowing too much snow to the side. So you have hard, white snow on the road. I just love it 
And I had rear wheel driving car back then… 
my first call on friday morning.
my worst fear was sliding into the cars in the car park and being not able to anything about it 
the rest of the day was like the pic above, everything went fine until i came up the motorway and 1/4 mile from my junction i hit this
(o.k so for once the matix signs were telling the truth about a queue and i should of taken the junction before and avoided this but though the sign was just bluffing 
)
turned out a truck had jack-knifed and crashed through the central reservation 20 miles up the road and spilt glue all over the road
any got going and was about 4 miles from base and i hit this…
wondered what had gone on, and assumed someone else had tanked it round a corner and forgot they were in a 6x2 not a 6x4 
but turned out and i laughed
that white van you can see parked up in the distance was DAFaid, it had broke down had his bonnet up/hazards on and was half on the verge and half on the road on a corner, what a place to brake down i thought
i had a hell of a shift last night/'this morning
going straight on at a corner heading towards a house in port glasgow due to ice, was only doing 10mph
then leaving the port glasgow store i got halfway out the yard and got stuck…due to ice
then on the A818 towards helensburgh i got stuck on the same stretch of road godknows how many times, waited an hour for a gritter who dumped a load of grit at my drive axle.
3 hours to go from port glasgow to helensburgh. mayby 30 miles
gogzy:
3 hours to go from port glasgow to helensburgh. mayby 30 miles
25, although only 5 as the crow flies. Quicker swimming!
Roads were crap today up Wigan.
Landfill wasn’t much better either, but it was fun.
Blimey! you do well mate not to get stuck…no double drive!!
had great fun yesterday
livingston to ayr-4 hours.
and right now its about afoot deep outside.great fun
heres some pics and a video
I tried pressing the HQ button, but the music didnae get any better
I thought you Scot’s were more into Bouncy Techno
macplaxton:
I tried pressing the HQ button, but the music didnae get any better
try the mute button, its much better
Took this photo on the A505 at Royston on Friday, looked more like a country lane than a major road, had to wait while the tractor pulled the Fowler-Welch motor out the ditch, you can just make out the BBC cameraman on the hard shoulder, didn’t get featured on the news though 
Had 5 drops of tiles out of Marleys at beenham, St. Albans, Royston, Thetford , Braintree and Chelmsford, weren’t too bad just took it easy and didn’t really get stuck, had to keep dropping the trailer cos I couldn’t get on the sites as she was just spinning up all the time.
Best thing was when I finally tipped at Chelmsford, headed for home but expected to get stuck in the huge Friday jams at the dartford crossing, it was totally clear all the way through, never seen it so quiet
it’s not snow i have the problem with it’s the daytime thawing & nighttime re-freeze, thats the biggest problem , as said before i’m a farm delivery driver & the A roads for me have been pretty easy going but the side roads are frightening as there’s nothing being spread at all no salt no grit nothing , even more annoying is having a transport manager who hasn’t driven for 10 years saying , well we never had this problem years ago , you drivers are always complaining ! i fancy throwing the keys at him & telling me to show us how it’s done 
I hate the snow, nightmare when trying to get traction, just discovered two of my recently bought second hand 4x2’s don’t have diff locks either so zero traction. Who specs a truck without diff locks? (just in front of the man that doesn’t check diff locks are fitted to a second hand purchase!) shopping for snow chains now:
snow-chains.co.uk/product.as … deptid=295
snowchains.co.uk/main/index_ … chains.htm
You’d think the councils would have learned their lessons after last year, hope it won’t be as bad as that which I agree is nothing to Canada and that, just being prepared I suppose and used to driving in snow. with trucks it’s keeping momentum with a fine line of not putting it in a ditch… Our trucks in the UK get stuck on grass so we’ve no chance in the snow!! Nice 6x4 manual V8 with diff locks and snow chains, Santa XPress.