having had people try to overtake while ploughing snow , nothing surprises me
monarch of the highway:
This is what we have to put up with in this industry now complete bell ends with no brains to adjust there speed to thE conditions
I was on the a14 today Pretty foggy. You still had the loons on the limiter in the outside lane(wich is not just stupid but illegal as the speed limit is 50)
The trucks nowadays might drive like cars but they are not cars and will not stop on a sixpence slow down get there in one piece
+1 I use the A14 everyday and the driving standards don’t change with the weather sadly. 
Always expect the unexpected.
For once it seems ■■■■■■■ are half awake as most nights the main roads have been like driving on gravel there’s that much grit on them! Still gotta watch the side roads but most can prepare for that.
Do these winter tyres grip Ice then?
Came over Brough heading north one morning about 5am and the road was well salted and as I came past the roads depo. on the right just south of Brough I noticed the road glinting in the moonlight there was no salt great Im doing about 60 "pre limiter days"and its on top of the hill that loops down round Brough anything I could do was just keep lightly on the go pedal to try and keep the trailer straight, made it down but was I glad that was one of the worst frights I got in my career. Eddie.
d4c24a:
having had people try to overtake while ploughing snow , nothing surprises me
Done that in France about 15 years ago and got fined 
In my defence,it was a Saturday and i was trying to make Calais before 10 pm(which i did)
Hiall.Commonrail.Yes they do work depending on the quality and type of winter tyres.Up here we use either ‘studded’ or ‘friction’ tyres.Studded speak for themselves but ‘friction’ are made of very soft rubber with a small block pattern so when you brake on ice the tyre pattern goes from being like a closed fist to like a starfish as all the blocks open to give a much bigger area of grip and combined with the soft rubber gives amazing grip on ice.But be warned,for the best such as Hakkapellita you pay up to £200 per tyre.But as we all run on 2 sets of tyres,summer and winter you can still get 3-5 winters out of a set depending on your driving style.[boy racer or old sod].Mike
Ps.we’ve had ice from October,its now a fresh -24c 
ovy:
Phantom Mark:
By midnight I was at a much reduced pace, you could see blatantly on the A52 between Grantham and A17 there was no grit, ice in puddles at side of the road, A17 on the way home was well gritted tho.Agree I was on the a52 2am this morning the stretch between a46 and a1 was poorly gritted, amazingly one brave fellow went side by side artic to artic and over took me as I was sitting around 40 on a single carriage way in these conditions
Not all roads can be gritted but the major,high use and danger spots ect… Should be done IMO…
we were loading around the A52/A46 junction from 11 pm till 5 :30 n the roads were getting worse as the night went on 
I was on the A52 around 5:30 heading towards Grantham when I was overtook by a Volvo fm artic just after Bingham whilst there were two wagons approaching he was suicidal in my opinion then down @ Sedgebrook he overtook another artic whilst goin thru the bends
hutpik:
Hiall.Commonrail.Yes they do work depending on the quality and type of winter tyres.Up here we use either ‘studded’ or ‘friction’ tyres.Studded speak for themselves but ‘friction’ are made of very soft rubber with a small block pattern so when you brake on ice the tyre pattern goes from being like a closed fist to like a starfish as all the blocks open to give a much bigger area of grip and combined with the soft rubber gives amazing grip on ice.But be warned,for the best such as Hakkapellita you pay up to £200 per tyre.But as we all run on 2 sets of tyres,summer and winter you can still get 3-5 winters out of a set depending on your driving style.[boy racer or old sod].Mike
Ps.we’ve had ice from October,its now a fresh -24c
interesting stuff…i run rain tyres on my car,£140 a pop…but seeing as rain is our most common occurance,i thought they would make sense 
Hi Commonrail.As you say rain is more prevelant.It is difficult to find the right tyre for the conditions in Europe as they fluctuate so much.Its the same problem for trucks.Do you fit really good winter tyres for trips in the north and hope you don’t get a trip to southern Spain or Italy or do you fit a ‘compromise’ tyre and make do.
Up here its always sub zero so we can go with the ‘‘real’’ winter tyres.
On the Volvo FH660 4 axle rigid i sometimes drive outside the mine we have studded tyres on the steering and friction on the drive.The second steer can be lifted and the last axle is a lift axle.
Even with all this kit trucks still have problems so it is no wonder that people get so ■■■■■■ with the east European trucks that com up here with crap equipment because they are running on a shoestring. 
Mike