14-02-2013, 11:46 AM
we had a slight dusting yesterday. today blue sky and its all clear.
when we had it bad a few weeks ago, i had to go out with one of the home shopping drivers. some of the estates were really bad further in land. With the vans been autos, they are well crap. we had to go thru an estate that was down a hill to drop shopping off. on the way back we had to go up the hill. surely enough the van got stuck. we jumped out to try and get some salt down and dig a track. the frighting thing was that the van started to slide down hill! all four wheels were locked too! the driver had to jump back in for extra weight.
after we got out of that one, we were ok, but as soon as we hit gateshead area, the snow was boot deep!
we went thru an estate that was cleared from the enterance. but further in it was like a f*cking ice ring!
managed to deliver the customers shopping, have a quick brew. on route out tho, the van decided to kick the backend out . that sent us on the path of a parked C1 and mini bus. driver managed to get the back in only just clipping the wing mirror of the car and stopping with in a foot of the mini bus.
driver was a bag of nervous after that.
there was hell on about that in work, as the company wouldnt pull the deliverys. plus they wouldnt buy snow chains.
when we had it bad a few weeks ago, i had to go out with one of the home shopping drivers. some of the estates were really bad further in land. With the vans been autos, they are well crap. we had to go thru an estate that was down a hill to drop shopping off. on the way back we had to go up the hill. surely enough the van got stuck. we jumped out to try and get some salt down and dig a track. the frighting thing was that the van started to slide down hill! all four wheels were locked too! the driver had to jump back in for extra weight.
after we got out of that one, we were ok, but as soon as we hit gateshead area, the snow was boot deep!
we went thru an estate that was cleared from the enterance. but further in it was like a f*cking ice ring!
managed to deliver the customers shopping, have a quick brew. on route out tho, the van decided to kick the backend out . that sent us on the path of a parked C1 and mini bus. driver managed to get the back in only just clipping the wing mirror of the car and stopping with in a foot of the mini bus.
driver was a bag of nervous after that.
there was hell on about that in work, as the company wouldnt pull the deliverys. plus they wouldnt buy snow chains.