Thrush

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I am

Got a little slope/hill leading out of the estate to the main road and it's not been gritted, and I'm fucked if I can get up it! I've tried 1st, 2nd, even 3rd (stalled), letting air out the tyre, no throttle at all, yet it pulls for about a foot and then just sits there spinning

Course, the boss thinks I'm milking it

cossie04

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Exactly the same here m8. Can`t even get out of my own cul de sac

S1 Combi

Well our road hasnt been gritted but have seen people going up and down so should be ok,i havnt gotta go to work anyway though so not to bothered

Coldo

Not tried yet.

Got a hill at the end of our road, the gritter doesnt go down it, or on our road so its usually fun.

Sometimes an old biddy who lives on it does get out with the grit though but not always. Fingers crossed.

Ed1

I tied a bum board to the back of my dad disco and got towed to work

Luca

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Big tin of de-icer will sort it!

Brian

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We live on a hill and our drive slopes a bit, might get off (not tried) but dont think i will get back on the drive

Last year i had to leave my work van down the bottom of the hill and walk home


Brian

5t1g

My boss came and got me

Ed1

PMSL, what a fucker that is

5t1g

I know, now i have to sit here and feel my bum grow

Was suppose to go up to southwark today but thats not happening and there isn't much more to do.

wirralphil

My neighbour had alot of ice on her drive way a few years ago, an due to her husband coming home from work she wanted to get rid of the ice.

She come out and started sprinkling Saxa Salt on the drive, we were in stitches laughin. After wasting 2 packets it still hadn't defrosted

Mrs T

we havent got any snow and its sunny

SelbyRST

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im stuck in traffic on way to london if that counts! Hope its not like this for the rest of the 160miles!

cossie4i+

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Not been to work yet

Hope i get home tonight

Steve

Glenn_

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I work for the royal mail i repair the vans.I got called out this afternoon to a van cause he couldnt get up a hill.I had to dig the snow and i made to tracks so that the van could get grip on the road.I got the tranny out then my van got stuck.I did the same to that too.

Big G

Southern pansies

Left our house at 3 this morning to go to work, snowy and icey as fook as the gritters aint been out yet Picked the wagon up and twatted it up to Newcastle and back,
Cant understand why the country comes to a stop for abit of snow Not like we aint had it before is it?

D16PJM

i live in kent and work in essex, was slippery at 6 this morning but great fun.

dakar

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Had my transit stuck twice today in north yorkshire,not the snow thats the pain its when its compacted

tabetha

I took 20 minutes of wheelspin in a front automatic wheel drive car getting up the hill at the end of Scarborough seafront going to Cayton, every single car passed me without problem, seems fwd and auto not a good mix on 50 series tyres!
tabetha

Thrush

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It's ridiculous isn't it - it snows more or less every year but as soon as a few mm hit the floor, the country goes nuts! Watching the news this morning there's airports shut, people sleeping in cars overnight, people abandoning cars - pandemonium!

To be fair (to me), this is the first time in YEARS I've got stuck. Last year (or was is Jan this year?) when we had the really deep snow, I still got to work no problem - too a little longer but I made it. This year we had half as much snow and I was beached! I blame all the tosspots who sit there revving the nuts off the car spinning the wheels, which compacts and smooths the snow into ice, making my hill/slope a glacier

When I was standing outside about 9 talking to the neighbour, two women were sitting there going nowhere with speedo's reading about 50mph! One of em was bouncing her Megane off the rev limiter so hard and for so long I thought she was gonna pop the valve springs right out the top of the head! The other, in a Galaxy, was just flooring it so much it was billowing smoke off the tyres and out the zorst - even after we told her to put it in second and clutch it out!

And to top it all off a 20yr old Land Rover Defender come sailing past with minimal effort thanks to it's 4WD and proper chunky tyres

I got out just before 12 after the council turned up in a Transit and two guys chucking grit and salt out of it. Then laughed as it got stuck aswell

Parked up the top of the hill on the main road tonight, just incase!

Rossco

Not had a problem, got where ive needed to get to, had to do a U turn on the A12 last night as loads of muppets had got stuck on the hill.

Not sure if its the cars or the drivers that are the problem.

Defently RWD is not the way to go in weather like this.

kosman

been out in the wagon in it past two days,i couldnt get out of services on a slight hill this morning,ad to back back down and have a run up,im glad my last load got cancelled because it took me 1hr to get up the yard to park up

but i still wailed it from immingham to rugby and back to sheffield no myther.

DanRSturbo

Mrs went out for her xmas do, re-arranged her taxi to pick them up at 11, quater past and no cab so she bells them and get's told "sorry love, we're struggling to get cars out and about, your best off making your own way home" so I get's me mum round at midnight to look after the nipper and set's off in our diesel c-max and fuck me what a mission. For a simple 15 min round trip it took me an hour and a half. Kent Police shut the 2 main routes to the M2 and put Maidstone in a total gridlock. Half the problem is people making such hard work driving normall that they were fucking useless last night My boss couldn't get to work this morning and after a long chat he said best I stay indoors and I get paid for it. To be fair tho, one of my old engineers left Ashford in Kent and 7am and didn't get home till 2pm and that was a 40 mile round trip

Paulo P

I live at the top of a bloody big hill so there was no chance of me getting out this morning To leave mine I have to drive uphill (that hasn't been gritted) then down a very steep hill that also hasn't been gritted It's daft because it cuts off a huge part of the area and the A40 is within sight

I worked from home today instead.

St3V3_C

Put the Disco battery on charge tonight as I have not used the truck fora while.

Might need to soon though It was good in the snow last time.

fraser9764

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ive not seen any snow
had little bit of ice, i stupidly washed the van windows at the lights about 4 today and had to lean out of the window with a tin of deicer

gus

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my ford ranger has been earning its money today

i pulled a 40tonne lorry out, was empty and just spining its wheels. a little pull and it managed to free itself again

pulled a neighbours car up a hill and just generally the old bus got me to where ever i wanted to go