As usual in the UK we get a touch of Winter weather and all hell breaks loose, I traveled 70 miles from the East side of the Pennines to the West side and you could see the difference in the regions I went through.
My region appear to have given up and gone home for the Winter, Derby have gritted most major roads well and Staffordshire (A50 through to Stoke) was gritted perfectly.
The issues seemed to be once you left the major roads, anything less than a main arterial road was left to fend for itself and certainly at my side of the country anything less than the motorway was left in a "rurual" state.
Over the course of a week I've not seen one single gritter out or anything clearing the roads - the councils will make all sorts of excuses but there's always only one reason they won't do anything ..... Cost.
It's far easier to stall for as long as possible then like the years before they will bring the gritters out once the weather forecast is for a thaw, I laughed as they gritted the already melting roads once and they announced on the radio that they didn't grit due to the risk of the grit being covered by fresh snow or the ice re-freezing, remember those "idiots" your trying to fool on the radio will have a casting vote next polling day.
I've even seen it where they blamed the issues on the wrong type of grit, it's not hard guys, you get some grit, pop it in a gritter and throw it on the roads. When they did that I counted 7 cars that had slid into ditches in a 4 mile stretch of road, the council blamed the wrong grit, I blame the idiot who was in charge of it ?
The best excuse this year has been the buses decided it was too slippery to go out (despite the fact the bus lanes are supposed to be gritted), so the buses didn't run, because of that the gritters didn't seem to bother so no one won and the process repeated.
Anyway, if you see one of these yellow lorries be sure to stop it and ask the driver if he's lost.
If he asks why, tell him that he surely shouldn't be on the roads as he's obviously the last of his kind and should anything happen to him then they will be extinct.
I may help to advise him that he's obviously wasting his time as if the council risk assessment team have deemed it safe enough to send him out then the snow will most likely melt in 24 hours anyway. I suspect he will have a full escort complete with ambulance and overhead helicopter anyway in case he gets into difficulty, lest he sues the council for sending him out in slightly wintery weather.
I would probably stick two fingers at him then, pop a nice raspberry at him and wish him a "Happy fucking Christmas for bothering at all", maybe the councils will realize one day or maybe I'll skid on a bend and land my car in the reception of the local council ? I'll be sure to use my emergency window hammer to break a side window and call them a bunch of pen pushing clowns before the Fire Brigade cut me out.
Happy fucking Christmas you slack arse overpaid, overbearing, risk assesment idiots - except Derby and Staffs Council who gritted their roads to the point where you could actually use them safely.
Maybe Nottingham and Ashfield council will read this, maybe not - do I care ? Nope, as they will be far too busy performing risk assessment on their toilet paper in case it causes sore arses.
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