CEREAL SPILLER
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The Hawk has eyes and ears everywhere, and this week news reached him of an incident which occurred on the Black Isle in Ross-shire. Although the services of a snow plough were enlisted, not a flake had fallen. The culprit was a 41-tonne Foden U10, which shed a third of its 25tonne load of mashed barley over a mile-long stretch of the A835 Mayburgh to Toro road. The truck, belonging to an independent haulier, was transporting the barley mixture, or draft from a whisky distillery in Muir of Ord. Unfortunately turbulence en route caused the semi-liquid load to burst the vehicle's back doors wide open, spurting a trail of gooey porridge liquid in its wake. The Highland council was quick to react, applying a liberal dash of salt to the mix. (What, no milk?) "We decided that a scattering of salt and grit was the best way to give vehicles some grip," says a spokesman for the council.