Truck hero braves blizzard
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• Helping a coachload of school children, a man needing insulin and a woman with a baby was all in a day's work for transport manager Paul Grantham during last week's blizzards.
Grantham, who works for Sheffield-based general haulier Hambleton Bard International, set out to help more than 150 people stranded in a freak snow storm in South Yorkshire.
He was one of dozens of truck drivers stuck overnight on the A616 near Langsett after three feet of snow fell there last Wednesday (25 January). Grantham helped arrange for motorists to share cabs with truck drivers; the coachload of children to stay in a local hostelry; women to stay at a nearby pub and for police to take away the woman with the baby and the man needing insulin.
Grantham believes that if he, with the help of 45 other truck drivers, had not stepped in it could have been a life threatening situation: "Left to the authorities it would have been a complete shambles," he says.