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HGVs left in the cold despite HA full alert

5th February 2004
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LAST WEEK'S COLD snap led to chaos throughout the UK as snow and ice conspired to make roads almost impassable, despite the Highways Agency's promise that it was on "full alert-.

Even with 700 gritters and snowploughs working round the clock to keep motorways and trunk roads open, using six times the usual quantity of salt, many truck drivers were forced to spend the night on motorway hard shoulders.

North and north-east Scotland were particularly badly affected and snowploughs were out in force, even attempting to clear the infamous A939 CockbridgeTomintoul road always one of the first to be blocked (see picture).

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Organisations: Highways Agency

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