Your right, it’s not like there any differences in weight/size/tyres between a family car and a service bus.

They are exactly the same, so they should perform exactly the same right ? 😐

I’m quite competent in the snow after 13 years living the alps.

I just don’t get the comparison that’s all.

Coaches and buses handle snow far better than cars in my experience.

Are you saying that glupton1976 is in fact a previous member called something else? Why is he posting under a different name? Did he forget his log-in and have to start from scratch? It happens you know. I remember being utterly stoned out of my nut walking down a road in canterbury and for a good while I completely forgot who I was, where I was and why I was there. Quite disconcerting. But liberating too.

I spent today driving a 26 ton, rigid scania truck in the snow.
It’s very similar in size, weight, tyres etc, to a bus.
I’d much rather have been in a car. 🙂

I love the whole Canada v Britain thing. In that it is complete bollocks. I was in Vancouver 4 years ago. They had snow. The airport and city were in chaos. Because Vancouver like the UK, only ever gets bleedin rain. A bit of snow and they’re screwed.

I have a photo like that Canada one from many moons ago taken on the top of the Applecross Bealach when my dad took his lorry over.
The walls were 17 foot high 🙂

It was the host city. The nearest event to Van was the snowboarding on Cypress. Which is fairly elevated from Van. And AFAIR, even that was struggling for snow around the time. Whistler, where most of the alpine events took place, is a few hours from Van.

Still a strange choice to host a Winter Olympics.

Can you imagine the conversation.

“Where in Canada shall we choose to host the Winter Olympics”

“Hey why not Vancouver, its Canada’s Warmest City !”

Neither did Albertville.

Meanwhile.

I was in Oslo a few years ago, first day of snow that winter and it was chaos.

The guys I worked with said that was normal and usually caused by folk who hadn’t put winter tyres on yet…

Are either Torino or Albertville the warmest city in the Country ? 😉

Someone’s getting desperate.

Why are those Canadians up there driving on the wrong side of the road?

Driving in the snow could be worse…

As usual, Russia.

I should emphasise, no-one was hurt.

Yeah we’re 5hit at handling snow, mainly down to the fact that we don’t get any with any regularity.

Where we ski in the States has unsurprisingly got things down to a fine art. The local gardening and builder type firms stick blades on the front of their pickups and plough peoples drives, car parks and so on. The main roads are ploughed and gritted clear within a couple of hours of snow, so much so that we’ve driven to hills in the morning in 6 inches of snow to find the roads DRY come the end of the day.

Of course this is totally down to the fact that they regularly get the weather and have the kit to deal with it.

Two years ago when we were there, the southern states (the Carolinas, Georgia etc) got hit by freak snow and it was utter chaos for them. The northerners were p!ssing themselves laughing at the news reports.

Oh and one other factor that burggers us up is the humidity of our weather. If you look at our typical dew point it’s way above freezing so when the temps drop we end up with a lovely frozen coating of ice, as witnessed when you have to defrost your car in winter.

A lot of places elsewhere have much dryer air and frost coatings are unusual for them.

Lots of people on here seem to think that winter or snow tyres are “snake oil” sold to us by the evil megalomaniac tyre companies.

What bugs me isn’t the actual driving in snow – to be honest it’s not *that* dfficult with a bit of common sense. It’s every other idiot on the roads. Today I’ve seen people peering through postbox sized slots on the windscreen, drivers doing 40 on the straight then hitting the brakes for every slight bend in the road, crawling round at 10 and then back on the gas again to 40.

Got overtaken by a 4×4 doing about 60 down the dual carriageway – my lane was clear, the outside lane still had 1/2″ of snow in it and this pillock came hammering past, clearly thinking that 4×4 = awesome. He then clipped the roundabout at the far end as he turned the wheel and the car went straight on. 🙂