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Just a heads up for anyone towing their caravan or taking to the road in their motorhome after this spell of bad weather, Please make sure that all Ice and snow are cleared from your caravans roof before you set off on your journey.

Today I was following a caravan as it was being towed out of a local storage yard, and as soon as the driver picked up a bit of speed, a huge sheet of Ice came flying off the back of the caravans roof, crashing down onto the road infront of us.

 Luckily we were keeping our distance and speed down, so were able to avoid this obsticle, but I shudder to think what would have happened if that occured at speed on a motorway or suchlike, it could have hit someones windscreen and smashed it and caused a nasty accident.

Julia  

Quote: Originally posted by fleetwood99 on 27/3/2013

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Lets all hope that the "Im alright jack brigade" stay at home till the cold spell ends<img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley2.gif" width="17" alt="17">

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Quote: Originally posted by Big Al on 27/3/2013

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So how do i get the snow off the roof its 8ft 10 high
and while Im here I drive a lorry which is a lot higher and I am not climbing up there either !!

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Quote: Originally posted by diesel steve on 27/3/2013

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Do you think Heath and safety would allow a hgv driver to clear the roof of an artic trailer.not a chance.

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Quote: Originally posted by philip 22 on 27/3/2013

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Well you will be OK with ours it still got the Caravan Cover on and the service is due on the 8th April so that is when the van will be out ..

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Took me an hour to get the cover off last night. Was frozen solid to the awning rails. Up & down step ladders with watering cans of warm water. But van is beautifully clean underneath. Just swapped to a hardstandind pitch for this weekend. Staff at Northam Farm (Brean) as brilliant as ever. 

Cant wait to get away. Cold or not, few days away, change of scenery. Some lovely cold walks on the beach & warm nights in the van. Kids down one end watching a film, me & the wife up the other end reading a books.

I was coming along eastbound the M4 a couple of weeks ago and just east side of the Brynglas tunnels a huge sheet of ice flew from the roof of a vehicle and crashed on the carriageway our side. The ice smashing up and bouncing everywhere may have looked worse than it was but had a motor bike been in the path of it at the time I dread to think of the consequences.

Not really sure what you can do about it with some vehicles though, checking the roof of a caravan or a commercial van is not a problem but some of our lorries are far too high to be inspected for ice on the roof.

BB