I wasn't looking for backing as I know I am always right
Seriously though we had a team of guys working all night clearing our yard and all the roads around were clear also so absolutely no issue for the drivers once they got in, and at the end of the day they are professionals so should be able to cope better with poorer than normal road conditions seeing as they drive for a living...
An example of my ethos, a driver called in at 3am to say he had tried to move his car but couldn't so he was going to walk in from Tilbury to Thurrock , just as I put the phone down another guy rang in who lives in the same area to say it was too dangerous to even leave his house and in his opinion too dangerous to drive. When I said that we already had other drivers in and out on the road he said that was their choice, so I told him it was also my choice if I paid him or not and my choice was that I wouldn't.
No doubt he will speak to his union rep and try and get my ar$e hauled in but the fact is the other guy actually walked PAST his house to get in and knows this driver and said that his drive / car / house was untouched by human hand so he had obviously decided that he wouldn't even attempt to try and get in.
The guy that spent an hour walking to work was given a short local run and sent home, he will be paid for 10 hours work today, they guy that is probably still in his pyjamas and slippers will get paid feck all, simples
I'm not a hypocrite, I drove my Zed into work last night at 8pm and I drove it home at 6am this morning. If I lived in a remote inaccessible area through choice I would drive something suitable and most likely 4wD.
I just think that the attitude of some spoils it for the main, last year we had a driver 'stranded' at home for nearly 3 weeks in the bad weather.... where does he live? Alaska? The Scottish Highlands? Cornwall? Nope he lives in Tunbridge Wells