But the vehicles are now preventing snow ploughs from clearing roads and rubbish from being collected.
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Gritters with snow ploughs were out on Northamptonshire's icy roads overnight as temperatures stayed below freezing.
Ahead of the poll, he was in a generous mood, distributing tractors and ploughs in rural areas.
We have just got to sit here and let them grit the road and get the snow ploughs out.
On Tuesday morning, Strathclyde Police reported that the snow and ice on some roads was breaking the blades on snow ploughs.
In Worcestershire, there is also severe disruption and the council said it was sending out snow ploughs instead of gritting the roads.
Worcestershire County Council is not gritting roads but sending out snow ploughs.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council said it was expecting temperatures to drop to -4C (25F), and its gritters had been fitted with snow ploughs.
Gritters and snow ploughs were working on the Coast Road in the Baldrine area in an attempt to try and reopen the road.
But Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon said storing snow ploughs and extra gritting salt would be expensive, when the snowy weather is so unusual.
Ox-drawn ploughs still power farming in much of the country, meaning agricultural output of rice, beans and other staples could grow immensely through mechanization.
Parts of north-east England and Scotland have been hit by snowfall as well as high winds with snow ploughs needed to keep some roads open.
Snow ploughs were necessary in some of the worst affected areas.
In New York City, which is expecting a 12in dousing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said snow ploughs and 250, 000 tonnes of salt were being put on standby.
The fast flowing water of the Eisbach ploughs into a deeper section of the river that barely moves at all, creating a consistent, albeit dangerous, wave effect.
Kent County Council (KCC) said 60 gritting trucks fitted with snow ploughs were in operation, gritting 5, 000 miles of the county's roads - half of Kent's network.
Police said lorries had been "stacked" at the bottom of Haldon Hill on the A38 and Telegraph Hill on the A380 while gritters and snow ploughs "went to work".
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The company now ploughs more than 22% of its sales revenue back into the laboratories, low compared with some of its biotech peers but more generous than the 10-15% common in pharmaceutical companies.
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Police have also organised a free recovery service for motorists who abandoned their cars on the A3 on Tuesday night, after snow ploughs pushed snow on to cars and iced up doors and locks.
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