A very cold spell in france

We are going through a bit of a cold spell at the moment, about minus one to three degrees below zero, which reminded me of the time in January 1985 when most of europe was in a severe cold spell. At the time I was working on international road tankers, which put us in all parts of europe every week. My self and some of my mates from S Jones of Aldridge shipped out on the sunday night to Cherbourg and set off on the monday morning for different places in france and spain. Most of us made plans to meet up that night at a regular stopping place for us near Macon, as we were heading south the temperatures were getting colder by the hour. I filled up of diesel in the afternoon and put some anti-waxing additive in the fuel. About eight of us made it that night to a truckstop north of Macon to stay the night, well during the night the temperature dropped to 30 degrees below freezing, so it was far to cold for the additive to stop the diesel waxing. We were there for severn days trying to get the trucks on the road, and had to stay in a hotel at night. So I think that after that I can live with two degrees below.