A TRAFFIC officer had to remove two wheelbarrows from a motorway - one of which was in the middle of the carriageway.

West Yorkshire Police Traffic Officer, "Traffic Dave", shared a video on Twitter this afternoon, with the caption: "I get all the best jobs".

The footage showed a police vehicle pulling up behind an obstacle in the middle of the M62, near Birstall.

An officer gets out of the vehicle and makes his way towards the object - a tipped over wheelbarrow - with his arms aloft as he looks towards several vehicles slowly moving past the police vehicle in the first lane, before they come to a stop.

The obstruction is wheeled off the carriageway, with the officer making his way behind the three vehicles that had come to a halt in lane one.

He then wanders further down the motorway and picks up a second wheelbarrow, which was near the central reservation.

That one is also wheeled off the carriageway.

The police vehicle has an onboard matrix which allows officers to show a message to any vehicles moving along the road behind it.

For this incident, the vehicle showed a "no pass" message and had all its rear lights on to alert drivers.

But a Twitter user asked what action was taken when the three vehicles on the left ignored that warning.

Traffic Dave responded to say they "had words" with those in the vehicles.