Tributes have been paid to a man who died after a tracker unit and trailer crashed on the M77. Tom Meikle was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on the motorway’s merge with the M8 on Tuesday. The 61-year-old was the driver of the Scania Heavy Tractor Unit, which was carrying a load of timber. You’ll be up there racing stock cars with your auld pal.”Sergeant Fraser McEwan said: “Our thoughts are with Mr Meikle’s family and friends at this time. Enquiries are ongoing into the cause of the crash, however, one line of enquiry is that Tom took ill within the tractor.