Petrol Tanker Drivers

^^^^ you forgot the tin hat

fk it, if they can protect their high wage etc good luck to em, over the last twenty years I've seen drivers wages stagnate, drivers would rather suck the boss off for the best runs, units etc, nice to see some stick together for a change.

Im more right wing than a right wing thing!!!! but I seriouly belive anyone who gets out of bed and goes to work and contrbutes should get a fair wage im not with the tanker drivers or there stinking union, but we need to find a way of evening out pay so people can have a reasonble living not just the lucky few...

Governments relax that when they need to. Last time they did was the snow for the emergency services, agricultural hauliers, fuel tanker drivers...

So what do you want to do, put em on 25k a year just like any other sty distribution job in the UK, maybe go the way of the Irish hauliers, sack em all and replace em with polish drivers.

Maybe they would have been better doing a bit of STFU for now and sticking with what they have for a little while given that so many people are losing jobs and on hardtimes.The media spin isn't doing them any favours spouting on about this 45k they are all getting .
They aren't the only sector of the logistics industry that is now using contractors and agency cover.

It's not as though they can go waffling on about h+s issues much tbh.My routes bring me around the A42/M42 and Kingsbury way quite often.Some of them lot rolling out of there loaded are driving like lunatics,so much for averting disasters there.

So what gives then ? Is it Red Len hijacking the gripes and balloting to do more harm to the government knowing Millibands mob won't say much considering who Unite back and fund,or is it the old guard doing the complaining and stirring up.
Looking at the Vote it wasn't 100% backed.
Old guard at work ? Or militant union leader ?

Whichever it is they won't get as much backing with this round of strike action as they did last time,people might have been a bit more sympathetic then.Not now they won't.

• Didn't turners try an exercise of using poles only and had to eat humble pie in the end ? Going back a couple of years.

Panda76 you may be right mate, I don't know what its all about , and the sun etc will have their spin on it, just riles me all the time that fellow drivers always have to stick the boot in, that's why the industry is dying on its feet, on the polish question yes a few firms tried it and had their fingers burnt, but in the last 18 months or so its become very common, 2 years ago I allied for 5 outfits, turned down by 3 cos they only take poles on now, got my job but really made me think, and didn't Nolan make all their Irish drivers redundent and replace em with poles , salaried to 380 a week, coming to the point where ill have to take a dull as fk distribution job and become a robot cos there will be nothing else out there.

Just cant beleive no ones protesting about fuel cost.

I must admit I'm fascinated by how Unite are marketing this. Admittedly with the collusion of the BBC they are managing to avoid discussing what this potential strike is actually about very successfully.

You and me both. If this Paris, there would be civil war by now.

We are just to bloody soft, just keep bending over and taking it.