Petrol Tanker Drivers
Discussion
Let's face it. If the haulage industry really wanted to get something done they'd send every empty trailer they had down to westminster and drop it on it's knees blocking off the centre of London.
"Terribly sorry Mr Government official, but I can't afford to move it."
Just imagine the carnage if the empty trailers (just the empty Stobart ones that are stored at Tesco Fradley) were dropped off in Parliament square, or in Oxford Street.
I'm well aware that London isn't the centre of the universe, but it's the only place that people seem to listen.
"Terribly sorry Mr Government official, but I can't afford to move it."
Just imagine the carnage if the empty trailers (just the empty Stobart ones that are stored at Tesco Fradley) were dropped off in Parliament square, or in Oxford Street.
I'm well aware that London isn't the centre of the universe, but it's the only place that people seem to listen.
Re the 'panic buying' that is now apparently taking place.
Since tanker deliveries are currently still going shead as normal, maybe it means that the rush will very shortly be over, and if some of us wait until - say - Saturday, we will be able to fill up as normal (and I do repeat 'as normal') at one of our regular calling places ?
Or is that me being 'naive country dweller' again ?
Since tanker deliveries are currently still going shead as normal, maybe it means that the rush will very shortly be over, and if some of us wait until - say - Saturday, we will be able to fill up as normal (and I do repeat 'as normal') at one of our regular calling places ?
Or is that me being 'naive country dweller' again ?
Can anyone tell me what hours you need to put in to get 45k it is nearly impossible to do unless you work every weekend and bank holiday and unsociable shift known to bloody mankind. If I could have earned that amount when I was a tanker doing what the press leads us to believe its a monday to friday job then I would still be there now.
Cock Womble 7 said:
Turn7 said:
We are just to bloody soft, just keep bending over and taking it.
So what do we do, blockade the oil refineries? Because that was so effective last time.Perhaps we should just boycott petrol stations and not buy any petrol or diesel. That'll learn 'em.
Matt0177 said:
Can anyone tell me what hours you need to put in to get 45k it is nearly impossible to do unless you work every weekend and bank holiday and unsociable shift known to bloody mankind. If I could have earned that amount when I was a tanker doing what the press leads us to believe its a monday to friday job then I would still be there now.
The shift times and patterns are absolute s
te imho.If they get 45k for working the patterns they do then they are welcome to it.
I would rather do without than work silly flip/rotating/bobbins shifts
rumple said:
Like you i think the 45k is bks, ive a mate just started on fuel and he's on no where near that, in all honesty i rarley beleive what i read in the papers, they will have their own spin on it
I used to share the yard with them at Avonmouth. Frankly, their attitude appears to be "fks, ive a mate just started on fuel and he's on no where near that, in all honesty i rarley beleive what i read in the papers, they will have their own spin on itk you Jack, I'm alright, pull the ladder up". The Nisa contract I was on as an agency driver, is paying its regulars £34k for nights, so I don't see £45 as out of the way.It is almost impossible to get on unless your face fits, after all, they don't want too many guys available to do the job.
Edited by philthy on Saturday 28th April 19:08
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