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    Tanker drivers strike

    Bloody daft public queuing to fill up their 4x4 s because of tanker drivers ballot!
    Strike has not even started but these selfish ..... who panic buy get on my tits!


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    ... it's like, "I'm ALRIGHT Jack - and to with ANYBODY else!"


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    Quote Originally Posted by les_taxi View Post
    Bloody daft public queuing to fill up their 4x4 s because of tanker drivers ballot!
    Strike has not even started but these selfish ..... who panic buy get on my tits!
    Ahhhh! now that's why my local Sainsbury petrol station was chokablock.
    Y'know I just couldn't figure it out, it's never ever busy on a Monday afternoon, but there were loads of people.
    I paid 140.99 per litre for standard unleaded. That's a record for me to date.


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    no one should hold this country to ransom, what are these people on per week or month, lots i can asure you, best paid drivers in the country, then next are tesco drivers, most of the fuel drivers move about the country, when there is someone short they send a driver over put them in lodgings for the week plus a car and they earn a lot of cash


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    More lazy, workshy reprobates trying to hold the country to ransom!

    The tanker drivers are very well paid, but they say the proposed strike is over conditions and health and safety. And yet this is the sort of genius that works as a tanker driver:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5M--0CSZ1I


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    Greedy ba$tards - McCluskey Champagne Socialist

    £10,000 feast at a top hotel for 300 senior trade unionists washed down with fine wine

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1qG4YwrzT


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    Greedy/Workshy/Holding the Country to ransom seems a bit harsh. From what I'm reading they seem to be in dispute over safety and terms and conditions. I havent read anything about excessive wage demands. They haven't been on strike for 12 years which suggest to me they've probably got a genuine case. Don't now about anyone else but I wouldn't like to think that any company would be cutting corners on safety with 35000 litre tankers being driven on our roads.


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    Just been to my local asda forecourt to fill up with diesel only to be told they have run out




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    I was on 1/4 last night so filled up - on my travels this morning there didn't look to be any panic buying at local petrol stations


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    Ded maybe it is just coincidence that they have run out of diesel just as they have anounced the strike plans




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    well paid... Why not ?...besides it should be everyone going on stike, stop buying fuel stop Drinking alchol and stop smoking, then there will be no money for NHS and most of the Goverment... they might even have to start taxing banks heavens forbid,
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    Quote Originally Posted by sars_notd_virus View Post
    well paid... Why not ?...besides it should be everyone going on stike, stop buying fuel stop Drinking alchol and stop smoking, then there will be no money for NHS and most of the Goverment... they might even have to start taxing banks heavens forbid,
    I agree,


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    I went up to the Lake District to work Mon-Weds, and was already worrying about having enough petrol to get back home, even in my boy's little Punto.

    Sheer madness in York today, with queues everywhere.

    I nipped out to a little country garage about 5 miles away to top up, and had to pay £1.47p a litre.

    ps...Wish I'd taken my camera to the Lakes.


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    Its crazy. Like one guy said on the tv. Cameron should have kept his mouth shut. Anyway Im on a weeks break if there is no petrol for next week I cant do my job. But i will still get paid I hope.


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    I dunno what your all moaning about, only cost me 20 pence a litre to fill up my 4x4 the other day. Ooops the joys of living in the big sandpit with more oil then water.

    Scares me to think how much fuel costs in the UK. People have no option but to get to work, yet often have very little choice but to drive. The stealth taxes of the UK.


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    Of course if we'd maintained the inland water ways better we'd be transporting most of this stuff, including most of the frieght, coa,l etc by boats instead of clogging up the roads with hgv's. Works very well over in holland etc.
    It's been emontional


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    Quote Originally Posted by RickyR View Post
    ...... in the big sandpit with more oil then water.
    The warmest and biggest beaches in the world eh....


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    Adding fuel to the flames. This sort of thing wont be helping either the supply of oil and gas or the price.

    http://english.capital.gr/News.asp?id=1451917

    Time to go and buy electric cars.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by bigmarco View Post
    Greedy/Workshy/Holding the Country to ransom seems a bit harsh. From what I'm reading they seem to be in dispute over safety and terms and conditions. I havent read anything about excessive wage demands. They haven't been on strike for 12 years which suggest to me they've probably got a genuine case. Don't now about anyone else but I wouldn't like to think that any company would be cutting corners on safety with 35000 litre tankers being driven on our roads.
    Yes. I suppose they are driving around a large potential "bomb"......


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    Quote Originally Posted by subseastu View Post
    Of course if we'd maintained the inland water ways better we'd be transporting most of this stuff, including most of the frieght, coa,l etc by boats instead of clogging up the roads with hgv's. Works very well over in holland etc.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    It is a good point as it would be a far safer route, for the most part.


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    This (tanker strike) is possibly the ultimate example of Stop the Job for Safety


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    Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
    Adding fuel to the flames. This sort of thing wont be helping either the supply of oil and gas or the price.

    http://english.capital.gr/News.asp?id=1451917

    Time to go and buy electric cars.....
    I'll be getting the racing model.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    I'll be getting the racing model.

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    The black one?


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    Yorkshire.

    "A woman has been badly burned after petrol ignited as she transferred it between containers in her kitchen".

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-burne...091318813.html


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    Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
    Yorkshire.

    "A woman has been badly burned after petrol ignited as she transferred it between containers in her kitchen".

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-burne...091318813.html
    Cretin


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    That's hot news here in York.


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    That's hot news here in York.
    Burning hot.....


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    I think there's some mileage in this one for Arthur...but no flaming please.


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    Hot off the press


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