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I am well aware other people have to travel further than me?! :confused:

Are you after borrowing my push bike..................:D

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Only if you are peddling :p

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In your dreams!! ;):p:D

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Disagree if he hadn't panicked the herd, I doubt if this would have occurred.

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With a woman driver it would be more like a nightmare :p

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I totally agree with you, all this madness and on the news this morning they are now saying there is going to be no strike.

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the tories did this on purpose, if not they are not fit for purpose;)

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Of course they did, everyone will have full tanks before Easter weekend and a strike would do nothing.

Have the government broken the strike before it even happened?

Most people will be blaming the tanker drivers for the threat of strike so it might even turn out to be a double hit for the government.

On the other hand if Labour had been in power would they had spoken out against their paymasters Unite?

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The Tesco filling Station on Abbey Street had run out of diesel this morning

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Just got my weekly petrol from Texaco on Queen Street, Great Harwood. I was the only one there filling up, although the owner said it had been busy in the morning.

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I don't think you can gauge anything from that garage. Even if there was a world surplus of free petrol they would still run out. The pumps are closed off there more than they are open

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Whether they did it on purpose, it is debatable, but surely if you have a brain keeping your ears apart you don't start to hoard petrol and you certainly do not buy more than you need before the tanker drivers have even made a decision........it is the lunacy of the people with siege mentalities, for listening in the first place.
Still..... those who can't think, like to shove the blame onto someone other than themselves.

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I doubt it very much Neil...in fact, pound to a penny they would have done nothing much differently.

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If thats directed towards Cmon ? its very harsh- Asses don't take petrol.:D

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Cashy, he hasn't the brains to be an Ass........and if that is harsh then so be it. I say it like I see it.(exactly like someone else I know...not looking precisely in your direction)

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A bit like yourself really an embarrassment to the Labour Party but your too thick to see it, not fit for purpose;)

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Likewise, Michael. The panic must not have spread to The Republic of Great Harwood . . . Yet!

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Milliband, the knobhead labour leader was too busy buying himself a hot pasty to realise what was going on.

Yawn, we went through the cornish pastie jokes days ago whilst they were hot.

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At first sight this looked like a wind up:
BBC News - Fuel driver hours rules relaxed by government

Hang on here..the tanker drivers voted for "possible" strike action over health and safety along with unsafe working hours..now in response to possible fuel shortages caused by the government they have relaxed the hours petrol tanker drivers can drive from 9 hrs to 11 hrs...who are these idiots? ..:confused:

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As I said in my earlier post, they'll be making a mint with the overtime from extra deliveries, a lot of people fell for their cunning plan.

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A woman has been seriously burned while she was pouring petrol from can to can in her kitchen.

Number of filling stations affected by Panic buying = 8,000+
Rise in sale of jerry cans at Halfords since Minister= 500%
Francis Maud advised people to fill a can.
Rise in sales of petrol since farce began. = 81%
Extra fuel duty collected on Weds alone. = £32million
Drivers offered £250 in overtime to deliver petrol to empty garages!
Number of fuel delivery strikes announced = Zero.

All because of the Con dems (Condemned) :alright: :rolleyes:

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ho ho ho:D usual cant debate policy so personal attack sounds familiar oohh ye you think you are a tory lol

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Puts to bed the EU directive on working hours at a stroke.. but then again the goverment have always had that option.;)..they just forgot to tell us!

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Nothing to do with the EU Working Time Regulations...they are simple to bypass with a signature on a piece of paper...(as are most rules made by the EU). This is a Health and Safety issue, but H&S tend to use the word 'reasonable' which, as we all know, is subjective, and can be tweaked to suit the moment

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Like I said it's put to bed any so called EU directives..the ones that only exist in the small minds of some prolific posters on here.:rolleyes:

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How can I personally attack a faceless wonder, for all I know you could be Tony Blair in disguises, or on second thoughts maybe not:rolleyes:

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Looks like the fuel protesters are jumping on the bandwagon with their open declaration that they are determined to bring down the government, but to be replaced by what : a rabble-rousing mob of union activists intent on returning us to the bad old days of beer and sandwiches at #10? The potential for damage to this once great country are mind-boggling, particularly in a year when we have been promised so much to look forward to. If Cameron and his cronies don't get their act together soon, then we are doomed no matter who is at the helm.

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people need to read the facts most of these truckers are not in a union.these other truckers are financially crippled by the tories while the toffs are at their black tie dinners laughing at the oiks;)

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You really are a dinosaur, tell us the truth when's it your 100th birthday;)

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they are driving a bomb .i would like to think they were getting a decent wage.this is not about money this is outsourcing to agencies;)

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they are not allowed to leave their trucks so they cant just pop into a 24 hour cafe service station etc so they work a little bit harder than the other hard working truckers ;)

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They know exactly what the job is when they take it, and £900 isn't exactly peanuts is it, in fact I would think there aren't too many on this website earn more for a 37 hr week

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It's well above the local average wage. Wish I could get £900 for 37 hours.

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So would we all. But not too many of us can drive a tanker loaded to the nuts with explosive fuel. Nor would too many of us want to. Many moons ago I drove long haul ... cattle liners out of Regina and Moose Jaw ... but you couldn't have got me behind the wheel of a tanker ... not for twice the money I was getting paid.

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I did thirty years on tankers, I carried liquids far more dangerous than petrol.
I also worked out of Shell for a while along side the petrol tankers and got the same pay and conditions as they did. Nowadays petrol tankers never see petrol. It is loaded through the bottom valve and the vapour is taken away through top pipe to another bottom valve, both pipes have break seals on so when you take away the pipe it seals and there is no spillage. When they unload on a forecourt it is the same, the petrol goes into underground tanks and the vapour returned to the tanker.
All the work they do is alike, no strange products to carry, no pumping or pressurized deliveries. It is loaded by meter, no standing on top with a dipstick anymore. They never go far from their depot or have night away, somebody else cleans the vehicle and services it, it's a cushy job and that's why there is a long queue to get on them and the drivers are trying to keep it that way.

I hope they don't get to striking and from emails I receive from a good mate who still drives tankers I don't think they will.
All he wants is to keep the job he has and the same conditions for contractors and new starters, mainly the training and safety.

In my opinion Unite is trying to do a Scargill on the Government and maybe this lot are too weak so they cause a panic before anything has been decided.