Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!

[mjr]

Perhaps, although I see no evidence for it. The shortage coincide with panic buyers. We're not close to the source of products for supermarkets, but there are no real empty shelves here either.

Not close, apart from the huge supermarket warehouses near Selby (Sainsburys), Doncaster (Tesco, Lidl & Aldi), Wakefield (Morrisons & Asda) and so on? I'm pretty sure your area has capacious motorway links to most of them.

The current shortages really are a function of panic buyers and local supply capacity.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Not close, apart from the huge supermarket warehouses near Selby (Sainsburys), Doncaster (Tesco, Lidl & Aldi), Wakefield (Morrisons & Asda) and so on? I'm pretty sure your area has capacious motorway links to most of them.

The current shortages really are a function of panic buyers and local supply capacity.

The motorway stops 20 miles away from Hull. By definition, the distribution hubs are located strategically to feed all areas, we'd be at the end of most of those lines, unless the haddock in the North Sea are getting in on the act.

 

[classic33]

There is no such place.

If you mean the area covering East Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire, there are no queues or shortages. South Yorkshire is a bit of a fiction too, as there are only three ridings in Yorkshire, East, West and North. Beyond a fiction by Winifred Holtby, the South bit was added to take account of places Derbyshire didn't want.

Came into being on the 1st April 1974

 

[Moon bunny]

I didn't even know if it was genuine, it just popped up on my Facebook page. 🤣

Somewhere on Twitter there is a post,
”Went to 7 petrol stations and couldn’t get any fuel for my van, then I hit Nigel Farage’s car, great start to the day.”

 

[classic33]

Not close, apart from the huge supermarket warehouses near Selby (Sainsburys), Doncaster (Tesco, Lidl & Aldi), Wakefield (Morrisons & Asda) and so on? I'm pretty sure your area has capacious motorway links to most of them.

The current shortages really are a function of panic buyers and local supply capacity.

That'd be the M62, between the distribution centres in Castleford and Rochdale.

 

[mjr]

The motorway stops 20 miles away from Hull. By definition, the distribution hubs are located strategically to feed all areas, we'd be at the end of most of those lines, unless the haddock in the North Sea are getting in on the act.

You'd probably be OK for Grimsby fish in direct-supplied shops, same as there's no shortage of Cromer crabs in the local fishmongers here, but the ones Morrisons take to their midlands depot and back aren't in the stores! (Sainsburys and Tesco don't even try IIRC)

The A63 is a quasimotorway most of the 20 miles and that's still 10 closer than any motorway gets to Norfolk (and a lot of that's single-carriageway A road), with the depots not in that direction anyway. So we've a double whammy of more remote supply and lots of panic buyers, whereas you probably have at most one of those :-/

 

[ClichéGuevara]

You'd probably be OK for Grimsby fish in direct-supplied shops, same as there's no shortage of Cromer crabs in the local fishmongers here, but the ones Morrisons take to their midlands depot and back aren't in the stores! (Sainsburys and Tesco don't even try IIRC)

The A63 is a quasimotorway most of the 20 miles and that's still 10 closer than any motorway gets to Norfolk (and a lot of that's single-carriageway A road), with the depots not in that direction anyway.

You seem determined to stick to your opinion no matter what I say, so I'll leave you to it.

 

[mjr]

You seem determined to stick to your opinion no matter what I say, so I'll leave you to it.

Not really, but there seem to be no facts to back up the absurd claim that part of Yorkshire with all its depots and big roads somehow cannot be resupplied faster than most of the country, as well as the other claim that it doesn't matter.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Not really, but there seem to be no facts to back up the absurd claim that part of Yorkshire with all its depots and big roads somehow cannot be resupplied faster than most of the country, as well as the other claim that it doesn't matter.

I never said all of Yorkshire, I said Hull, which is relatively remote.

 

[Pale Rider]

All subjective, but I'm going for Hull being fairly remote.

The A63 is known as the 'road to nowhere' and the Humber Bridge the 'bridge to nowhere'.

A chum of mine lives in Hull, but I'm bound to observe some residents appear to be isolated and inward looking, rather like Sunderland in that respect although we are only a few miles off the main north/south route.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

All subjective, but I'm going for Hull being fairly remote.

The A63 is known as the 'road to nowhere' and the Humber Bridge the 'bridge to nowhere'.

A chum of mine lives in Hull, but I'm bound to observe some residents appear to be isolated and inward looking, rather like Sunderland in that respect although we are only a few miles off the main north/south route.

The remoteness or otherwise wasn't really the initial issue, that's just what it attempted to morph into after I'd responded to a particular point in a post and mentioned the fact that the proximity of the refinery wasn't a benefit during previous fuel issues, although I couldn't, nor still can't recall why. The rest of it is just noise really.

 

[bagpuss]

Back in 2014 I rode to Hull by bike .
This was my song for the trip.

View: https://youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA?t=2

 

[FishFright]

A bit OT but sort of on topic - friend has just taken delivery of £130k of brand new Porsche and it has several upgrade items 'missing' from the spec' ordered that will be retro-fitted as soon as they become available. Seems like even our friends in Zuffenhausen are having trouble with their supply chains.

@Moderators - please remove if you think this is too OT.

There's a global shortage of car parts, especially semiconductors etc. In the US there are 100,000+ unfinished cars waiting for parts.

 

[Drago]

A chum popped in for a visit (I can't drive until my thumb is a bit better) and he tells me Tesco in wolverton is business as usual.

Now, behave on my thread please kiddies. If you feel like an argument then you can always drop into the Phantom Zone, hidden from this forum behind its own iron curtain, with a username like Tory Boy.

 

[Rocky]

I had to go to Guildford yesterday.......and took the train. For that journey, it was a perfectly reasonable method of transport (and also allowed me to have a few G&Ts with my lunch).