Fuel Strikes

[GrumpyGregry]

40k to drive a large, heavy, unmanoeuvrable wheeled bomb on our roads. to a timetable.

 

[TVC]

40k to drive a large, heavy, unmanoeuvrable wheeled bomb on our roads. to a timetable.

Yep, but only £17k if you do the same thing in Helmand.

Just saying

 

[downfader]

Yep, but only £17k if you do the same thing in Helmand.

Just saying

Just googled and found that youtube has tonnes of videos of tanker fires and explosions. All from countries where they dont have our health and safety standards, a standard the industry here is trying to push into. It makes you think.

 

[Rapples]

40k to drive a large, heavy, unmanoeuvrable wheeled bomb on our roads. to a timetable.

It's only a lorry. It only becomes a bomb when a Taliban Wheeler gets in the driving seat with a timetable

Oh, and actually they aren't technically unmanoeuvrable because they manoeuvre them into very small spaces quite accurately. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's a valuable skill worth £40k+ ayear.

We all mostly want cheap supermarket fuel, I have every sympathy with drivers having to work on short term contracts, but I suspect this may well be driven by the power of the supermarkets to reduce supplier margins to the bone, yet again.

 

[snorri]

I wonder how much more fuel you use by running around with the extra weight of a full tank compared to one half full, where I normally keep mine.

According to my theory ....no more fuel, because the car runs close to empty for as long as it runs close to full, so the fuel consumption will be the same as a vehicle which runs half full all the time, and fuel is saved by making fewer diversions to visit petrol stations than a person who maintains a half full tank.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

It's only a lorry. It only becomes a bomb when a Taliban Wheeler gets in the driving seat with a timetable

Oh, and actually they aren't technically unmanoeuvrable because they manoeuvre them into very small spaces quite accurately. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it's a valuable skill worth £40k+ ayear.

We all mostly want cheap supermarket fuel, I have every sympathy with drivers having to work on short term contracts, but I suspect this may well be driven by the power of the supermarkets to reduce supplier margins to the bone, yet again.

You sure about that? and why would I want to take a huge pay cut to drive a lorry again?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yep, but only £17k if you do the same thing in Helmand.

Just saying

quite happy for my taxes to increase, and for your fuel taxes to be increased, to pay squaddies more money and be given better equipment (but not from the MoD who are incompetent)

cheaper still to bring them home.

 

[Rapples]

Well I stand duly corrected, but then you would know they aren't unmanoeuvrable, you were just bigging yourself up

Bet I can ride a horse better than you though, rich barsteward


Edit: Don't tell me you were in the f'in Cavalry

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well I stand duly corrected, but then you would know they aren't unmanoeuvrable, you were just bigging yourself up

Bet I can ride a horse better than you though, rich barsteward


Edit: Don't tell me you were in the f'in Cavalry

Probably; I stopped riding horses when I was in my early teens, a long, long, time ago.

 

[Rapples]

Seeing as you earn so much you should take it up again, it's the perfect cure for disposible income

 

[Red Light]

N

Seeing as you earn so much you should take it up again, it's the perfect cure for disposible income

Not as good a cure as children though

 

[TVC]

So.....

This dispute is supposed to be about safety (ref:BBC news). Now a number of petrol station have run dry the government have relaxed the driving hours limit to allow drivers to work 11 hours in a shift (ref: BBC news again). The union and its members seem quite happy about this, but surely this compromises safety.... or am I being naive?

 

[Paul J]

That is laughable on just about every level.

Thats what I told my local Unite Rep when I left them

 

[Fab Foodie]

So.....

This dispute is supposed to be about safety (ref:BBC news). Now a number of petrol station have run dry the government have relaxed the driving hours limit to allow drivers to work 11 hours in a shift (ref: BBC news again). The union and its members seem quite happy about this, but surely this compromises safety.... or am I being naive?

MMMmmmmmmm ................... there's a surprise.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Seeing as you earn so much you should take it up again, it's the perfect cure for disposible income

Children, n+1 and a taste for fine wine have taken care of that?