It’ll take more than Grant Pissflaps sat aside his obligatory Union Jack telling the good old folk of the UK to stop panic buying fuel for this one to go away. It’s a pointless message from an ineffective transport secretary whose lack of planning has caught up with him. What are we paying him for?
The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying
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kaz7
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Has anyone seen him in the last 48 hrs ?
I struggle to get £50 in my current car with a 45 litre tank without driving around for a good 40 miles plus after the low fuel light comes on.
Modern cars seem to have even smaller tanks so definitely too low an amount. £30-35 is probably more reasonable.
RACHACE
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I'm not 100% but I'm sure a lot of the big hauliers will have some sort of training programme for someone his age. So, providing he likes it and sticks at it the licence wouldn't cost him a thing.
Have a look at Stobarts, Maritime, Wincanton, Jack Richards and supermarkets like Asda that have a distribution centre in Heywood. They're probably the best bet for a training programme for young people and would be good places to start off. Possibly even a few builders merchants like jewson or Travis Perkins, he'd get his Hiab that way too.
However, if he's a graduate I'd not make any decisions on the future just yet if I was him unless it's absolutely necessary of course. He might like driving and he might take to it like a duck to water but it's rarely a nice day tootling down a country lane listening to mellow music without a care in the world. Now moreso than ever.
Bluesince1979
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Hes hopefully going to go doing a bit of travelling after he finished uni.
its all food for thought and thank you
and the fact that an acorn fell on him, that surely shows the gravity of the situation.
Please could you explain what planning do you think he could have done. As stated earlier BP were unable to refuel 5 petrol stations. The driver shortage may be because a couple were down with Covid, maybe they resigned and got a better paid job who knows. The point being as soon as the media reported this mindless idiots rushed out and caused chaos, 30,000 litres in 2 days at one garage, more than they sell normally in a week.
How exactly do you plan for that ?
Hayley Croppers chopper
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Purely Brexit, not IR35?
So get him trained and doing european HGV runs, that way he travels and gets paid. :-)
BobKowalski
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Finally. Tough crowd in here today.
Hayley Croppers chopper
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But , haven‘t they been through Brexit too.We are just being trolled now :)
‘There are no issues with the petrol supply chain in Northern Ireland, an industry body has said.’
Fuel supply: No issues in Northern Ireland, industry body says
The Petrol Retailers' Association says there is plenty of fuel in petrol stations and terminals.www.bbc.co.uk
I’m confused.
Has he done a Gordon Brown? Lol.
MillisleBlue
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He just nipped out to fill the car :)
BobKowalski
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The first thing you do is not put up trade barriers and restrict the flow of haulage drivers during a pandemic and against a background of an existing driver shortage.
Then you won’t have BP issuing warnings about closures of petrol stations on the back of shortages of food and then you won’t get people thinking ‘hang on, this doesn’t sound good, I’d better fill up just in case.’
We are in this situation because of deliberate actions taken by the Govt. These actions were taken because we voted for them.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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I'm sure there will be people on notice to move should they be required, and things will be going on in the background to make sure resources are in place.
BobKowalski
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No. NI is still in the EU Single Market via the NI protocols which put a customs border between NI and GB. NI supply chains are starting to reconfigure to an ’all Ireland‘ model within the EU.
The driver shortage is down to poor pay and conditions and Brexshit and I’d expect someone on 82 grand a year with the title of Transport Secretary to have a lot more about him than what’s been on show so far.
andyhinch
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What happens if I need to make an insurance claim ? All the good advice I’ve had involves burning my house down.
Christ, if we are turning on each other for something as rational as filling our cars with petrol then whoever is pushing division and the breakdown of tolerance and society in general through social media is going to be well pleased!
if the government hadn't instructed us to carry on buying fuel as normal then maybe people would have done what they were doing...ie carryin gon buying fuel as normal.
Given the record of lies, it's a perfectly rational response to rush out and buy petrol when this lot says there is NO shaortage - any sensible person would assume this means there IS a shortage.
For once they were actually right, and it was just a shortage of foreign lorry drivers, caused by...oh...government policy! Or those pesky foreigners going home after Brexit if you are the type that prefers to blame everything on foreigners.
Blame the tw*ts in charge, not each other!
if the government hadn't instructed us to carry on buying fuel as normal then maybe people would have done what they were doing...ie carryin gon buying fuel as normal.
Given the record of lies, it's a perfectly rational response to rush out and buy petrol when this lot says there is NO shaortage - any sensible person would assume this means there IS a shortage.
For once they were actually right, and it was just a shortage of foreign lorry drivers, caused by...oh...government policy! Or those pesky foreigners going home after Brexit if you are the type that prefers to blame everything on foreigners.
Blame the tw*ts in charge, not each other!