- Location
- Wiltshire
Either looking for fuel or a Nando’s with chicken in stock
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THE BRITISH ARMY ALWAYS COMES TO THE RESCUE?
- Thread starter bluebell
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TechWise
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- Location
- South Ayrshire, Scotland
Unfortunately, there's nowhere near enough of them as it is to fulfill the Government's stated foreign policy objectives. Never mind if they were to start viewing them as a pool of cheap labour that could be used to solve problems as they crop up, rather than actually spending the money on the right people for the job.
Call me cynical, but if we were to start routinely deploying troops to drive ambulances, I think we'd pretty quickly see money being diverted out of the ambulance service to pay for something more politically expedient within the NHS. Likewise, if they're going to start driving fuel tankers for private soldier wages, where's the incentive for fuel companies to up their own wages to pull people in? If the Governement is going to deploy them as a short term measure, fine, but make the fuel companies pay £75k per driver so that they'd rather bring new drivers in than rely on Government help.
Castle Farm
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Bloody noisy thing. Just came over me (Near Hay-on-Wye) No fuel shortage here then.
Been watching that as well
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Fuel supply crisis: Environment Secretary George Eustice says the army will not be deployed to drive petrol to the forecourts
Environment secretary George Eustice has denied reports the army is being primed to resupply petrol stations following a weekend of panic at the pumps and hours of waiting for some motorists.
news.sky.com
And it's time all this ADR sh!te and other guff was kicked into touch. It's a bigger threat to this country than Brexit/ corvid combined.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Civil servants adding requirements to everything, tying the country up in red tape, rather than everyone just doing their job properly, everyone seems to do a crap job, but has either done a course to qualify them to do it, or has a mass of written risk assessments/method statements/COSHH assessments/Hazard data sheets etc and as long as they are following procedures, it does not matter how bad a job they do!
There’s more people to train people,why not get them doing the job
o yes I forgot all they can do is talk about it
another case of do as I say,not as I do
- Location
- Scotland
Here's a crazy thought - perhaps they enjoy teaching, and not driving lorrys. ??
Like why we have teachers teaching primary school kids instead of them spending all day just doing times tables to themselves.
Or here’s another thought They can’t actually do it
abit like sqc inspectors seems to be a lot of x farmers who didn’t make it work
- Location
- Scotland
Why should that be a problem? Do you want someone who cant drive a lorry, driving a lorry?
Any truth that truck loads of squaddies bound for the carrot fields of England, to keep food on the table for their mates, who are out delivering stuff to the folks on benefits, who won’t come out to do the driving and picking that the Europeans used to do, before the Brexiteers told them to fudge to hell back to Europe?
ollandroverman
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- Location
- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Absolutely not.
There is around the same amount of fuel or more in a single tanker compared to what was used to bring town the Twin Towers on 9/11.
I would hope only the best, safest and most highly trained are going to be piloting a fuel tanker along the same roads as my family are using, not some brain dead moron who only just scraped through a Hgv licence.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
They're not coming. They won't be delivering fuel, nor slaughtering turkey, nor picking veg.
That’s where it’s going to fall down, years ago drivers started off as drivers mates or driving small lorry’s and moving upto artics
you can’t just shove someone through their test and expect same experience as older guys
as another stupid rule, you can drive a curtain sider with 25,000 1litre bottles of petrol but can’t drive a empty fuel tanker unless it’s been properly cleaned
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
How did we manage before?
ollandroverman
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- Location
- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Smaller tankers and on much much quieter roads in days gone by.
- Location
- Wiltshire
Had that conversation with the guy picking up my wheat this morning, I was wondering how much training it took to drive a fuel tanker.
Trucker this morning didn’t have enough fuel to last the day.
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Good. If they do come back it'll be back to paying lorry drivers and veg pickers sh!te wages, the indigenous population won't be interested in the low paid work, and the whole sorry saga starts again.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Need to go back to smaller tankers anyway