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pedrobedro
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We just had a stroll past the Tesco garage, it's mental. There are staff guiding people in and the queue is round the corner blocking a roundabout and the exit as well. We stood and watched people getting wound up and trying to get round the roundabout.
addjunkie
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Suspect its a different delivery schedule.All seems a bit odd, I can still buy derv in bulk and it all comes from the same placeOnly thing we need the pumps/forecourts for is the 100lts a week of unleaded for the chainsaws, probably get stabbed for that the way things are going
Bob
I filled 3 jerry cans Saturday, for the quad and other petrol widgets. Didnt appear to be a shortage by the number of tourists, bikers and day trippers blocking up our rural roads over the weekend.
BBC1 6 pm news tonight two statements within 15 seconds of each other:
A/ There are as many petrol tankers on the road this week as last week.
B/ Shows what a shortage of HGV drivers can cause. (referring to petrol queues)
What sort of idiots run the BBC ?
A/ There are as many petrol tankers on the road this week as last week.
B/ Shows what a shortage of HGV drivers can cause. (referring to petrol queues)
What sort of idiots run the BBC ?
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I had to take the nipper up to Aberystwyth for his first year at uni over the weekend, fortunately I had brimmed the car the last Monday however the journey was just under six hundred miles and the car has a range of about five hundred miles on open roads at moderate speed. We got most of the way there and I spotted a little village filling station with no queue just two cars at the pumps so I filled up on its favourite E5 tipple which took a lot of stress out of the journey.
On the way back I abandoned driving like a saint and enjoyed some spirited driving safe in the knowledge that I could get back to London without having to hunt for petrol.
Only annoyance was a Porsche Panamera that insisted on driving on my back bumper through the 30 and 40 restricted bits of the A44 but seemed incapable of doing more than fifty on the interesting bits.
On the way back I abandoned driving like a saint and enjoyed some spirited driving safe in the knowledge that I could get back to London without having to hunt for petrol.
Only annoyance was a Porsche Panamera that insisted on driving on my back bumper through the 30 and 40 restricted bits of the A44 but seemed incapable of doing more than fifty on the interesting bits.
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M6 north of me was blocked totally in both directions for several hours this afternoon.
I wonder how many drivers were sat in a puddle of sweat, as their fuel gauges dipped ever lower?
Just add 1/2 litre of two stroke oil to the tank.
Matchless
I started with nothing, still have most of it left
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just add some two stroke oil....
Matchless
I started with nothing, still have most of it left
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Does this make any sense?
+++++ work for BP, and the word on the shop floor is ...that they instigated a panic, because they have huge tankers full of petrol that is over 3 months old, and basically we normally try for quality purposes keep petrol for no longer than 26 days....otherwise its classed as an inferior batch and stale... they have millions of litres of stale petrol and they need to get rid of it before it is useless.
+++++ work for BP, and the word on the shop floor is ...that they instigated a panic, because they have huge tankers full of petrol that is over 3 months old, and basically we normally try for quality purposes keep petrol for no longer than 26 days....otherwise its classed as an inferior batch and stale... they have millions of litres of stale petrol and they need to get rid of it before it is useless.
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Source ?
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eLuSiVeMiTe
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Passed plenty of quiet garages in mk today. Didn't stop as still got 3/4 of a tank left
Stueeee
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When the hauliers strike started, I several gallons of diesel in the tank of my company Disco. But as I'd just filled the heating oil tank and had numerous customer meetings to attend, I shoved a jerry of 28 second Kero in the Disco's tank, seemed to run a bit hot, but got me by till I found a garage that had diesel. This kind of bodge probably works best when your doing this kind of thing with someone else's vehicle like I was.
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i sometimes used it halfy half in my lister engine
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Though I also passed plenty with queues blocking up dual carriageways so still plenty of Muppets about
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It was started for more insidious reasons than that!
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The British sort.
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I tried hgv driving in the 90’s when I got sick of being stuck in a factory.That took me back to when I first started driving wagons in the days when we all had a cb radio in the cab and we affectionately referred to anyone in a chemo-gas rig as a "w***** with a tanker" .
Revenge was sweet for them however, the flatbed steel haulers were referred to as a "tw@ with a flat"
Was at truck stop and the tanker drivers wouldn’t talk to us dog breaths in normal trucks
That where I learnt the W in a tanker expression!
