Fuel shortages.

Ha ha , no I’m sure it’s pretty bad delivering for Tesco’s in da hood!

month or two back I had 10 pallets in. Driver came in from midlands to London and called at 8am so I shot over, 30mins, to receive. They hadn’t given him a pump truck or tail lift as requested so he couldn’t deliver.. said he was on£10!hour and was so fed up off he felt like getting the train home and dumping the truck there and then, leaving the keys in the ignition. Total waste of time for him (uk) and me and all down to network subbing it out again and again down the line to penny pinch, so no communication going on. Ok with smiling cheap labour but not if you can pull more stacking shelves or signing on

 

Lass on the pump in front of me last night put £3.15 worth in.

 

So, what’s the most you have had to pay for diesel then? My local esso garage only have the “supreme” diesel pumps open, at the bargain price of £1.56 a litre… as I was in the red, I had to get £20 worth, which barely moved the needle in the van…

ow mooch!

 

Fantastic...

 

Brevity is not why I stopped driving lorries.

It was nice of the government to send me a lovely letter asking me to re consider. No thanks.

 

Just come back from a few days in Dorset, passed several garages with only a dozen or so queuing and one only had cars at the pump with no queues at all.

Got back to Bucks and its worse than when we left on Tuesday, no fuel anywhere.....

 

I imagine, that like me, you noticed sod all difference in the running of your 20 year old dirty diesel, from the immensely superior fuel? I’ve actually taken to driving a bit slower, to make it last longer..

Hopefully, Boris’ army will have replenished the country with normal stuff by the time I need some more..

 

Brother in law drove asda fuel trucks he loved it Infact only retired 2 years ago at the age of 68 and only because he was nagged into it by family. He has now realised the benefits of retirement and has turned down many tempting offers of returning to driving HGVs ( his son still drives asda tankers)

 

My van is a 1.9 T4 , so I will see your captain slow, and raise you, captain snails pace

 

Posted a parcel at Aston Clinton post office this morning, the village has a petrol station and obviously has fuel today as the cars are backed up about 150 yards through the village.

This is lunacy !

 

Could everyone please stop posting their observations as to what is actually really happening as its getting in the way of the narrative being pushed by the government. If anyone ever needed an example of lying truth distorting scumbags in public office then this should lead even the staunchest of you Tory voters to at least consider that the people they put in power are incompetent at best.

I'm sick of hearing how there's a shortage of drivers across Europe or the world or the bloody universe. 5 years they had to prepare for Brexit, 5 years to look at what issues would either present themselves, need managing or be exacerbated and 5 years to do nothing. We saw the same with Covid and their ignoring of their own recommendations on the management of a pandemic made years before and they wriggled out of that one.

Day after day its another debacle and another lying toadie on our screens telling us these things weren't foreseeable or indicating they weren't manageable. I do love the rhetoric that this was a media created storm.... who feeds the media this guff and pushes the narrative and for what ends. Whilst all this is going on and there's a lovely thick smokescreen what are they up to.

And what will be the responses by you Tory lot. Probably that the other lot are too busy bickering with the left trying desperately to bring down their elected leader despite the on they put in place last time was soundly rejected (but thats a whole other issue of course) and too distracted to be effective in opposition , or what an even bigger shambles it would have been if they had been in power. Well they aren't are they!

Has anyone still got the energy or will to protest... probably not, after all is it still legal? Possibly considering their actual responsibility to society when putting their mark in a box in a voting booth would help.

Tanks Tories, thanks Brexiteers, is that fair?... I am (or was) a remoaner and do accept the outcome. Took me a while to "get over it" and now the massive opportunity we were sold is being seen for what it is. An opportunity wasted so far. Our politicians have neither the vision or will to see it through and "make this country great again" (wtf!!! really, is that what we want - define great for me if so).

Just a quick rant and not overly considered. Have a nice day and thanks for Boris and his chums. (and supporters).

Come the glorious day i may have to shoot myself for giving up on the fight.

 

In fairness, while they could have prepared better for fuel and food shortages, Covid did throw a massive spanner in the works that any government would have struggled to deal with. That said, I hope Boris gets the boot sooner than later. Incompetent, a liar, gives the impression of someone who goes to bed at night and hopes everything with be alright in the morning. Made at least two colossal f ups by standing , first , by Cummings, then by Hancock and displaying, for all the world to see, his One Law For Us credentials. Great as a host on HIGNFY, useless as a PM.

 

Driving down to St Albans from Macclesfield- filled up in Macc - no queue. Most motorway services, no queues - nothing until we got to Hatfield, then maybe a bit busier.

 

And if you add in the ongoing energy crisis - I consider numerous energy companies failing at the same time to be a crisis - and the virtual silence other than general denials/shoulder shrugging that we are all about to see a huge hike in prices. I thought the free market was supposed to drive down cost to the consumer?

And don't forget the French threatening to withdraw coastal cooperation because the government have restricted their fishing permits for UK waters.

And a lack of Border Force agents to man airports so even the slight optimism of travellers ends in a long wait to get back in.

And leaseholders stuck with ever increasing service charges and huge bills to pay for replacing cladding they have no responsibility for.

And virtue signalling about leading the world on carbon reduction with no clear strategy for phasing out fossil fuel and actually approving a new coal mine and having fire up coal fired power stations because the sun hasn't shined enough and the wind hasn't blown enough.

And a rise in NI to pay for an NHS backlog that will take years to clear.

It's a shambles.

 

I just paid £1.39 a litre at Sarn Services out near Bridgend. Only E10 or basic Diesel at the pump. Rolled up by the pump and filled up. About half the pumps were unused.

 

E10 ? You'll die. We'll all die. We're doomed. Doooooomed.