The "Fuel" problem

Quoted from wigworld

The fact is, there aren't enough lorry drivers. There was a shortage of lorry drivers before the media and politicians started talking about Brexit.
This isn't about cheap labour, it's about trained labour.

Theirs thousands of class one/two licences not being used ,I know of several lads who don’t drive anymore and the reason is simple the hours the pay the work home life ratio the lack of facilities on the road are all excrement. Greedy supermarkets and hauliers thought it was correct to pay shelf stackers the same and in some cases more than lads driving 44 ton lorries  bringing the goods in. The moral of the story is treat people like excrement and they will find other work / careers

Quoted from Azimuth

I would have thought it was the Oil Companies and suppliers who had a responsibility to train and have a adequate suply of drivers rather than the Government just like any other business staff need to be trained and paid the going rate in order that they are retained and attracted to the job, the relience on less expensive overseas staff has lead in part to this issue.

Yeah, I wouldn't argue with that in regards to the oil companies. When I said the government, I was more referring to getting some of the sick lame and lazy off the rock and roll.

We are destined to a fuel fate that deserves to be mocked.

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Theirs thousands of class one/two licences not being used ,I know of several lads who don’t drive anymore and the reason is simple the hours the pay the work home life ratio the lack of facilities on the road are all excrement. Greedy supermarkets and hauliers thought it was correct to pay shelf stackers the same and in some cases more than lads driving 44 ton lorries  bringing the goods in. The moral of the story is treat people like excrement and they will find other work / careers

This.. a lorry driving used to be a well paid job, the conditions have never been great and certainly not moved with the times, around seven years ago an old school friend left the industry, said he asked for more pay as they hadn’t had a rise for years and was told to leave if he wanted, an agency was ready to fill his job with a Pole the next week, so he left.  There was no incentive to train up new drivers or invest in better facilities and now it is coming back to bite the industry.

Sounds like some motorists are trying to outcompete each other for stupidity:

https://www.theguardian.com/bu.....g-up-with-wrong-fuel

I wonder how many are dim enough to think they might as well give a different fuel a try? After all, what could possibly go wrong?!?

I did not have a scooby-doo, don't watch or listen to news anymore, 24 hours of the same stories over and over again, the reporting in crap, seems anyone can get on the news these days.

It was only when my lad rang me, panicing, he had drove around doing 40 miles trying to find a station with diesel, as he is a tradeperson needing to fill up for work this week.

Manage to find a garage on Sunday night the Shell garage at the Laceby roundabout. no queue's, limited to £30 per vehicle.
I got a strange look from the cashier when I went to pay for my fuel,"you know you can put upto £30", I had only put in £20 which was enough for the week for me. She told me earlier in the day an ambulance filled up (more than £30 limit) and another customer starting shouting abuse at the crew, if I was there I would have decked the nob.

The news I will be able to watch over and over again, is next year when we get promoted back to the EFL.

Quoted from Maringer

Sounds like some motorists are trying to outcompete each other for stupidity:

https://www.theguardian.com/bu.....g-up-with-wrong-fuel

I wonder how many are dim enough to think they might as well give a different fuel a try? After all, what could possibly go wrong?!?

You just couldn’t make it up, unbelievable stuff.

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Theirs thousands of class one/two licences not being used ,I know of several lads who don’t drive anymore and the reason is simple the hours the pay the work home life ratio the lack of facilities on the road are all excrement. Greedy supermarkets and hauliers thought it was correct to pay shelf stackers the same and in some cases more than lads driving 44 ton lorries  bringing the goods in. The moral of the story is treat people like excrement and they will find other work / careers

It’s almost as if it doesn’t work if you allow the market and people who own the capital to dictate everything in pursuit of more profit. Who’d have thought it?  

If you don’t have the money available to pay your labour (the ones who actually produce and provide all the value in a company, not the CEO who gets millions) a fair wage and good working conditions then you don’t have a viable business.

The comment below, from some wag, made me laugh.

Toilet rolls, pasta, bread, flour, fuel, common sense. All victims of panic buying that didn't need to happen. A shortage of common sense being the first thing to run out. I'd like to see panic buying of condoms so these hysterical people don't go on to bring children into the world who then end up like their idiotic parents.

Went to Morrisons this morning. No problem at the petrol station there, if anything it was less busy than usual.