Drivers were today being urged to buy only the fuel they need as more than 600 tanker drivers began a four-day strike.
The drivers, who work for two companies delivering fuel to Shell forecourts in the UK, walked out at six o’clock this morning.
Last-minute talks aimed at resolving the dispute ended without agreement when the Unite union rejected an improved pay offer.
Shell said it had contingency plans in place but admitted some of its 1,000 petrol stations might run out of fuel.
Unite said the improved pay offer from Hoyer UK and Suckling Transport, who employ the drivers, was “not sufficient”.
The employers said their latest offer would take drivers’ average earnings to about £41,500, up from the current average salary of £36,500.
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£41,000 for a driving job! Gis a job!!!
They are on £36,500 a year and want a £5,000 pay rise, what a joke.I wished i was on that kind of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow think I might change jobs!!
You can listen to music all day, no annoying emails coming through all the time. On that money Id be laughing!
If you dont want the job give me the training and Ill do it… I wish I was earning that much
pure greed how do the unions justify this money gabbing plan,the tanker drivers should be ashamed it’s already killing work in this country with fuel rising everytime the arabs blink,get back to work and enjoy the wage you’ve got it’s thousands of pounds more than most HARD working folk get in a month,greedy so and so’s.
just heard the army will drive the fuel to the stations if these greedy leeches don’t go back to work asap,now the army lads driving these tankers get about 20 ayear lets give them there jobs with bonuses the army will love it and the greedy unions will lose millions good idea.
It never ceases to amaze me just how envious and stupid the working class are, the reason you lot don’t get that money is because you haven’t got the guts and intelligence to go for a job like that, get a life and stop being so envious.
One thing about the working class that you can always count on is that they will always try to stop other working class from getting a fair deal
MP’s, Euro MP’s, The United Nations, the EEC, are all ripping off the British Taxpayer,to the tune of Billions of pounds, and do the working class electorate complain about them????? NO, the working class cant even bother to get off their backside to vote, yet a another group of the working class tries to get a decent standard of living and everyone wants them hung drawn and quartered.
If you want to complain about people being over paid, complain about MP’s on £300.000, for doing nothing but feathering their own nests, the problem is the working class haven’t got the guts to stand up for themselves.
Jim of Bearwood.
If they strike on that wages..SACK THEM!.Plenty of other drivers will do that job.Me for one.
Warm cab,nice height so can see over hedges…glorious!..
striking over £36,500 wages ha
they need to be striking for something that will benefit all of the country like over the price of the petrol.
A private soldier just out of basic training and who is posted on the front front line in Afghanistan earns about £16000 a year for risking his life from a snipers bullet or a suicide bomber everyday.
Tanker drivers who lives are not at the same level of risk currently earn almost twice as much and now they want even more.
If anyone deserves more it is our soldiers, whose bravery and skill so often goes unrecognised or is conveniently forgotten about by politicians, union leaders and society as a whole.