KeegansHairPiece
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- Jan 28, 2016
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Yeah but you can prove anything with facts.
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[News] There's no need to panic buy petrol
- Thread starter Bozza
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Yeah but you can prove anything with facts.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
The mentality of many folk in our dear nation needs to be in question.
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
Lorry drivers.
In all honesty, those that were given passes to work in the first lockdown, this happened a few years ago when the tanker drivers blocked fuel getting out the terminals. I have just driven to work to put my weekly stuff in my lorry, passed 2 petrol stations that have had deliveries and there were queuing for fuel blocking the road and side roads, no doubt these will be empty by the end of tonight. I see that the NHS ambulance service are concerned that they will not have enough fuel.
swindonseagull
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Just a start but howabout someone who had a key worker letter to show the old bill during the pandemic?
studio150
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I used to like What's My Line, so first question, and remember only yes or no answers.
Do you work with criminals?
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
Quarter of a days work for a normal HGV, how long to recharge? Going to work well, if we go that way we would need double the amount of lorry drivers.
HH Brighton
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- Jul 25, 2003
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A country full of morons who voted for brexit are now the same people queuing for petrol whilst reading their daily mail.
Neville's Breakfast
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And yet there are a number of people on this thread who have been queuing for petrol and all claim not to be morons, not to read the Daily Mail and to have not voted for Brexit. It’s just so strange…
Lyndhurst 14
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Saw a programme about Preppers, folk who believe the end of the world is nigh and have moved into the dessert to stockpile supplies. One of the guys said that if there was a sustained interruption to essential supplies and services civilisation would start to breakdown in a week or less in major cities due to people's greed, stupidity and selfishness.
Based on what's happened in just a few days over a non-existent fuel shortage I'd say that's about right.
Based on what's happened in just a few days over a non-existent fuel shortage I'd say that's about right.
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Well, it is a start and battery technology - plus harvesting kinetic energy from braking etc that is recycled back into the battery cells - will only increase range in due course. Of course, for really long haul trips diesel may be the only viable option but many, many haulage legs could be completed or part-completed using electrically powered units. It's very easy and quick to drop a trailer and re-attach it to a fresh tractor unit if that makes better economic sense.
Also, the electric trucks under development also feature driverless technology. Whilst we are a long way off being ready as a society to integrate that, the direction of travel (pun partly intended) is clear; the future will unquestionably require less truck drivers rather than more, which is part (but obvs not all) of the reason for the current problem recruiting younger people into the haulage industry.
(I don't deny for one second that the crap working conditions, having to be away from a home all week and sleeping in a lay-by outside Kettering are probably the biggest factors in driving an HGV not being especially appealing as a career choice).
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beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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typical HGV has 4-5x range of that. how many fully electic HGV you reckon are on the road, if we have them they'd be in use right, what with the cost of fuel?
problem with electic HGV is they have to carry a lot of batteries, weighing an awful lot, which reduces their hauling capacity. that inefficent. petrol and diesel are an order of magnitude more energy density than any battery technology.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Six of seven petrol stations closed on my journey back from Heathrow to home. The one open was resulting in carnage on the roads around it. My work trip on Tuesday will have to be cancelled.
The warnings were made before the vote, ignored superficially by too many. We now we have the countries finest Brexit MPs in the govt and unable to lead. Boris warned this was bubbling up in June. Shambolic.
The warnings were made before the vote, ignored superficially by too many. We now we have the countries finest Brexit MPs in the govt and unable to lead. Boris warned this was bubbling up in June. Shambolic.
Fat Boy Fat
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Chatting about this at work today, when asked I said jokingly it’s probably the Taliban making a pact with China and now controlling the oil supplies, no better way to disrupt the west. That got them thinking
That got them thinking, “what is this idiot on about”?
I’m with your mates!
Fat Boy Fat
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Clearly others don’t want to say it, but me, I don’t care anymore...
You really really like a look at ME post, don’t you.
dsr-burnley
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- Aug 15, 2014
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The theory of whether they should be more efficient is one thing. The practice of whether they are, is another. But it could be that they are a lot less self-motivated than you. People who work for the DVLA have secure jobs for life that do not depend on them generating any income. Perhaps none of them have enough desire to get things working properly.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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As do many others that you rely on in your day to day life.
The weirdest thing for me over the last few years is the return to the arguments of the 1980s. We've done all that.
I suppose I need to give you a heads up that Duran Duran have a new album out.
Police at the BP in ifield are checking people getting petrol, I assume asking why they need it lol