Fuel Strike... here we go again...

[Ben]

anyone know where i can find a training course to be a tanker driver?

Lots about, do a search for ADR courses.

http://www.adr-courses.co.uk/

http://www.novadata.co.uk/pages/adr_...ourses_196.htm

http://www.freightsafe.co.uk/

http://www.ptftraining.co.uk/adrdri.shtml I used these people originally, then last week i was on my refresher course with a different firm.

You need class 3 flammable liquids and an LGV C+E (HGV Class 1) licence.

[MalcQV]

Ben,
Have you or do you regularly drive a tanker?
I keep thinking that if my present job in IT goes Tango Uniform and now being sick of driving miles to work (I have done 180 miles round trip before now) I would do something different. Not sure HGV driver fits that but for me it is the thought of being stuck in traffic early or late and even worse away from home...

I guess being a HGV driver is just what I don't need Tanker drivers though, I would imagine do the drops and come home. They are not driving up and down the country (rather just local) delivering fuel two or three hundred miles away?

I can see why they are paid what they are though, bit of responsibility all that flammable liquid behind

[golf tdi 02]

no something must be done they have found more oil reserves in alaska than the middle east.
but us drivers get hammered sideways

ER HELLO MORE OIL IN ALASKA THAN THE MIDDLE EAST ????
SO JUST REMIND ME WHY WE ARE PAYING DOUBLE ???
very angry diesel driver

[Ben]

Ben,
Have you or do you regularly drive a tanker?
I keep thinking that if my present job in IT goes Tango Uniform and now being sick of driving miles to work (I have done 180 miles round trip before now) I would do something different. Not sure HGV driver fits that but for me it is the thought of being stuck in traffic early or late and even worse away from home...

I guess being a HGV driver is just what I don't need Tanker drivers though, I would imagine do the drops and come home. They are not driving up and down the country (rather just local) delivering fuel two or three hundred miles away?

I can see why they are paid what they are though, bit of responsibility all that flammable liquid behind

I drive daily, a rigid 6 wheeler,

A Shell, conoco BP or Total drivers day may be as follows

Take kingsbury for example, (between J9 and J10 on M42), distances covered from that location vary depending on the delivery, a drivers day may consist of the following,

Allow 35 mins ish to load a truck. There may be a queue to sit in of say 5 trucks, but then there are 4 bays to load off.

drive your truck from kingsbury to filling station (fs) in wellingborough, northamptonshire, deliver say 1 to 1.5 hrs (this is an assumption as i've not done it) drive back to kingsbury, reload the truck and drive to milton keynes, deliver and drive back to kingsbury, reload truck for the pm shift driver, do paper work and go home.

Now some days may be 3 loads, more local. or the traffic is murder... or the loading computers crash or you break down.

Since Buncefield, the distribution map has changed somewhat.