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Post by elstoof on Sept 26, 2021 20:43:07 GMT
I’m going to go France on a sort of booze cruise for petrol, go full up my tank in Calais and come back
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Post by elstoof on Sept 26, 2021 20:44:10 GMT
And the new government plan is to get the army in to help. If only the army wasn’t so tiny these days. Do the army even know how to drive HGVs through city centres |
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Sept 26, 2021 20:46:43 GMT
I wouldn't want to be an a bicycle or scooter near a city centre.
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Post by Frog on Sept 26, 2021 20:46:57 GMT
I would imagine that the army doesn't have many drivers with hgv licenses or CPC.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 26, 2021 20:50:17 GMT
What about the iconic images of the British army driving articulated lorries through the Helmand province, we’ve all seen them
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 20:50:45 GMT
I've been shoving blue passports into my tank all day so I'm fine.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Sept 26, 2021 20:53:17 GMT
Priority queues for anyone with a Help for Heroes pin badge.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 26, 2021 20:54:33 GMT
There’ll be a shortage of poppies
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Post by Frog on Sept 26, 2021 21:00:35 GMT
Will we remember the cyclists they kill with poppies?
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 26, 2021 21:05:04 GMT
And the new government plan is to get the army in to help. If only the army wasn’t so tiny these days. Do the army even know how to drive HGVs through city centres I think they do have some capable but I’d guess it’s maybe a couple of hundred at most, some of which won’t be in the country and some will be doing other important army things. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 21:05:08 GMT
And the new government plan is to get the army in to help. If only the army wasn’t so tiny these days. 8400 petrol stations according to wiki, and 80,000 soldiers. so 10 per petrol station, and that needs to allow to for multiple drivers, shift patterns, training, reserves etc and oh yeah, the fact that that's the entire fucking UK army. Better hope the supermarkets look after themselves, that's a much bigger job. |
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Post by eleven63 on Sept 26, 2021 21:09:43 GMT
North Wales, not a problem.
But this country has become a fucking joke. It's embarrassing. FFS.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 26, 2021 21:10:32 GMT
They won’t be manning the stations, they’ll simply be driving the delivery lorries, hopefully the teenage lad on till 3 knows how to do the refilling process when the squaddies arrive though
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Post by Danno on Sept 26, 2021 21:11:13 GMT
Let's hope there's some hot English mustard left on the shelves, might as well spice things up a bit. Just imagine the shame of smearing good old trusty British Colemans all over your puckered starfish only to realise that it's horrible diluted American mustard. Barely even a tingle! A horribly sobering thought, which I cannot quench because all I have is Coors light. |
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Sept 26, 2021 21:13:55 GMT
The squaddies will man fire trucks filled with gas.
They'll drive the streets spraying precious fuel at poppy wearing citizens armed with buckets.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 26, 2021 21:18:19 GMT
Every time something like this comes up everyone starts carrying on like the army is fucking pertemps
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 21:18:33 GMT
They won’t be manning the stations, they’ll simply be driving the delivery lorries, hopefully the teenage lad on till 3 knows how to do the refilling process when the squaddies arrive though In about 2 more days it's hockey masks, loud hailers and cars with all spikes on. The teenage lad better be ready for that too. |
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Post by cubby on Sept 26, 2021 21:27:03 GMT
Why didn't we get the army to pick our crops??
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 26, 2021 21:38:33 GMT
The army could've beaten Covid!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 26, 2021 21:41:11 GMT
The army could've beaten Covid! Everyone knows that loudly shouting ARE BOYS grants a you 50% protection buff against forrin diseases. |
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Post by Rodderz on Sept 26, 2021 21:50:51 GMT
And the new government plan is to get the army in to help. If only the army wasn’t so tiny these days. 8400 petrol stations according to wiki, and 80,000 soldiers. so 10 per petrol station, and that needs to allow to for multiple drivers, shift patterns, training, reserves etc and oh yeah, the fact that that's the entire fucking UK army. Better hope the supermarkets look after themselves, that's a much bigger job. How about this: Sorted. Get Britain Done 👍🇬🇧👍. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2021 21:58:27 GMT
Yes I see, we should chain one prisoner to every soldier, thus doubling the available help. How do we get the idea to COBRA?
Actually, Priti Patels mobile number is probably 0123456789 so she can remember it. I'll text her.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 26, 2021 22:11:48 GMT
There are obviously some squaddies that could certainly drive tankers as they have to do that for the army itself and I imagine the ones I've seen drive tank transporters would possibly quite like driving something smaller than normal but there's not a huge amount of them either.
Every time there's some shortage of personnel in any sector the government yells "get the army" while they've also slashed the numbers and we've now got about 80K which will include a lot of people that can't do the jobs they want them to do to paper over the cracks.
Also coming from a garrison town I really wouldn't trust some of them with a fucking pedal car let alone a fuel tanker.
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Post by Psychotext on Sept 26, 2021 23:59:43 GMT
I've got a 500 mile round trip to make on Thursday with a current range of 80 miles showing on the car...
...hoping things improve by then (currently all my local stations are sold out).
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 27, 2021 5:54:52 GMT
The driver shortage has been known about for months; experts in the field flagged the concerns and the government did very little about it
Sounds familiar.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 27, 2021 6:23:26 GMT
Apparently most army HGV driver's are reservists. Guess what their day job is?
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Post by elstoof on Sept 27, 2021 6:31:39 GMT
Ha! Amazing
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 27, 2021 7:14:07 GMT
I've got a 500 mile round trip to make on Thursday with a current range of 80 miles showing on the car... ...hoping things improve by then (currently all my local stations are sold out). Tangentially, this is why there is a shortage (although your restraint was admirable). A few people started panic buying and everyone who had a journey to make this week wiped the other 90% out ‘just in case’. The Mrs has two shifts in London this week and would normally fill up again after the first one. She sat and queued for half a tank yesterday and absolutely refused to accept she was part of the problem because she apparently was the only person in the country who had a legitimate reason to get petrol. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 7:31:04 GMT
Yeah pretty much. I'm barely driving now I'm working from home so I usually put about 25 quid in every 2 or 3 weeks. I filled up when I had the chance yesterday.
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 27, 2021 7:40:10 GMT
Driving only for nursery 3 days a week and a weekly shop. About 20 miles into the red on Friday and need to drive 20 miles to drop the car at a garage to be fixed today.
I only took 30 quids worth which worked out to half a tank but still felt like a fud being there at all!
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