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There really are some thick ****s out there.....
Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol
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Image caption,Johnny Anderson's double-bellied mortar tanker was followed to a building site by people looking for petrol
A tanker driver has told how he was tailed by about 20 drivers who were dismayed to discover he was not transporting petrol.
Johnny Anderson, who drives for Weaver Haulage, was transporting 44 tonnes of mortar from Bilston, Wolverhampton, to a building site in Northamptonshire.
When he reached his destination, he saw a line of traffic backed up behind him.
"The man at the front... actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker," he said.
The incident came as lengthy queues formed at forecourts amid petrol and diesel supply problems.
Mr Anderson, from Harworth, Nottinghamshire, said he was delivering cement to the David Wilson Homes development at Overstone on Thursday.
He was on the A43 when he first realised he was being followed.
"I didn't notice initially but then on the dual carriageway, I noticed nobody was overtaking me and saw a string of about 20 cars behind me," he said.
"When I eventually turned left into a road that would take me to the site entrance, all these cars turned left with me."
Image caption,Johnny Anderson said he went "full McEnroe" on one of the drivers who tailed him
Three-quarters of a mile later, when he stopped at the site entrance, he heard car horns honking, he said.
Thinking something had fallen off his vehicle, he got out and saw the queue of vehicles.
"The man at the front wound down his window and asked me which petrol station I was going to," he said.
"When I said I wasn't, he asked me 'Why not?' and when I said I wasn't carrying petrol, he actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker.'
"I couldn't believe it... I just went full McEnroe and said 'You cannot be serious!'
"Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief."
Mr Anderson, who has been driving double-bellied mortar tankers for about six years, said while it was "quite funny", there was also a serious side.
"My cargo isn't dangerous but if they are following a petrol tanker, their training is to call the police if they think they're being followed," he said.
"People need to stop and think... driving a tanker, no matter what the product, is quite a pressurised job, so following them puts extra pressure on drivers already under pressure without having to worry about absolute morons."
Image caption,Mr Anderson, who works for Ashbourne-based Weaver Haulage, has driven "belly tankers" for about six years
Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol
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IMAGE SOURCE,JOHNNY ANDERSONImage caption,Johnny Anderson's double-bellied mortar tanker was followed to a building site by people looking for petrol
A tanker driver has told how he was tailed by about 20 drivers who were dismayed to discover he was not transporting petrol.
Johnny Anderson, who drives for Weaver Haulage, was transporting 44 tonnes of mortar from Bilston, Wolverhampton, to a building site in Northamptonshire.
When he reached his destination, he saw a line of traffic backed up behind him.
"The man at the front... actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker," he said.
The incident came as lengthy queues formed at forecourts amid petrol and diesel supply problems.
Mr Anderson, from Harworth, Nottinghamshire, said he was delivering cement to the David Wilson Homes development at Overstone on Thursday.
He was on the A43 when he first realised he was being followed.
"I didn't notice initially but then on the dual carriageway, I noticed nobody was overtaking me and saw a string of about 20 cars behind me," he said.
"When I eventually turned left into a road that would take me to the site entrance, all these cars turned left with me."
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IMAGE SOURCE,JOHNNY ANDERSONImage caption,Johnny Anderson said he went "full McEnroe" on one of the drivers who tailed him
Three-quarters of a mile later, when he stopped at the site entrance, he heard car horns honking, he said.
Thinking something had fallen off his vehicle, he got out and saw the queue of vehicles.
"The man at the front wound down his window and asked me which petrol station I was going to," he said.
"When I said I wasn't, he asked me 'Why not?' and when I said I wasn't carrying petrol, he actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker.'
"I couldn't believe it... I just went full McEnroe and said 'You cannot be serious!'
"Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief."
Mr Anderson, who has been driving double-bellied mortar tankers for about six years, said while it was "quite funny", there was also a serious side.
"My cargo isn't dangerous but if they are following a petrol tanker, their training is to call the police if they think they're being followed," he said.
"People need to stop and think... driving a tanker, no matter what the product, is quite a pressurised job, so following them puts extra pressure on drivers already under pressure without having to worry about absolute morons."
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IMAGE SOURCE,WEAVER HAULAGE LIMITEDImage caption,Mr Anderson, who works for Ashbourne-based Weaver Haulage, has driven "belly tankers" for about six years
I saw a petrol tanker on the A3 during the week with a blue light escort...
Undoubtedly I’d have agreed a week or so ago. See also five times as many people as normal putting the wrong fuel in their car.
However, this **** has been going on for over a week now and has gone well beyond panic-buying. It’s rational to be on edge if you’re in a position where you have no choice but commute by car or to have a certain amount of fuel for emergencies. It still seems to be at least round here that if you don’t go to queue early you’re too late which is frankly mental in 2021 in one of the world’s supposedly most developed nations.
But it’s precisely panic buying (and hoarding) that’s causing this ****.
Had the same with toilet roll and ****ing flour.
No one, within reason, needs toilet roll or flour though. Most people even if they happened to have half a tank as of last Friday will have had to top up by now and throw in a complete lack of confidence in the situation being resolved any time soon and having to bring the army in, it’s not irrational any more.
No one except a complete ****tard need to fill 2 Jerry cans full of fuel ‘just in case’, likewise no one needs to fill a couple of water bottles full of fuel ‘ ‘cos it might be needed’
Unfortunately at present, there are a lot of ****tards about
But following a tanker full of cement is
A tiny percentage of people. Who the **** even has a jerry can lying about? It’s almost entirely just normal people obtaining a basic necessity to do their normal ****.
Normal people filling up their tanks that are 3/4 full ‘just in case’
£2.93 a litre in garage in Sloane Avenue. Always pricy there but taking the piss big time now...