RE: Aviation fuel25 Sep 2021 16:23
The Esso oil/fuel pipeline system transports most airport fuel around the UK, i used to live close to BHX, there is a pipeline along the M42 to that particular place, used to have to watch out for that whenever i had a teams out excavating all over the midlands. You wont see these pipelines on the utility compamies maps thanks to the modern day/IRA terrorists and basic theft Nigera style meaning their whereabouts need to be kept a bit schtum. Daily helicopter line flights monitoring them all all over the country.
What annoys me with the trucker 'shortage', is the fact that it costs around £2500 to train somebody to do the job, i went out with my dad a good few years back thinking id get my hgv1, but changed my mind when i found out all the ancillary bs thats involved ontop of the driving. My job is very very specific and fairly unique so i fancied another string to my bow. Didnt bother in the end and stuck with my career, but to train a new person willing to do the job for only £2500, that is peanuts. UK driving businesses have absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not training UK people over the last few decades. If a business cant be bothered to invest such a small amount in training their own staff then they deserve all that they get. A good friend of mine owns and operates a haulage business, something like 40 wagons, and he's been equally guilty of failing to invest, reap as ye sow as the saying goes.