Article: Letter: Are tanker drivers the new miners? VOICE OF THE NORTH.(Letters)

Article: Why tanker drivers should feel shame ; I would like ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  June 23, 2008 ;     502 words ... ... fuel crisis, Many are worth more than tanker drivers, Points of view, June 19, and his ... intensive care. In the light of the recent tanker drivers' strike, many of us have felt very ... year - pounds18,000 less than the tanker drivers feel they are worth - and we're not ...

Article: Worried tanker drivers warn of new fuel crisis.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 27, 2002 ;     503 words ... ... of the firefighters' action, fuel tanker drivers warned they could still stop work on ... militant Tube and rail workers, the tanker drivers said they would not trust the ageing ... this won't happen, but the risk of tanker drivers not moving their vehicles does make ...

Article: Petrol tanker drivers strike; MOTORISTS WARNED NOT ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  June 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: By ALASTAIR CRAIG TYNESIDE fuel tanker drivers were picketing today in a bitter pay ... delivery contractors." Hundreds of fuel tanker drivers began a walkout today picketing Shell ... COMMENT: PAGE 6 CAPTION(S): ACTION: Tanker drivers strike outside the refinery at the ...

Article: Tanker drivers' voice to be heard
Belfast Telegraph;  February 4, 2004 ;     293 words ... ... campaign for a better deal for oil tanker drivers is rolling into Northern Ireland this ... wide forum. "For too long now the tanker drivers have been taken for granted," Mr ... be in any doubt whatsoever that oil tanker drivers are saying their voice will be heard ...

Article: Tanker drivers paid pounds 500 bonus
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 1, 2000 ;     452 words ... ... haulage firms have paid their petrol tanker drivers a "thank you" bonus of pounds ... are an estimated 3,000 petrol tanker drivers in the UK. P&O Trans-European, which employs 600 petrol tanker drivers and works mainly for Shell, wrote ...

Article: Tanker drivers told to play safe
Evening Standard - London;  October 18, 2000 ;     320 words ...OIL TANKER drivers will be told by their union not to ... represents most of the country's oil tanker drivers, said it would "not expect drivers ... was in any way compromised". Most tanker drivers refused to take to the road following ...

Article: Tanker drivers held country to ransom ; I Have no ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  June 24, 2008 ;     439 words ...I Have no sympathy with the tanker drivers' strike action, holding the country to ransom. At present ... losing their lives earn less than traffic wardens. I feel tanker drivers are just plain greedy and have no consideration for the ...