Looking at the news,it does’nt look like the protests are going to acheive much.
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i wouldnt say that Mark. look at the past few days. all the media coverage has caused chaos and that has got us in the public eye. the actual protest itself is not really necessary 
It seems to me that the great British public and the great British hauliers are quite happy to pay the duty and tax the government are charging, if they werent they would have been protesting wouldnt they?..
Im hoping that now the public think the protests arent really going ahead and all start relaxing again, that tonight all the refinaries are completly bombarded with wagons and not a single tanker can move for just say 2-3 days. Now that would get us truckers noticed and make me laugh my socks off watching us great people from great britian go and completly clean the supermarkets out of supplies cus everyone thinks there going to die 
gav:
Im hoping that now the public think the protests arent really going ahead and all start relaxing again, that tonight all the refinaries are completly bombarded with wagons and not a single tanker can move for just say 2-3 days. Now that would get us truckers noticed and make me laugh my socks off watching us great people from great britian go and completly clean the supermarkets out of supplies cus everyone thinks there going to die
Leave it a few days then just as everyone is ready to fill up again.Then do it.
hey pete…what a brilliant idea…everyone relaxed…then hit them…i would laugh a lot myself…but it aint gonna happen…nor is the fuel tax coming down either…it needs a country standing down…and marching on london…now i been working things out…tea van on outer ring road…plenty of bacon/egg sarnies…i could be rich overnight…need a bit of help though…butter all that bread…
It wont happen not now the government can change the laws at the drop of a hat public order laws etc etc , there was even talk of arresting anyone blocking refineries and using the anti terror laws to stop it happening.
LETS just face the facts we have to pay it and thats it .
I see the future going this way though.
This greedy government will be getting far less money soon , when the British hauliers cant afford to work and the foraign hauliers are coming over paying no road tax, no fuel tax, and no income tax. I cant wait for it. OH and the great British public will not only be moaning about so many lorries on the road but they will be moaning about too many foreign lorries on the road.
Ill help you butter some bread trucky if we go 50/50 on the money
Couldnt agree more jammy, the public are wasting so much thought on “that truck that came to close to me on the island while i was going round the inside of him” or “the lorry that sat in the middle lane of the motorway for longer than two minutes” that they havnt got a single thought for what else goes on, I thought this country was surposed to be called UNITED KINGDOM or GREAT BRITIAN well theres nothing GREAT or UNITED about this country in my eyes, everyones out to get to the top of the ladder as fast as they can and no one cares whose feet get stamped on
WHINGE OVER 
gav:
Ill help you butter some bread trucky if we go 50/50 on the money
Couldnt agree more jammy, the public are wasting so much thought on “that truck that came to close to me on the island while i was going round the inside of him” or “the lorry that sat in the middle lane of the motorway for longer than two minutes” that they havnt got a single thought for what else goes on, I thought this country was surposed to be called UNITED KINGDOM or GREAT BRITIAN well theres nothing GREAT or UNITED about this country in my eyes, everyones out to get to the top of the ladder as fast as they can and no one cares whose feet get stamped onWHINGE OVER
Lady Thatcher instilled that bit of public duty on the nation, I blame her. I have a neatly foled flag upstairs that I’m going to fly when she kicks the bucket
the fuel price is hitting owner drivers more than anyone but who can afford to put his wagon off the road to go and join half a dozen other protesters for two or three days?
the price aint coming down, not by any significant amount anyway, many will go out of business, the foreigners will take over all the super market work etc and only the strong with lenghty contracts already in place will survive. it’s dog eat dog i’m affraid and the days of the ten wagon firm are numbered! the big boys havn’t got where they are by caring about the opposition they’ve got there by being ruthless and many will sit back believing they can ride out the storm whilst others flounder and dissapear and who can blame them? at the end of the day we can all pretend to be united but when push comes to shuv, we’re all gona look after ourselves.
bloody hell i took at a look at the thread titled bunch of tossers and im glad this forum aint like that otherwise i would be off.
but on the other hand as a driver thats what you are up against. 
paul b:
the fuel price is hitting owner drivers more than anyone but who can afford to put his wagon off the road to go and join half a dozen other protesters for two or three days?
the price aint coming down, not by any significant amount anyway, many will go out of business, the foreigners will take over all the super market work etc and only the strong with lenghty contracts already in place will survive. it’s dog eat dog i’m affraid and the days of the ten wagon firm are numbered! the big boys havn’t got where they are by caring about the opposition they’ve got there by being ruthless and many will sit back believing they can ride out the storm whilst others flounder and dissapear and who can blame them? at the end of the day we can all pretend to be united but when push comes to shuv, we’re all gona look after ourselves.
I agree Paul. As much as I don’t like to see any tryer fail, those of you who are o/d’s and small haulier’s will be the first to go. It’s been brewing for a long time hence my warnings against starting up to those wannabe’s. It is indeed dog eat dog and it will be the survival of the fittest I’m afraid to say. 
meatpaste:
Lady Thatcher instilled that bit of public duty on the nation, I blame her. I have a neatly foled flag upstairs that I’m going to fly when she kicks the bucket
hear hear that man, i’m fully expecting a national holiday with dancing in the streets that particular day 
Rob K:
paul b:
the fuel price is hitting owner drivers more than anyone but who can afford to put his wagon off the road to go and join half a dozen other protesters for two or three days?
the price aint coming down, not by any significant amount anyway, many will go out of business, the foreigners will take over all the super market work etc and only the strong with lenghty contracts already in place will survive. it’s dog eat dog i’m affraid and the days of the ten wagon firm are numbered! the big boys havn’t got where they are by caring about the opposition they’ve got there by being ruthless and many will sit back believing they can ride out the storm whilst others flounder and dissapear and who can blame them? at the end of the day we can all pretend to be united but when push comes to shuv, we’re all gona look after ourselves.I agree Paul. As much as I don’t like to see any tryer fail, those of you who are o/d’s and small haulier’s will be the first to go. It’s been brewing for a long time hence my warnings against starting up to those wannabe’s. It is indeed dog eat dog and it will be the survival of the fittest I’m afraid to say.
it’s a double edged sword, those who are truely independant and tout for general haulage will find it difficult to keep going as will those who sub on the low rate work like boxes simply because the firms they sub off will be swollowed up, those in more specialissed work may stand a chance but those who sub off the big firms may well come out alright, the biggest advantage for a firm using subbies is they can easily ride the highs n lows of the haulage game i.e if it’s quiet one week they can tell a subbie “sorry mate, nothing for you tommorow” where as with their own wagon n driver they’d be desperate to find work and not loose money for that day. it also puts em in a possition where they can put a price on a job knowing if they don’t get it, it’s cost em nothing, if they do, the profit’s gauranteed as the subbie takes all the risks.
which ever way it turns out i think it’s safe to say that the haulage game will be very different in two or three years time to what it is now.