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Originally Posted by mattr
Even Buncefield didn't really do that much damage, except to the immediate locality, certainly not "city flattening", maybe a small village, if it was really really close by, and that was a couple or three orders of magnitude more fuel than a tanker.
If you want to look at proper dangerous stuff thats tankered around the UK, some of the catalysts they deliver to chemical plants all over the UK will actually flatten large chunks of a city. They burn really fast. Really, Really fast. The term "blast radius" is an understatement.
The drivers used to get paid the same rate as normal lorry drivers, give or take a bit.
And BTW, some markets/manufacturers use dye tags in the fuel system, so if you use red, or whatever colour it is where you live, the stain will stay there until the car is scrapped. The same tags (along with some extra clues) can also be used to let us know if you've been using biofuels........ or cooking oil.
FWIW most markets are selling ordinary EN590 with between 5 and 10% bio content now. (Think 8% is the "stock" blend in most of northern europe.)
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I'm class 1 Hgv driver and also a dangerous goods licence holder i have both dangerous packages and tankers on my dangerous goods licence .I live in Manchester so can't really get petrol tanker job as the nearest is stanlow 50 miles away so not cost effective to travel that far.
As dangerous goods Hgv driver the laws and legislations are absolutely ridiculas
1. ADR (dangerous goods road transport)
2.uk domestic law
3.european working time directive
4.health and safety legislations
My salarey is near £30k based on 48 hrs per week annualised which I think is ok for a driving job but the tanker drivers get £45k so 50% More than I do which I think is wrong some of the acids/organic peroxides/oxidising agents we carry make petrol look like water. We have one tanker driver at our work he goes and picks up thinners or ethernol and is regularly followed by MI6 because it's so dangerous and in the wrong hands really could take out a full city.
I reckon the tanker drivers should stop listening to the legalised protection racket (union) UNITE as bob crow is a £1000 a bottle wine drinker what does he know about driving a tank? Tanks are really really safe it's the dicks that drive them that are unsafe. I was drove a tanker full of powder I went into a corner a bit to fast the weight shift lifted the inside rear wheels off the road. It wasn't the tank that was unsafe it was my poor driving/ in experience that caused the wheels to lift
This is dangerous stuff not only can it light itself it also produces its own oxygen creating a flaming cloud that can't be put out it has to burn out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98jOe...e_gdata_player
Screw the greedy tanker drivers