Fuel shortage alert as tanker drivers strike

By Carol Millett

More than 40 tanker drivers who deliver fuel to Jet Garages have voted to strike over pay this month, raising the spectre of petrol pump queues.

The action by JW Suckling and Hoyer Gas and Petroleum Logistics drivers will affect Jet Garages across Scotland, in an area from Southampton to Norwich, and those from North Staffordshire to Carlisle.

The drivers, who are members of Unite, are based at depots in Essex, Grangemouth, Stockport and West London and work on the Phillips 66 contract that supplies fuel to Jet Garages.

Unite claims the drivers are being paid £5 an hour less than drivers employed by other hauliers on the same contract and suffer poorer terms and conditions.

End of line for waste firm South Coast Skips

Hampshire waste management firm South Coast Skips has entered liquidation.

Experts from FRP Advisory were appointed to the Fareham-based company on 3 March and they are now in the process of winding up the business.

The firm had been trading for around 20 years and held an operator licence authorising 25 HGVs and two trailers running out of the Rudford industrial estate in Arundel. It ran a fleet of skip trucks, roll-on, roll-off vehicles and eight-wheel grab and tipper trucks.

Following a public inquiry in 2016, the company had its licence authorisation curtailed from 18 HGVs to 14, but it was able to increase this up to 25 in August 2020.

The last available financial report for the firm showed that it employed 71 staff in 2022.