DCC-Certas Energy DRIVERS INFO BLOG: Island fuel protesters pump up pressure for fair prices

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Island fuel protesters pump up pressure for fair prices

The head of GB Oils - the parent company of Scottish Fuels – ran a gauntlet of protesters outside Council Offices in Stornoway this morning as a vocal group had gathered to declare their disgust at the rise in the oil distributor’s fuel prices, which has a direct impact on pence per litre at the pumps.

Managing Director of GB Oils, Sam Chambers had agreed to meet privately with Western Isles councillors, MP Angus MacNeil and MSP Alasdair Allan to explain the company’s position.
Following the price hike two weeks ago Scottish Fuels had went on the record to say: “Our prices are determined by looking at the price in the market over the previous five days, taking an average and then setting our price at that for the next five days.
http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/island_fuel_protesters_pump_up_pressure_for_fair_prices_1_1897982

8 comments:

Anonymous9:43 PM
Haha SAM's face on TV!! Well it time for all the boys to cook the books for OFT
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Anonymous8:08 PM
when we had the sam chambers roadshow in our region,sorry gb oils roadshow ,it was bought up about the priceing of kero.how could they justify chargeing one customer 30p a litre more than a neighbour not more than 1/2 a mile away.answer thats business .if a customer complains then they will lower the bill!
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Anonymous1:44 AM
please make a proper forum so drivers can post on all topics and create their own
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Anonymous7:33 PM
the roadshow has never been to our depot i thought it was just a myth
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Anonymous8:00 PM
This forum just seems to be for all the scotish idiot to slag each other off instead of communicating around the country with other drivers on subjects without having 100% negative veiws all the time.
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Anonymous6:43 AM
there is no need to be raciest and if you have something positive please add
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Anonymous7:51 PM
Im married to a spanish woman raceist is one thing im not,but the company love this blog site its there way of knowing that the drivers in this company will never be united coz there too busy slagging each other off. it was clear apparantly when they had the football in scotland the scots lads just saw it as a way of getting rid of frustration one of them got kicked out for fighting with a work memeber south of the border someone needs to tell them theres more to life than just history.
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Firm fined for over-worked drivers

Officers discovered the company had failed to ensure their drivers took adequate rest while carrying youngsters.The court heard that some drivers had taken less than four hours' rest between finishing driving one day and starting work for the following shift.
Drivers had also worked up to 27 consecutive days without taking the legally required breaks.
The officers also found that E****d B*****y, as both director and transport manager, had failed to keep adequate records and systems to properly monitor his drivers' working hours.
B*****y pleaded guilty to 77 offences relating to breaches of Drivers' Hours Rules and failing to keep records of work.
Magistrates fined him £17,000 and ordered him to pay £80,000 in costs.
Nine of the company's drivers previously pleaded guilty to a variety of offences and received fines.
VOSA operations director Alex Fiddes said: "I am very pleased with the level of fines the court has handed out.
"It shows how serious these offences are.
"Drivers who do not take the required amount of rest risk causing a serious accident."

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