More than 40 tanker drivers who deliver fuel to Jet Garages have voted to take strike action over pay this month, raising the spectre of petrol pump queues, writes Carol Millett.
The strike action is being taken by tanker drivers employed by JW Suckling, Hoyer Gas and Petroleum Logistics, and will affect Jet Garages across Scotland, in an area from Southampton to Norwich and also 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 said the dispute centres on pay rates and conditions. The union 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.
