20 motorists follow a tanker to a building site instead of to a petrol station.... :-)

If it is going to be one of these days may I add

Theres a potential apprentice for you

Probably not one of the 70 million who were going to be heading here, then.

I expected a better riposte from you.... such as

Only *ankers follow tankers!

:-)

This whole episode shows how unobservant people are, that that can't distinguish between a petrol tanker and something that isn't.

My first though was about Hazchem labels and then, from the picture, petrol tankers aren't usually dirty white. Local station is in full operation so I shall pop up there with my 5 li can in the rucsack. Should last well into next year.

It is not as if it even looks like a petrol tanker.

Quite.... I used to work for a petrol station when I was 18.

I used to have to deal with tanker deliveries and so I learnt a bit about tankers.

They have oval tanks, far wider than they are tall so to lower the C of G to reduce risk of a roll over.

They have ladders on them so you can walk along the top to drop dipsticks in to check the volume is correct before it gets discharged into the underground tanks.

They generally come as 6 tanks, sometimes 7 so several different fuels can be carried on the same tanker.

Each tank was between 5000l to 6500l so teh tanker could carry something like 37 tonnes and the rest of the lorry was about 7 tonns taking it right up to to s maximum gross weight of 44,000L

They always carry wheel chocks and a set of fire extinguishers plus portable warning signs saying tanker delivery in progress.

There was also fire certificates to fill in for all grades of petrol but none were required for DERV (Diesel)

The tanker drivers have to have a Dangerous goods licence before they can carry petrol.

The tankers have Orange HazMat labels, as in Hazardous materials and I would see 3YE 1203 for petrol.

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I did that too. Although I am so old that we worked in gallons.

The type of tanker is clearly not for petrol and the lack of hazard signage should have made it abundantly clear, but the colour is very similar to the Hoyer tanker I saw delivering to Costco today (apparently a lot of petrol deliveries are contracted to Hoyer).

In Russia, during 'communism' people got used to joining a queue out of habit.

Going into the woods to "find oneself"?

Thomas Prufer