The current dispute is about the delivery companies cutting safety standards for drivers moving vast amounts of explosive liquids. Forcing them into such rapid turnaround times that they are likely to become a serious danger to public safety. What is the Tory Government's response? Oh Yes! Remove the legal limit on the length of time a tanker driver is allowed to drive, despite the fact that he is at that point legally regarded as unfit to drive. What next - The cars that disappear in a tanker fireball on the M1 are to blame because they should have more sense than to drive on a motorway infested by sleeping petrol tanker drivers? We have a government who couldn't give a damn about the safety of ANY citizen. GtD.
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