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But over the years they have become eroded,” Diana Holland, the assistant general secretary of Unite, said yesterday.īut that hasn’t stopped rumours that the union’s demands include a 27 per cent pay hike for drivers, and it hasn’t stopped Conservative party officials distributing leaflets claiming that tanker drivers earn up to £47,500 – or pointing out that’s more than a staff sergeant bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan (who earns around £35,000). “Over the years it’s been contracted out to other companies and the conditions and the terms were kept pretty solidly at the beginning. The union Unite, which represents 2,000 fuel-tanker drivers, insists it’s not about pay – but that it is pushing for better terms and conditions for workers in an industry that “used to be run by the oil companies alone”. Wednesday’s talks to avoid a fuel tanker strike will bring to a head a dispute that’s been running for more than a year. Government department DECC press release, 26 March 2012

“Tanker drivers are paid on average £45,000 a year – double that of a regular haulage driver.”