A
fuel tanker is a large vehicle or ship that transports and delivers fuel, like gasoline or diesel, to various locations. It is like a big tank on wheels or in the water that carries a lot of fuel from one place to another.
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With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by
fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.
After he lost his job equipping garbage trucks and
fuel tankers with computers, Sam Moorcroft started spending a lot of time exploring Web sites.
47 percent of people surveyed in an ITV News / ComRes poll do not understand
why fuel tanker drivers are threatening to strike.
The colony sleeps in plastic packing containers and play around an old
fuel tanker truck.
Soon, though, he graduated to filling up giant, 60,000 - liter
fuel tankers at a ranch called «El Caracol,» connected by buried hose to a pipeline about 3 kilometers away.
Unite the union is demanding minimum standards for pay, hours, holiday and redundancy
for fuel tanker drivers.
Four persons have been confirmed dead after a
loaded fuel tanker was hit by a container - laden truck.
Unlike Genza and his friend who came out alive, many Nigerians have been killed in similar accidents
involving fuel tankers.
Two
fuel tanker fire in Abuja yesterday triggered panic with the country on edge over Boko Haram bombings.
The Healy was on its way home to Seattle from its final scientific cruise of 2011 when it was diverted to cut a path through the Bering Sea ice for a
Russian fuel tanker.
Yesterday, British Columbia's Environment Minister Barry Penner announced that Canada's federal government will cooperate with the province in removing the
diesel fuel tanker now lying underwater in the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight.
It was shortly after this when Cracknell received a direct hit on the back of his head from the wing - mirror of a
giant fuel tanker while competing in a coast - to - coast journey across the United States, using four disciplines: cycling, running, rowing and swimming.
Athens - based Omega, which operates a fleet of
refined fuel tankers, listed assets of $ 527 million against liabilities of $ 360 million in its bankruptcy filing.
Work on, maintain, and
service fuel tankers, hydrant vehicles, stationary fueling carts, and fleet vehicles
Oversaw preventive maintenance and minor repairs on tactical fuel systems and
fuel tanker trucks.
A travel firm confirmed the coach was hit by
a fuel tanker which caught fire and set the bus alight.
Then they miss
their fuel tanker, and that causes a delay.
Rep. Bill Owens wants answers to why
a fuel tanker with steering problems was allowed to enter the St. Lawrence seaway.
The conciliatory service Acas has announced that talks aimed at resolving
the fuel tanker drivers» dispute will be held on Wednesday.
However, the same proportion believes that
the fuel tanker drivers are right to threaten to strike over their demands concerning safety standards.
It is however also interesting to note what a long way some ingenuity and old - fashioned model work can go: it is still difficult to believe that
that fuel tanker blowing up in flames in the first Terminator is actually nothing but a model truck!
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, who represents
the fuel tanker drivers, refused to rule out the possibility that any strike would be held over the Easter holiday.
With
a fuel tanker strike looming, the leading travel add - ons company urges holiday travellers to prepare for a potentially difficult journey to the airport - and to allow plenty of time to get there.
Users can adjust the toggles in order to view the map by ship type — yellow for container ships, blue for dry bulk carriers, red for oil and
fuel tankers, green for gas carriers, and purple for ships transporting vehicles — or zoom in on specific regions.
As a result of
a fuel tanker grounding and attendant oil spill in 2001, a consortium of energy companies from the G7, calling themselves e7 (created to bring renewable energy to developing nations), funded the installation of three wind turbines on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago, to minimize the amount of fuel that had to be delivered to run the generators.