[ZrByte]

I love the way how everyone focuses on the top figure for the tanker drivers pay. Ignoring the fact that this will be only the small minority at the top who earn this. And aren't most tanker drivers classed as self employed like Taxi drivers and Driving instructors? Which would mean out of that £43K the settle for their Cab would have to be paid (Assuming they don't own theirs) as well as a percentage of their fuel or even all of it for some.
Its just like during the postal strike a figure of 18.5K was released as average postal worker pay, this included all network and management positions. I earn 13K and though I am a part timer I still do 31hours per week so would earn no more than 16K top line If I was full time. However this was irrelevant to all those opposed to the strike even though ours wasn't about pay in the sense that we where being forced to work longer hours for the same amount of pay we had previously. So we didn't want a higher hourly rate or anything, we just wanted to be paid for the new hours we where (And still are) being forced to do. And even that was a small part of it.