If you keep panic buying fuel you'll be homeschooling again!😆

[FishesWithWishes]

Teachers need to teach in schools don't they?

[Orangejuicemarathoner]

*4/10, sorry not 4/19

[Piggywaspushed]

curious, if you'd like to arrange for a bus route from my village to my school, that'd be fab. TIA.

[BluebellsGreenbells]

rc22

I was sticking up for teachers …. I think you miss quoted me!

[Orangejuicemarathoner]

our local taxis are out of petrol

[noblegiraffe]

Some people don't seem to understand how bus routes work.

I'm wondering where all these taxis will be getting their petrol because all the petrol stations near me are closed.

[Howshouldibehave]

We're not saying we're going to be the worst affected. We're saying if we can't get to work and children can't come to school alot of parents are going to feel pretty badly affected!!

This!

To the people saying to just ‘get a taxi’… have they got access to some special fuel reserves then??

[SquirmOfEels]

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Dont they sleep at the school?

You aren't suggesting... that teachers have a life outside of school?

Outrageous!

They should fold up and hang like bats from the ceiling - like the Krillitane

Schools have got quite good about blended on/off site learning

The people I'm worried about are those like district and other community nurses, and of course the drivers of public transport - which won't be running normally if drivers can't get to work.

I think we're in for a dodgy week (hope it won't be longer than that)

DH has arranged to WFH, because much the of this week was meant to be visiting distant sites, and he cannot do that without risk of being stranded (tried to get fuel early this morning - trying 24 hour garages across 3 London boroughs and all were out of fuel - and not enough in the tank to cover the itinerary, and getting stuck somewhere else is even worse)

[BungleandGeorge]

If you depend on fuel for work surely you shouldn’t let it get so low that 2 days (non work days at that) of reduced supply means you can’t get to work. Or should have filled up Thursday evening/ Friday morning before work. They didn’t start running out until Sunday here anyway. Half the population have filled up now so it will all right itself within days when they get a delivery!

[icedcoffees]

@noblegiraffe

Some people don't seem to understand how bus routes work.

I'm wondering where all these taxis will be getting their petrol because all the petrol stations near me are closed.

It's the new MN chicken.

The bus route that serves all areas of the country at the exact time you need it to.

[TurnUpTurnip]

Loads of teachers in my kids school live in the local area, one lives a few streets away from us

[Redsquirrel5]

No transport here. No bus and no trains since 1982 ( iknow the people who live at the station).I haven’t got a horse any more. It is 10 miles. Thank goodness I retired! One of the young teachers does a rural 34miles and a TA lived in the next county. A couple live walking distance but not many. Then there is all the books for marking or returning.

Don’t forget the health care staff, carers in homes and vets. Supermarket staff and refuse staff. Hopefully those that don’t need it aren’t panic buying.

[Whinge]

It's the new MN chicken.
The bus route that serves all areas of the country at the exact time you need it to.

Yep forget the never ending chicken, we now have the never ending taxi fuel. 🤣🤣

[Jeniwren64]

Around 4 of the 80 or so staff at our school could walk, and there are no about three buses a day, none at convenient times for teachers. I suppose those on the coach routes could use them, except the majority are full
The council round here won’t even let the sixth formers buy a bus pass to catch the school buses, I very much doubt they will let the teachers on for a lift to work!

[UndertheCedartree]

@AmericanTie - spot on!

[icedcoffees]

@BungleandGeorge

If you depend on fuel for work surely you shouldn’t let it get so low that 2 days (non work days at that) of reduced supply means you can’t get to work. Or should have filled up Thursday evening/ Friday morning before work. They didn’t start running out until Sunday here anyway. Half the population have filled up now so it will all right itself within days when they get a delivery!

They started running out here on Friday.

When I drove past on Friday morning, people were queuing half a mile down the road and causing absolute havoc. It was the same yesterday and this morning.

Today neither of our local stations have diesel and the nearest garage that has it is over 10 miles away (and it doesn't open on Sundays anyway).

It's not as easy as "just be prepared". You can't fill up the car if you have to be at work and the queue is over an hour long, or you need to be at the school by 3pm and you're only joining the queue at 2.30.

[Orangejuicemarathoner]

@shouldistop

I've never worked anywhere that would accept me saying I had no fuel as a reason to not come to work.

well, if you needed fuel to travel, and you don't have any, then you can't travel.

Last time this happened, 20 years ago, and half the population all tried to get on a bus at the same time......

Many thousands of people couldn't get to work for several days

[Heyha]

In all seriousness our staff WhatsApp today has been around sorting lift shares for next few days and somebody is going to see if we've got a minibus with enough fuel in to do a shuttle run at each end of the day to the nearest train station. The station is just about walkable as long as you aren't carrying marking etc so there may well be cancellations of clubs, and patchy marking, to give people chance to get home at a sensible time during this period- the bus only runs once an hour to a central point so isn't going to suit many as a regular thing but the trains are a bit more useful..,

[noblegiraffe]

@BungleandGeorge

If you depend on fuel for work surely you shouldn’t let it get so low that 2 days (non work days at that) of reduced supply means you can’t get to work. Or should have filled up Thursday evening/ Friday morning before work. They didn’t start running out until Sunday here anyway. Half the population have filled up now so it will all right itself within days when they get a delivery!

They were inaccessible from Friday here, we had an alert at school to plan our routes home carefully, traffic was dreadful. Now they're empty.

Thursday evening no one knew there was going to be a problem!

[mumsneedwine]

@lemonpolish the bus company have put a message on Facebook. That's how I know. Trying to for-warn parents and staff that there will be problems tomorrow.
Strangely this thread is about teachers so it doesn't seem odd to mention how it affects teachers. However I'm more worried about ambulances, police, fire and carers.
Not sure where these places are where so many teachers live in catchment areas. Must be horrible constantly running into students when not working.
I did have half a tank but had to drive mum to a hospital appt yesterday and used most of it. Everywhere has sold out.

[Orangejuicemarathoner]

@Heyha

In all seriousness our staff WhatsApp today has been around sorting lift shares for next few days and somebody is going to see if we've got a minibus with enough fuel in to do a shuttle run at each end of the day to the nearest train station. The station is just about walkable as long as you aren't carrying marking etc so there may well be cancellations of clubs, and patchy marking, to give people chance to get home at a sensible time during this period- the bus only runs once an hour to a central point so isn't going to suit many as a regular thing but the trains are a bit more useful..,

Lift sharing is banned in our covid risk assessment

[m0therofdragons]

Yesterday our train was cancelled due to no fuel… drivers couldn’t get to work. I can’t help thinking they need better contingency planning!

[Piggywaspushed]

Ah right bungle so I should have employed my psychic powers to drive out of my way to get petrol on Thursday evening or Friday morning ( no petrol stations en route to work) when I had 110 miles left in my tank , knowing in advance somehow that there would be a mile long queue to get petrol at the supermarket I normally go to on Saturday morning...

Why do so many people on MN think their area is representative?

[cjpark]

Its only 4 weeks until half term...surely they'll stick a couple of weeks holiday before they break up now there's more green countries to travel to?

[icedcoffees]

@m0therofdragons

Yesterday our train was cancelled due to no fuel… drivers couldn’t get to work. I can’t help thinking they need better contingency planning!

If there's no fuel, there's no fuel.

What do you expect them to do? Use their magic carpets?

[TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]

Oh my word, We don't have any children. It's not going to be like 'Operation Pied Piper' again is it? Where random children will be foisted onto unsuspected households for education purposes?
(We haven't even got a blackboard )