Transport Strike Starting Friday

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Postby Kmoppz » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:34 pm

I guess so...

I bet he makes a better price shipping to the UK, seems an ever growing demand here for organic produce.
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Postby princess peach » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:40 pm

not much fuel left in Gib today..and surrounding petrol stations over the border in spain are running short also... :roll:
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Postby spanish_lad » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:50 pm

are the airports effected?
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Postby El Cid » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:35 pm

spanish_lad wrote:are the airports effected?
Not unless a few drivers decide to blockade them.

It's interesting to note that the union that is behind this action only represent 18% of the transportistas.

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Postby Zofia » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:42 pm

The only thing we noticed here today was no lorries on the road. Petrol stations appear to be ok, no queues or anything.
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Postby katy » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:45 pm

Zapetero says he may bring in the Army to guarantee fuel supplies.
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Postby Miro » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:03 pm

Carrefour Torremolinos had no meat today, and very few vegetables. Food riots on the way? :shock:
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Postby jennyshaw » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:25 am

Will this affect the car hire companies, because as you know they normally supply you with a full tank of fuel.
We are coming over on Thursday, i hope it wont affect us with the hire car.
We will be landing at Granada Airport.
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Postby kelly » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:58 am

THE PEOPLE HERE ARE COMMUNIST AND THICK ESPECIALLY THOSE CATALANS AND BASQUES MY MATE IN THE UK PAYS 15 QUID MORE THEN ME TO FILL UP. YET NO ONE IS SMASHING LORRIES ETC ETC..
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Postby Colinm » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:21 am

BUT THEN HE PROBABLY GETS PAID SUBSTANTIALLY MORE!

(we can all shout, it really doesn't help!)
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Postby kelly » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:28 am

NO WE EARN THE SAME AS WE BOTH RUN OUR OWN FIRM
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Postby El Cid » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:49 am

I have just come back from an airport run. The roads were totally clear of lorries and I have never seen the traffic running so smoothly round the Malaga ring road.

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Postby karandjon » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:11 pm

No bread (packaged loaves), dairy products, or baby foods in our local Mercadona today! And at 11am (there are normally only a few people in with baskets)...today practically the whole town was in, with trolleys, emptying the shelves of what was left!!
What made me giggle was the queue for the in-house made barras...it was 30 deep (no queue) and as soon as the woman was taking them out of the oven they were being mauled off of the shelf!!What a sight!!

...and this was al in a small Mercadona in a very small town!
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Postby Laslomas » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:17 pm

My daughter flies into Malaga today and she is picking up a hire car (Helle Hollis) I sent her a text to tell her to be sure they fuel the car up - or she may not get back to the airport again. I am sure it is in their interests to do so, or if no one can get fuel, their hire cars will be abandoned all over the Costa del Sol.
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Postby Wicksey » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:40 pm

Just been to fill up with diesel but the Repsol at Algarrobo exit on the motorway was of out of it. Shame they didn't put a sign up outside as there were loads of us driving in and peering at all the pumps to then see that the deisel pumps had covers on them, then driving out again. The new petrol station on the other side had some but we had to queue a while. A bolshie little Brit tried to jump the queue but the rest of us saw him off ....ha ...... ha :lol: . Gosh, this is good fun :wink: . Can't wait to go to Mercadona tomorrow to see what's left, and from what Karen says, to see the old ladies fighting for a barra :D.

Anyone know how long this is going to last?
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Postby bubba » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:54 pm

fuengirola stations closed, alhaurin at the top only got 98 petrol, big queue at the other stations. Cartama peublo looked like it had all pumps open.
Spoke to english supermarket their deliverys are stuck in france but she said she paid extra insurance, cant see what good that will do.
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Postby Kmoppz » Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:48 pm

We are down this Thursday afternoon... could be a long walk from the airport!
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Postby Zofia » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:47 pm

OH just been to get a new gas bombona , he said there were no queues and both petrol stations seemed to be as usual. There were only a couple of cars filling up. Haven't ventured into a supermarket yet but got my onlline Mercodona delivery this morning, with no problems.
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Postby karandjon » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:14 pm

We have just been for butano, and yes the garage "looked" normal, as cars were filling up with unleaded. Where we are, it is the diesel the garages have all run out of!
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Postby spanish_lad » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:23 pm

alhaurin campsa down the bottom still has it all, i saw there was no diesel in monda earlier ...

wonder what will happen when no1 can get to work ? :lol:
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