Convoys of protesters are driving slowly on motorways as they call for fuel duty to be cut.
Image source,The government has said while it understands people are struggling with rising prices and have a right to protest, "people's day-to-day lives should not be disrupted" and warned traffic delays "will only add to fuel use".
While he said his organisation was not involved in the protests he said there was an appetite for them and if the government did not deliver on the issue there could be "some serious escalation of protests". "The turnout was absolutely fantastic. There were 35 vehicles from our yard alone who took part," he said.
BBC Radio Humberside's Amanda White said when the convoy u-turned at the A15 the queues were extraordinary with "hundreds if not thousands of vehicles nose to tail crawling along".
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