Campaigners are continuing to demonstrate outside a Cheshire oil refinery in protest at high fuel costs with more action planned across the UK.
About 50 lorries are also said to be heading to refineries in Pembroke and Milford Haven, in west Wales, while 30 motorists plan a go-slow in Hampshire
Pressure group Farmers For Action began its protest at Stanlow oil refinery, near Ellesmere Port, early on Monday.
A Shell spokeswoman said the protest had not disrupted fuel supplies.
Motorists warned
In the Wales protest, lorries, coaches and taxis, are heading to Texaco and Elf oil refineries, protesters said on Monday night.
In Hampshire, a go-slow convoy is expected to start around 0630 BST Tuesday, travelling at 40 mph on minor routes and 50 mph on the motorway, said police.
The protesters are expected to split into three groups of 10 and travel along the A36 at Ower, along the A326, then on to the M27 leaving at junction eight to get back onto the M27 and A326, leaving at the Hardley Roundabout.
Police are advising drivers to avoid these routes, particularly the A326.
Alan Greene, chairman of the South West Wales Road Hauliers Association, emphasised that the protest at fuel prices would be a peaceful one and not a blockade.
He said: “We’re going to park up and we’re going to talk to the tanker drivers and see if they will talk to us.”
Nationwide action
The protest in Cheshire was made up of 14 tractors and about 20 people on foot and began at about 0500 BST on Monday.
The protesters were the same as the ones who organised nationwide action at fuel depots in 2000.
Organiser David Handley, one of the founders of the Farmers for Action group, said he wanted politicians to address the issue of fuel prices.
“In 2000 they [the government] promised they would look at the situation in relation to fuel and fuel tax,” he said.
‘Good meeting’
“Here we are in 2005 and the government of the day don’t even seem to have it on the agenda.”
He added that he had had a “good meeting” with Shell representatives.
The protest failed to get the support of the tanker drivers’ union, the TGWU, but Forum of Private Business says it has “great sympathy” with demonstrators.
Tom Houghton, a Farmers For Action organiser, said: “We are determined to get the issue of fuel on to the politicians’ agenda for this General Election and we will do what it takes.”
From The BBC