Lindsey Oil Refinery collapse leaves 120 tanker drivers redundant

More than 100 tanker drivers have been made redundant after the Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery filed for insolvency.

Axis Logistics, the main delivery firm for the refinery in North Lincolnshire, went into administration along with parent company Prax Group at the end of June.

Administrator Teneo said the majority of Axis’s 137 employees had been made redundant, with a few being kept on “for a limited period to support the orderly closure of the business”.

Community, the union representing the majority of 120 drivers, said the “devastating news” had “come as a shock”.

Prax Group bought the Lindsey Oil Refinery from…