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Wed 9 Oct, 2013 10:46 am
everyone needs to stock up on food and gas this week have enough to do u for at least 5 days .... we truckers r going on strick shutting down usa .. we r going to show the goverment who is the back bone of this country. SO PLEASE TAKE MY ADVISE STOCK UP ON FOOD AND GAS ..... dont spend no money on OCT. 11-13. at least maybe we can get something done for our country befor it gets to where we cant please everyone fly ur flags and ur show the ten commandments.... please help us u dont have to b a trucker to do this ... DONT SPEND ONE PENNY DURING THESE DATES WATCH THE COUNTRY TURN AROUND . I NO U DONT NO THIS IF U R NOT A TRUCKER OR WORK AT THESE PLACES BUT, THE STORES ONLY HAVE ENOUGH FOOD N THERE WAREHOUSE FOR 3 DAYS SO THINK ABOUT IT..... SO PLEASE DO AS I ASK.....I WOULDNT LEAD U WROUNG. IF U SEE A TRUCKER PARKED N THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DONT YELL AT HIM THAT IS A STRIKE AND WE R NOT GOING TO MOVE THEM EITHER UNTIL THINGS CHANGE.... PLEASE SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR US TRUCKERS... ALWAYS KNOW IF U GOT IT A TRUCKER BROUGHT IT NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. I KNOW U ALL DONT LIKE US WE GET N UR WAY BUT , OUR JOB IS VERY HARD... AND STRESSFULL. ....SO PLEASE STAND BY US WE R UR BACK BONE OF UR COUNTRY WE DONT RUN U DONT EAT.......... SHOW UR SUPPORT
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Well, they just want to shut down Washington, then. Don't they see that's already been done? Why clog the streets when there is nothing left for them to do?
@edgarblythe,
I wouldn't be surprised if their fuel is being paid for by the Koch brothers. Most independent truckers don't have the extra cash to pay for a joy ride to Washington DC.
They came, they saw, but they didn't conquer. After much ballyhoo, a mass trucker parade around Washington, D.C.'s beltway ended up running on empty Friday.
Following a week of intense news coverage, a convoy of truckers finally hit the beltway after the morning rush hour. Four truckers were pulled over by police for intentionally blocking traffic and driving 15 miles-per-hour, but that was the only major incident as of Friday afternoon.
Amid rain, the protest organizer who generated webwide attention by threatening to "arrest" congressmen Monday paced the National Mall with no compatriots in sight.
"I've been walking around D.C. all morning and I ain't seen [anything]," Georgia trucker Earl Conlon, who until Monday was coordinating logistics for the ride, told U.S. News around 2 p.m. "I'm downtown where the real rally is supposed to be. I haven't seen anybody and I haven't even heard anybody on the radio."
[EARLIER: Truckers Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, 'Arrest' Congressmen]
Conlon's earlier comments about the protest infuriated some of the other organizers and he quickly changed his mind about "arresting" the members of Congress he says are guilty of treason. He's now irritated that other truckers didn't make it to the Mall.
"If all they're doing is circling the loop, well a lot of good that did," he said Friday. "Sure taught D.C. a lesson then, didn't they?"
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