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“Parked in protest” * USA - Council in Minnesota to revisit truck ban after truckers speak out
All truck drivers basically have the same philosophy when it comes to trucking: If the truck’s not moving, they aren’t making any money
Hutchinson,MN,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -February 13, 2008: -- ... But money isn’t everything for trucker Jamie Marx, who lost approximately $3,000 in wages, in order to be home on Tuesday, Feb. 12, to attend a Hutchinson City Council meeting... For almost an hour, Marx said he and two other Hutchinson truckers talked to the City Council about the negative financial impact the truck ordinance would have on truckers’ livelihoods... What got their attention the most, Marx said, was when he and other truckers brought up the subject of the city providing a secured parking lot for Hutchinson truckers to pay to park if these other options would not work... An unofficial vote of the City Council has only two members still in favor of enforcing the current ban and three against going forward with the ban, including the town’s mayor and chief of police siding with truckers, Marx said...
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