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INDEPENDENTS' STRIKE * USA - ... GGOO...AAA...LLL !!!
Dan Little: "I think we were 100-percent successful” - Trucking issues, fuel prices dominate headlines
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land lLine Magazine, by David Tanner -April 1, 2008: -- Trucking issues took center stage on Tuesday, April 1, as mainstream media reported on fuel protests and shutdowns being staged by truckers around the country... Major news networks, small-town newspapers, public radio stations and blogging Web sites flowed with stories focusing on truckers who are trying to cope with high fuel costs coupled with low freight rates. Hundreds of news stories focused on shutdowns, slowdowns or convoys... An independent trucker credited with being an organizer of the April 1 shutdown is Dan Little, a cattle hauler from Carrollton, MO... “My goal was not to shut this country down. My goal was to get this out to the public and the mainstream media,” Little told... The positive attention being paid to trucking issues is welcome news, according to leaders at the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association... “That’s really the key to getting the public to realize it’s not just a trucker issue.”... “We’ve been doing stories on high gas prices for a while,” Jere Gish, a news reporter for KMBC-TV Channel 9 News, an ABC affiliate in Kansas City, MO, told Land Line. “High cost of fuel affects everyone. We are all getting pinched. We are understanding if it affects truckers, it affects everyone. Maybe we should have realized that a long time ago.”...
* Truckers pull off roads to protest high gas prices
Trenton,NJ,USA -The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich) -2 April 2008: -- Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices... Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. On New Jersey's Turnpike, southbound rigs "as far as the eye can see" were moving at about 20 mph near Newark, said Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando. Other truckers had gathered at a service area near Newark chanting and protesting. Outside Chicago, three truck drivers were ticketed for impeding traffic on Interstate 55...
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