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MORE TRUCKERS' PROTESTS * USA
* Truckers converging on Capitol in diesel protest - Roads being closed in Charleston to make way for rigs
Charleston,WV,USA -The Daily Mail Charleston, by Zack Pettit -April 4, 2008: -- Hundreds of truckers from around the Mountain State were traveling in a miles-long convoy to Charleston today in order to peacefully protest the nation's surging fuel prices... Many of the truck drivers were planning to meet at the Flatwoods exit off Interstate 79 about 8 a.m., and were rumbling off about two hours later to their rendezvous point - the state Capitol... "We're hurting and we want some recognition," said Jeff Perkins, owner of Perkins Trucking in Heaters and co-organizer of the protest with Gary Davis, said. "The gas and fuel is killing the economy. It's not just me either; we're out here for the public, too."... Davis said he wants answers at the Capitol. And while he realizes not much can be done at the state level, he knows truckers now have a platform to get things moving in the right direction.... Perkins isn't sure how many trucks will actually show up, but said if everyone who called actually shows up, Charleston is in for a surprise... (Photo by Laurance Jones III - A line of trucks rumbles down Interstate 79, just above Sandy Brae Golf Course, on their way to a protest at the state Capitol)* Truckers Protest Soaring Gas Prices
SC,USA -News Channel 7, by Robert Kittle -Apr 04, 2008: -- While hundreds of truck drivers across the country have protested high fuel prices this week by either parking their rigs or driving slowly to back up traffic, some South Carolina truckers wanted to do something to get attention without being disruptive... After meeting at a West Columbia truck stop, they drove in a convoy of five trucks and three cars to the Statehouse, circled the block once while blowing their horns the entire time, then parked in front of the capitol building... Organizer Robert McGuffin says there would have been a lot more truckers, but the same high prices they're protesting kept them away...* Ottumwa area truckers join protest - TNT Trucking of Eldon has temporarily closed its doors in protest of high gas prices
Eldon,IA, U.S.A. -The Ottumwa Courier, by MARK NEWMAN -4 April 2008: -- A truckers’ protest that made national news is now impacting southeast Iowa... “Owner operators can’t really ‘strike.’ You’d be striking against yourself. This is a shutdown,” said Dan Anthony, a Missouri trucker who leases his semi and his services to TNT Trucking in Eldon... TNT has temporarily closed its doors... “The fuel prices in the last half a dozen years have quadrupled, [but] the freight rates, the fuel surcharge, haven’t kept pace,” he said. “That extra cost is coming right out of pocket.”... With the national truckers’ strike, Anthony said store shelves will start to dry up a bit “in a couple of days.”... “We don’t like to do that because that’s not why we’re in business. But if we can’t get enough money to buy fuel ... people will become [more] aware when the stuff isn’t showing up on their shelves, because the trucks didn’t get it there. Maybe we draw some attention to how people receive it. Everything you use, everything you eat, everything you touch is delivered by truck. ”... (Courier photo by Doug Sundin - Two semi trucks sit across the street from the BP station Wednesday in Eldon. Truck drivers across the nation have been protesting the increase in fuel prices without an increase in compensation)* Truck Drivers Rally Support to Increase their Freight Rates
Macon,GA,USA -ABC Macon News -Apr 4, 2008: -- ... Rates they say haven't gone up with inflation... Truck driver Danny Ashley says for unknown reasons drivers are getting paid the same to ship items across the country today as they were years ago... While the sur-charge consumers pay to off-set the price of fuel is not going into the pump... The drivers we spoke with today will be parking their trucks on Laurens County Truck Sales property off of I-16 until at least Monday... * Trucker Shutdown Wraps Up Second Day
West Chatham County,GA,USA -WTOC -April 4, 2008: -- Truck drivers are now in their second day of a shutdown. They're protesting fuel surcharges and the high price of diesel that's threatening to destroy their livelihood... Standing together, they say they'll do what's necessary to save their way of life... Drivers said they will stay shut down through Monday... (Photo: Truck drivers are now in their second day of a shutdown) * Feeling the Pull: Truck drivers protest this week after price of fuel goes up again
Ridgefield,N.J.,USA -AP/Black & Magenta, by Jeffrey Gold -4 April 2008: -- Tons of freight idled across the country Tuesday as independent truckers pulled their rigs off the road while others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices... Charles Rotenbarger, 49, a trucker from Columbus, Ohio, said he felt helpless... More than 50 tractor-trailer rigs sat idle near Florida's Port of Tampa as drivers demanded that contractors pay them more to cover their fuel and other costs... Jimmy Lowry, 51, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and others said it costs about $1 a mile to drive one of the big rigs, although some companies are offering as little as 87 cents a mile. Diesel cost $4.03 a gallon at the truck stop... Rather than join the protests, some truckers were forced to sit idle because of shippers' fears of a possible strike... In western Michigan, independent trucker William Gentry had been scheduled to pick up a load and take it to Boston, but his dispatcher told him there was a change of plans...
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