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TRUCKERS' PROTEST * USA - ... Will be a rally through Skaneateles Friday by truckers protesting regulations proposed by the state
Skaneateles truck rally details depend on whom you ask
Auburn,NY,USA -The Auburn Citizen, by Christopher Caskey -November 26, 2008: -- ... Charlie Claburn is the Northeast regional director of Truckers and Citizens United, the national organization staging the protest. He said residents of Skaneateles and other rural communities have legitimate concerns about the large trucks that drive through their towns from downstate to shorten trips and decrease tolls. The proposed regulations do not affect trucks making deliveries to locations along the restricted roads... But Claburn said the truckers have become the “middle man” in the argument, and stricter regulations will only hurt them... This is “a direct assault against my way of life and against our industry,” he said... The truckers will come from the Thruway on Route 414, to Route 318, and then onto Route 20 through Skaneateles “nice and easy” before heading back to Waterloo... He said he hopes politicians can recognize that without a healthy trucking industry, upstate citizens will not be able to receive food, oil, or most other materials... “Politicians bring words and talk and chaos,” Claburn said. “Human beings deliver hope”...
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