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According to the following article...,

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/22/trucker.protest.01/index.html

A few streets were blocked off, and they did time the protest after rush
hour.

Do we have your promise, that US truck drivers will never do, what truck
drivers in London are doing?

Maybe the trucking protest in the US will never be repeated, no matter how
high prices get?  Maybe they're done protesting?  Maybe if they did block
pumps, causing backups on to freeways, they'll be placed under mass arrest
and their vehicles will be towed?  Or would you guess that they would
receive media and police support?

What do you think would happen, if truck drivers choked a city for a day or
two, in the US?

Opinions?

Jack Dingler


bclarke928@my-deja.com wrote:

>   Jack Dingler <jdingler@texas.net> wrote:
>
> > It's alright for truck drivers to block freeways on a Monday morning
> in order
> > to protest, but bad to ride a bicycle in the flow of traffic.
> >
> > A truck stopped as a barricade, good, a moving bicycle, bad.
>
> How many Washington DC area commuters were delayed because of the
> Trucker's protest ride?  None - according to the news reports I saw.
> They had enough sense to make their point without blocking traffic.
>
> In contrast, the 1996 (or 95?) Janitor's protest made a mess of DC rush
> hour traffic by blocking some of the bridges leading into the city.
> That boneheaded tactic cost the Janitor's any sympathy they may have
> had.  As a result of their protest, a bill was introduced to raise the
> fine for blockading a bridge to $5,000.
>
> Bill Clarke
> Greenbelt, MD
>
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