Post date: Oct 12, 2013 1:3:0 AM
The trucker jam billed for Washington Friday has apparently jammed up.
From POLITICO.com
Trucker protest a bust
| 10/11/13 2:33 PM EDT
A hoax, no. A bust, yes.
A trucker protest aiming to snarl traffic on the Beltway and inspire a nationwide general strike drew about 30 trucks Friday, causing little noticeable impact on the already slogging, rain-slicked morning commute, Virginia state police said.
The truckers left a truck stop in Prince William County, Va., headed north toward the Beltway and crossed into Maryland on I-495 at about 8 a.m., police said. They sported U.S. flags and the hashtag “#T2SDA” — “Truckers To Shutdown America — painted on their rigs.
But the only thing resembling a shutdown occurred at 8:50 a.m., police said, when four trucks began driving side-by-side on the northbound lanes of the Beltway’s inner loop and slowed traffic to 15 mph. Officers stopped the trucks and warned them not to impede traffic. They did not issue a ticket.
Organizers of the protest didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the results so far have been a far cry from the predictions of Pete Santilli, the online radio host who helped organize the convoy to demand the resignation of President Barack Obama, among other causes. He told POLITICO on Tuesday that he hoped 3,000 truckers could inspire a general strike of “100 million people [to] get out on the street, get out on the roads and demand that our Legislature follow the Constitution.”
The protest drew widespread media attention starting Monday, when U.S.News & World Report reported the plan to clog the Beltway and said the truckers hoped to arrest congressmen. Protest organizers quickly disavowed Earl Conlon, the Georgia trucker who announced those plans. On Tuesday, The Washington Post took Conlon’s word when he said the whole thing was a hoax.
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