Angry truckers to encircle D.C. with 'blockade'

WorldNetdaily.com ^ | April 14, 2007 | Jerome R. Corsi

[snarks_when_bored]

Truck-Out? I would have called it Truck-Off.

[Flavius]

guess they are not interested in globalization, off to indoctrination camps for them

[ketsu]

Their jobs are already toast.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51162

[sgtbono2002]

Jamming the beltway and other roads that are used by citizens wont get much of a positive reaction from me. I dont know about the rest of you. I dont care if they circle the White House and the Capitol but when they jam me up I am going to say bring in the Mexicans.

Of course we all realise that Mexicans will drive cheaper,but dos anyone really believe that cost savings wil reach our pocketbooks.

I am for American drivers and American trucks and against allowing Mexican trucks into this country, but attacking Americans on the Highways with rolling roadblocks isnt the way to do it.

[SE Mom]

This is worth a BTTT.

When Duncan Hunter and Dianne Feinstein basically agree- it’ really ought to wake folks up..

~snip~
...WND previously reported an amendment introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., into the Fiscal Year 2007 Supplemental Appropriations Bill is designed to block the pilot test until the Mexican government authorizes U.S. trucking companies to operate in Mexico. ...

~snip~
...Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., whose NAFTA Trucking Safety Act is now working its way through House committees, commented to WND on the “Truck-Out” boycott.

“The growing opposition to the pilot program and the overall effort to grant cross-border truckers immediate and direct access into the United States should not be ignored,” he said.

“People have a right to be concerned with the Mexican truck pilot program,” said Hunter, “especially when it could potentially compromise their safety and our nation’s security.” ...
~snip~

[mason-dixon]

As someone from the Washington DC suburbs, using the I-495 / I-95 from time to time (fortunately not for daily commuting), how would we know if these truckers are doing their protest?

The Washington beltway and the interstate “spokes” that feed it are overcapacity every day, including weekends. There are always rolling backups of 15 mph (5 mph many times).

Anyone who hears the DC area’s broadcast radio stations (& webcasts) is very familiar with “Occoquan to Springfield mixing-bowl”, “Wilson Bridge from Telegraph Road to the merge at I-295”, “Legion Bridge to the I-270 split”, etc.

[MadJack]

It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin logs
Cab over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin hogs
We’s headed for bear on eye-one-oh
About a mile outta Shakeytown
I says Pigpen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
And I’m about to put the hammer down

Coz we got a little old convoy rockin’ thru the night
Yeah we got a little old convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin’ gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy ‘cross the USA
Convoy

By the time we got into Tulsa town we had 85 trucks in all
But they’s a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears ‘s wall to wall
Yeah them smokeys ‘s thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says Callin’ all trucks, this here’s the Duck
We about to go a-huntin’ bear

Coz we got a great big convoy rockin’ thru the night
Yeah we got a great big convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin’ gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy across the USA
Convoy

Well we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left ‘em sittin’ on the scales
By the time we hit that Shi town
Them bears was a-gettin’ smart
They bought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard

There’s armoured cars and tanks and jeeps
And rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line
We went for broke
With a thousand screaming trucks
And eleven longhaired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus

Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn’t have a doggone dime
I says Pigpen this here’s the Rubber Duck
We just aint gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin’ ninety-eight
I says Let them truckers roll, ten-four

Coz we got a mighty convoy rockin’ thru the night
Yeah we got a mighty convoy aint she a beautiful sight
Come on and join our convoy aint nothin’ gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy across the USA
Convoy

Artist/Band: Brandt Paul
Lyrics for Song: Convoy

[diverteach]

That’ll be one doosey of a carbon footprint.

[don-o]

but when they jam me up I am going to say bring in the Mexicans.

Please tell me you just forgot a /sarc on that.

[TrailofTears]

The idea of mexican trucks being used on American highways is completely wrong. They will be unsafe and not forced to follow the multi-inspection, and multi-road tax process that the rest of the American Trucking Industry has to follow. In short there will be a distinct advantage given to the mexican trucking industry.

The final result will be American Truckers suffering in an already extremely competitive industry. This is neither fair to our truckers nor is it right.

This attempt to bring in the mexican truckers is merely an attempt to wipe out the border between USA and mexico. We need to be out there with the truckers supporting them. The inconvenience of this going on is nothing compared to the problems that these trucks will bring on us. Just the amount of deaths on the roads with these trucks is enough to say no.

[Graymatter]

This sounds like it could be trouble. Civil unrest, even. So I’m all for it. :)

[ikka]

My personal opinion is that the real issue is safety of the public who shares the road with vehicles that can weigh up to 120,000 lbs.

Imagine the case where there is an accident and the American dies.

Will insurance pay off? What if there is no insurance? At the least all Mexican trucks should be required to have a bond in place to cover such situations.

[BfloGuy]

They will be unsafe and not forced to follow the multi-inspection, and multi-road tax process that the rest of the American Trucking Industry has to follow

Really? Canadian trucks are subject to all that; why wouldn't the Mexican trucks?

Don't confuse allowing their trucks to operate in the U.S. with allowing their poor people to move here illegally.

[peteram]

Yeah - but did they all purchase their required amount of offsets first?

[JockoManning]

American truckers plan to circle the White House and state capitals in a “rolling blockade” to protest a federal government plan to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to operate throughout the U.S.

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[wolfcreek]

“attacking Americans on the Highways with rolling roadblocks isnt the way to do it.”

I have to applaud the truckers for taking action. A lot of people sit around bitching about illegal immigration and globalization but, don’t do a damn thing to stop it. At least these people, who may lose their livelihoods, are making a stand. Hopefully, this will be the start of a national movement to take back America.

[badgerlandjim]

Unsafe you say, Gringo? I understand this baby made it nicely to the good ol' USA all the way from Mexico City - with load of goods intact...

[norton]

Come on out and drive the 710 either way, any time, for about a week.

So Cal is already floating in mexican truck drivers and it ain't pretty.
At one point they were trying to set up their own, independent, union. I don't know what became of that but it seems to have gone away.

I'd hope that is why DiFi went against ideology to oppose this program.
On the other hand, if she's pushing for US trucks operating in mexico, expect your insurance costs to skyrocket.

[Vinnie]

Just isn’t going to sound right in Espanol.