Posted on 10/10/2013 6:18:24 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Hi Lucky...just talked to my trucker husband who said he’s been hearing some chatter today on the CB about this...I wish them great success!! Thanks for keeping us informed about it...hope to see lots of pics...(and thanks for your weekly silliness thread, too).
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“A 4 car 1 Tractor Trailer accident can tie Rush Hour traffic up for hours, add a serious injury or death and the shut down time is undetermined”
So, you’re all for something deadly happening, huh? Make it nicely more inconvenient, won’t it? And thus bring Congress to its knees?
I can’t believe no one has called you on this.
This potential, along with the massive inconvenience to regular people far away from the actual government, causes me much misgiving on this plan.
“A 4 car 1 Tractor Trailer accident can tie Rush Hour traffic up for hours, add a serious injury or death and the shut down time is undetermined”
So, you’re all for something deadly happening, huh?
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Of course not.
I merely stated a FACT.
I probably should have ‘bracketed’ it but I was trying to point out that FEWER trucks, well placed would cause more ‘grief’ since an accident as I described does exactly as I described it.
At 739 this AM, the WashPost reported an overturned tractor trailer shut down ALL LANES of 495 @ Landover Rd. MDSP unsure HOW LONG BEFORE OPENED UP.
In the same ‘Alert’, they cite an accident on Balt/Wash Pkwy@175 with SOUTBOUND lanes are bumper to bumper and UNKNOWN how long before open - saying several hours.
ONE (if not both) of these was still going on at NOON, saying it happened at 4AM.
I am NOT sure, but I thought that the truckers had planned this BEFORE the shutdown.
‘They’ allowed the Immigration thing to go on because it was pre planned...we shall see....
And you are correct, it inconveniences the ‘wrong people’ but I think the original plan involved circling the Capitol and White House but they probably scrapped that ‘bad’ idea giving the present circumstances.
If you get 20-30(ea) rigs to hit the Beltway in both directions from 95 S in Md and N in VA, just doing the speed limit can/will tie the area up for hours and if they are doing the speed limit and staying out of the left lane they ‘just happen to be there’ and not exiting....
And all they’ll do is PO a lot of people. The way you wrote made it seem you were looking for ways to increase the efficiency of the disruption.
(BTW, the 175 was a pedestrian fatality. It was bad but I’m sure it finished before the truck issue. Why a pedestrian on the highway I don’t know.)
I sure hope there’s a lot of video of this because the MSM won’t show it at all.
My guess is awesome.
Thanks for the ping!
Watching 495 traffic cams on trafficland.com. Nothing looks out of the ordinary. Will be in the vicinity late tonight. Curious to see what is going on. Boss already told me stay off 495. He was told pics will be taken and expect FMCSA audits if your truck is in one. Wouldn’t put it past this regime. A truck is a rolling billboard for the company.
That pix is from Hagerstown, probably not shocking since the interstates are very popular for trucks in the Appalachians.
Report on FOX that looks like a dud. Ironically were truckers scared by the awful rain? Or just a dud, period? I can say they picked a hell of a day and would totally muck up things if they came.
As they said hopefully on FOX, there is still time.
WOW. thanks for the info
Is it possible to move this and make this into a “Live Thread” so others can follow along as the protest goes?
Yeh, I wonder if they are going to mess with the traffic cams, like they did with the biker rally. I sure hope not. I hope there are so many trucks, it’s not possible to hide them.
interesting....
Completely different “account”
Thank you, thank you! I’ve been checking the TV channels and not finding anything. Sadly I found a link on Drudge that says ‘dozens, not thousands of trucks.....’, but I’m hoping it’s too early to judge yet.
I predicted it would beat the Million Muslim March numbers (27).
Sounds like I’ve got a shot at being right.
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