A caravan of truck drivers wishing to shut down traffic around Washington, D.C. in order to protest issues they claim are "destroying America," will not happen The Washington Post reported Tuesday
"Truck drivers will not haul freight! ... Truckers will lead the path to saving our country if every American rides with them!" the Truckers Ride for the Constitution group said on their Facebook page. The page currently has over 57,000 likes.
Earl Conlon, a spokesman for the group of truckers, a veteran truck driver, and a father of three made comments about the protest in a U.S. News and World Report article before some of his other fellow truckers consulted him about the remarks.
"The comments to U.S. News were designed to do one thing and one thing only: stir the feather of the mainstream media," Conlon told The Post. "Nothing gets the attention of the mainstream media like some sort of disastrous threat. I knew it was going to ruffle some feathers.
"...We know it would not be right to go to D.C. to lock down the city by the Belt loop," Conlon told The Post. "That wouldn't be fair to the people there."
According to The Post, the group wanted to hold a three-day protest on the Capital Beltway in Washington beginning Friday. If it had occurred, the protest would have stopped traffic along the three lane roadway
"It's going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter," Conlon previously told U.S. News. "If cops decide to give us a hard time, we're going to lock the brakes up, we're going to stop right there, we're going to be a three lane roadblock."
Drivers are protesting their displeasure with wages, gas prices, and federal regulations in the trucking industry The Hill reported.
