OH Slow Roll Attracts 40 Trucks - “I Feel The Slow Roll Went Great” Says An Organizer!
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Far cry from the 2000 they estimated would attend.
We pulled out with 27 trucks (and) within 15 minutes we were at 40 trucks.
Well, I guess 40 out of 3 million is a start. Forty trucks probably looks like a lot when you're there, but so does a wallet full of one dollar bills. In the end neither one gets you very much.
Perfect example of an effort in futility 
The other 13 didn't join them. They just got stuck behind the stupid #@&!$.
I thought they where making the rest of us look bad, luckily there is too few of them for anyone to notice.
Andrew Scott, a trucker from Logan County who helped organize Friday's event, said 40 is a strong turnout for such protests, which have also taken place recently in Indiana, Illinois, Texas and Mississippi.
Andrew Scott, a trucker from Logan County who helped organize Friday's event, said 40 is a strong turnout for such protests, which have also taken place recently in Indiana, Illinois, Texas and Mississippi.
Sounds like old Andrew is damned near as smart as @AOC!
Yeah, I said it .......sue me!
I can hear the FMCSA calling an emergency session to address this like ASAP because of those clowns “movement”...NOT!
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We pulled out with 27 trucks
All the nationwide press they've been getting and that turnout would barely make a decent size barbeque on a Saturday afternoon. Heck, a small town bar league softball game has more players than that.
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BY TRUCKERS NEWS STAFF MARCH 9, 2019
Some 40 trucks were part of the “slow roll” protest in Ohio Friday.
Andy Scott, one of the organizers, said the drive started with 27 trucks and others joined along the route along Interstate 70 between London and Columbus. He said five cars were also part of the protest, which is part of a larger effort organized by Black Smoke Matters and the United States Transportation Alliance.
“I feel the slow roll went great,” said Scott. “We pulled out with 27 trucks (and) within 15 minutes we were at 40 trucks.”
Like similar protests in Illinois and Indiana earlier this year, the Ohio event was meant to draw attention to what organizers say is the need for hours of service reform, more safe truck parking and improved training. It was also meant to create awareness of a larger trucker shutdown planned for April 12.
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