The Washington Post Reports: excerpt
Police authorities in Maryland and Virginia reported no major
incidents Friday as a result of the much-talked about truckers protest
around the Beltway. Drivers of tractor trailers had said they were going
to drive slowly to block off parts of the Beltway to protest excessive
government intrusion.
There were police reports of about 30 tractor trailers with
American flags and signs for their protest — “Truckers Ride for the
Constitution” — driving at the same speed as the rest of traffic on the
Beltway in Friday morning’s rush hour. But by mid-day the truckers
appeared to have broken into smaller groups amid already-heavy volumes
of traffic and rain showers on a holiday weekend.
The Associated Press cover the protest.
“We saw about 20 of their trucks this morning coming from Route 66 in
Virginia into Maryland,” he said. “They were going the speed limit but
it was stop and go traffic, and we’ve had six inches of rain for the
last two and a half days.
Bad weather and Bad Traffic:
“It was pretty much a non-event,” she said. “They continued to comply
with the laws. I would think the heavy traffic and the rain made it
hard for them to stay together.”
Virginia state police did stop
four tractor-trailers Friday morning after they drove side-by-side,
across all four northbound lanes of the Beltway’s inner loop. That
caused traffic to slow to 15 miles per hour. State police troopers
stopped the vehicles and “warned them not to impede traffic,” Geller
said. The drivers were not issued tickets and allowed to “proceed on
their way.”
RT America covers the protest
