The truckers are coming: Permit, route approved for RNC protest
Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 8:53 am
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As we’ve reported before, a convoy of semi-trucks is en route to St. Paul to bring a protest about high fuel costs to the Republican National Convention. Just after midnight this morning, the truckers, led by brothers J.B. and Frederick Schaffner of The American Driver, got their parade permit approved. On Sept. 2, several hundred truck-and-trailer rigs will make a clockwise loop through St. Paul, crossing the Smith Street High Bridge and heading west across Grand, north on Dale and east on University to the Capitol area. The ride starts at 10 at an Inver Grove Heights truck stop. At 4 p.m., they’ll join the March for Our Lives, a protest organized by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.
Their route:
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Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Is it just me or having the trucks driven, under the name of protest, just a complete waste of fuel? They want to symbolize the high cost of fuel and the burden it has brought them. Using more fuel to protest seems a little off. If the truckers want to show how much fuel prices will put them out of business, walk the protest course. This would be better suited to show that fuel costs have put them out of making any money to support themselves or their families.
Comment posted September 14, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Whatever happened to that trucker blockade? I heard it ended up with only one truck and a car or two behind it.
FAIL.
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