It's time to shut down your engines and say "Enough Is Enough!" The nationwide truck boycott starts Thursday, May 1 and runs a week, through May 8. Truckers transport most of America's food and industrial and commercial goods. With the price of diesel running at $4.20 a gallon, we can't afford to fill our trucks. At a truck rally in Washington D.C. on Monday, Pennsylvania trucker Dave Gares told the Associated Press it cost him $1,400 to fill up his tractor-trailer with 220 gallons of diesel fuel. Independent truckers and small firms are lucky if they can break even. Many are in debt, can't pay their mortgages or loans, are having trouble keeping their business going, much less providing for their families. Enough is enough!
"If the truck stops, the economy stops," William Lockridge of the Washington Metropolitan Area Truckers Association warned the crowd of 100 at Monday's rally at the Capitol. Truckers urged Congress to stop subsidizing big oil, release oil from Strategic Reserves, and end oil exports from Alaska to other countries, among other things. "The high price for oil is hurting our economy," said rally organizer Mark Kirsch. "It's hurting middle-class people."
Prior to the rally a truck convoy circled the National Mall. One truck carried an Enough Is Enough sign, its driver shouting, "Enough is enough!" through a bullhorn. Today and all week long, it's your turn to tell the President, Congress and the country that "Enough is enough!"
