Truck convoy departs California for DC area to protest COVID mandates; finds support along journey

A truck convoy headed to the outskirts of Washington D.C., to protest COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, amongst different points, departed Northern California on Tuesday evening in what is predicted to be a five-day journey throughout the nation. 

Hundreds of truckers started touring this week in a collection of convoys from completely different departure factors as a part of the American Trucker’s Freedom Convoy. The California convoy left Fresno and was touring via Quartzsite, Arizona by Wednesday afternoon, mentioned Erica Knight, a spokeswoman for the Nice American Patriot Venture, a political motion committee that has partnered with occasion organizers.  

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The convoy is certainly one of a number of making their approach to or close to Washington after two years of COVID-19 mandates, and to voice frustration with a number of points, together with unlawful immigration, huge tech firms and power prices. 

“It is actually the federal government overreach… the mandates have been and have been an enormous factor however this has actually crossed past that over the past two years,” Knight instructed Fox Information. 

The Fresno convoy is slated to reach in Thornburg, Virginia, about 65 miles south of the capital, on Sunday. Their vacation spot would be the Dominion Speedway, a motorsport advanced, which can host a trucker tailgate and live performance. 

Photos offered to Fox Information present the drivers being greeted on the facet of roads and on freeway overpasses by supporters. 

Many truck convoys started departing varied states final week. A few of the organizers plan to fulfill with lawmakers in Washington, Knight mentioned, to speak about quite a lot of points, particularly power prices. 

“Proper now we’re relying on Russia for oil they usually’re doing what they’re doing,” Knight mentioned, referring to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “Why are we outsourcing our oil to a dictator that is beginning a struggle proper now?”

Bob Bolus, who owns a trucking firm, led a convoy from Scranton, Pennsylvania final week. He instructed Fox Information on the time that the truckers have been merely asking for his or her rights to be reinstated.

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“What they’re seeing as we speak is only a prelude of what is going on to come back if they do not sit down and take heed to us and do away with these restrictions,” he mentioned. “As a result of then we’ll shut the nation down. We management this nation. Not the federal government.”

The protests come after 1000’s of truckers in Canada rallied and clashed with authorities for weeks within the nation’s capital final month over COVID mandates.