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>>15813115 LIVE: Trucker Round Table Hosted by Reps. Gaetz, Greene and Massie in Washington, D.C. 3/7/2
Noice
Trucker says they shut the country down in 1974.
Parked all their trucks at the fuel islands.
Didn't need social media.
Communicated via word of mouth, CB radios.
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>>15771220 PB
>During the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis,Zapata allowed its oil rigs to be used as listening posts.[18] In 1988, Barron's said Zapata was "a part time purchasing front for the [Central Intelligence Agency]."[18]
>In 1962, Bush was joined in Zapata Off-Shore by Robert Gow.[19] By 1963, Zapata Off-Shore had four operational oil-drilling rigs— Scorpion (from 1956, the first oil-drilling jackup rig ever built), Vinegaroon (from 1957), Sidewinder, and (in the Persian Gulf) Nola III.
>11.3 - Podesta indicted
>11.4 - Prepare for zero-day [massive cyber-power] attacks [attempts] on 11.4/ Mr. Podesta (actionable 11.4).
>11.6 - Huma indicted
>11.9 - v. 11.9
>11.11 - POTUS meeting PUTIN on 11.11
>Trucker says they shut the country down in 1974.
probably ought to just do it now
Trucker Protest Slowing Gasoline Deliveries Here
By Agis Salpukas; Special to The New York Times
Feb. 2, 1974
DETROIT, Feb. 1—The spreading fuel protest by independent truckers was seriously disrupting the shipment of fruit, produce, meat and steel today, forcing some distributors and plants to close and threatening others with shutdowns next week.
One spokesman for the truckers said that the protest was now “extremely effective” in 28 states.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Milton J. Shapp activated elements of two National Guard battalions to insure the free movement of trucks after stones and other heavy objects were thrown from overpasses at trucks whose drivers were not joining the stoppage.
Gov. John J. Gilligan authorized the Ohio National Guard to use helicopters to search for snipers and stone throwers, and Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida offered Guard trucks to deliver fuel to police, fire and ambulance units on the fuelstarved southwest coast.
George Rynn, president of the Council of Independent, Truckers, one of the major groups organizing the protest, made the estimate that the protest was “extremely effective” in 28 states, but he said it was weak in some of the Western and Southern states.
He said that there was no contact today with the office of W. J. Usery Jr., special assistant to President Nixon, who has been trying to resolve the dispute.
Consumers have not been affected so far, except in a few areas, but shortages were predicted by next week if the protest continued.
The greatest impact was felt by citrus and produce growers in Florida, the steel industry in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, and meat producers in the Middle West.
The truckers, mostly owneroperators, began yesterday to pull their rigs off the road to protest shortages of fuel, high fuel costs and lowered speed limits.
M. M. Griffith, sales manager of Sealed Sweet, Inc., in Tampa, the largest shipper of, citrus fruit in Florida, said, “AS of this morning we're shut down. There's no equipment to load. Our houses are closed.”
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Some of the fruits, such as temple oranges and strawberries, which are now at the peak of the season and are highly perishable, will be diverted to canneries or sold locally, he said. Major shippers said that the lack of movement northward would decrease supplies and drive up prices in the North.
Some urban areas, such as Pittsburgh and New York City, were already feeling the pinch. Only four trucks entered the Pittsburgh produce yards today instead of the normal 25, and wholesalers at the Hunts Point Market in New York said that their deliveries had also been disrupted.
Closings Forecast
Charles Descalzi, a wholesaler in Pittsburgh, said that if the protest continued “by Monday we'll be out of fruit and in a week the whole city will be out.”
Steel plants have already begun laying off small numbers of men, and spokesmen predicted that by next week there could be large‐scale closings.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, the sixth‐largest steel producer in the nation, said that, if the protest lasted a few more days, it would have to order “a substantial curtailment of operations and layoffs.”
Spokesmen for the WheelingPittsburgh Steel Corporation said that only 2 per cent of the company's trucks were operating and that 60 men had been laid off at one mill.
Eugene Januzzi, board chairman of the Moltrup Steel Products Company in Beaver Falls, Pa., said, “It's very severe. We can't receive. We can't ship. Our revenues are shut off 100 per cent.”
The company's steel fabricating plant, employing 200 people, has been put on a four‐day week.
Steel plants in Youngstown, Ohio; Gary, Ind., and South Chicago, Ill., also reported that little of their products was being moved.
Won't Drive to East
In the livestock market near Chicago, delivery of cattle and hogs was down by 60 to 70 per cent. At the Peoria Union Stock. Yards, Foster Embry, the president of the yard, said that about 1,400 hogs were delivered this morning against the normal 3,500.
Mr. Embry said that driven were not afraid to go westward but that most had refused tc haul livestock from or toward the East Coast, particularly it Ohio and Pennsylvania, when there have been many instance: of shooting and of stones being thrown at trucks. Ohio has the largest concentration of truck owner‐operators in the nation.
“I don't blame them,” Mr. Embry said, “I wouldn't take $57,000 rig and a $25,000 load out there either.”
More shots were fired at trucks today on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes. Stanley Flowers, a driver from Greensburg, Pa., was hit by flying glass after a bullet struck the window of his cab about 1 A.M. on the Ohio Turnpike near Youngstown.
Blockade Truck Stops
The leaders of the independent owners, who number about 100,000, were concentrating today on closing down'1,000 truck stops around the country that sell food and fuel to the drivers.
Drivers in Southern California blockaded many major truck stops. At the Los Angeles truck terminal, more than 50 trucks jammed the parking areas and closed the fuel pumps.
Cathy Lurch, the owner, arrived at 4 A.M., looked at the blockade and said, “I wasn't going to fight them. I'm in sympathy with them, Today's the first day in two weeks that I had any diesel fuel to sell. What's one more day?”
Gene Vaulkner, a trucker for 30 years who was coordinating the protest in Southern California from the terminal, estimated that about 90 per cent of independent drivers were not working in California.
“A lot of them are here,” he said. “But a lot more are just staying at home or partying it up at motels.”