Anecdote about truckers and today's demonstrations [View all]

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I live in a small town among miles and miles of pastureland, hay fields, and orchards, but all that is between two metropolitan areas. A two-lane highway is the main drag through our town. A lot of trucks use our two-lane highway as a shortcut (40 miles of small country road versus 100+ miles on freeways but going through one of the metro areas. It often seems that one third of our traffic is trucks taking that shortcut.

We had a demonstration today that we started in one location and then moved to a main intersection on that main drag through town. I couldn't stay and left while everyone was leaving the first location to go to the main intersection. I drove through that intersection on the way home and was stopped on the cross street at the red light. While I waited every truck that passed the demonstrators who were already there honked as they passed.

Later I talked to someone who stayed the whole time and she said that what I observed continued. Every truck that passed honked and waved.

I think the orange freak has lost one of his constituencies.