George R Brown, president of Culpeper Transport Co. in Culpeper, Va., wrote with this comment on last weekend’s Ride for the Constitution trucker protest:
The only shutdown that ever got off the ground was in the late sixties and if memory serves me there wasn’t a lot of media help. A CBer/reefer hauler from Kansas calling himself “River Rat” had the thing fairly organized.
A lot of trucks were parked or ran convoys for several days. There were a lot of flat tires and broken windshields. A lot of steel was moved by car and livestock haulers. Flatbeders, myself included, ran very cautious for several weeks after it ended as some of the strikers wouldn’t give up.
I believe this was the start of FASH (Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers), who I believe did the steel haulers some good getting them better pay and working conditions.
Any readers recall trucking protests of the last 50 years?