Trucker Convoy is heading to California

A group of truck drivers protesting COVID-19 mandates on roads and highways around the Washington, D.C., area in recent weeks will head to California.

The truckers, who formed a makeshift group called the People’s Caravan, set out from California on Feb. 23 to protest to Washington. On March 7th, as the protest continued and the convoy swelled to nearly a thousand trucks, some 103km of highway outside Washington, DC, became a huge “parking lot”. And that’s just the beginning.

The demand behind the truckers’ protest is to lift the requirement to wear masks and show proof of vaccination at indoor public events.

And in the United States, truck drivers are a huge professional group. As of 2020, there were about 3.6 million professional truck drivers in the United States, according to the American Trucking Association (ATA). That is far more than the nation’s second-largest freight industry, the rail industry, which employs about 1.1 million people.

In the convoy protesting against the quarantine policy, there were asome drivers wered with the rapid increase in fuel prices. At Sunday’s protest, a dump truck driver told local media he was frustrated with rising gasoline prices and feared big changes in the United States.

This time, the truckers’ protest was not American, but Canadian. There were also large trucker protests in Canada in January and February. It was also caused by dissatisfaction with quarantine policies.