Rumblings Increase About Trucking Protest Over High Gas Prices
- From: Bob Brock <bbrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:07:53 -0400
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SEATTLE - Trucks drivers are telling KOMO 4 News they are hearing
increasing discussion about parking rigs to protest high diesel
prices.
Several drivers say the talk is "all over the CB" across the country.
This week, log truck drivers in southwestern Washington parked their
rigs to try to force additional fuel allowance from timber companies.
In the Miami area, truck drivers formed a 20-mile long protest
caravan.
At the North Bend truck stop, diesel hit about $2.91 a gallon and even
at a Costco membership gas station, the price of regular gasoline was
priced at just under $2.58 a gallon.
At that gas station, Paul Sockwell filled, up saying he expects to pay
much more soon: "This is cheaper gas right now." Asked if he thinks
it's going to go higher, Sockwell said: "Of course, it's supply and
demand."
Right now demand remains high.
And many pay the piper. Neda Nessirian drives a Suburban. Her reaction
to $2.58 a gallon: "It's almost like a car payment, like a brand new
Mercedes $400-$500 gas."
Neda's upset her gas bill now averages close to $500 a month. P> Pity
the truckers, the cost of diesel: $2.90 a gallon. Mike Fox spent
$1,700 between Indiana and North Bend. His wife, Caroline, told KOMO 4
news: "Right now we are running in the red. We are putting out more on
the trucks that what we are making."
Asked why he continued to drive, Fox said: "Because there's nothing
else to it. It's all we do. It's all I've ever done."
The truckers have heard of logging trucks parking in protest in Grays
Harbor. Quietly, not openly yet, they are talking of parking their
rigs.
Mike said: "I don't know (if) we can bring the price of fuel down by
doing that; but, hopefully, it would get the government's attention.
Something has to be done about it."
The wife of another long-haul driver, Judy Looney said: "That'd get a
message to just about everyone -- when your grocery store start
running out of food."
And driver Owen Adams said: "You would be hungry if you didn't get
your food, if you didn't eat; and that's what I do, I haul produce."
Adams isn't ready to park just yet, although he got a shock when he
checked the pump. His total bill after buying fuel for the truck and
the refrigerator was $352.
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