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Yet on another level, the convoy is a morale booster for one of the country's toughest professions.īUCKY BEAN: Two weeks ago, I was very close to shutting my door, and I was 35 years into the trucking. Two of their financial supporters, The America Project and the American Foundation for Civil Liberties & Freedom, push vaccine falsehoods, along with the lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. I have chosen not to get the vaccine.īURNETT: A convoy spokesman says the protest is non-partisan, but it looks and feels like a rolling Trump rally. I cannot cross into Canada unless I get a vaccine. But Andrew Chafa, based out of Washington, Iowa, is still fuming.ĪNDREW CHAFA: I am a cross-country trucker. government does not force its returning citizens to be vaxxed. And while Canada requires all travelers crossing its land borders to show proof of vaccination, the U.S. I'm not going to be.īURNETT: Neither American trucking companies nor the federal government require truckers to get the shot. Based in northern Ohio, he hauls bottled water, canned tomatoes, adult diapers - whatever pays.ĭAN DAVIDSON: Freedom, the government trying to force people to have vaccines that they don't want to have. Dan Davidson slouches in front of his cherry-red Freightliner with an American flag hanging off the side. Trump declared it, and Biden extended it. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Please take a box of food with you, please, a box or a bag.īURNETT: The convoy's website says their main message is to get the White House to cancel the national emergency due to the pandemic. Locals pack overpasses along the route to cheer and wave flags others bring provisions. The caravan has grown since it left California last week. It stopped for the night at the Woodshed of Big Cabin truck stop.īURNETT: A muddy parking lot is crowded with dozens of tractor-trailers, RVs and pickups flying Trump and F Biden flags. JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: Big rigs trundle down the Will Rogers Turnpike, blowing their air horns in solidarity with the self-styled People's Convoy. NPR's John Burnett caught up with them in northeastern Oklahoma. And they've hit the road even as pandemic restrictions are easing across the United States.

#TRUCKERS STRIKE 2022 DRIVERS#

The drivers say they're the red, white and blue version of the recent protests by Canadian truckers. heartland toward Washington, D.C., to protest vaccine mandates.

A convoy of 18-wheelers is rolling across the U.S.

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