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American Truckers Planning a Convoy to DC 2022

Summary of Different Sources by Reverend Dennis

In an act of solidarity with their northern neighbors (Canada), U.S. truckers are amassing to form the Convoy to America's nation capital Washington, DC. The group is tentatively aiming to start the convoy around March 1st, but realize that date might get moved up. The convoy will begin in California and end in DC. The group is urging everyone, regardless of occupation, to join them.

“We’re done with the mandates, we’re done with the government telling us what to do, we will continue, and we will follow just like the rest of the world on these trucker protests, and they will be 100 percent legal, they will abide by the law,” said Brian Von D, a trucker and group organizer. “The government overreach is coming to an end, and this is how we do it.”

On Fedruary 2nd, Facebook shut down and removed the group after it had amassed 131,000 followers. As yet, a new social media site has not been announced. And, recently news came out that the Biden Administration is doing everything it can to prevent this Freedom Convoy from happening.

Brian Base, co-organizer of the convoy, said the goal is to call peacefully for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the U.S. "This is going to get very big, in my opinion, and I think the government needs to take a look at what the American people want. And they don't want mandates."

The truckers in this convoy, like their Canadian counterparts, plan to stay as long as possible until the government coercion comes to an end. It has been reported that on January 29th, Brazil also began a convoy, and now Australia has organized one, as has The Netherlands.

In 2020, U.S. truckers couldn’t pull into truck stops to shower and had serious problems for securing food because restaurants were all shut down during the pandemic’s beginning. They had to receive a government letter to give them permission to get fuel. They endured a lot, and now the government is causing them grief with vaccine mandates.

The Convoy to DC 2022 is expected to be very similar to the Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy, and one major difference will be the sheer size. Canada has between 35,000 - 60,000 owner operators nationwide. The U.S. by contrast has over 350,000 owner operator truck drivers and that number may be considerably higher when considering small carriers and those who refer to themselves as owner operator truckers.

This is because there are over 500,000 trucking companies in the United States and 80% of them are considered small trucking companies with fleet sizes of 6 trucks or less. With over 2,000,000 semi-trucks on the road in the U.S., we can know one thing for sure: the American Convoy to DC will be a sight to behold and not easily forgotten.