No sooner do I post on Slow-Mo Warriors, then I am watching the Ed show and seeing truckers going to the beltway to slow traffic down. I know I am psychic! I came up with my slow-idea while paying for gas yesterday. The clerk asked me how it was going, and I said I am fine, and am not obstructing my government.
“However, if they keep screwing with us seniors, well, we got nothing to lose – but our bad health! I’ve had my fun! You don’t want to see us seniors hit the streets in protest.”
These truckers really have nothing to lose, and they are slowing down – everyone! The government pays for the bridges and roads they make their living on. So shut the hell up – and do your damn job!
Their protest was a no-show slow-mo!
If there is to be a Senior Slow Motion Day, it would not matter if any senior participates, because, many folks think there is a damn senior plot – everyday! I think it’s time to get in these truckers way!
When we Slow-mo Road Warriors hit the highways, if you have the guts to get in front of a big rig, and slow it down, you will receive the David Mann Righteous Duel award.
Jon Presco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)
Once both Mann and the trucker are back on the road, the truck begins blocking Mann’s path each time he attempts to pass it. At one point, the truck driver (Carey Loftin) waves at Mann, indicating that he can overtake. When Mann does, he almost strikes an oncoming vehicle. Mann realizes the truck driver was trying to trick him into a fatal collision. He passes the truck again, using an unpaved turnout next to the highway. The truck soon begins to tailgate Mann at high speeds—over 90 miles per hour (140 km/h)—forcing him to maintain his speed to avoid being rear-ended. The chase continues down a mountain road with the truck’s bumping him several times until the Plymouth goes off the road, colliding with a guardrail across the road from a diner. The truck keeps going.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit
Police authorities in Maryland and Virginia reported no major incidents Friday as a result of the much-talked about truckers protest around the Beltway. Drivers of tractor trailers had said they were going to drive slowly to block off parts of the Beltway to protest excessive government intrusion.
There were police reports of about 30 tractor trailers with American flags and signs for their protest — “Truckers Ride for the Constitution” — driving at the same speed as the rest of traffic on the Beltway in Friday morning’s rush hour. But by mid-day the truckers appeared to have broken into smaller groups amid already-heavy volumes of traffic and rain showers on a holiday weekend.
Will truckers tie up the Beltway?
Lori Aratani
Will Truckers Ride for the Constitution really tie up traffic on the Beltway Friday morning? Let us know if you spot one.
Organizers say truckers’ Beltway protest isn’t hoax
Organizers say truckers’ Beltway protest isn’t hoax
Lori Aratani
Truck drivers who threatened to shut down the highway say they are indeed coming to town Friday.
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In Maryland, state police officials said Friday there were a few minor accidents in the morning on the outer loop of the Beltway in College Park at the Route 1 exit and at the Route 50 exit in Landover — none of them were related to the trucker protest.
The trucker protesters seemed to be but a mere blimp on the traffic cameras of area police officials.
Given there are roughly 200,000 to 250,000 vehicles daily on the Beltway — with roughly 10 percent of them being tractor trailers, the protestor group was going to have to do a lot to stand out, according to David Buck, a spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration.
“We saw about 20 of their trucks this morning coming from Route 66 in Virginia into Maryland,” he said. “They were going the speed limit but it was stop and go traffic, and we’ve had six inches of rain for the last two and a half days.
“Nothing materialized,” he said of the truckers protest, which had taken on a life of its own online.
In Virginia, extra troopers were on hand — in part — because of the expected trucker protest. Earlier Friday morning, Virginia police said the trucks traveled in the right lane of the Beltway, keeping pace with other traffic — around 40 to 45 miles per hour, due to the wet road conditions, said Virginia State Police spokesman Corinne N. Geller.
But by mid-morning, she said, the group was becoming harder to track.
“It was pretty much a non-event,” she said. “They continued to comply with the laws. I would think the heavy traffic and the rain made it hard for them to stay together.”
Virginia state police did stop four tractor-trailers Friday morning after they drove side-by-side, across all four northbound lanes of the Beltway’s inner loop. That caused traffic to slow to 15 miles per hour. State police troopers stopped the vehicles and “warned them not to impede traffic,” Geller said. The drivers were not issued tickets and allowed to “proceed on their way.”
In a dial-in conference call with the group called “Truckers Ride for the Constitution,” one of the protest organizers — Zeeda Andrews — chatted with a truck driver who was going by the name General Lee (otherwise known as Ernest Lee from Bullhead City, Ariz.), and other organizers.
Tom Lacovara of Woodbury, N.J., who was riding with Lee, around 11 a.m. on the Beltway in Lee’s tractor-trailer said the two and other protesters had stopped for a bathroom break mid-day Friday at a weigh station near the Beltway and Interstate 95 in College Park.
Rosamond Press 
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