New Zealand Truckers Ain't Skeered

[Bullwinkle]

Police are advising commuters to leave their cars at home tomorrow, or consider taking the day off, during the truck blockade planned for major centres.

Road Transport Forum boss Tony Friedlander says that protests will now be held in 13 towns and cities throughout New Zealand tomorrow morning.

Whangarei, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Nelson, Gore and Invercargill operators are joining their counterparts in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin to protest against a sudden increase in road-user charges on diesel vehicles.

Disruption to traffic is expected to last from 7am until after 10am.

Inspector Simon Perry in Wellington said today: "We expect motorists will need to factor an extra 90 minutes delay into their travel time. The CBD will be gridlocked and we're not expecting traffic flow to return to anything like normal until after 10am."

Auckland police are encouraging commuters to either get to work before 7.30 or avoid the streets altogether tomorrow morning.

Source: New Zealand Herald

[Bullwinkle]

I wonder if the day will ever come that American Truckers can unite like this again....

[rebel]

There ya go

[freightmaster]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bullwinkle I wonder if the day will ever come that American Truckers can unite like this again....

Maybe... Once its too late to have any effect. Too little,too late!

[BANDIT]

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Originally Posted by Bullwinkle I wonder if the day will ever come that American Truckers can unite like this again....

Hold Your Breath

[OTRboy]

Yeah, let's have a 3 hours shutdown in the big cities here. That would accomplish absolutely nothing.