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The truckers strike over fuel prices
By Jeffrey Gold, AP
Posted: 2008-04-01 19:59:01
Filed under: Business News, Nation News
Ridgefield, New Jersey (April 1) - tons of cargo idling around the country Tuesday as independent truckers pulled their team off the road while others slowed to a crawl on major highways in protest organized Persistently high fuel prices.

The support of CB radios and truck sites, some truckers called for a strike Tuesday to protest against the high cost of diesel fuel, hoping the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the country's oil reserves.

"Gas prices are too high," said Lamont Newberne, a trucker from Wilmington, North Carolina, with 200 drivers protested against a New Jersey Turnpike service area. "We have enough money to pay our bills and take care of our family."

On the highway, the North-South team, "so as you can see" staged a demonstration near the lunch hour to 20 mph in near Newark, jamming traffic on an H-nation tripeavily traveled highways, authorities said.

By late afternoon, the demonstrators finally dispersed carriers not on board, and Teamsters union officials and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association denied organizing the protests.

Federal law prohibits the association from calling a strike because it is a professional association.

Meanwhile, in Washington, executives from harming the five largest U.S. oil companies over the high prices to consumers, but said deflected any blame and argued their profits - last year were 123 billion U.S. dollars - in line with other industries.

Are Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Association, said diesel prices, the worst he has seen, but he said his organization does not support or endorse the strike.