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Haulage company staff are taking their lorries to London to protest against “the rocketing price of diesel”.

The protest will begin at the Medway Services on the M2 in Kent and will end with a rally in Park Lane in central London.

Organisers of the protest hope that hundreds of people will take part.

A delegation from the protest will hand in a symbolic coffin to the Houses of Parliament. The delegation will be received by Derek Wyatt, Labour MP for the Kent constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey.

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It might not have had the desired effect just yet, but it’s a start.

A few dozen truck drivers pulled off the freeway and into an open gravel lot off of Interstate 5’s exit 72 on Friday, stopping for brief, or longer, intervals to chat with their fellow drivers in protest of the high price of diesel fuel.

Sherri Bond, who operates Bond Trucking in Chehalis with her husband, Bob, organized the event and spent much of the day with an ear glued to a cell phone, conducting interviews with trucking publications and radio stations.

Bond said a lot of support had come from truckers stopping in on their routes, but the turnout wasn’t quite what she’d hoped for. Around 60 drivers had stopped by as of about 1 p.m.
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There’s more than just chatter on the radios and cell phones of truck drivers today.
Industry sources say truckers across the nation are organizing slowdowns and shutdowns to protest the high price of diesel fuel.

And some say truckers may take action as early as Tuesday. If they do, that’s no April 1 joke.

Some owner-operators say they look at the impact of $4-per-gallon diesel fuel and think they’re not going to be able to finish out the week. Others call on the American people to understand their plight, and realize the impact high transportation costs have on food and other consumer goods.

And still others demand that the trucking industry do more to help the nation’s 3.5 million drivers.
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