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TRUCKS #2
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TRUCKS W3m; /
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Yet EY reports from ar- ur ' the stat<'
indic-te the spread of a protest by over-the-ropd
trucke-s-- inhhppy with hir>her fuel prices,
low freight rrtes and lowere1 highway spends.
After a signific-nt beginning with a park-in
protest at Lone Star in Northeast Texas-. the orotnst
spre,'d as far south as Laredo on the rex' can border.
In othe , incidents-- almost thirty inrlepenlert
truckers parked in at the mid-continent truck stop
in Texarkana-- -rven of them blocked& fuel numps.
Other large truck stops in Abilene and Sveetwater
wer also blocked by rotesters.
Some large truck stops beg- n closing in sympathy
with the truckers. In Dnllss, the Mid Continent
Truck Stop and Rockwall 76 Auato Plaza pla- ned to
close their -urlps for the weekend.
Two meet plants have temporarily closed down
bee use 6f the prctest-- laying off 75" workers
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Truckers], script, February 2, 1974, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1962823/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.