Convoy news for Thursday, March 31, 2022

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The People's Convoy departs for California from Hagerstown in the morning, but truckers with the smaller, more extreme American Freedom Convoy will remain at the speedway until April 7th, at which point speedway owners are expected to give them the boot.

I checked out The People's Convoy planned route to California, which takes the convoy on an extremely inefficient path. Notably, the convoy is slated to roll through Los Angeles before heading to Sacramento.

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Zach you are on top of things.

AFC is upset with TPC methods. Rumor mill is they plan on a completely different way of protest. Here we go!

Jersey Jay is becoming the de facto leader, he’s homeless, and now becoming more popular as the only live streamer.

He’s on YouTube.

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With respect, they're not "rolling through" Los Angeles. They'll be there for the Defeat The Mandates rally on April 10th, and I'm giving odds the grand poobah of anti-vaxxers himself, RFK Jr will be there in person along with every quack from The Unity Project, AFLDs et al.

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They'll be hailed as heroes on April 10th in Los Angeles. This thing's just getting started, folks. Mark it.

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[global1]

1. Are These People(truckers) Independently Wealthy?....

Who's funding this operation that they can afford the gas, food & lodging for such a long time? What is the point they are protesting? And does anybody besides themselves care?

[3Hotdogs]

3. Funds have been collected but there were also complaints that the funds didn't get to the assholes

behind the wheels.

One funding site was started by a Texas woman with a prior fraud conviction.

Still, money for the fuel must be coming from somewhere.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. The People's Convoy plans to leave Hagerstown Speedway to protest bills in California

Mon Mar 28, 2022: The People's Convoy plans to leave Hagerstown Speedway to protest bills in California

The People's Convoy plans to leave Hagerstown Speedway to protest bills in California

Dave Rhodes
The Herald-Mail
Published 7:48 a.m. ET March 28, 2022 * Updated 7:55 a.m. ET March 28, 2022

The People's Convoy encamped at Hagerstown Speedway for the past three weeks is leaving to return to California, at least temporarily, organizer Mike Landis announced Sunday night. ... The group has used the speedway as a staging area for nearly daily trips by a parade of big rigs, cars and campers to the Washington, D.C., area to protest mandates meant to control COVID-19 and seek a repeal of the pandemic state of emergency.

During a livestream of its nightly rally Sunday, Landis read off a list of strict COVID-control measures that he said were pending in California. ... "These 10 bills that I just read are up for a vote next week in California," he said. "To me, they are the reason that we are here. ... "I think stopping those is more important at this point in time than getting the emergency declaration repealed because that's already in place and we need to stop stuff like these bills from getting in place," Landis said, "otherwise, the rest of us that don't live in California are going to end up subject to the same situation."

Landis did not announce a timetable for the group's departure from the speedway, but invited willing participants to convoy at 6 a.m. Monday to a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., and said "then we're going to start packing up and heading west." ... He hinted that the group might return. ... "We're not done here," Landis said. "We'll go to California and raise awareness along the way and hopefully get more people like we did on our way here. ... "And then, once we stop this, we'll come back to finish this job." ... The crowd cheered Landis' announcement and no one spoke up when he asked if there were any objections.

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General Manager Lisa Plessinger said Wednesday that having the group in the main part of the facility hadn't been a problem while the speedway was still closed for the season, but the convoy had to move everything to a roughly equal-sized space at the other side of the speedway that wasn't needed just yet to make room for Saturday's season-opening race. ... She said convoy would also have to occupy that space to accommodate a race scheduled for April 2 if it didn't find an alternate location to move to by then. ... The convoy was required to vacate the facility entirely by April 7, Plessinger said, so the speedway staff would have time to prepare for when the entire 56-acre facility is needed for the Lucas Oil Late Models race scheduled for April 9.

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Co-organizer Mike Landis said Sunday night that the group would pack its things up in the coming days and drive back to California.

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POLITICS

People's Convoy Gives Up, Will Leave D.C. After 3 Weeks of Doing Absolutely Nothing

BYE BYE!

After creating a mini-city in Hagerstown, the trucker convoy will pack it up and leave town in the coming days.

Zachary Petrizzo
Media Reporter
Updated Mar. 27, 2022 11:53PM ET / Published Mar. 27, 2022 9:56 PM ET

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Mon Mar 28, 2022: Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Try I-70 headed west from Hagerstown. There's a camera at Clear Spring right after they get on the Interstate. I suppose they'll head for Breezewood, or maybe they'll take I-68.

Sat Mar 19, 2022: Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Fri Mar 18, 2022: Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Thu Mar 10, 2022: And they're off. Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

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Maryland Department of Transportation Live Traffic Cameras

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Try this one. I-70 runs through Maryland from north of Hancock to Baltimore. It's the Interstate that the truckers would take were they to head east from Hagerstown toward Frederick, which is on the way to DC. At Frederick, I-270 splits off from I-70. I-70 heads east to Baltimore, and I-270 heads southeast to DC.

Cameras By Route from I-70 at PA Line to I-695 at I-70

I-70 East at South Mountain is a good choice

Cameras By Route from I-270 at I-70 to I-270 at I-495. This is the big enchilada. Any camera on that stretch will work.

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Check the camera at I-70 at Mount Phillip Rd. at the tab labeled "Cameras By Route from I-70 at PA Line to I-695 at I-70." The convoy has made it that far at 11:45 a.m.

[Scrivener7]

5. If these idiots weren't such tools for evil men, I would feel sorry for them.

Dana Lee
@DanaLee64401723
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Most of those who stayed in Hagerstown are indeed now homeless. On TG there are some whining they sold homes or left homes, and jobs to join. And TPC abandoned them. They will stay with American Freedom Convoy who is more unhinged. Good combo, lol.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Toilet Paper Convoy actually said they're going south way because its more comfortable. . . . nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. So, down I-81 and across Tennessee, crossing the Mississippi at Memphis maybe? Thanks. NT

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. 'Truckers convoy' trundles back to California after three weeks of futility circling the Beltway

Zachary Petrizzo Retweeted

With musical accompaniment by an orchestra of the world’s tiniest violins.

H/t
@ZTPetrizzo
and
@coolfacejane

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‘Truckers convoy’ trundles back to California after three weeks of futility circling the Beltway
Three weeks ago, when the “People’s Convoy” and its 100 or so trucks pulled into the Washington, D.C., area, visions of repeating the shutdown of Ottawa by