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^ Top   #1   11.28.2007

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Maine truckers protest fuel prices; set up meeting with politicians Maine truckers protest fuel prices; set up meeting with politicians 11/27/07 Quote: Truckers in Maine are gearing up for a second meeting with state and national politicians on what skyrocketing diesel fuel prices are doing to their businesses. OOIDA member Larry Sidelinger, owner of Yankee Pride Transport in Nobleboro, ME, is organizing a session for Dec. 1 in Damariscotta, ME. He attended a similar meeting earlier this month and was inspired. “It was probably the most gut-wrenching meeting I’ve ever been to in my life and I’m not much of a political person going to these meetings. I’m a truck driver,” Sidelinger told “Land Line Now” on XM Satellite Radio. Truckers in the logging industry organized the first meeting Nov. 17 in Lincoln, ME. That event drew 400 truckers and logging industry representatives along with more than a dozen federal, state and local politicians and officials. “People in the logging industry talk about their businesses that employed 100 men or 120 men or 50 men a year-and-a-half ago or two years ago and now they’re down to 10 and 15 and skeleton crews (because of) what the high cost of fuel is doing to them,” Sidelinger said. He said small companies and independent drivers are getting hit hard. landline>>

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Fuel is costing me about $200 a week more than it was 1.5 months ago. So far we haven't been able to get prices up to cover it. Talking with our shippers, but so far nothing. __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't blame me, I didn't vote for the anti American crew.

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