Dozens of truckers shut down a busy Houston interstate to protest low pay
for keeping essential goods moving throughout the country as the coronavirus prompts lockdowns virtually nationwide. However, with an economic slowdown accelerating, many independent truckers, those who work from load to load instead of for a company, have been left with little instruction from officials — and few options to maintain their own health while still working.
"All I knew was this was a big deal," Stephen Oatley, a broker who runs the blog Freight Broker Live, said in a live YouTube broadcast Monday, noting his own coverage of the protest garnered an outsized amount of readers compared to normal.
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