Truckers in response

Truckers negatively appreciated the results of the meeting with the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov, which took place on Saturday in St. Petersburg. At the meeting, they did not give a word to representatives of protesting drivers, mainly the minister and other officials acted, according to Fontanka from the words of one of the delegates, Alexei Radkov.

“The first 20 minutes went to the monologue of the Minister of Transport, then representatives of different departments spoke for 10 minutes. The delegates who gave the floor did not ask questions. These were the people whom I saw at best for the second time in my life,” Radkov told the publication. “I and the group of other delegates could not stand it and left the meeting 40 minutes after the start, since they understood that our position was able to express only one delegate, and it wasn’t only one delegate, and it wasn’t. I received a specific answer. "

Anna Petrova, a representative of a carrier carrier from Murmansk, complained that she had not received an answer to her question to the minister - why did officials “not hear” the protesters. “Maxim Sokolov, having heard my question, mixed up and, without saying anything concrete, said that he had little time and a train at two hours,” Petrova said her dialogue with the Minister. According to her, the organizer of the meeting - the head of the Gruzavtotrans NP Vladimir Matyan - did not put forward any specific requirements.

“They sat, listened to the minister’s bravura speeches, and this was all over,” said another delegate, Petersburg driver Alexander Himan in an interview with the Moscow Radio Says Moscow. “Now we had a small gathering, we decided to go on a campaign to Moscow. The authorities did not hear us, the authorities showed its attitude, no compromise. Nobody wants to understand the essence of the problem, so the movement will be more radical and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions and actions. It will also be more radical.

The meeting with the Minister took place closed, only the filming group of Channel One was allowed on it. A spontaneous rally of truckers took place near the building, who were not allowed to meet. They stated that the negotiators were not authorized by anyone. The day before, the participants in the protests held a meeting at which they nominated their candidates. Matyagin was kicked out of this meeting, and he held another meeting at which the participants in the meeting with the Minister were selected. Then this list was approved in the Ministry of Transport. According to Matyagin, 15 truckers from St. Petersburg and 10 of other regions, including from Dagestan, met with the Minister. According to the press service of the Ministry of Transport, 40 delegates came to the meeting.

As Fontanka wrote, Matyagin's supporters propose to introduce a temporary moratorium on the collection of road gathering in order to correct the shortcomings of the Plato system. However, retirement participants require a complete abolition of road training. On November 30, several hundred freight vehicles will take part in the “campaign in Moscow”. From different regions. They threaten to arrange a transport collapse in the capital.

The Plato system has earned since November 15. Trucks weighing more than 12 tons must pay for travel along federal routes. About half of the Russian car carriers registered in the system.