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Truckers decided to organize a “Snail” on the Moscow Ring Road
Truck drivers demanding the abolition of tolls on federal highways are going to hold an action on the Moscow Ring Road called "Snail" - they will occupy two lanes on the road and will move at the minimum permitted speed. This was told by Kommersant journalist Alexander Chernykh, who is in the Moscow region along with truckers.
Chernykh said that the drivers would try to arrange a "Snail" on Friday, December 4th. “At the same time, they hope that their Moscow counterparts, Moscow activists, will occupy the remaining lanes next to them, and they will get a column of very, very slow-moving cars that do not violate the rules, but at the same time create traffic problems,” the journalist said.
It was assumed that the action of truckers could be canceled if Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Federal Assembly, mentions the issue of introducing a fee from heavy vehicles. Putin did not do this in his speech.
The chairman of the central council of the Interregional Trade Union of Professional Drivers, Alexander Kotov, in a commentary to the Moscow agency, said : “Tomorrow, truckers are going to Moscow. They confirmed the movement in Dagestan, they confirmed it in Stavropol, in Kursk, in Tula, and everyone else will soon confirm it.” According to Kotov, in the Moscow region, in particular, there are 200 trucks from Dagestan.
“They were very offended that television did not talk about the protests of truckers in any way, completely ignored them, and they hoped that maybe the president did not fully understand the nature of the problem, and hoped that maybe the president would somehow act as a good wizard, and right now he will at least speak out, at least give them a signal that he knows that he will figure it out. Basically, it was their only hope.”
- After Vladimir Putin's speech, truckers who had reached the Moscow region in recent days began to form convoys of trucks.