Independent truckers stage work stoppage

More than 50 independent log truckers parked their rigs and refused to work this morning, as a protest over the high price of fuel – and, they say, timber companies’ refusal to help defray the costs.

“They’re paying us on a scale that hasn’t been updated since 1984,” said Rick Smith, president of the Twin Harbors Division of the Northwest Log Truckers’ Co-operative. “Everybody knows that in 2005, you can’t live on what you worked for in 1984.”