Truckers Attend 'Anti-Occupy" Breakfast

Northern California motor carrier Devine Intermodal couldn’t send any truckers to the Port of Oakland Monday because the Occupy demonstrations at the port, so the company decided it could at least feed the drivers.

“We cannot afford to send trucks in hope that things will flow. Instead, we held our own ‘anti-occupy’ breakfast barbeque for all of our parked drivers who want to work but cannot,” said Richard Coyle, president of the company.

Devine Intermodal has terminals in Sacramento, Lathrop and Fresno, Calif., and Reno, Nev., and Coyle said the distances to the Port of Oakland were too great to send trucks there based on the possibility that port facilities would re-open.

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