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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:47 PM Feb 2022

Convoy rolled to a stop with a crash

Posted: February 28, 2022 12:25 PM
Updated: February 28, 2022 1:23 PM by Shannon Becker

... MoDOT and Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a crash about 11:15 a.m. at the 47 mile marker eastbound in the passing lane near Mount Vernon. One semi rear ended another ... Bieller’s Towing removed one semi to the shoulder. The other was driven to the next exit, the eastbound rest stop ...

https://www.koamnewsnow.com/the-peoples-convoy-rolled-through-the-joplin-area-but-came-to-a-stop-with-a-crash-near-mt-vernon/

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Convoy rolled to a stop with a crash (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2022 OP
Lol, this thing is a joke. Hilarious! JoanofArgh Feb 2022 #1
Planning hasn't been their strong suit, has it? gratuitous Feb 2022 #3
California trucker convoy disbands struggle4progress Feb 2022 #2
K&R for, oh that *other* convoy. UTUSN Feb 2022 #4
Another speed bump after four trucks crash in Oklahoma struggle4progress Feb 2022 #5
Vinita is not very far from Joplin. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2022 #10
OMG. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #12
A convoy without a cause....how sad. nt OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2022 #6
Ooops!!! GoCubsGo Feb 2022 #7
So these idiots can't drive any better than they can think? highplainsdem Feb 2022 #8
And this is about masks, right? Scrivener7 Feb 2022 #9
"My driving would be even worse if I wore a mask" struggle4progress Feb 2022 #11
It would seem they are being driven by Russian Soldiers. nt Gore1FL Feb 2022 #13
Apparently KKKonvoy drivers can't drive and drink Kool-Aid at the same time. nt abqtommy Feb 2022 #14
ohhhh myyy. But I had been informed that the truckers/convoy were going to bring niyad Feb 2022 #15

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Planning hasn't been their strong suit, has it?
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:51 PM
Feb 2022

I'm ready to go all point-and-laugh on these jabronies, but I still worry a little bit that next time around they'll be better organized and have an actual plan.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
2. California trucker convoy disbands
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:49 PM
Feb 2022

Eric Ting
SFGATE
Feb. 28, 2022

... "The launch in California had a good turn out of supporters, but only 5 trucks were with us on arrival in Vegas," the organizers wrote in a Facebook post ...

... The Freedom Convoy USA was scheduled to make stops in Salt Lake City and Denver, and some drivers expressed their frustration with the last-minute announcement on the convoy's Facebook page.

"Dammit," one commenter wrote. "We’re almost to Wamsutter, WY to support. Wish we had this info last night" ...

https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/California-trucker-convoy-disbands-16956333.php

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
5. Another speed bump after four trucks crash in Oklahoma
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:52 PM
Feb 2022

By NATASHA ANDERSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:11 EST, 28 February 2022 | UPDATED: 13:49 EST, 28 February 2022

... On Sunday, two semis and two pickup trucks from the convoy collided on the Will Rogers Turnpike in Oklahoma around 5.30pm en route to Vinita, an Oklahoma city located west of the Missouri and Arkansas borders.

State police told KTUL the crash, which occurred about 15 miles west of the Big Cabin exit, resulted in injury ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10560889/Peoples-Convoy-hits-speed-bump-four-trucks-crash-Oklahoma.html

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
10. Vinita is not very far from Joplin.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 05:16 PM
Feb 2022

So, two semi crashes in about 100 miles?

They’ll be just pieces of trucks left to roll into DC.

niyad

(112,435 posts)
15. ohhhh myyy. But I had been informed that the truckers/convoy were going to bring
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 06:49 PM
Feb 2022

the country to halt, force the government to resign, and then the criminal class would take over. I managed to listen to the whole spiel without breaking into unrestrained laughter. The eye rolls were not evident behind my glasses.

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