D.C. Truck Convoy Organizer's Plan Sputters Like a Busted Engine

[SmartJellyfish]

Source: Daily Beast

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND—At first, ardently MAGA trucker Bob Bolus vowed that his makeshift “freedom convoy” making a beeline from Scranton, Pennsylvania to D.C. this week would “choke” the nation’s capital like a boa constrictor in protest of vaccine mandates.

But on Wednesday, when his overhyped convoy turned out to be a piddly procession of one, Bolus backtracked, telling The Daily Beast that his plans have changed and he will not attempt to interfere with traffic.
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Maybe he should have enlisted Ali McGraw as co-pilot

[Cha]

1. That's might Big of you, Bob.

[oldsoftie]

2. Might have gotten more support a year ago, but now you just look stupid.

[global1]

3. We Should Do What They Ultimately Did In Canada.....

Here's exactly what we should do to any of the participants in any street blocking convoys in this country.

Tell the participants that we will be recording license plates and taking their pics.

They will ultimately lose their trucks registrations and any participants and drivers will have their licenses revoked.

Force them to have to get lawyers to contest these actions. Tie them up for months with legal actions. Inconvenience them for as long as this can be strung out.

It will be hell for them not to be able to drive or to work for months or years - while this is in litigation.

That ought to get them to think twice before they create havoc in this country like the Canadian truckers caused.

[jmowreader]

24. You want to go after one of two specific registrations

A commercial truck has three registrations.

The first is the license plate. That comes from one of the states, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the one you're domiciled in - plenty of Arkansas-domiciled lines register their trucks in Indiana because taxes.

The second is the DOT number. This comes from the federal government, and it's required to operate a truck in commerce. The commerce can be on one city block, but because you're making money you need a DOT number.

The third is the MC (Motor Carrier) number. This is also federal, and it's required if you're in interstate commerce. You could be hauling freight one mile, but if there's a state line in that mile, you need the MC number.

I would go after the DOT number; without it you can't use the truck in commerce at all.

[global1]

28. Thank You For The Info On Truck Registrations....

I'm not up on that type of info - but you got the gist of what I was recommending we do.

If it's the DOT number - so be it.

The only point I want to make is that if these people want to tie up the streets of our country - they should be ready to pay the consequences.

I want them to be inconvenienced - just as they are trying to inconvenience the people of the cities that they are intending on snarling up.

Let them know that we won't put up with this. If they want to protest - there are other ways to protest - without putting whole cities in gridlock.

Get permission from the city and march like all other groups do. Orderly and peacefully.

[jmowreader]

29. Here's the thing

If you pull the MC number, the truck can still operate inside its state.

If you pull the license plate, not only couldn't the feds do it (it's a state-level function) but by doing so the truck couldn't be moved.

Pulling the DOT number allows the driver to drive it to a used-truck lot and sell it.

[global1]

32. Then Revoke Their Drivers Licenses.....

If you tell me we can't do it - do it anyway. Make them take legal action to get it back and use TFG's tactics to string it out as long as possible and make it costly and inconvenient for them. Tie it up in the courts.

[jmowreader]

33. Now, now...

How are they going to get jobs delivering pizzas, the only thing I’d ever hire them for, with no driver’s licenses? I figure them going from the big bucks you can make as a professional driver to $9.50 an hour plus tips as a pizza man will wake their delusional asses up.

Oh…and many pizza shops require vaxxing.

[underpants]

4. Breaker breaker: this is a sad sack o'

Come back

[BumRushDaShow]

5. ...

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In a series of phone conversations with The Daily Beast over nearly three hours, the circular I-495 Beltway got the best of the duo who couldn’t find their way and got stuck in rush-hour traffic.

“You are not going to see a convoy,” Green admitted near the end of the night. As for Bolus, the lead convoy driver, Green declared that he didn’t “know where in the hell he is.”

Both Green and Bolus, expressing disappointment over the day’s events, said they intended to leave the metro area Wednesday night and head back to Scranton.

“This is just one battle in the war,” Green added while saying they were going to try and locate I-270 to get back home.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-truck-convoy-organizer-bob-bolus-plan-sputters-like-a-busted-engine?ref=scroll

Have been on I-495 W / I-495 S / I-495 E / I-495 N many times as well as I-270. One drop of rain, let alone the wet winter storm that is starting up down there (and here in Philly) is enough to bring the whole thing to a standstill. And don't get forced off onto I-66 and end up somewhere in D.C.

[reACTIONary]

20. LOL - As a denizen of the beltway...

... I can tell you these fools are hay seeds from the sticks!

[BumRushDaShow]

21. I'm a retired fed

and was down there all the time. Up and down 355 (tried to avoid 270 if I could too). And it was horrible when there was all the construction going on down there.

They wouldn't have even been able to create a jam because they would have already been stuck in one.

[reACTIONary]

23. LOL - True! Blockading DC is a fail!

[BumRushDaShow]

27. They would probably do better "disrupting"

if they tried to drive up on the tracks of the Red line. That would piss some people off.

[reACTIONary]

22. Just keep circling the beltway until...

.... you see this:

[BumRushDaShow]

26. LOL

OMG that brings back memories...

But this is what I did -

[reACTIONary]

31. Me too 👍

[Deminpenn]

34. Hilarious!

[IronLionZion]

6. "couldn't find their way and got stuck in rush-hour traffic."

In a series of phone conversations with The Daily Beast over nearly three hours, the circular I-495 Beltway got the best of the duo who couldn’t find their way and got stuck in rush-hour traffic.

“You are not going to see a convoy,” Green admitted near the end of the night. As for Bolus, the lead convoy driver, Green declared that he didn’t “know where in the hell he is.”

[nuxvomica]

12. OMG, I was wondering if they could handle the Beltway

I know from experience it's easy to get lost there.

Reminds me of this:

[Probatim]

18. A truck driver who can't follow GPS or read a map? I'm sure he's super profitable.

[Wicked Blue]

7. We're expecting icy precipitation in the DC area

mostly to the north and west.

It could result in a colossal mess of jackknifed trucks and other accidents/

[dalton99a]

8. He needs more flags

[Wingus Dingus]

9. Clearly, that is not enough. Try harder, Bob!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Bolus is Latin for

Bolus is Latin for a ball, in particular a ball or clot that restricts an airway or an artery.

It seems the only bolus here is the one restricting blood flow to Bob's cerebral cortex.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. He was selling his passenger seat for $250,000 dollars.

Guess there were no takers. Just another grifter.

[OnlinePoker]

13. Pretty pathetic that the Canadian lunatic fringe can organize better than the American one. n/t

[Mawspam2]

14. So he alone will get all that sweet GoFundMe money!

Next stop CPAC!

[IbogaProject]

15. I vote ticket them with moving violations

If they try to block traffic, hit them with a pile of moving violations and whatever criminal offences you can throw at them. I wish we would take any of these antisocial scums with criminal charges and get them to agree to zero booze consumption for years. Make them pee in a cup for a couple of years and nickel and dime them with fees and fines. Stop your vehicle on a road and turn it off, reckless driving, etc. Pile on the driver licence points and carry on from there.

[Roc2020]

16. a protest without a cause. too late.

Covid rules are being lifted everywhere.

[sakabatou]

17. *sad trombone noise*

[AverageOldGuy]

19. The leader of this goat rope . . .

. . . was a guy named Bob Bolus.

Google "Bob Bolus" --
-- really big Trumpster; see the Facebook page about his Trump truck
-- insurance fraud conviction
-- other misdeeds.

A real piece of work. Perfect Republican.

[godfree2]

25. do not under estimate crazy

they are still on the road, gaining more

[hatrack]

30. Without an orangutan sidekick you just KNEW it wasn't going to work!