UPDATE on Truckers
There were reports of scattered groups of trucks making their way toward Washington, D.C. About 15 pickup trucks bearing the official Twitter hashtag of the ride -- #T2SDA (Truckers to Shut Down America) -- were spotted early Friday near Doswell, about 85 miles south of the capital.
By about 8:45 a.m., Virginia State Police officials said that about 30 tractor trailers left the Dumfries truckers' scales, about 30 miles south of Washington, heading north in the right lane with their hazard lights on, WUSA-TV
reports.
The Virginia State Police reports that at 8:50 a.m., four commercial vehicles began driving side-by-side across all four northbound lanes of I-495 on the Inner Loop in Virginia, slowing traffic to 15 mph. The police says the drivers of the four tractor-trailers were warned not to impede traffic.