Convoy organizer takes a break as participants fall sick, look for new base camp

By Wimberly Patton -March 23, 2022

The organizer of the People’s Convoy has stepped away to spend some time with his family and retrieve his semi truck to continue the convoy’s protests.

The People’s Convoy has been lapping the DC Beltway for the last 27 days, but as the group inches its way towards a month total of supporting constitutional rights and protesting COVID regulations and vaccine mandates, they seem to be losing momentum.

The group’s previous deadline to clear out of the Hagerstown Speedway by Thursday, March 24th has been extended another week by Hagerstown Speedway officials, but the group has been plagued by a cold-like illness that has affected some of the more vocal participants such as OTR Survival (John Bigard), which has been noted by other protest livestreamers such as Sasnak (Stan) reported WUSA 9 News. OTR Survival described the illness as “being hit by a bus,” and a reporter who has been covering the demonstrations says that “more and more truckers with The People’s Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough.”

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What's in a Convoy: How a lack of coherent leadership is causing fractures and factions in the large trucker protest

The absence of daily communications from the most vocal leaders behind the convoy has left a myriad of opinions on what's next, including where to park their rigs.

Author: Nick Kurtz
Published: 5:27 PM EDT March 22, 2022
Updated: 6:27 PM EDT March 22, 2022

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