The organization that helped put together last year’s trucker protests in Washington, D.C. is gone.
The National Owner Operator Trucking Association has closed its doors.
According to Charles Hentz, who served as director, there were a variety of reasons, the biggest being money.
“We simply had a lack of funding. Myself and two other principals of the association would like to continue the organization, but we don’t know when that will be,” he said.
According to Hentz, NOOTA had about 2,000 members when it closed up.
Twice last year, the group protested high fuel prices at the nation’s capitol. Their biggest rally came in February 2000, when diesel passed the $2-a-gallon mark. The event, which some say was the largest trucker protest at the capitol since the 1970s, drew the attention of the national media and Colorado senator Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell, who spoke at the rally.
To read about the rally, see the April 2000 RoadStar cover story.
The National Owner Operator Trucking Association has closed its doors.
According to Charles Hentz, who served as director, there were a variety of reasons, the biggest being money.
“We simply had a lack of funding. Myself and two other principals of the association would like to continue the organization, but we don’t know when that will be,” he said.
According to Hentz, NOOTA had about 2,000 members when it closed up.
Twice last year, the group protested high fuel prices at the nation’s capitol. Their biggest rally came in February 2000, when diesel passed the $2-a-gallon mark. The event, which some say was the largest trucker protest at the capitol since the 1970s, drew the attention of the national media and Colorado senator Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell, who spoke at the rally.
To read about the rally, see the April 2000 RoadStar cover story.
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