Brazilian truckers’ strike begins with no current impact on transportation

On the first day of the truckers’ strike, the government announced that the traffic is going smoothly on all highways; This strike, by reminding the protests of 2018, which was associated with closing the roads and emptying the shops, has increased everyone’s fear.

In a series of tweets, the Ministry of Roads and Transport quoted the police patrol around Brazil as saying that the passage of vehicles on all roads has been going on since 7:00 a.m. without stopping. The UOL news site reported that truckers blocked two lanes of the road near the outskirts of Sao Paulo; Although vehicles can still travel from other lanes. Also, this news agency reported that no other road has been blocked in the state of Sao Paulo.

On Friday, one of the senior leaders of the truckers’ union told Reuters news agency that the drivers were not united and were divided into different groups during the strike; And he predicted that we will not see severe shutdowns.

President Bolsonaro had asked truckers not to strike and said the government was looking for ways to lower fuel prices. The memory of the 2018 strikes in Brazil following the increase in diesel prices is still in people’s minds. When the transport of food, medicine and other essential needs through road transport was paralyzed for weeks.

The government resolved those strikes by approving the minimum transport price; And many truckers believe those amounts are too low. However, these minimums are accompanied by an increase in the cost of transporting agricultural products, and have caused serious opposition from Brazil’s powerful farmers’ lobby.

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