Truckers From Around Brazil Organize a Strike Starting Monday

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Truckers are planning a strike for Monday, July 22nd. Their main complaint is against a resolution issued by ANTT (National Land Transport Agency). The body has established a new table of minimum prices for road haulage, whose periodic review had been provided by Michel Temer’s government. The figures, however, are below what was expected by truckers.

There are joint administrators among the various trucking groups. However, they deny that they are leading the strike, nor do they even acknowledge that such leadership exists. According to one of the, the movement proposing the stoppage began simultaneously and independently throughout the country.

The Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas, should meet with truckers’ representatives and other organizations, such as the CNTA (National Confederation of Independent Carriers) to discuss the new freight table.

Within the groups, however, truckers reiterate that they will not give way. And if, in fact, there is a meeting with the minister, it will have to be held “on the tarmac.”