FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: Here in Washington, hundreds of truck drivers and their rigs are arriving to protest soaring fuel prices. Now Kathleen Koch has more on the rally, the issues, and what it all means for consumers. Kathleen?</s>KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Frank, as you said, the convoy that we've been waiting for all morning has finally arrived: 300 trucks, some from as far away as New Jersey. They rolled in about a half an hour ago blowing their horns, blocking major Washington, D.C. thoroughfares, all to let Congress know that they're fed up with high diesel fuel prices. Gasoline prices are up 40 percent over last year, but diesel fuel a whopping 54 percent. Truckers say that they want to put the nation on notice today that prices of goods across the board could begin to inch up if they can't afford to make deliveries.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, we need all the help we can get. But I see it as one of those 15 minutes of fame things that two weeks from now nobody is going to remember.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We barely making a living now. The fuel is one of the biggest expenses on the transportation industry because of that, a bigger percentage of all the income goes out either.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought there was a lot of money in trucking. That's why I bought a truck and got in here. And it is a lot closer than I ever thought. And now that the price of fuel has gone up so drastically, it takes all the profit out.</s>KOCH: Immediate changes the truckers want to see would be a temporary moratorium on the 24 cent a gallon federal excise tax on diesel fuel and a temporary end to state tolls for truckers until the price of fuel comes back down. Reporting live on Capitol Hill, I'm Kathleen Koch.</s>SESNO: Kathleen, thanks very much.
Hundreds of Truck Drivers and Their Rigs Clog Washington Roads to Protest Soaring Fuel Prices