Oct 08, 2013 04:17 PM EDT
Truckers Protest: Just How Big Will Friday's Rally to Protest Political Corruption in D.C. Be? Numbers Still Unclear

The trucker protest set for Friday in Washington, D.C., is gaining momentum, but will likely not be the huge sensation anticipated in earlier reports.

A group of truck drivers planned the political rally called "Truckers Ride for the Constitution," which has more than 65,000 likes on its Facebook page.

The protest is an outcry against issues including the government shutdown and low wages for drivers, according to The Washington Times.

"The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Americans can strike in solidarity with truck drivers!," organizers wrote on their Facebook page.

The trucker collective will kick off the rally with a drive around the Beltway on Friday and continue with a general strike through the weekend.

But Earl Conlon, the Georgia trucker who earlier told U.S. News & World Report that trucks would circle the Beltway "three lanes deep" and demand the arrest of members of Congress, said Tuesday that he is not actually an organizer of the group.

"It's politics," he told The Washington Times. "I did what the senators do. I said one thing, did another. It was just my way of getting your attention."

The rally organizers are making regular announcements and promoting the event through Facebook.

"The only way to get our legislators to operate lawfully and Constitutionally is to penalize them with a credible threat of a shutdown," organizers wrote in a statement about the protest.

The truckers plan to rally in Doswell, Va., early Friday morning and then drive up Interstate 95 to the Beltway.

"One of our demands is NON-NEGOTIABLE: President Obama must be removed from office for crimes against the United States and all unconstitutional executive orders nullified," spokesman Peter Santilli told FoxNews.com on Tuesday. "How that is accomplished legally is for the legal and constitutional experts to determine."

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