State police step up protection for truckers

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

February 4, 1983

State police beefed up patrols and arranged to escort convoys Thursday in a crackdown on people harassing nonstriking independent truck drivers. Violence has been reported in 38 states since the strike called by the Independent Truckers Association began Monday.