riding along with ernest lee and talking to other truckers gearing up to protest.think it's time for the american people to stabbed up to the force that is are tryinging to drag this country through the dirt and into the sewer. they're trampling on our rights. >> i love my country, and i hate what's going on. i hate it. >> it's traffic all weekend long. >> despite today's slow start clogging up that traffic, j.b. schachtner says there's more to come. >> trucks are going to be driving in shifts, so we've got one shift out now, and we're staging for more drivers as they continue to show up. >> leading today's effort well before dawn ernest lee, a trucker known on the c.b. radio as general. >> what are your hopes to accomplish? >> what we hope to accomplish today is the beginning of making the federal government smaller, getting it back inside. we are looking for an egyptian moment here where instead of 30 million and 35 million people all across the nation we have participation by 100 million americans standing up together uniting saying we have had enough. we want o

. >> reporter: today we'll find out whether ernest general lee's big plans to crowd the capitol beltwayres with thousands of trucks in a protest against the government lives up to the nationwide hype. >> we want 100 million people nationwide taking part in this and they're going to. >> reporter: the plans call for the truckers to hit the beltway around washington friday morning rush hour, tieing up three lanes of 495 circling the nation's capitol with big rigs traveling 55 miles an hour. they say they will keep up the protest through the weekend, obeying the laws and leaving a lane for emergency vehicles. so far, state police while beefing up their presence in the states along the beltway have been measured in their reaction. as long as the vehicles comply with virginia law, then the virginia state police will not interfere with their activities. lee says it's a coincidence that the so-called trucker's ride for the constitution happens to coincide with the partial government shutdown. but the truckers list of grievances has everything to do with the government. starting with the preside