Similar claims were also made by the Gateway Pundit and entrepreneur Kambree Kawahine Koa. The Conservative Treehouse then went on to claim, again falsely, that the cause of this shortfall in truck drivers was a deliberate, coordinated strike action by the local Teamsters union. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government," says Col. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. There are ships full of supplies backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. "It's a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed. But, and it’s a big but, they can’t get the fuel to run the generators. Until power can be restored, generators are critical for hospitals and shelter facilities and more. The federal government has sent us a lot of help moving those supplies, in particular, fuel, is the issue right now,” says Col. On 30 September 2017, the Conservative Treehouse blog quoted extensively (but selectively) from comments given to the Huffington Post by United States Air Force Colonel Michael Valle: With Puerto Rico experiencing a humanitarian and infrastructural crisis in the aftermath of a series of hurricanes, a flurry of stories appeared at the end of September 2017 falsely claiming that a local union representing truck drivers had gone on strike, using the devastation to leverage an improvement in their pay and working conditions.
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