2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike

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2018 truck drivers' strike
Line for refueling at a gas station in Brasília
Date	21 May 2018 – early June
Location	All Brazilian states and the Federal District
Caused by	Increases to the price of diesel fuel
Goals	Reduction of the price of diesel fuel Truckers' exemption from tolls (trucks with suspended axels) Enaction of the law 528 of 2015 Creation of a trucker regulation[1]
Methods	Strike action, roadblock
Status	Strike ended: Most demonstrations ended by June 1 Distribution of food, medicine, and fuel normalized after the strike
Parties
Truckers and oil workers[2][3][4] Confederação Nacional dos Transportadores Autônomos (CNTA) Associação Brasileira dos Caminhoneiros (Abcam) União Nacional dos Caminhoneiros do Brasil (Unicam)[5]

The 2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike, also called the diesel crisis, was a strike of self-employed truck drivers^[6][7] that began on 21 May 2018.^[8][9][10]

The protesters demanded a decrease of the price of diesel, exemption from certain tolls,^[11] as well as a legal and tax reform related to truck driving. Oil prices increased in Brazil after a 2016 policy change^[12] that made oil prices float with international prices.^[13][14]

The nationwide paralysis of roads caused a shortage of food, medicines, and oil across Brazil, with long queues of vehicles to gas stations.^[15]