The organization are the Alliance of Concerned Truck Owners and Organization (ACTOO), Integrated North Harbor Truckers Association (INHTA), United Truckers Association of the Philippines (UTAP), Unyon ng Truckers sa Pantalan (UTP), MIP Truck Operators Association (MIPTOA), Asosasyon ng mga Operators at Dispatchers sa Pantalan (AODP), Surplus Importers and Brokers Association, Inc., (SIBA) and Fruit Importers and Brokers Association, Inc. (FIBA).

"Right now, we are experiencing gradual paralysis. Many of our colleagues have decided not to make deliveries, whether import or export, anymore. Others are fast following suit. In no time, majority, if not all, would do the same. Trucking is now perceived as one of the most unviable businesses we have in this country. We have been bitting the bullet, so to speak, for a considerable length of time and about to reach the saturation points. Losing, over-regulated, harassed, molested and over-penalized at every turn is the best description of a truck nowadays," the organization said in a statement.

"We sometimes wonder what interest all these ordinances and regulations really serves. On the side, we can not but also ask where the Road Users Tax is being utilized when not even we, as servant of economy, are allowed to use the roads," the group said.

It said while we are pretty sure that these ordinances and regulations were born out of good intentions, we are even more certain that parochial concerns must give way to the national goal and greater interest.

The group said each and every city and municipality has it own version of truck ban, color coding, anti–overloading regulations. Towing fees, fines and penalties have their own variations for every place, ranging from exorbitant to ridiculous.

"We find it very hard, if not almost impossible, to deal with all of them, as they conflictingly differ, as you travel from one locality to another," the group lamented.

"Wanting good, beautiful and decongested roads is one thing — however practically strangling the economy, by way of over regulating industries serving it, is entirely a different thing. At best, we see it as an economic suicide," the group added.

Nonetheless, being a vital component of our economy and playing that role for the longest time, we still do not wish to be a part of the problem. We do not want to add our numbers to the people on the street, it said.

The organization said the higher administrative authorities would intervene and rectify the whole erroneous set up.