. >> reporter: first i want to show you more of these idle big riggs and there are many of them. add ár at its briefing tonight, howard jordan said his officers will take appropriate action, his words -- and at a briefing tonight, howard johnson. they poured into the port like a river of protest. more than 1,000 marchers. jubilant after keeping several shifts from being unloaded at the port today -- after keeping several ships from being unloaded today. >> if the rich were taxed we could afford to have better schools for our kids. >> reporter: that from a kindergarten teacher. this from a lawyer. >> it's not okay for some people to make $16 in a day and others to make $16 every second. >> reporter: not everyone is marching to this beat though. simmering silently in their cabs are these long haul truckers stuck all day in their riggs unable to unload losing money. >> i understand some of the stuff they're talking about, but what they're doing hurts me. >> reporter: he's got 36,000 pounds of perishable meat he's hauled from the northwest to be put on a ship. hundreds of people tri