A group of general truckers claim they are losing their livelihoods after their services were bypassed in favour of cheaper, tractor trailer sized trucks, for major asphalt work currently underway at the Airport. Operators are concerned the imported vehicles contracted for resurfacing work at the Airport are being used to transport aggregate from Penno's Wharf or Tiger Bay, thus taking away from their businesses.

The Airport is currently undergoing a multimillion-dollar resurfacing of its taxiways and aprons. The work began earlier this year and is expected to last until July. The local truckers call themselves the New Bermuda General Truckers Association and on Thursday, they staged a protest outside of the Airport claiming they were being denied work by the East End Asphalt Company, who is a contractor on the Airport project.

Under current legislation governing Transport on the Island's roads, the larger tractor trailer sized vehicles being used by contractor D&J to transport asphalt from Tiger bay to the Airport, are not allowed on the roads for trucking services — unless its proven the normal heavy trucks are not available.

On Thursday, a spokesperson for the protesting truckers, who lined around 20 trucks alongside Kindley Field Road, said their services were discarded after they told East End Asphalt they were raising their prices above the usual $50 an hour, which they say was due to the cost of living.

Around 30 truckers descended upon BIU headquarters Thursday evening to discuss the situation, however, no one from the group wished to provide any details from the meeting to The Royal Gazette, once it had finished.