About 70 trucks and 30 buses staged a slow-down along a major British highway near Wales on Friday, Sept.16. But they didn’t slow too much.

According to CNN, police moved quickly to prevent a disruption on the highway. They forced the protesters to drive a minimum of 40 miles per hour and stay in the far left lane.

An attempted blockade of an oil refinery earlier in the week failed after police made sure deliveries were able to reach the refinery.

The truckers were protesting in an attempt to get the British government to do something about the rising cost of fuel, especially in taxes.

British fuel taxes – which account for about 70 percent of prices at the pump – are the highest in the European Union.

Rumors of a shutdown prompted a run on fuel stations late on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Prices surged close to $10 per gallon (in U.S. dollars), and as many as 3,000 of the nation’s 10,000 gas stations were forced to close as their pumps ran dry, according to news reports.