It will be like this, except times a thousand. Via Shutterstock.

In the confusing saga of the planned “Truckers Ride for the Constitution” rally—wherein a shit load of truckers will supposedly descend upon the Beltway, clogging all lanes because that’s somehow a good way to gain supporters—there’s been a lot of back-and-forth as to whether or not the whole thing was a hoax or not.

To catch you up to speed: U.S. News & World Report first reported on the story, citing it as a three-day rally for truckers to “call attention to a litany of trucker frustrations and express their disapproval of national political leaders” by driving around the entire Beltway, blocking three lanes as thousands of trucks drive at a steady 55 mile-per-hour. After which they were planning to go to Congress and have politicians arrested. U.S. News talked to Earl Conlon, a Georgia trucker who was reportedly handling logistics for the protest.

After Conlon’s statements to U.S. News started a media frenzy, naturally (because when someone says thousands of truckers are going to clog the Beltway, people will kind of want to know that), Conlon told the Post that’s exactly what he wanted to happen.

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The comments to U.S. News were designed to do one thing and one thing only: stir the feather of the mainstream media,” said Conlon, a father of three. “Nothing gets the attention of the mainstream media like some sort of disastrous threat. I knew it was going to ruffle some feathers.”

So while thousands of truckers may indeed come to Washington on Friday and many of them may travel along the inner loop of the Beltway, honking their horns, they won’t intentionally shut down traffic, he said.

“First of all, we know it would not be right to go to D.C. to lock down the city by the Belt loop,” said Conlon, 50, a veteran truck driver who has suffered through more than his share of traffic jams. “That wouldn’t be fair to the people there.”

And Conlon is not sure that he will even make it to town Friday.

Crisis averted, right? Well, maybe not.

Now, Zeeda Andrews, one of the organizers of the event, tells the Post that the ride is, in fact, happening, and that Conlon was out of line in his statements:

Zeeda Andrews, one of the organizers of the event, said the ride is a go, but emphasized that it will be peaceful. She said that Georgia trucker Earl Conlon “overstepped his boundaries” earlier this week in saying the event was just a ploy to get attention for the groups’ agenda.

“Yes, it is happening,” she said about the rally. Andrews said she expects “a few thousand truckers” to descend on D.C. Friday.

Andrews says that rather than clogging the Beltway completely, tomorrow’s rally will be nothing more than a “minor inconvenience.” She tells the Post that the truckers “plan to meet up in two spots Friday morning before caravaning into D.C.: at exit 98 off of Interstate 95 in Doswell, Va and in Pennsylvania at exit 77 off of Interstate 81.” Around 8:30 a.m. one group of truckers will reportedly begin circling the Beltway at the 55-miles-per-hour speed limit. I don’t know, that still sounds like a major, major inconvenience to me.

DCist reached out to both Andrews and Conlon for a request for clarification and comment on tomorrow’s rally, but neither have responded.

Regardless of what happens, I think it’s in your best interest to stay off the Beltway tomorrow.