Three weeks after they arrived in the region, the trucker convoy protesting COVID mandates appears to be heading to California on Wednesday to protest health bills proposed there, according to their website and live streams of their meetings.

The group of truckers has been camped out at the Hagerstown Speedway, about an hour and a half from downtown D.C., since March 4th. The group first circled around the Beltway on March 6th and progressively got bolder and bolder over time, heading onto I-295 where they created major delays  and then even moving to the arterial streets of Washington.

Their goal was to create awareness, as well as gridlock, on an already congested D.C. Beltway.  The movement was inspired by the truckers in Canada who blocked traffic on bridges to protest vaccine requirements. Early on, authorities in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. told convoy members that similar action would not be allowed here. The group was made up of people protesting the mandates but also included conspiracy theorists, QAnon followers and Trump supporters.

What tangible accomplishments the truckers got in the D.C. region is unclear. They did meet with conservative lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz , who rode in a cab of a truck, but they did not get what they wanted — an end to the national emergency due to the pandemic.

The convoy was not welcomed by locals. One woman complained that it made her late for a doctor’s appointment, others flipped off the convoy and one man rode a bike slowly in front of it. One motorcyclist was slammed to the ground by a truck driver, a woman was hit by a vehicle in the convoy in Dupont Circle, and others were berated by angry truckers.

Law enforcement has written few tickets and made few arrests related to the convoy. Last week, Maryland State Police said they responded to a call about traffic blocking the roadway in front of the Speedway. During the response, they arrested Brandon Glen Jackson of Scottsdale, Arizona, for having an illegal gun.

On March 10, a driver of a pickup was issued a warning for impeding the flow of traffic on southbound I-270 south of Watkins Mill Road in Montgomery County.

Virginia State Police said no tickets were written to convoy participants while they were on the Commonwealth’s portion of the Beltway and I-395.

Metro Police said that Notice Of Infractions  (NOI’s) were issued across the District during the truck convoy’s time there.  However, they added that there was “no way to discern that anyone issued a NOI was a part of the Trucker Convoy, therefore we do not have an exact number.”

It’s unclear what is prompting the move. Organizers say they want to head to California because of a series of bills being proposed related to the pandemic. The plans were first reported by the Daily Beast.

“We’re not done here, but we’ll go to California and raise awareness on this along the way and hopefully gain more people like we did on our way here,” convoy co-organizer Mike Landis said at a Sunday night meeting. “And then once we stop this we will come back to finish this job.”

The Speedway’s racing season also starts Saturday and the venue will likely need its parking lot back to accommodate spectators.

Several observers say the movement has fractured as several have been frustrated with the results. Monday, it appeared some of the truckers headed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to support a Republican candidate for governor there while others packed up the camp back in Hagerstown.