LOS ANGELES: According to local media, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a warning to federal and local law enforcement agencies that a group of protestors planned to organise a Canadian truck-style convey, possibly beginning in Los Angeles for the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Many news reports stated on Thursday that they had obtained a DHS bulletin stating that the convoy would assemble in Los Angeles first, then continue east, possibly arriving in Washington, D.C. in time for US President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on March 1.

The authority "has received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among other things, vaccine mandates for truck drivers," according to the bulletin, which added that the group planned to gather truckers as they travelled across the country, with truckers from Canada possibly joining the caravan.

"While there are currently no indications of planned violence, the potential exists to severely disrupt transportation, federal government operations, commercial facilities, and emergency services through gridlock and potential counter protests if hundreds of trucks converge in a major metropolitan city," it said.

Authorities are watching concerned information online, according to the Los Angeles Times, but they are only aware of efforts to start a truck convoy in the Coachella Valley or Sacramento, California's capital city, that would eventually gather speed across the country and proceed to Washington.

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