It's been two weeks since the "Freedom Convoy" at the US/Canada border started.

“I think more truckers should do it. I'm proud of them. I'm 110% with them all the way," said long-time trucker, Virgil Wascom.

From Michigan to New York, traffic along the border is gridlocked. It’s all because truckers on both sides of the border are protesting a vaccine mandate for commercial drivers crossing international lines.

Truckers we spoke with passing through Erie say they're on board with the convoy.

“Back up off the mandates from us. Let us do our jobs. Let us get the products where they need to be,” trucker Derrick Castagno told Erie News Now.

Car manufacturers depending on shipments from Canada are having to adapt, with GM cancelling shifts for some Michigan workers on Friday and two Canadian Ford plants scaling back production.

Some commercial drivers say it's sad truckers have resorted to a convoy at the border, but they ultimately stick with truckers there. They say both governments should back down before the supply chain completely shuts down.

“If you really want to break it down and make the truckers mad, there's nothing you guys can do,” Castagno said, “No fuel is getting delivered. No food is going to the stores, and we can clog the freeways up like no other."

Ultimately, drivers we spoke with say if both the US and Canada want to stabilize the economy and the supply chain, they need to get rid of mandates and COVID restrictions altogether.

“I think we need to support our truck drivers more than anything in the world because if it wasn’t for us, nothing would happen,” said Wascom.