The high price of diesel has some local truckers so outraged they're going to protest starting Tuesday morning, as part of a nation-wide effort.

The family leading the protest in Harrisonburg says this protest is a costly move for them, since they'll lose a day's pay. However, they hope the message it will send will do something to lower the cost of fuel.

"They're not making money," says Pam Armentrout, about her husband and his fellow independent truckers. "The fuel prices have just risen so high that you don't have money. After you pay for the fuel, you have no check."

She says sometimes the bills are just too much especially since her two sons are now involved in a team sport, baseball.

"So you do without personally to furnish for them for their sports or their needs," says Armentrout.

On Tuesday morning, her husband along with other truckers are going to the Harrisonburg Travel Center. They won't make their day's shipments, and they won't take home a paycheck. They say they hope that by staging this protest, they'll bring attention to the high cost of diesel fuel.

Harold Nash was an independent truck driver for 13 years. The company he now works for takes care of his $4-per-gallon fuel. At that rate, some truckers are spending as much as $1.50 per mile.

"Not counting food, house payments, kids in school, in college. How you going to raise your family up? And you've been trucking over 26 years," says Nash. "What, are you going to go home and say I did my best? Well, Pop, that's not good enough."

These families say they're using any method they can think of to make their money last.

"I've been saving quarters, trying to come up with enough money just to keep saving, to try to have a little extra," says Armentrout.

During the 1970s, truckers across the country participated in similar protests, but the price of fuel did not drop. In Virginia, the price of diesel fuel has gone up almost 45 percent in the last year alone.