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On 10 March 2016, the Facebook page Trucks Chicks And Funny Pics posted a short video of Bernie Sanders saying that he wanted to take trucks off the road: The above-displayed video, which was viewed hundreds of thousands of times within five days of its initial posting, led some people to believe that the Democratic presidential candidate wanted to ban trucks and trucking in the United States. While it's true that part of Sanders' campaign platform is focused on improving the rail system in the United States and reducing the number of trucks on the roads, he has not called for a complete ban on trucks. The video was taken from a campaign speech that Sanders delivered in Miami on 8 March 2016. Sanders made his comment about taking trucks off the road while discussing his proposal to combat climate change: Sanders further explained his proposal on his web site. In neither the video nor the proposal published on the candidate's web site does Sanders call for any kind of ban on trucks. Instead, Sanders' proposal includes creating clean, domestic alternatives to fossil fuels and improving the nation's rail system: While it's true that Bernie Sanders has proposed to create a state-of-the-art rail system that would potentially take many trucks off the roads, the Democratic candidate has not proposed an all-out ban on trucks in the United States.
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