It seems a lot more simple than that - Ryan is a "celebrity" and has a 66K twitter followers. His tweets generated a lot of exposure so the politicians are happ

It seems a lot more simple than that - Ryan is a "celebrity" and has a 66K twitter followers. His tweets generated a lot of exposure so the politicians are happy to use it. I'm sure there was some meeting between trucking companies and the mayor sometime with great recommendations form the truckers, but everybody just said "we'll check it" and didn't do a thing. Now with media and twitter exposure it's hard to avoid giving answers.