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Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk’s Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Co.’s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months.
Then came Monday night, when they walked off the site.
“I moved the equipment myself,” Shane said in an interview with the Nashville Banner on Tuesday.
“We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” he added.