The contractor bus companies are dumping them after the first required hotel stop outside Chattanooga.
They cut their wrist bands off, tell them the "welcome center" is just down the road, (Chat being 50 miles away) and get paid for taking them all the way to NY or DC.
Good scam, it's not like anybody gives them a "receipt" when they actually deliver em.
Glad my town is 3 hours from the closest Interstate.