Local livestock transporters were playing it quiet on Monday amid fears of strike violence but resumed normal services on Tuesday after a two-week stop-work campaign at Coolac fizzled less than 24 hours after it began.

The strike, which started at 6pm Monday, was over by 10am Tuesday with the small number of drivers who participated returning to work.

Although the strike mostly affected the livestock industry in Queensland and along the east coast, cattle numbers were substantially down in Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre on Monday with a yarding of 1480, down from 2000 last week.

Elders selling agent Colin Wiesel said he thought the drop was representative of early concerns farmers had on whether trucks would be available to transport stock when the sale was finished.

“I think it (the strike) did have a bearing on the numbers,” Mr Wiesel said. “A lot of people had to make the decision on Thursday and Friday on whether to get their stock in or not so numbers might have been down because of that.”

Mr Wiesel said the strike would have mainly affected producers travelling long distances with most local producers able to transport their stock themselves.

Ros Smith of Ros Smith Transport, which hauls stock all across the state, said a few of his drivers had stopped work in support of the strike on Monday but all had returned by Tuesday.

The strike was organised to protest soaring diesel prices, low pay rates, backloading and chain of supply regulations that could see farmers responsible for fatigue related truck driver accidents.

Director of Wagga trucking company Simmo's Express Freight Lynsley Simmonds, who participated in the strike, said he was disappointed more truck drivers didn't take part.

“It seemed like no-one wanted to support it,” Mr Simmonds said. “Only 16 to 18 trucks were up there.”

Mr Simmonds said no further action by the region’s drivers had been organised for the two-week industry shutdown.