Mexico’s “Paperless Port” due to go online in March

Jan 272012
 
 27/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 02:34 on 27/01/2012 No Responses »
Mexico's "Paperless Port" due to go online in March

About a year ago, Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa signed a decree for the implementation of the Single Window of Foreign Trade, or “Ventanilla Unico” to streamline and consolidate Mexican Customs clearances. The new system is currently undergoing extensive testing which began last November. According to Alfonso Rojas Gonzalez de Castilla, president of the Confederation of Customs Brokers Associations of Mexico (CAAAREM), plans are for the system to be fully implemented by March. “It is an excellent tool to simplify procedures, reduce waiting times and this will mean that the clearance of goods will be more agile and efficient,” said ….Read More

Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

Jan 272012
 
 27/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 01:26 on 27/01/2012 No Responses »
Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses, taxis and other public conveyances. “We are contracted with a certified laboratory in Monterey, which immediately reports to the Delegation when positive results are obtained” Cuellar said Bridges. The tests began on Monday, with a goal to finish by Friday with 500 tests remaining in addition to refresher driving and ….Read More

Editorial – Roadblock to free trade – It’s time to comply with NAFTA and open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks

Jan 152012
 
 15/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 08:07 on 15/01/2012 No Responses »
Editorial - Roadblock to free trade - It's time to comply with NAFTA and open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks

Nearly 20 years after President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, a key provision that grants Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways remains stalled. Staunch opposition from unions and consumer groups in this country, which argue that unsafe foreign trucks and inexperienced drivers put U.S. jobs and lives at risk, have successfully shut down even the most modest attempts to comply with NAFTA. In October, the Obama administration tried again, with a pilot program granting three Mexican trucking firms limited access to U.S. roads. So far, just two carriers have sent trucks into the country — a small ….Read More

Appeals Court Judge orders Mexican Cross Border Trucking lawsuits consolidated

Jan 112012
 
 11/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 16:22 on 11/01/2012 No Responses »
Appeals Court Judge orders Mexican Cross Border Trucking lawsuits consolidated

The two separate and frivolous lawsuits filed last year by the Teamsters, Public Citizen, Sierra Club and Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) have now been consolidated into one lawsuit on orders from a Judge with the D.C. Court of Appeals. The case numbers for the two actions are 11-1444 for the Teamsters and 11-1251 for OOIDA. Attorney’s for all plaintiffs will now be required to make their oral arguments before the Court in the same courtroom on the same day. Back in July of 2011, OOIDA filed their frivolous action against the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico asking the ….Read More

Revised Hours of Services rules released. Lawsuits almost certain to follow

Dec 232011
 
 23/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 07:49 on 23/12/2011 No Responses »
Revised Hours of Services rules released. Lawsuits almost certain to follow

The long anticipated release of the revised hours of service regulations were finally released by FMCSA yesterday, and at first read, they are not as bad as anticipated. The 11 hour driving time has been retained, despite heavy pressure from the Teamsters and various bogus safety groups to reduce it to 10 hours or less per day. The 34 hour restart provision is also retained but with added restrictions. Under the new rules, the 34 hour restart provision can be used only once in a 7 day (168 hour) period and must contain two periods of rest between 0100-0500 in ….Read More

DOJ Report debunks the myth that Mexican trucks are the main conveyance for illegal drugs

Dec 102011
 
 10/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 01:34 on 10/12/2011 No Responses »
DOJ Report debunks the myth that Mexican trucks are the main conveyance for illegal drugs

The U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center has released its National Drug Threat Assessment 2011 and to the consternation of many who have made the claim that Mexican trucks are the main conveyances with which drugs enter the US, pretty much debunks this idea. And as usual, we can count on Charlie Morasch, a Landlinemag.com staff hack, to spin the report in a direction that evidence doesn’t indicate. Morasch uses quotes from a FBI special agent, Kevin Donovan to get his points across, yet one of the remarks attributed to this agent totally blows one of OOIDA and the ….Read More

Weekly update on Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Dec 032011
 
 03/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:54 on 03/12/2011 No Responses »
Weekly update on Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

The Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico is on track as more than 15 carriers have applied for admission into the program.
The FMCSA is continuing to conduct the Pre-Authority Safety Audits (PASA) in full compliance with the terms of the pilot program.
The latest applicant to undergo their PASA is Transportes Unimex SA de CV of Reynosa Tamps. Their USDOT #1739863 shows a company with 30 power units and 28 drivers. Their SAFERSYS data shows a carrier with zero crashes, a vehicle out of service rate of 13%, the national average being 20.72%, a driver out of service rate of 0.3%, only 2 drivers being placed OOS out of 608 inspections.

OOIDA makes another bogus claim against Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Dec 022011
 
 02/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 20:16 on 02/12/2011 No Responses »
OOIDA makes another bogus claim against Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

In OOIDA’s latest lame attempt to stop cross border trucking with Mexico using bogus or suspect data, they go back to a little known provision of the Safe Port Act of 2006, specifically Section 703. Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Candice Miller, chairman of the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, no doubt at the urging of OOIDA and the Teamsters, recently sent a letter to Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security demanding to know why section 703 of the act had not been complied with. Anybody heard of section 703, much less the Safe Port ….Read More

Charlie Douglas “father of overnight trucking radio”, dead at 78

Nov 292011
 
 29/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 12:43 on 29/11/2011 No Responses »
Charlie Douglas "father of overnight trucking radio", dead at 78

Charlie Douglas, whose “Road Gang” overnight truckers radio show on WWL870 kept many a trucker awake and smiling over the miles in the early 70′s, died at his home in Picayune Mississippi on Thanksgiving day. He was 78. Douglas, whose real name was Doug China, first brought the “Road Gang” to WWL in 1971. In a time before cell phones, the Road Gang was a vital link for truckers to keep in touch with friends and family. The show continued for 13 years spawning dozens of wannabes and imitators but Douglas was and remains one of a kind. Douglas left ….Read More

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