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

OOIDA sends another letter blasting Secretary Ray LaHood on Mexican Pilot Program

Sep 152011
 
 15/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:23 on 15/09/2011 1 Response »
OOIDA sends another letter blasting Secretary Ray LaHood on Mexican Pilot Program

This is so ridiculous it borders on the absurd. Yesterday, OOIDA President Jim Johnston sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood venting his frustrations at his associations failure to hoodwink Congress and the public into putting a stop to the cross border trucking program with Mexico. Here’s some excerpts of the letter to LaHood: Aren’t you getting the cart before the horse? How can the FMCSA utilize taxpayer resources to review and process those applications or initiate the so-called pilot program in any way before complying with the terms and conditions stipulated in Section 350 of Public Law 107–87 ….Read More

Cloned Trucks – Another misconception about Cross Border Trucking

Jul 212011
 
 21/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 07:52 on 21/07/2011 Comments Off
Cloned Trucks - Another misconception about Cross Border Trucking

Another report that opponents of cross border trucking have latched onto and using to push their agenda of misinformation about Mexican trucks is that of Mexican drug gangs “cloning” trucks to smuggle their contraband. There is no evidence to be found that 18 wheel road rigs are being “cloned”. What the reports state is COMMERCIAL VEHICLES being cloned. A commercial vehicle can be anything from a 1/4 ton pickup to an 18 wheeler. This is like the misconception, the facts of which can’t be found, that 10,000 commercial vehicles are being hijacked. Again, the operative word is “commercial vehicle”. Package ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Jul 212011
 
 21/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:23 on 21/07/2011 1 Response »
Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Absent any proof that allowing a few more Mexican trucks access to the United State under the upcoming Cross Border Pilot Program, will encourage more smuggling of contraband or worse, opponents of the pilot program, their allies and spokesmen on trucking talk radio are making an all out effort to fabricate a problem that does not exist, and enlisting acknowledged hate groups with ties to white supremacists, and convicted child murderers to to further spread fear and misinformation about Mexican trucks. There have been posts by OOIDA members on hate sites such as STORMFRONT.ORG which have titillated and agitated the ….Read More

Another lame attempt by OOIDA to delay the Mexican cross border trucking program

Jul 142011
 
 14/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:59 on 14/07/2011 1 Response »
Another lame attempt by OOIDA to delay the Mexican cross border trucking program

One has to ask themselves, “Are the folks at OOIDA as stupid as they seem to be or do they simply think the American trucker and the public are stupid”? It would seem to be a little of both after the seeing the latest attempt to derail the Mexican cross border pilot program. The issues of “truck safety”, “border security” as it relates to Mexican trucks has all pretty much been debunked. What’s left? Appealing to the tree huggers, the environmentalists to try to stop this perfectly legitimate program. On Tuesday, FMCSA announced the availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment ….Read More

$9 million dollar pot bust on US 59 in Wharton County Texas – 3 Valley Residents busted

Jun 052011
 
 05/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:29 on 05/06/2011 Comments Off
$9 million dollar pot bust on US 59 in Wharton County Texas - 3 Valley Residents busted

Texas Department of Public safety troopers took more than $9 million dollars in marijuana out of the pipeline last weekend with the busts of three individuals and the seizure of 22,072 pounds of bundled marijuana with a wholesale street value in Houston of $9,270,240.   Saturday morning, May 28, about 0300, Troopers noticed a semi being followed by a four wheeler on US 59 in Wharton County and pulled the over for a traffic violation. The truck, a propane tanker with the markings “Auto Tanques Nieto,” was stopped minutes later further up U.S. 59, near FM 1162 in El Campo. ….Read More

Straight answers to Teamsters questions

Jun 022011
 
 02/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 14:50 on 02/06/2011 Comments Off
Straight answers to Teamsters questions

MEXICO TRUCKER ONLINE is pleased to help educate members of the TEAMSTERS who seem to lack the wherewithal to find answers to question on their own about the upcoming Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. Today, they made a post titled  Truck driving champ says ‘NO’ to Mexican trucks where it appears a TEAMSTERS member and 13th place runner up in the ATA’s Truck Driver Championship (Straight Trucks) asks some questions about Mexican trucks that need answering. YRCW driver Scott Archer posed these questions. Will these men and women be trained as U.S. drivers? Look at the ATA 2011 Facts for Drivers ….Read More

OOIDA continues to defraud and mislead American truckers on cross border trucking issue

Mar 142011
 
 14/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:14 on 14/03/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA continues to defraud and mislead American truckers on cross border trucking issue

As the reality of a new and final cross border program to allow Mexican trucks access to American highways as we promised almost 20 years ago, comes closer to fruition, the desperation coming coming from the offices of OOIDA or Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association, is palpable. For instance, OOIDA spokesman Norita Taylor appeared on an interview on Houston radio station KTRH News Radio 740 along with Congressman Kevin Brady giving counterpoint, and alleged that Mexican carriers have no regulatory costs in their country. You can listen to the interview here. What Taylor doesn’t say is not only does Mexico ….Read More

Practical aid for the victims of Japan’s earthquake [UPDATED]

Mar 122011
 
 12/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:08 on 12/03/2011 Comments Off
Practical aid for the victims of Japan's earthquake [UPDATED]

Whatever you may think about Mexico, their disaster preparedness teams are some of the best in the world and first to step up to the plate, as out friends at MEXFILES explains:   Ten rescue dog teams, three structural engineering specialists and twenty rescue workers — pulled together from the Jalisco Civil Protection Unit, the Mexico City Fire Department, UNAM, Cruz Roja and CENPRED (the Center for Disaster Preparedness) are on their way to Sendai… one team having left Friday afternoon, the rest to follow on Saturday. Makes me think of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when Mexico sent troops ….Read More

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