Arizona Pot Bust is in no way indicative of Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Mar 112011
 
 11/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:17 on 11/03/2011 Comments Off
Arizona Pot Bust is in no way indicative of Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Some of you may remember back on September 10, 2007, the day the first Mexican truck crossed the border under the very successful initial Mexican Pilot Cross Border Program, there was a tragic truck explosion south of Monclova Coahuila. A pickup truck returning from a beer run into town hit an 18 wheeler hauling explosive compounds head on and the resulting explosion left a crater in the road and 30 bystanders dead. OOIDA, the Teamsters, the erstwhile “Safety Groups” and even conspiracy journalist Jeremy Corsi all jumped on this tragic accident to try and convince their readers and supporters that ….Read More

OOIDA members use racist extremist websites to oppose Mexican trucks

Mar 102011
 
 10/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:48 on 10/03/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA members use racist extremist websites to oppose Mexican trucks

After President Obama and Mexican President Calderon announced Thursday a working agreement on allowing Mexican trucks access to American highways after almost 20 years of the US violating it’s obligation under NAFTA, the airwaves and internet are alive with renewed debate as talkers and opposition groups feed on the unfounded paranoia of the American trucker. Eric (Bubba Bo)Boulanger  hosts the weekend slot on America’s Trucking Network (ATN) heard on  700WLW and XM 152 allowed the usual callers to make veiled threats of violence and destruction of the Mexican trucks and their drivers as he fielded calls on the subject of ….Read More

Presidents Obama & Calderon reach agreement on access for Mexican Trucks

Mar 032011
 
 03/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 17:51 on 03/03/2011 1 Response »
Presidents Obama & Calderon reach agreement on access for Mexican Trucks

In a joint presser today, President Obama and President Calderon jointly announced agreement on a renewed program allowing Mexican carriers access to the United States as agreed under the 1994 NAFTA agreement. The plan  will allow for half of those tariffs to be lifted immediately. It will establish a reciprocal, phased-in pilot program that allows Mexican trucks to operate inside the U.S. provided they comply with a series of safety, driver-skills and language tests monitored by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Unfortunately, Mexico has stated anything less than full access will be unacceptable. A new pilot program could fall under ….Read More

Is this the “New Mexican Revolution”? – Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

Sep 232010
 
 23/09/2010  Posted by PMC at 09:27 on 23/09/2010 4 Responses »
Is this the "New Mexican Revolution"? - Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

The good people of Mexico have has enough and the attempted kidnapping of a young woman in Ascension, Chihuahua, a small town south of the New Mexico border, could well be the catalyst for Mexican citizens to begin to take back their country from the grips of the narco terrorists. The blatant abduction attempt abduction of a 17-year-old female worker of a seafood restaurant  touched off a burst of mass outrage that left two suspected young kidnappers dead and a small town in open rebellion. Alerted to the kidnapping, townspeople and soldiers mobilized, freed the victim and detained five alleged kidnappers; ….Read More

Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

Aug 312010
 
 31/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 09:12 on 31/08/2010 Comments Off
Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

A caller to a nationally known trucking news report show recently starting spewing his objections and telling all who would listen why Mexican trucks should be forever banned from US highways. The days guest, a well known and respected journalist and trucking expert asked the caller; “Where do you get this information?” The caller, stunned at having his views questioned, stuttered and stammered for a moment and then blurted, “OOIDA of course!” And the journalist responded that , and I’m paraphrasing, “That for all the time OOIDA has been objecting to Mexican trucks, they have not ventured one fact to ….Read More

Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick’s Brigade (San Patricios)

Mar 152010
 
 15/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 06:01 on 15/03/2010 8 Responses »
Each year, Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick's Brigade (San Patricios)

From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter of Irish-American history. The bagpipers play each month in honor of the St. Patrick Battalion, a group of 600 Irish-American soldiers who switched sides to fight for Mexico in the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Mexico lost half its territory to the United States as a ….Read More

Bus crash in Arizona that killed 6 being used to confuse the Mexican truck issue

Mar 092010
 
 09/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 05:44 on 09/03/2010 Comments Off
Bus crash in Arizona that killed 6 being used to confuse the Mexican truck issue

The bus belonging to TIERRA SANTA,  that rolled over on a busy interstate outside Phoenix, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured early Friday, is now being used as an example by opponents of allowing Mexican trucks on our highways (although they’ve been here for decades) and in others are using it in their vile opposition to reforming immigration and as an opportunity to bash Mexicans. The bus, a late model Mercedes Benz Marcopolo,  was traveling from the central Mexican state of Zacatecas to Los Angeles. It entered the United States at El Paso, Texas, and was traveling westbound ….Read More

Resolution to Mexican Truck issue may be near

Mar 042010
 
 04/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 15:37 on 04/03/2010 1 Response »
Resolution to Mexican Truck issue may be near

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said this morning that the DOT was close to coming up with a proposal to allow Mexican trucks access to the United States, under the rules of NAFTA. LaHood was testifying at a hearing about the 2011 DOT budget before the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Responding to a question by subcommittee Chairman Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who asked for an update on the Mexico truck program, LaHood said “We are finalizing a plan. The reason it is taking so long is there’s a lot of moving parts.” On March 1, ….Read More

Discussions to open border to Mexican trucks brings same old tired information from same tired sources.

Feb 192010
 
 19/02/2010  Posted by PMC at 12:57 on 19/02/2010 Comments Off
Discussions to open border to Mexican trucks brings same old tired information from same tired sources.

The Obama administration has taken the first step toward renewing a pilot program that allows Mexican?truckers to operate within the U.S., as stipulated in the North American Free Trade Agreement, but still must work with Congress on fashioning a new program, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Tuesday. U.S.Trade Representative Ron Kirk told a news conference in Mexico last week that the Obama administration had taken the first step in coming up with a new program when it convinced Congress not to prohibit a cross-border program in the 2010 omnibus spending bill. With that being said, the mexenophobes are beginning ….Read More

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