Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program officially underway as first Mexican truck arrives at Laredo

Oct 212011
 
 21/10/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:50 on 21/10/2011 1 Response »
Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program officially underway as first Mexican truck arrives at Laredo

An editorial caught me eye this morning, on this day that the first Mexican carrier to be granted authority to operate beyond the commercial zone enters the U.S. It reads in part; When a nation signs and ratifies a treaty with another, it is in effect a contract between those countries. And when one country later simply decides it does not like the terms of the treaty and unilaterally decides to stop abiding by those terms —- well, that nation isn’t behaving very honorably, is it? The roadblocks being thrown up by groups like OOIDA and the Teamsters that have ….Read More

Tariff’s are lifted as first Mexican carrier receives authority to operate in the United States

Oct 142011
 
 14/10/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:38 on 14/10/2011 Comments Off
Tariff's are lifted as first Mexican carrier receives authority to operate in the United States

What can only be described as a resounding success in our efforts to see the United States come into compliance with it obligations under the NAFTA accords, the remaining 50 percent of the $2.4 billion regulatory tariffs imposed by Mexico in 2009 will now be lifted. The tariff’s, imposed after the Obama Administration signed a funding bill in 2009 that shut down the previous demonstration program which in it’s 18 months was highly successful, have cost American workers more than 25,000 jobs and 14% market share in the agricultural sector. Transportes Olympics, despite frivolous objections by OOIDA, Teamsters and others ….Read More

USDOT/OIG – FMCSA Generally Complies With Statutory Requirements, but Actions Are Needed Prior To Initiating Its NAFTA Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program

Sep 062011
 
 06/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:03 on 06/09/2011 Comments Off
USDOT/OIG - FMCSA Generally Complies With Statutory Requirements, but Actions Are Needed Prior To Initiating Its NAFTA Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program

On August 19, 2011, the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Transportation, a non-partisan independent office tasked with oversight of the various agencies, released it’s long awaited audit on the Mexican cross border program, preparing to get underway. This audit was required by Section 6901 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veteran’s Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007. The objective of the USDOT-OIG was to assess FMCSA’s policy, procedures, and processes for granting operating authority to Mexico–domiciled motor carriers under the pilot program and for monitoring and ensuring the carriers’ compliance with United States ….Read More

Cross Border Trucking with Mexico – “It’s going to happen, There is no way to stop it”

Sep 012011
 
 01/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 01/09/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Trucking with Mexico - "It's going to happen, There is no way to stop it"

During the scheduled meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee in Alexandria Virginia yesterday, those were the words of  Carlos Sesma, an attorney representing Mexican trucking interests before the committee. And Sesma was correct. The MCSAC is a subcommittee of the FMCSA charged with overseeing the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. OOIDA Executive Vice-President Todd Spencer who is a member of the committee was making the usual asinine and totally false claims about the program. “What’s behind this is access to cheaper sources of labor,” Spencer claimed after the meeting, repeating the thoroughly debunked claim that it will put American ….Read More

Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

Aug 062010
 
 06/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 23:04 on 06/08/2010 1 Response »
Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed. At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks. Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there. Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river. Freight in ….Read More

Deputies seize $45 million in drugs in Rancho Cucamonga California

Jun 282010
 
 28/06/2010  Posted by PMC at 01:31 on 28/06/2010 2 Responses »
Deputies seize $45 million in drugs in Rancho Cucamonga California

Sheriff’s deputies found a tractor trailer packed with $45 million in drugs during a routine traffic stop in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday. The bust was one of the largest ever made in San Bernardino County, and included thousands of pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said. The sheriff’s Hi-Intensity Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped a big rig on the eastbound 10 Freeway for a traffic violation at 11 a.m. The driver, Fernando Luevano, 32, of Los Angeles, did not have proper paperwork for his load. He gave deputies permission to search the trailer. When deputies opened ….Read More

American trucker busted with 48 illegals in trailer

Jun 182010
 
 18/06/2010  Posted by PMC at 15:45 on 18/06/2010 Comments Off
American trucker busted with 48 illegals in trailer

LAREDO — Border agents found 48 illegal immigrants in the back of a tractor trailer during a routine stop at a checkpoint in south Texas. The trailer was refrigerated, according to the driver’s attorney, and all of those in the trailer declined medical treatment, immigration officials said. The driver, Wayne West of Balch Springs, was charged with transporting illegal immigrants, according to court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Laredo. He’s scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday. His attorney, Russell Jordan, said he couldn’t say much about the case because the investigation is still being done, but ….Read More

“Cocaine Cowboys” and White Supremacists in shootout on I-40

May 212010
 
 21/05/2010  Posted by PMC at 07:20 on 21/05/2010 3 Responses »
"Cocaine Cowboys" and White Supremacists in shootout on I-40

More reason why we should reestablish the assault weapon ban that President George Bush allowed to expire is evident by todays murder of two West Memphis Drug Interdiction officers (Cocaine Cowboys), West Memphis Police Officer Bill Evans and Officer Brandon Paudert, son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert. Both were killed when they pulled over a white mini van with Ohio plates at MM 275 outside of West Memphis Arkansas. Two suspects emerged and began firing killing the two officers. The van and suspects were chased to the Wal Mart parking lot where Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby, and ….Read More

Mexico to be represented in Rose Parade – First time in 40 years

Dec 272009
 
 27/12/2009  Posted by PMC at 00:02 on 27/12/2009 Comments Off
Mexico to be represented in Rose Parade - First time in 40 years

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and 100 years since the country’s revolution, the Mexican government is sponsoring its first Rose Parade float in over 40 years. “With this float we’re going to tell 40 million people watching on TV that it’s Mexico’s birthday,” said Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. “There’s no better way to do it.”

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