US & Mexico sign agreement for Safe Secure Cross-Border Trucking Program

Jul 062011
 
 06/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:41 on 06/07/2011 Comments Off
US & Mexico sign agreement for Safe Secure Cross-Border Trucking Program

It’s official folks! U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes Dionisio Arturo Pèrez-Jàcome Friscione joined today in Mexico City to sign agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and Mexico. This agreement paves the way for Mexico to begin to lift 50% of the $2.4 billion in retaliatory tariffs that have been in place for more than two years, a result of the Obama Administration caving to pressure from the TEAMSTERS and OOIDA and defunding the previous highly successful Cross Border Demonstration Project. Pursuant to an agreement signed by the ….Read More

FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

Jun 282011
 
 28/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:32 on 28/06/2011 Comments Off
FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official. A formal agreement between the United States and Mexico could be signed in the next few weeks, William Quade, FMCSA’s associate administrator for enforcement, told Transport Topics last week. In a briefing last week to the agency’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee, Quade said the agency received nearly 2,000 public comments on its proposal to allow trucks from Mexico to deliver to destinations in the United States as mandated under the North American Free Trade Agreement ….Read More

Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Jun 202011
 
 20/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:32 on 20/06/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Speaking to a group of trucking, logistics and technology industry executives at SMC3’s annual summer conference last Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said that new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months although she added she doesn’t expect a wave of Mexican trucks heading for the U.S. border. The FMCSA and it’s Mexican counterpart SCT, expects the U.S. and Mexico to agree on a final program “quite soon” and to grant authority to the first Mexican carrier in the program “sometime in August.” Sources suggest the agreement ….Read More

National Call to Action – Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Jun 162011
 
 16/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 04:20 on 16/06/2011 Comments Off
National Call to Action - Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Time for readers and other interested parties to call their assorted Senators and Congress critters and ask them to support the proposed Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico which would bring the United States into compliance with it’s international obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The legal retaliatory tariff’s Mexico but on 99 US export products has cost more than 25,000 Americans their jobs and agri business loss of more than 14% market share, most going to Canada. To contact your Congressman and both of your Senators, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, tell the operator ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized “hate groups” for support.

Jun 152011
 
 15/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 15/06/2011 Comments Off
Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized "hate groups" for support.

“We’re as close as you can be,” Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari  said yesterday, confirming that  his country is preparing to sign the formal Cross Border Trucking agreement to end the trucking dispute with the U.S. as early as this month, setting the stage for the country to remove the punitive tariffs that have cost 25,000 or more US jobs and market share. Opponents of the program, The Teamsters and OOIDA in particular, in their desperation appear to be pulling out all stops, including turning to recognized HATE GROUPS to spread their message. In this case, the organization in question is ….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

Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

Jun 012011
 
 01/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 03:15 on 01/06/2011 Comments Off
Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

James Hoffa’s mantra of “unsafe Mexican trucks” has been debunked and ridiculed. Mexico’s regulatory environment has been shown to be sufficient to ensure the safe compliant operations of their trucks in their country and the 2007 Cross Border Demonstration Project proved Mexican trucks were quite capable of complying to the regulatory standards and laws of the United States, so what now? TEAMSTERSNATION has perhaps found the ULTIMATE REASON to keep those naughty Mexican trucks out of our country and allow Mexico to continue with their legal job killing tariff’s. It has nothing to do with drugs, violence or illegals. Hang ….Read More

Is Racism at work in Border Trucking debate?

May 252011
 
 25/05/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:58 on 25/05/2011 1 Response »
Is Racism at work in Border Trucking debate?

That’s the question posed on the blog “ALL THAT’S TRUCKING” as she writes about the many nasty, racially tinged comments being thrown about as the red hot debate over Mexican cross border trucking heats up once again, and the usual actors, OOIDA, TEAMSTERS and their allies in talk radio fan the flames of their listeners prejudices.   “Is racism rearing its ugly head in the debate over the long-delayed opening of the border to long-haul Mexican trucks, as required under the North American Free Trade Agreement that was signed nearly 20 years ago? I’m not saying anyone who opposes opening ….Read More

Teamsters President James P. Hoffa releases self serving and totally inaccurate statement on Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

May 162011
 
 16/05/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:11 on 16/05/2011 Comments Off
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa releases self serving and totally inaccurate statement on Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, himself in hot water after caught using his position to offer union jobs, salaries, and pensions to bribe people for political support, released a “presser” giving his totally irrelevant and patently untrue rant in opposition to the upcoming cross border pilot program with Mexico. THE PUBLIC OPPOSES ILLEGAL, UNSAFE MEXICAN TRUCK PROGRAM is the title of this crapola presser released today which Hoffa continues to lie to his membership and the American public. Hoffa says; DOT’s proposal to open the border “fails to adequately protect our members, their families and the traveling public from the ….Read More

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