Mexico’s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, through the Directorate General of Protection and Preventive Medicine Transportation (DGPMPT), once again has implemented the Operation 30 Delta during the Easter holiday period on all roads and across all modes of the Mexican transportation industry. This operation will remain active until 4 April 2016. The purpose of 30 Delta is
Primero Plus has added the new luxury Scania Irizar i8 to its fleet of coaches servicing Mexico and it is fantastic. Our thanks to our friends at Autobuses Online for the photos [GARD]
It’s Easter weekend in Mexico and most of the world, but in Mexico, the Federal Police are out in force keeping the highways safe. These banners are going up around the border region and the rest of the country advising motorists of the penalties for speeding, driving drunk, using the cell phone while driving and
Greyhound Bus Lines is set to begin international service in Mexico to destination in the U.S. and Canada in August, With an initial investment of $25 million dollars, they have opened two two terminals and a maintenance facility in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. One terminal is located in the border city of
The most dangerous roads in the country today, are those of Veracruz, State of Mexico, Guerrero and Michoacan, announced Rafael Ortiz Pacheco, national leader of the Mexican Association of Transporters AC Organizations (Amotac). Ortiz Pacheco said that monthly reports he receives indicate an alleged theft of 50 vehicles across the country representing an economic loss
A bus driver trying to beat a Kansas City Southern freight collided with the train yesterday resulting in 21 deaths including two children and 26 others injured. The bus owned by Transportes Frontera #4146,, part of Grupo Estrella Blanca was driven by Jesús Carlos Fernández Rico, 39 who was transported by ambulance to a hospital in
The moment the mother of inactive Marine Sgt.Andrew Tahmooressi decided to take the case of her son’s lawful arrest and imprisonment to Fox News and the internet through social media to arouse the ire and anger of the right wing bigots and Obama haters, the chance for his quick release disappeared. Just a few minutes
A year and 4 days after being arrested and charged with multiple counts of manslaughter and property damage for an accident that killed 27 people and caused millions of dollars in property damage in Ecatepec Mexico, the driver of a double propane tanker is being released from prison this afternoon after the conclusion of a short trial, that
Former Marine Andrew Paul Tahmooressi did not enter Mexico by mistake, according to an article published Friday in the Tijuana newspaper ZETATIJUANA. Information obtained from a surveillance camera video showing Tahmooressi’s entrance into Mexico and investigations done on both sides of the border have led to this conclusion which is included in the investigative package
Nearly 40 tons of marijuana was found by during a combined operation by units of the Municipal Police and the Mexican Army in a warehouse in Tijuana B.C. . This was disclosed after the Federal Public Ministry staged the raid yesterday afternoon. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that more than 39 tons were seized from within this
Weather and excessive speed are being considered as the cause of a bus accident on Christmas morning on the outskirts of Saltillo that killed 7 and left 23 injured. The coach, operated by Transportes Del Norte was traveling from Monterrey to Guanajuato when the accident occurred aorund 08:50 in the morning in the municipality of
If you were on the border today wondering why your load hadn’t crossed the border, there was good reason. The toll road linking Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey was closed for thirteen hours due to heavy rains which caused a creek to overflow it’s banks flooding the toll road and stranding thousands of motorists and truckers
Four months after the implementation of a program known as Cuadrantes Carreteros, the incidents of crime against motorists on Mexico’s Federal and state highways has shown a remarkable drop of 19.19%, according to figures released by SEGOB, Mexico’s Security Cabinet. Cuadrantes Carreteros, loosely translated mean “Highway Quadrants”. The agency mapped out 136 quadrants of the Federal Highway system
4 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an explosion at Italian-Argentine steelmaker Ternium’s Guerrero plant in it’s Guerrero facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The explosion, captured on security cameras, occurred early this morning during routine maintenance work at the DRI intake of anelectric arc furnace within the facility. Reporters on the scene
It’s well known within the US trucking industry that if you get 10 truck drivers together, they won’t be able to agree on the time of day, much less do something about it. Not so in Mexico where this morning more than 20,000 Mexican truck drivers took to the roads to protest against broken promises
June 2 was a normal afternoon. The sun, in all it’s glory shined down on a crystal blue Gulf of Mexico. Tamaulipas Gov. Egidio Torre Cantu was aboard the Mexican naval ship “The Huasteca” which had departed the PEMEX in Cd. Madero cruising to a point 10 nautical miles offshore to lay a wreath in memory of
According to a report today in T21MXthe first Mexican customs facility in the United States is expected to be in full operation by the middle of this month. The facility which is the first Mexican Customs operation located outside of Mexico is located at the Laredo International airport and will focus on streamlining the customs
Cove B.C. - A spectator was killed and two kids critically injured in the crash of an off road racer during the 2013 running of the 45th Annual SCORE Baja 500 in Baja California yesterday afternoon. The modified off road racer driven by Kevin Price, 44, from San Francisco, California rolled and tumbled into the
Mexican Federal Transport Police manning a roadblock at km 73 on the Rocky Point-Puerto Libertad highway in the municipality of Caborca stopped a refrigerated tractor trailer rig enroute from Hermosillo Sonora to Baja California, discovering almost 100 kilograms of a “white powdery” substances hidden among the pallets of tomatoes the truckers were hauling. Emigdio Hernández
The defendant was unable to go to Court, so once again the Court came to the defendant. A second hearing was held this morning in the infirmary of the Central Social Rehabilitation Center Sergio García Ramírez, the state prison in the town of Ecatepec for Juan Omar Diaz Olivares, the driver of the propane tanker
He was released from the hospital in Mexico City on Tuesday afternoon where he had been recuperating from his injuries received in the accident that caused 26 deaths, dozens of injuries and millions of dollars in property damage in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec and taken under heavy guard to the Centro de Readaptación
Translated from T21MX by Osiel Cruz T21MX is a Mexican trade publication covering the Mexican trucking industry. Oriel Cruz is the General Director of the publication as well as a columnist covering trade and transport topics. Sr. Cruz column which I’m translating free style should outrage each and everyone of us, whether we be U.S or
