An interesting article published in the New York Times today titled U.S.-Mexico Trucker Dispute Takes a Step Forward offers some interesting quotes from Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn and a spokes for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Senator John Cornyn: “The cross-border trucking program boosts trade opportunities for the U.S. and creates jobs here in Texas. Mexican trucks must be held to stringent safety requirements — just like any carrier on U.S. highways.”
I’m sitting here tonight listening to the American Trucking Network and the Mexico bashing going on by Eric “Bubba Bo” Boulanger, a know nothing DJ who by virtue of a Class B CDL considers himself an expert on Mexico and trucking in general, and his buddy Rusty “Yoda” Wade, an owner operator who is spending the evening saying “bite me” anytime something is said about Mexico or Mexico trucking, and thought a quick post to once again combat and debunk their special brand of bullshit was in order. No databases, bogus CDL’s, unqualified drivers, unsafe rigs, all the normal crap ….Read More
Consider the source before you get all excited, but the right wing moonbattery website WORLD NET DAILY is reporting that Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), a staunch opponent of allowing Mexican trucks access to the United States, has apparently seen the light and knows that further opposition to the inevitable is fruitless.
It’s only a concept document at this point, but it has opponents of Mexico and Mexican trucking in full propaganda mode. The results of the former Cross Border Pilot Program proved that that the claims of the Teamsters, OOIDA and public safety groups were baseless and utterly false, but with this new round, that’s not stopping them. Once again they’ve enlisted Phyllis Schafly, an anti-feminist, anti-ERA conspiracy whackjob to carry the torch for them and thoroughly distort the issue. In her column today in TOWN HALL she writes.
In todays Detroit News, Teamster’s President and amateur comedian James P. Hoffa has a column titled “Mexican trucks don’t belong on U.S. highways” As has been the case over the past 15 years that he’s been objecting to Mexican trucking, his claims have absolutely no basis in fact. Now, he continues to engage in fear mongering seeking to push all the right buttons using current events, that have nothing to do with allowing Mexican trucks to operate in this country. He uses the tired old debunked information about the former pilot program saying; “The Bush administration had already tried such ….Read More
MEXICO CITY – Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday. Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin discussing an initiative the U.S. presented last week to lift a U.S. ban on Mexican trucks. “As of this moment we stop that rotating process” — the expansion of the taxed list and the periodic changing of goods subject to the punitive ….Read More
We’ve had a weekend since Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released the “Concept Document” enabling the United States to finally uphold their obligations under the NAFTA agreement. Reaction has been overwhelmingly positive to the release of the plan with opposition coming from the usual irrelevant sources, as predicted. Immediately, the opposition chimed in citing job losses, unsafe trucks, and a variety of other baseless assumptions. Baseless because in the 15 years of opposition to allowing Mexican carriers to operate in this country, OOIDA and the TEAMSTERS have offered no concrete evidence to back up their claims. Why? Because none exists. There ….Read More
As expected, Todd Spencer and OOIDA quickly released a statement opposing any effort by the FMCSA and the Obama administration to comply with out obligation under NAFTA. Our non compliance having cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs and a significant amount of market share due to the perfectly legal retaliatory tariffs Mexico imposed for our non compliance. Here is OOIDA’s statement: (Our opinion appears in between the paragraphs)
SA Express News Editorial – Take action on truck program – End a self-defeating trade war with Mexico over NAFTA provision
Let’s see if I’ve got this right. James P. Hoffa of the Teamsters and Todd Spencer of OOIDA are correct in their opinions of Mexican trucks and 1400 plus trade associations, newspaper editors and business groups are wrong? And the aforementioned duo “speak” for the “majority” of Americans? I think not. The San Antonio Express News editorial board offered their opinion on the issue this morning.