Mexico gets serious about cross border trucking issue

Nov 082010
 
 08/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 15:16 on 08/11/2010 Comments Off
Mexico gets serious about cross border trucking issue

The Mexican government apparently is damned serious about trying to force the U.S. government to present it’s intentions in regards to the cross border trucking controversy. Sources close MTO have indicated that Mexico is considering rotating its list of U.S. products subject to retaliatory tariffs by early 2011 if the Obama administration fails to present a proposal for resolution of the cross border trucking provisions that would provide Mexican carriers quid pro quo access to US markets. The Mexican government will use all legal means to force the U.S. to comply with the trucking provisions of NAFTA, which the US ….Read More

21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

Nov 082010
 
 08/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 08:55 on 08/11/2010 Comments Off
21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

A bus owned by Estrella Blanco of Sonora collided Friday night with a double tanker carrying 40,000 liters of gasoline on the highway outside of Palmillas Escuinapa, resulting in 21 fatalities. The tanker, owned by Specialized Transportation Robles and driven by Ruben Santos Padilla, had loaded at a PEMEX facility in Mazatlan earlier in the afternoon. The bus, was traveling from Mexico City, where it departed at 0600 with it’s final destination being Tijuana. The bus company is taking care of all funeral, travel and per diem expenses for the victims and the victims families, even though, according to officials, ….Read More

Ministry of Defense (SEDENA) asks funding for additional checkpoints

Nov 022010
 
 02/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 07:25 on 02/11/2010 Comments Off
Ministry of Defense (SEDENA) asks funding for additional checkpoints

The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) acknowledging  limitations on the inspection and review of motor vehicles on Federal  roads in states considered drug corridors, has asked the Ministry of Finance for 1.6 million pesos to establish 13 permanent inspection stations. Current checkpoints see an average of 1,776 inspections daily, of commercial vehicles, and private autos. The Army desires to increase that to more than 5,000 a day to combat the trafficking of arms, drugs and human contraband.

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

Translation of Mexican Laws and Regulations Available on MTO

Sep 042010
 
 04/09/2010  Posted by PMC at 10:32 on 04/09/2010 7 Responses »
Translation of Mexican Laws and Regulations Available on MTO

At the moment, we are undertaking the monumental task of translating Mexican trucking regulations and traffic laws into English and making them available in our downloads section of the site. We’re putting them under the category of “Mexican Transportation Laws & Regulations” The first files to be made available are:

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

With the announcement of renewed tariff’s, oppositions spin in full force

Aug 172010
 
 17/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 17:37 on 17/08/2010 Comments Off
With the announcement of renewed tariff's, oppositions spin in full force

It didn’t take long for the opponents of Mexican trucks, or for that matter, anything Mexican to come out with their discredited rants opposing the US fulfilling its obligation to allow Mexican trucks access to US roadways in the same manner Canadian trucks have been allowed for more than 10 years. Teamster President James Hoffa was the first out of the chute with his tired sophomoric and overused rhetoric.

Owner Operators United President Dan Little helps debunk OOIDA misinformation and drivers misperceptions

Jun 262010
 
 26/06/2010  Posted by PMC at 12:29 on 26/06/2010 6 Responses »
Owner Operators United President Dan Little helps debunk OOIDA misinformation and drivers misperceptions

In a recent post,  I commented on allegations made by OOU President Dan Little, accusing FMCSA of falsifying CVSA inspections records for Mexican motor carriers. Mr Little took it upon himself and his organization to respond to that post with the records of 13 “randomly” selected Mexican carriers from the FMCSA SAFERSYS database. Mr Little made these allegations about the carrier list he submitted. They are:

Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

Sep 252009
 
 25/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 18:48 on 25/09/2009 Comments Off
Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city. Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States. The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.

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