Source links to Mexican government and law enforcement websites
On March 22, the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) in Mexico published its proposed Mexican Official Standard NOM-68 in the Official Gazette, similar to the Federal Register in the U.S. NOM-68 addresses federal inspection standards for CMVs in Mexico. There is a 60-day comment period for the proposal. All comments must be submitted in … Read more…
A head-on collision between a big rig belonging to Fletes Mexico and a pickup truck Saturday night in the municipality of Matamoros Coahuila has claimed the lives of 16 people, including 10 women, two infants, a five year old girl and three men. The pickup truck, with 12 in the bed and 4 in the … Read more…
The latest issue of CANACAR COMMUNICA is out and available for viewing online. CANACAR COMMUNICA is very similar to our own OVERDRIVE magazine and is presented in a similar format. Looking through the current and past issues, reveals some interesting facts and articles. In the July issue for instance, CANACAR is tracking the progress of … Read more…
Two US Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police on Friday after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, a spokesman for Mexico’s Navy said. Police fired on the vehicle in which the embassy employees, Jesse Hoods Garner and Stan Dove Boss were traveling, which … Read more…
I was listening to Eric “Bubba Bo” Boulanger the other night on XM Radio talking about Cinco de Mayo and how it was Mexico’s Independence Day (or something like that) and realized that most people don’t realize what Cinco de Mayo is about. To most, it’s about a night of drinking and listening to Americanized … Read more…
About a year ago, Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa signed a decree for the implementation of the Single Window of Foreign Trade, or “Ventanilla Unico” to streamline and consolidate Mexican Customs clearances. The new system is currently undergoing extensive testing which began last November. According to Alfonso Rojas Gonzalez de Castilla, president of the Confederation … Read more…
The attack on a popular Monterrey casino yesterday afternoon that left 63 people dead and dozens more injured, mostly women, has elevated the narco violence into Mexico into a de facto act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM and the response to this cowardly attack against innocent civilians should be treated as such. A $30 million peso reward … Read more…
Much of the misinformation coming from opponents of cross border trucking with Mexico seems to be coming from ignorance of the country rather than deliberate attempts to misinform the public, I’d like to think, at least where the regulatory structure in Mexico is concerned. Two of those issues that have been forcibly pushed on the … Read more…
COMUNICADO 044.- MÉXICO PARTICIPA EN EL “ROADCHECK” INTERNACIONAL DE VERIFICACIÓN EN AUTOTRANSPORTE FEDERAL • El Roadcheck es un operativo de la Alianza de Seguridad en Vehículos Comerciales (CVSA), de la cual México forma parte desde 1991 • Forma parte de acciones coordinadas por la Alianza en las tres naciones firmantes del TLC de América del … Read more…
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 … Read more…
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. … Read more…
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:
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 … Read more…