Nuevo Laredo drug testing of public transit workers complete. 1600 tested, only 4 positive and dismissed

Feb 022012
 
 02/02/2012  Posted by PMC at 16:23 on 02/02/2012 No Responses »
Nuevo Laredo drug testing of public transit workers complete. 1600 tested, only 4 positive and dismissed

We wrote last week about the Public Transit delegation in the border city of Nuevo Laredo had began testing all city transit and taxi drivers for drug and alcohol use and re-certifying those who passed. The first phase of the testing is complete, and while not surprising to us, debunks more of the propaganda being passed around by groups such as OOIDA and the Teamsters concerning lack of drug testing in Mexico. Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy of the Public Transit delegation in Nuevo Laredo, reports at the end of the first phase of testing, 1600 bus and taxi drivers were tested and ….Read More

Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

Jan 272012
 
 27/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 01:26 on 27/01/2012 No Responses »
Re-certification of public bus and taxi drivers in Nuevo Laredo includes drug, skills testing.

NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses, taxis and other public conveyances. “We are contracted with a certified laboratory in Monterey, which immediately reports to the Delegation when positive results are obtained” Cuellar said Bridges. The tests began on Monday, with a goal to finish by Friday with 500 tests remaining in addition to refresher driving and ….Read More

DOJ Report debunks the myth that Mexican trucks are the main conveyance for illegal drugs

Dec 102011
 
 10/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 01:34 on 10/12/2011 No Responses »
DOJ Report debunks the myth that Mexican trucks are the main conveyance for illegal drugs

The U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center has released its National Drug Threat Assessment 2011 and to the consternation of many who have made the claim that Mexican trucks are the main conveyances with which drugs enter the US, pretty much debunks this idea. And as usual, we can count on Charlie Morasch, a Landlinemag.com staff hack, to spin the report in a direction that evidence doesn’t indicate. Morasch uses quotes from a FBI special agent, Kevin Donovan to get his points across, yet one of the remarks attributed to this agent totally blows one of OOIDA and the ….Read More

Canadian Trucker admits smuggling drugs into Canada

Sep 102011
 
 10/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 17:33 on 10/09/2011 Comments Off
Canadian Trucker admits smuggling drugs into Canada

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian truck driver who pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling cocaine in the floorboards of his truck was part of an operation that sent more than 1½ tons of drugs across the U.S. border into Canada since 2009, federal authorities said. Ravinder Arora, 30, of Brampton, Ontario, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to export cocaine. He faces at least 10 years in prison at his December sentencing. Arora was about to cross the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge from western New York into Ontario last September when his nervous demeanor led U.S. border agents to search his ….Read More

1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The rest of the story

Aug 242011
 
 24/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:35 on 24/08/2011 Comments Off
1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The rest of the story

The rest of the story emerges about the El Paso times story we wrote about earlier this week, concerning the thousands of violations reported by Texas DPS inspectors at two commercial crossings in El Paso Texas. While we have some concerns about the number of violations reported over 4.5 years, the Times story claims 1.2 million inspections were done at the Zaragosa and Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, we could only find 811,574 inspections reported on the FMCSA NAFTA STATISTICS pages. Some have suggested that the numbers are flawed considering the man hours that would need to be ….Read More

1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The story behind the story

Aug 212011
 
 21/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:50 on 21/08/2011 Comments Off
1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The story behind the story

Today’s El Paso Times has a piece out titled “1 Million Truck Violations Cited at Border Crossing”by Diana Washington who has in the past been a reputable reporter on things concerning the US/Mexico border in El Paso. But the story is misleading and just the sort of thing we expect OOIDA to jump on first thing tomorrow morning. So let’s defuse this bomb before they have a chance to use it. The story reads in full; Texas state inspectors in El Paso have found thousands of safety violations in trucks coming from Mexico, including bad brakes, flat tires, axle problems ….Read More

Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

Jun 192011
 
 19/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:18 on 19/06/2011 Comments Off
Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

EL PASO — A border security program to X-ray every train rolling into the US has prompted as much as $400 million in fines against US railroads, which are held responsible for bales of marijuana, bundles of cocaine, and anything else criminals cram into the boxcars as they roll through Mexico. Union Pacific, the largest rail shipper on the US-Mexico border and the largest recipient of fines, refuses to pay more than $388 million in fines, up from $37.5 million three years ago when the screening began. In federal litigation the railroad argues that it is being punished for something ….Read More

Mexico sends more troops to reinforce borderlands

Nov 252010
 
 25/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 03:41 on 25/11/2010 Comments Off
Mexico sends more troops to reinforce borderlands

Almost 3,000 members of the Army, Marines and Federal Police reinforced military operations in the Tamaulipas municipalities of Nuevo Guerrero, Ciudad Mier, Miguel Aleman, Camargo and Diaz Ordaz in an attempt to stem the spiraling violence and the growing exodus of residents as rival bands of heavily armed criminals contest that area of the Texas Mexico border. Read More And with the arrival of the reinforcements, The First Casualties reported in “La Frontera Chica” offensive around Cd. Mier.

Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

Aug 062010
 
 06/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 23:04 on 06/08/2010 1 Response »
Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed. At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks. Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there. Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river. Freight in ….Read More

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