Editorial – Roadblock to free trade – It’s time to comply with NAFTA and open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks

Jan 152012
 
 15/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 08:07 on 15/01/2012 No Responses »
Editorial - Roadblock to free trade - It's time to comply with NAFTA and open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks

Nearly 20 years after President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, a key provision that grants Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways remains stalled. Staunch opposition from unions and consumer groups in this country, which argue that unsafe foreign trucks and inexperienced drivers put U.S. jobs and lives at risk, have successfully shut down even the most modest attempts to comply with NAFTA. In October, the Obama administration tried again, with a pilot program granting three Mexican trucking firms limited access to U.S. roads. So far, just two carriers have sent trucks into the country — a small ….Read More

Appeals Court Judge orders Mexican Cross Border Trucking lawsuits consolidated

Jan 112012
 
 11/01/2012  Posted by PMC at 16:22 on 11/01/2012 No Responses »
Appeals Court Judge orders Mexican Cross Border Trucking lawsuits consolidated

The two separate and frivolous lawsuits filed last year by the Teamsters, Public Citizen, Sierra Club and Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) have now been consolidated into one lawsuit on orders from a Judge with the D.C. Court of Appeals. The case numbers for the two actions are 11-1444 for the Teamsters and 11-1251 for OOIDA. Attorney’s for all plaintiffs will now be required to make their oral arguments before the Court in the same courtroom on the same day. Back in July of 2011, OOIDA filed their frivolous action against the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico asking the ….Read More

Weekly update on Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Dec 032011
 
 03/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:54 on 03/12/2011 No Responses »
Weekly update on Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

The Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico is on track as more than 15 carriers have applied for admission into the program.
The FMCSA is continuing to conduct the Pre-Authority Safety Audits (PASA) in full compliance with the terms of the pilot program.
The latest applicant to undergo their PASA is Transportes Unimex SA de CV of Reynosa Tamps. Their USDOT #1739863 shows a company with 30 power units and 28 drivers. Their SAFERSYS data shows a carrier with zero crashes, a vehicle out of service rate of 13%, the national average being 20.72%, a driver out of service rate of 0.3%, only 2 drivers being placed OOS out of 608 inspections.

OOIDA makes another bogus claim against Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Dec 022011
 
 02/12/2011  Posted by PMC at 20:16 on 02/12/2011 No Responses »
OOIDA makes another bogus claim against Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

In OOIDA’s latest lame attempt to stop cross border trucking with Mexico using bogus or suspect data, they go back to a little known provision of the Safe Port Act of 2006, specifically Section 703. Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Candice Miller, chairman of the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, no doubt at the urging of OOIDA and the Teamsters, recently sent a letter to Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security demanding to know why section 703 of the act had not been complied with. Anybody heard of section 703, much less the Safe Port ….Read More

Data becomes available on progress of Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Nov 242011
 
 24/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 12:52 on 24/11/2011 No Responses »
Data becomes available on progress of Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Sufficient data is becoming available for the FMCSA to begin to publish status reports for the Mexican carriers participating in the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. The weekly updates can be accessed at FMCSA’s website. This is part of the transparency of the program required under the rules for the program and which groups who oppose Mexican trucking claims not to exist. Here’s an overview of the first report published. It covers the week of 10/21/2011 through 10/31/2011. Transportes Olympic has made 2 crossings using 2 drivers in one truck. There was one inspection done on Transportes Olympics trucks as ….Read More

Teamsters expand “frivolous” lawsuit against Mexican truck program

Nov 242011
 
 24/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:56 on 24/11/2011 No Responses »
Teamsters expand "frivolous" lawsuit against Mexican truck program

Jimmy R. Hoffa (1913-1982), legendary leader of the Teamsters must be looking up from from the great beyond, shaking his head in disgust at the pathetic loser that bears his name, James P. Hoffa. Hoffa, re-elected by a minority of the Teamsters (Hoffa received 137,172 votes out of a membership of 1.4 million) rank and file to guide the once powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters into further mediocrity, has chosen to hasten their descent by expanding their frivolous lawsuit against Mexican trucks. Teaming up with so called “public interest” group PUBLIC CITIZEN and tree huggers SIERRA CLUB, they’ve expanded their ….Read More

Study suggests Mexico’s PEMEX branded diesel fuels comparable to US diesel

Nov 122011
 
 12/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:11 on 12/11/2011 No Responses »
Study suggests Mexico's PEMEX branded diesel fuels comparable to US diesel

At one time or another, we’ve all heard Dale “The Trucking Bozo” Sommers, or his kid Steve and Eric “Bubba Bo” Bolanger from ATN preaching the gospel to anyone of their dwindling number of listeners, that Mexican diesel is garbage fuel, thick, contaminated, green slime, not fit to be burned in a ships bunker. And lamentably, many beliefs these self righteous talkers. However, a report has come to light by the Texas Transportation Institute, part of the Texas A&M University system that suggests the diesel fuel processed and sold in Mexico, by PEMEX, is equal to and in some cases ….Read More

OOIDA uses alleged “bogus” data to try and discredit Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Nov 122011
 
 12/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 09:23 on 12/11/2011 No Responses »
OOIDA uses alleged "bogus" data to try and discredit Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

The latest effort by OOIDA to discredit the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico comes in a posting by OOIDA’s Senior Editor Jami Jones titled “LIPSTICK ON A PIG” in which she uses very suspect and possibly bogus data provided in a Power Point Presentationby the California Air Resources Board otherwise known by the acronym CARB. Jones says; The emission standards for Mexico’s new truck engines are equivalent to the 2004 standards here in the U.S. So no matter when that truck was built, if it was built any time after 2007 it pollutes 19 times more nitrogen oxides, nine ….Read More

Racist Hate Group ALIPAC and President William Gheen use Mexican truck issue to defraud elderly

Nov 052011
 
 05/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:25 on 05/11/2011 Comments Off
Racist Hate Group ALIPAC and President William Gheen use Mexican truck issue to defraud elderly

Once again, ALIPAC President William Potter Gheen III is using a current event in his pathetic attempt to defraud American’s elderly population into donating to his nativist hate group, wrongfully called “Americans for Legal Immigration”. That’s right folks, Gheen, in the midst of his third attempt this year to scam unsuspecting old folks and others who are scared to death of a mythical “Mexican invasion” using the issue of Mexican trucks. As my readers already know, one carefully inspected and closely monitored Mexican carrier has been given authority to operate in the United States under the recent Cross Border Pilot ….Read More

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