USDOT/OIG – FMCSA Generally Complies With Statutory Requirements, but Actions Are Needed Prior To Initiating Its NAFTA Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program

Sep 062011
 
 06/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:03 on 06/09/2011 Comments Off
USDOT/OIG - FMCSA Generally Complies With Statutory Requirements, but Actions Are Needed Prior To Initiating Its NAFTA Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program

On August 19, 2011, the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Transportation, a non-partisan independent office tasked with oversight of the various agencies, released it’s long awaited audit on the Mexican cross border program, preparing to get underway. This audit was required by Section 6901 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veteran’s Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007. The objective of the USDOT-OIG was to assess FMCSA’s policy, procedures, and processes for granting operating authority to Mexico–domiciled motor carriers under the pilot program and for monitoring and ensuring the carriers’ compliance with United States ….Read More

Teamsters file frivolous lawsuit seeking to stop Mexican Truck Program

Sep 022011
 
 02/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 22:34 on 02/09/2011 Comments Off
Teamsters file frivolous lawsuit seeking to stop Mexican Truck Program

At the 11th hour today, Teamsters, along with Public Citizen filed a lawsuit in 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco seeking to stop implementation of the Mexican Cross Border Program. The suit was filed against the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration alleging that the pilot program sets standards that aren’t stringent enough for Mexican trucks and drivers. For example, the program waives a law requiring trucks to display proof of meeting federal safety standards, said Jonathan Weissglass, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. An official for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the Teamsters ….Read More

Cross Border Trucking with Mexico – “It’s going to happen, There is no way to stop it”

Sep 012011
 
 01/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 01/09/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Trucking with Mexico - "It's going to happen, There is no way to stop it"

During the scheduled meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee in Alexandria Virginia yesterday, those were the words of  Carlos Sesma, an attorney representing Mexican trucking interests before the committee. And Sesma was correct. The MCSAC is a subcommittee of the FMCSA charged with overseeing the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. OOIDA Executive Vice-President Todd Spencer who is a member of the committee was making the usual asinine and totally false claims about the program. “What’s behind this is access to cheaper sources of labor,” Spencer claimed after the meeting, repeating the thoroughly debunked claim that it will put American ….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

OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to “protect the trees”

Aug 162011
 
 16/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 01:00 on 16/08/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to "protect the trees"

Say it ain’t so people! James P. Hoffa and his Teamsters, and Todd Spencer with his minority of American truckers are aligning themselves with the left wing enviro-wackos in a last desperate attempt to stop fewer than 100 late model Mexican trucks from entering the country? Politics and nativist protectionism make strange bedfellows sometimes as the latest press release from the Teamsters points out. In comments submitted to the Department of Transportation (DOT), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Sierra Club raised frivolous and baseless concerns with what they claim is the failure of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ….Read More

OOIDA asks “Is it racist to oppose the Mexican cross-border program?”

Aug 122011
 
 12/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 17:19 on 12/08/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA asks "Is it racist to oppose the Mexican cross-border program?"

That’s the question being posed on the Landline Now Media blog by Sandi Soendker, and it’s a valid question. The obvious answer to the question is of course, no. However, in their absence of a credible argument opposing the cross border trucking program with Mexico, OOIDA and other opponents are knowingly and willfully preying on the ignorance and prejudices of their members and the public at large, to turn opinion against Mexican truckers. So far once we can agree with OOIDA when Soendker writes; If American truckers are opposed to cross-border trucking with Mexico, are they racists? If they are ….Read More

Mexican Labor Law and the Mexican Cross Border Trucking Debate

Aug 052011
 
 05/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:13 on 05/08/2011 Comments Off
Mexican Labor Law and the Mexican Cross Border Trucking Debate

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 public is lack of Hours of Service Regulations in Mexico and what some perceive as a “weak” or non existent regulations for the Mexican trucking industry. Regulations of the trucking industry in Mexico is neither of those. The differences are enormous as trucking journalist Tim ….Read More

OOIDA concedes defeat – Mexican trucks to roll in August or September

Jul 312011
 
 31/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 09:34 on 31/07/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA concedes defeat - Mexican trucks to roll in August or September

In an interview with Mark Reddig on Land Line Now Friday, Laura O’Neil of OOIDA’s Washington office conceded there is not much left to do to prevent the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program from beginning next month. O’Neil, saying that OOIDA continues to look for any roadblock they can throw up to stop the program, conceded that with the August recess upon us, the debate over the debt ceiling increase and the fact that their is not much interest in Congress in stopping the program, that they are out of options. She did suggest that members approach their representatives in ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Jul 212011
 
 21/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:23 on 21/07/2011 1 Response »
Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Absent any proof that allowing a few more Mexican trucks access to the United State under the upcoming Cross Border Pilot Program, will encourage more smuggling of contraband or worse, opponents of the pilot program, their allies and spokesmen on trucking talk radio are making an all out effort to fabricate a problem that does not exist, and enlisting acknowledged hate groups with ties to white supremacists, and convicted child murderers to to further spread fear and misinformation about Mexican trucks. There have been posts by OOIDA members on hate sites such as STORMFRONT.ORG which have titillated and agitated the ….Read More

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