Stop the Madness: A Public Thank You For Correcting a Broken Trucking Promise

Jul 212011
 
 21/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 02:09 on 21/07/2011 Comments Off
Stop the Madness: A Public Thank You For Correcting a Broken Trucking Promise

By Cheryl Koompin – American Falls, Idaho Amid all the partisan fights in Washington over budgets and debt ceilings, the Obama administration quietly solved a $2-billion problem earlier this month. On July 6, the United States signed an agreement with Mexico that ends a vexing dispute over trade and trucks. It wipes out Mexican tariffs that have hurt potato farmers like me as well as many other Americans during the toughest economic times many of us have ever experienced. We already face enough challenges on America’s farms, from worrying about the weather to figuring out how we’re going to pay ….Read More

FMCSA refuses demand by OOIDA to delay cross border program with Mexico

Jul 212011
 
 21/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 01:35 on 21/07/2011 Comments Off
FMCSA refuses demand by OOIDA to delay cross border program with Mexico

It’s all procedural, but FMCSA has refused demands by the Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) to halt implementation of the Cross Border Pilot Program pending resolution of the frivolous and baseless lawsuit filed against the agency earlier this month. OOIDA’s legal counsel, Paul Cullen Sr. with The Cullen Law Firm, sent a letter to FMCSA on July 8 asking the agency to consent to stay the program pending resolution of the petition for review. FMCSA’s counsel denied the request on July 13. Under rules of procedure, OOIDA was  required to ask FMCSA for the stay because a party to ….Read More

Another lame attempt by OOIDA to delay the Mexican cross border trucking program

Jul 142011
 
 14/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:59 on 14/07/2011 1 Response »
Another lame attempt by OOIDA to delay the Mexican cross border trucking program

One has to ask themselves, “Are the folks at OOIDA as stupid as they seem to be or do they simply think the American trucker and the public are stupid”? It would seem to be a little of both after the seeing the latest attempt to derail the Mexican cross border pilot program. The issues of “truck safety”, “border security” as it relates to Mexican trucks has all pretty much been debunked. What’s left? Appealing to the tree huggers, the environmentalists to try to stop this perfectly legitimate program. On Tuesday, FMCSA announced the availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment ….Read More

Cross Border Agreement signed. OOIDA already in Court – Higher Tariffs possible as a result

Jul 062011
 
 06/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:25 on 06/07/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Agreement signed. OOIDA already in Court - Higher Tariffs possible as a result

It didn’t take long after today’s announcement of the official signing of the Cross Border Pilot Program agreement in Mexico City for opponents to come out swinging with the lies, fear mongering and preying on the ignorance of those too apathetic to look for the truth for themselves. And as expected, OOIDA is headed to court. In a “Special Report” senior editor Jami Jones writes: The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association immediately filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The Association is asking the court to review the program and to “enjoin, set-aside, ….Read More

US & Mexico sign agreement for Safe Secure Cross-Border Trucking Program

Jul 062011
 
 06/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:41 on 06/07/2011 Comments Off
US & Mexico sign agreement for Safe Secure Cross-Border Trucking Program

It’s official folks! U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes Dionisio Arturo Pèrez-Jàcome Friscione joined today in Mexico City to sign agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and Mexico. This agreement paves the way for Mexico to begin to lift 50% of the $2.4 billion in retaliatory tariffs that have been in place for more than two years, a result of the Obama Administration caving to pressure from the TEAMSTERS and OOIDA and defunding the previous highly successful Cross Border Demonstration Project. Pursuant to an agreement signed by the ….Read More

FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

Jun 282011
 
 28/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:32 on 28/06/2011 Comments Off
FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official. A formal agreement between the United States and Mexico could be signed in the next few weeks, William Quade, FMCSA’s associate administrator for enforcement, told Transport Topics last week. In a briefing last week to the agency’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee, Quade said the agency received nearly 2,000 public comments on its proposal to allow trucks from Mexico to deliver to destinations in the United States as mandated under the North American Free Trade Agreement ….Read More

Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Jun 202011
 
 20/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:32 on 20/06/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Speaking to a group of trucking, logistics and technology industry executives at SMC3’s annual summer conference last Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said that new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months although she added she doesn’t expect a wave of Mexican trucks heading for the U.S. border. The FMCSA and it’s Mexican counterpart SCT, expects the U.S. and Mexico to agree on a final program “quite soon” and to grant authority to the first Mexican carrier in the program “sometime in August.” Sources suggest the agreement ….Read More

National Call to Action – Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Jun 162011
 
 16/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 04:20 on 16/06/2011 Comments Off
National Call to Action - Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Time for readers and other interested parties to call their assorted Senators and Congress critters and ask them to support the proposed Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico which would bring the United States into compliance with it’s international obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The legal retaliatory tariff’s Mexico but on 99 US export products has cost more than 25,000 Americans their jobs and agri business loss of more than 14% market share, most going to Canada. To contact your Congressman and both of your Senators, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, tell the operator ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized “hate groups” for support.

Jun 152011
 
 15/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 15/06/2011 Comments Off
Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized "hate groups" for support.

“We’re as close as you can be,” Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari  said yesterday, confirming that  his country is preparing to sign the formal Cross Border Trucking agreement to end the trucking dispute with the U.S. as early as this month, setting the stage for the country to remove the punitive tariffs that have cost 25,000 or more US jobs and market share. Opponents of the program, The Teamsters and OOIDA in particular, in their desperation appear to be pulling out all stops, including turning to recognized HATE GROUPS to spread their message. In this case, the organization in question is ….Read More

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