Comedian James P. Hoffa – Mexican trucks don’t belong on U.S. highways

Jan 122011
 
 12/01/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:25 on 12/01/2011 Comments Off
Comedian James P. Hoffa - Mexican trucks don't belong on U.S. highways

In todays Detroit News, Teamster’s President and amateur comedian James P. Hoffa has a column titled “Mexican trucks don’t belong on U.S. highways” As has been the case over the past 15 years that he’s been objecting to Mexican trucking, his claims have absolutely no basis in fact. Now, he continues to engage in fear mongering seeking to push all the right buttons using current events, that have nothing to do with allowing Mexican trucks to operate in this country. He uses the tired old debunked information about the former pilot program saying; “The Bush administration had already tried such ….Read More

Mexico agrees to stop “rotation” of tariff’s but will not lift them until agreement is reached

Jan 112011
 
 11/01/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 11/01/2011 1 Response »
Mexico agrees to stop "rotation" of tariff's but will not lift them until agreement is reached

MEXICO CITY – Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday. Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin discussing an initiative the U.S. presented last week to lift a U.S. ban on Mexican trucks. “As of this moment we stop that rotating process” — the expansion of the taxed list and the periodic changing of goods subject to the punitive ….Read More

Mexico Cross-Border Trucking – A Mexican Border Perspective

Nov 082010
 
 08/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 07:43 on 08/11/2010 3 Responses »
Mexico Cross-Border Trucking - A Mexican Border Perspective

The Journal of Commerce recently quoted Luis Paz Vega who is in leadership of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) office at the DC Mexican embassy – that redoing the Mexican Truck in the US “demonstration program” won’t work. They instead want us to adhere to NAFTA and open the border up. Here’s some thoughts…

Election 2010 & the Mexican Truck Issue

Nov 032010
 
 03/11/2010  Posted by PMC at 06:34 on 03/11/2010 3 Responses »
Election 2010 & the Mexican Truck Issue

The 2010 midterm elections came out about as expected, with the Repubs taking the House of Representatives and the Democrats retaining control of the Senate, guaranteeing two more years of gridlock and squabbling. How does this election bode for the United States finally complying with their obligations to allow Mexican trucks access to the US under the NAFTA provisions? Better now than before when Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature and had the unions and special interests had their hands up the asses of certain Congressmen and Senators.

Senators file bill to require EOBR’s in all interstate trucks

Sep 302010
 
 30/09/2010  Posted by PMC at 00:22 on 30/09/2010 Comments Off
Senators file bill to require EOBR's in all interstate trucks

In what can only be described as political pandering in an election year, and with the backing of a coalition of mega trucking companies, Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ar) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tn) filed a bill known as The Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act (S. 3884) The bill, if passed, would require universal installation of electronic on-board recording devices for commercial motor vehicles. It would force the Department of Transportation to issue regulations within 18 months of the bill’s enactment, as well as setting design and performance standards for the devices. The regulations would take effect three years after the bill becomes ….Read More

Sen. Patty Murray holding their “feet to the fire” for resolution of Mexican truck issue

Aug 062010
 
 06/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 23:31 on 06/08/2010 Comments Off
Sen. Patty Murray holding their "feet to the fire" for resolution of Mexican truck issue

WASHINGTON — A “frustrated” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., late Monday said she had included language in the Fiscal Year 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill that calls on the Obama administration to put forward a plan that would end retaliatory tariffs on Washington state agricultural products by Oct. 1. The bill passed the THUD subcommittee, which Murray chairs, as well as the full Appropriations committee, and will now head to the full Senate for consideration. “I am extremely frustrated that the administration has not yet acted while farmers across my home state of Washington continue to suffer ….Read More

Rumors of expanded tariff’s to target Beef, Pork and Chicken processors

Mar 152010
 
 15/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 19:16 on 15/03/2010 Comments Off
Rumors of expanded tariff's to target Beef, Pork and Chicken processors

A new week and more misinformation coming from OOIDA as they push their lemmings to urge their Congresspeople to sign on to Rep. Peter DeFazio’s silly little letter calling for the Obama Administration to discriminate once more, against Mexico, by renegotiating the provision that allows Mexican trucks access to the United States. It’s also the eve of the first anniversary of the legal tariff’s that Mexico instituted in retaliation for the closure of the Cross Border Demonstration Project. Our sources confirm that the rumors circulating that the Mexican government may update a trade retaliation list against U.S. products is true. ….Read More

OOIDA stooge Peter DeFazio wants to renegotiate NAFTA, but only for Mexican trucks

Mar 112010
 
 11/03/2010  Posted by PMC at 22:01 on 11/03/2010 4 Responses »
OOIDA stooge Peter DeFazio wants to renegotiate NAFTA, but only for Mexican trucks

On the first anniversary of the shutdown of the Cross Border Trucking program with Mexico, the job losses are mounting for American workers as American business’s continue to lose market share from the LEGAL tariff’s Mexico instituted in retaliation for our failure to comply with our obligations under NAFTA. 57 members of Congress in addition to more than 1400 trade groups have called on President Obama, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk to get the issue settled. Secretary LaHood stated in a recent interview that they were close to a resolution to the issue. The ….Read More

OIG Report – Political aims keep a deal idling slowly

Sep 042009
 
 04/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:55 on 04/09/2009 Comments Off
OIG Report - Political aims keep a deal idling slowly

The federal government has prompted yet another delay in the implementation of a NAFTA provision that allows Mexican truckers to bring cargo from that country to U.S. markets. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, that provision should have gone into effect on Jan. 1, 1995 — more than 14½ years ago. The U.S. Transportation Department’s inspector general on Wednesday issued a report stating that the department still needs more information to determine if Mexican trucks are safe enough to enter this country. The report, prepared by department auditors, says that some states don’t adequately report the nationality of people ….Read More

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