Another frivolous lawsuit and another motion DENIED!!

Sep 222007
 
 22/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 14:39 on 22/09/2007 Comments Off

Editors Note: They just keep at it don’t they. Despite being kicked back time and again using the same lame arguments with a different spin. I wonder if OOIDA members appreciated their hard earned membership dues being used in this frivolous manner The lawsuit filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association challenging the cross-border program is moving forward – the only question is what court is going to hear the case. In an order issued late today by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the request made by OOIDA for an emergency stay of the ….Read More

Facts you may not know to counter the false claims of the critics

Sep 122007
 
 12/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 10:58 on 12/09/2007 4 Responses »

I was looking over the comments posted here today and saw one left by “Genie” that directed me to the Arbitration dispute with Mexico back in 1998, where the panel found in favor of Mexico. In reading the finding of facts in this report , I learned some interesting things about Mexican trucks and their access to the United States I never knew. For instance, did anyone know trucks from Mexico have always been allowed to transit the United States between Mexico and Canada without the need for operating authority or supervision of the FMCSA? Well, they have and they ….Read More

Official Statement From Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa

Sep 012007
 
 01/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 07:20 on 01/09/2007 Comments Off

(Washington, D.C.) – On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the emergency injunction filed by the Teamsters, Sierra Club and Public Citizen, saying the petition failed to meet legal hurdles. The case now must be argued before the court. Reacting to the decision, Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa stated:

FMCSA response to Teamsters frivolous lawsuit

Aug 302007
 
 30/08/2007  Posted by PMC at 18:46 on 30/08/2007 Comments Off

SAN FRANCISCO—The Bush administration urged a federal appeals court Thursday to let Mexican cargo trucks cross the border and freely travel anywhere in the country, arguing that to do otherwise could strain diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico.The Teamsters Union on Wednesday asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the program, which the administration said would go into effect on Sept. 6. The plan would let as many as 100 registered Mexican truck carriers drive their cargo anywhere in the country for the next year as part of a “demonstration project.” The court gave no indication ….Read More

SPLC Sues Leading Klan Group over Beating

Aug 102007
 
 10/08/2007  Posted by PMC at 20:29 on 10/08/2007 Comments Off
SPLC Sues Leading Klan Group over Beating

The Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the nation’s second-largest Klan group and five Klansmen, saying two members were on a recruiting mission for the group in July 2006 when they savagely beat a teenage boy at a county fair in Kentucky.The lawsuit claims that as part of an official recruiting drive organized by the leadership of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), several members went to the Meade County Fairgrounds in Brandenburg, Ky., to hand out business cards and flyers advertising a “white-only” IKA function. Unprovoked, two of the Klansmen at the fair began harassing a 16-year-old ….Read More

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