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Is this the “New Mexican Revolution”? – Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

Sep 232010

23/09/2010 Posted by PMC at 09:27 on 23/09/2010 4 Responses »

Is this the "New Mexican Revolution"? - Uprising and lynching in Ascension Chihuahua!

The good people of Mexico have has enough and the attempted kidnapping of a young woman in Ascension, Chihuahua, a small town south of the New Mexico border, could well be the catalyst for Mexican citizens to begin to take back their country from the grips of the narco terrorists. The blatant abduction attempt abduction of a 17-year-old female worker of a seafood restaurant touched off a burst of mass outrage that left two suspected young kidnappers dead and a small town in open rebellion. Alerted to the kidnapping, townspeople and soldiers mobilized, freed the victim and detained five alleged kidnappers; ….Read More

Translation of Mexican Laws and Regulations Available on MTO

Sep 042010

04/09/2010 Posted by PMC at 10:32 on 04/09/2010 7 Responses »

Translation of Mexican Laws and Regulations Available on MTO

At the moment, we are undertaking the monumental task of translating Mexican trucking regulations and traffic laws into English and making them available in our downloads section of the site. We’re putting them under the category of “Mexican Transportation Laws & Regulations” The first files to be made available are:

Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

Aug 312010

31/08/2010 Posted by PMC at 09:12 on 31/08/2010 Comments Off

Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

A caller to a nationally known trucking news report show recently starting spewing his objections and telling all who would listen why Mexican trucks should be forever banned from US highways. The days guest, a well known and respected journalist and trucking expert asked the caller; “Where do you get this information?” The caller, stunned at having his views questioned, stuttered and stammered for a moment and then blurted, “OOIDA of course!” And the journalist responded that , and I’m paraphrasing, “That for all the time OOIDA has been objecting to Mexican trucks, they have not ventured one fact to ….Read More

Revised Mexican tariff’s released today in response to US failure to resolve trucking dispute

Aug 182010

18/08/2010 Posted by PMC at 17:56 on 18/08/2010 5 Responses »

Revised Mexican tariff's released today in response to US failure to resolve trucking dispute

Mexico released the list of revised tariffs today is response to the Obama Administrations continued refusal to comply with our obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The biggest impact comes in new agricultural and processed food products. The Mexican government imposed tariffs of 10-20 percent on products like chocolate, ketchup, chewing gum and cheese — all products of the manufacturing sector, made in American factories by American workers.

With the announcement of renewed tariff’s, oppositions spin in full force

Aug 172010

17/08/2010 Posted by PMC at 17:37 on 17/08/2010 Comments Off

With the announcement of renewed tariff's, oppositions spin in full force

It didn’t take long for the opponents of Mexican trucks, or for that matter, anything Mexican to come out with their discredited rants opposing the US fulfilling its obligation to allow Mexican trucks access to US roadways in the same manner Canadian trucks have been allowed for more than 10 years. Teamster President James Hoffa was the first out of the chute with his tired sophomoric and overused rhetoric.

Mexico Planning New Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods in Trucking Dispute

Aug 162010

16/08/2010 Posted by PMC at 12:49 on 16/08/2010 Comments Off

Mexico Planning New Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods in Trucking Dispute

Mexico will impose additional import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation for the U.S. government’s failure to restore a program allowing Mexican trucks to operate north of the border, according to an official at the Economy Ministry. Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari plans to announce a new list of U.S. products subject to tariffs today,sources at the ministry advised MTO. The official declined to be identified because he isn’t authorized to speak on the subject. Ferrari said the list will be published this week but refused to give further details. The total value of products tariffed would not exceed $2.5 ….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

Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

Aug 062010

06/08/2010 Posted by PMC at 23:04 on 06/08/2010 1 Response »

It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed. At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks. Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there. Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river. Freight in ….Read More

Deputies seize $45 million in drugs in Rancho Cucamonga California

Jun 282010

28/06/2010 Posted by PMC at 01:31 on 28/06/2010 2 Responses »

Deputies seize $45 million in drugs in Rancho Cucamonga California

Sheriff’s deputies found a tractor trailer packed with $45 million in drugs during a routine traffic stop in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday. The bust was one of the largest ever made in San Bernardino County, and included thousands of pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said. The sheriff’s Hi-Intensity Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped a big rig on the eastbound 10 Freeway for a traffic violation at 11 a.m. The driver, Fernando Luevano, 32, of Los Angeles, did not have proper paperwork for his load. He gave deputies permission to search the trailer. When deputies opened ….Read More