Charlie Douglas “father of overnight trucking radio”, dead at 78

Nov 292011
 
 29/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 12:43 on 29/11/2011 No Responses »
Charlie Douglas "father of overnight trucking radio", dead at 78

Charlie Douglas, whose “Road Gang” overnight truckers radio show on WWL870 kept many a trucker awake and smiling over the miles in the early 70′s, died at his home in Picayune Mississippi on Thanksgiving day. He was 78. Douglas, whose real name was Doug China, first brought the “Road Gang” to WWL in 1971. In a time before cell phones, the Road Gang was a vital link for truckers to keep in touch with friends and family. The show continued for 13 years spawning dozens of wannabes and imitators but Douglas was and remains one of a kind. Douglas left ….Read More

Data becomes available on progress of Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Nov 242011
 
 24/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 12:52 on 24/11/2011 No Responses »
Data becomes available on progress of Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Sufficient data is becoming available for the FMCSA to begin to publish status reports for the Mexican carriers participating in the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. The weekly updates can be accessed at FMCSA’s website. This is part of the transparency of the program required under the rules for the program and which groups who oppose Mexican trucking claims not to exist. Here’s an overview of the first report published. It covers the week of 10/21/2011 through 10/31/2011. Transportes Olympic has made 2 crossings using 2 drivers in one truck. There was one inspection done on Transportes Olympics trucks as ….Read More

Teamsters expand “frivolous” lawsuit against Mexican truck program

Nov 242011
 
 24/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 11:56 on 24/11/2011 No Responses »
Teamsters expand "frivolous" lawsuit against Mexican truck program

Jimmy R. Hoffa (1913-1982), legendary leader of the Teamsters must be looking up from from the great beyond, shaking his head in disgust at the pathetic loser that bears his name, James P. Hoffa. Hoffa, re-elected by a minority of the Teamsters (Hoffa received 137,172 votes out of a membership of 1.4 million) rank and file to guide the once powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters into further mediocrity, has chosen to hasten their descent by expanding their frivolous lawsuit against Mexican trucks. Teaming up with so called “public interest” group PUBLIC CITIZEN and tree huggers SIERRA CLUB, they’ve expanded their ….Read More

Study suggests Mexico’s PEMEX branded diesel fuels comparable to US diesel

Nov 122011
 
 12/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:11 on 12/11/2011 No Responses »
Study suggests Mexico's PEMEX branded diesel fuels comparable to US diesel

At one time or another, we’ve all heard Dale “The Trucking Bozo” Sommers, or his kid Steve and Eric “Bubba Bo” Bolanger from ATN preaching the gospel to anyone of their dwindling number of listeners, that Mexican diesel is garbage fuel, thick, contaminated, green slime, not fit to be burned in a ships bunker. And lamentably, many beliefs these self righteous talkers. However, a report has come to light by the Texas Transportation Institute, part of the Texas A&M University system that suggests the diesel fuel processed and sold in Mexico, by PEMEX, is equal to and in some cases ….Read More

OOIDA uses alleged “bogus” data to try and discredit Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

Nov 122011
 
 12/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 09:23 on 12/11/2011 No Responses »
OOIDA uses alleged "bogus" data to try and discredit Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program

The latest effort by OOIDA to discredit the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico comes in a posting by OOIDA’s Senior Editor Jami Jones titled “LIPSTICK ON A PIG” in which she uses very suspect and possibly bogus data provided in a Power Point Presentationby the California Air Resources Board otherwise known by the acronym CARB. Jones says; The emission standards for Mexico’s new truck engines are equivalent to the 2004 standards here in the U.S. So no matter when that truck was built, if it was built any time after 2007 it pollutes 19 times more nitrogen oxides, nine ….Read More

Racist Hate Group ALIPAC and President William Gheen use Mexican truck issue to defraud elderly

Nov 052011
 
 05/11/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:25 on 05/11/2011 Comments Off
Racist Hate Group ALIPAC and President William Gheen use Mexican truck issue to defraud elderly

Once again, ALIPAC President William Potter Gheen III is using a current event in his pathetic attempt to defraud American’s elderly population into donating to his nativist hate group, wrongfully called “Americans for Legal Immigration”. That’s right folks, Gheen, in the midst of his third attempt this year to scam unsuspecting old folks and others who are scared to death of a mythical “Mexican invasion” using the issue of Mexican trucks. As my readers already know, one carefully inspected and closely monitored Mexican carrier has been given authority to operate in the United States under the recent Cross Border Pilot ….Read More

Transportes Olympics granted “Permanent Operating Authority” under new Pilot Program Rules. OOIDA cries “Foul”

Oct 282011
 
 28/10/2011  Posted by PMC at 07:05 on 28/10/2011 Comments Off
Transportes Olympics granted "Permanent Operating Authority" under new Pilot Program Rules. OOIDA cries "Foul"

After the completion of their first trip to Garland Texas under the new Cross Border Pilot Program, Transportes Olympics has been granted “permanent operating authority” by the FMCSA as specified in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the cross border program. The announcement was made last Wednesday by FMCSA North American Borders Specialist Carla Vagnini at the fall meeting of the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators that was held in Ottawa. Under the rules, Transportes Olympics will no longer be required to undergo a Level I CVSA inspection each time it crosses into the United States under the program. ….Read More

Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program officially underway as first Mexican truck arrives at Laredo

Oct 212011
 
 21/10/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:50 on 21/10/2011 1 Response »
Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program officially underway as first Mexican truck arrives at Laredo

An editorial caught me eye this morning, on this day that the first Mexican carrier to be granted authority to operate beyond the commercial zone enters the U.S. It reads in part; When a nation signs and ratifies a treaty with another, it is in effect a contract between those countries. And when one country later simply decides it does not like the terms of the treaty and unilaterally decides to stop abiding by those terms —- well, that nation isn’t behaving very honorably, is it? The roadblocks being thrown up by groups like OOIDA and the Teamsters that have ….Read More

Teamster and OOIDA’s Otay Mesa “Dog and Pony Show” nothing more than lies and alarmist rhetoric

Oct 192011
 
 19/10/2011  Posted by PMC at 18:39 on 19/10/2011 Comments Off
Teamster and OOIDA's Otay Mesa "Dog and Pony Show" nothing more than lies and alarmist rhetoric

It was an afternoon full of alarmist rhetoric geared towards fueling the hysteria against anything Mexican to anyone who cared to listen. All and all, about what we expected. I’m referring of course to the presser held by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa who was joined by OOIDA VP Todd Spencer, and hand picked OOIDA member from “Mexico” Jose Escott, and two members of California’s Congressional delegation, Duncan Hunter (R-Ca) and Bob Filner (D-Ca), two Congressmen who never miss an opportunity to bash Mexico and it’s people. Was anything new discussed? Not a thing. Alarmist rhetoric, lies upon lies upon ….Read More

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