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OOIDA concedes defeat – Mexican trucks to roll in August or September

Jul 312011

31/07/2011 Posted by PMC at 09:34 on 31/07/2011 Comments Off

In an interview with Mark Reddig on Land Line Now Friday, Laura O’Neil of OOIDA’s Washington office conceded there is not much left to do to prevent the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program from beginning next month. O’Neil, saying that OOIDA continues to look for any roadblock they can throw up to stop the program, conceded that with the August recess upon us, the debate over the debt ceiling increase and the fact that their is not much interest in Congress in stopping the program, that they are out of options. She did suggest that members approach their representatives in ….Read More

Cloned Trucks – Another misconception about Cross Border Trucking

Jul 212011

21/07/2011 Posted by PMC at 07:52 on 21/07/2011 Comments Off

Cloned Trucks - Another misconception about Cross Border Trucking

Another report that opponents of cross border trucking have latched onto and using to push their agenda of misinformation about Mexican trucks is that of Mexican drug gangs “cloning” trucks to smuggle their contraband. There is no evidence to be found that 18 wheel road rigs are being “cloned”. What the reports state is COMMERCIAL VEHICLES being cloned. A commercial vehicle can be anything from a 1/4 ton pickup to an 18 wheeler. This is like the misconception, the facts of which can’t be found, that 10,000 commercial vehicles are being hijacked. Again, the operative word is “commercial vehicle”. Package ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Jul 212011

21/07/2011 Posted by PMC at 06:23 on 21/07/2011 1 Response »

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking enlist hate groups and their spokesmen to mislead the public

Absent any proof that allowing a few more Mexican trucks access to the United State under the upcoming Cross Border Pilot Program, will encourage more smuggling of contraband or worse, opponents of the pilot program, their allies and spokesmen on trucking talk radio are making an all out effort to fabricate a problem that does not exist, and enlisting acknowledged hate groups with ties to white supremacists, and convicted child murderers to to further spread fear and misinformation about Mexican trucks. There have been posts by OOIDA members on hate sites such as STORMFRONT.ORG which have titillated and agitated the ….Read More

OMG!!! The Mexican Trucks are here!!!

Jul 212011

21/07/2011 Posted by PMC at 03:12 on 21/07/2011 Comments Off

Riding through Houston yesterday morning, encounters on of those “dangerous, unsafe” Mexican trucks everyone is having hissy fits over. Couldn’t have recognized it as such from all the other truckers in the morning rush hour except for the dual tags, Mexico and Texas. Dangerous and Unsafe? Not hardly. Compared to the port haulers who were tailgating, weaving in and out of rush hour traffic and tailgating those that didn’t move over quick enough, this driver maintained his lane, kept a safe following distance and actually backed off when a four wheeler cut him off, which happened several times. His load, ….Read More

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