FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

Jun 282011
 
 28/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:32 on 28/06/2011 Comments Off
FMCSA Plans August Restart for Mexico Trucks Program

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official. A formal agreement between the United States and Mexico could be signed in the next few weeks, William Quade, FMCSA’s associate administrator for enforcement, told Transport Topics last week. In a briefing last week to the agency’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee, Quade said the agency received nearly 2,000 public comments on its proposal to allow trucks from Mexico to deliver to destinations in the United States as mandated under the North American Free Trade Agreement ….Read More

American Trucker busted with cocaine valued at $4 Million Dollars

Jun 282011
 
 28/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:26 on 28/06/2011 Comments Off
American Trucker busted with cocaine valued at $4 Million Dollars

RAYMONDVILLE – A routine traffic stop in the Valley by DPS leads to a close to $4 million drug bust. Fifty-six-year-old Bobby John McCarty was pulled over by DPS in Raymondville on Saturday. Court documents show his tractor trailer was taken in for further inspection at Los Tomates Bridge. That’s when authorities discovered 117 pounds of cocaine wrapped in 44 bundles in his fuel tank. The cocaine has a street value of $3.7 million. McCarty was charged with drug smuggling. He is being held without bond. SOURCE: KRGV.com

Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Jun 202011
 
 20/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:32 on 20/06/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Speaking to a group of trucking, logistics and technology industry executives at SMC3’s annual summer conference last Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said that new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months although she added she doesn’t expect a wave of Mexican trucks heading for the U.S. border. The FMCSA and it’s Mexican counterpart SCT, expects the U.S. and Mexico to agree on a final program “quite soon” and to grant authority to the first Mexican carrier in the program “sometime in August.” Sources suggest the agreement ….Read More

Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

Jun 192011
 
 19/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:18 on 19/06/2011 Comments Off
Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

EL PASO — A border security program to X-ray every train rolling into the US has prompted as much as $400 million in fines against US railroads, which are held responsible for bales of marijuana, bundles of cocaine, and anything else criminals cram into the boxcars as they roll through Mexico. Union Pacific, the largest rail shipper on the US-Mexico border and the largest recipient of fines, refuses to pay more than $388 million in fines, up from $37.5 million three years ago when the screening began. In federal litigation the railroad argues that it is being punished for something ….Read More

National Call to Action – Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Jun 162011
 
 16/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 04:20 on 16/06/2011 Comments Off
National Call to Action - Mexican Cross Border Trucking Proposal

Time for readers and other interested parties to call their assorted Senators and Congress critters and ask them to support the proposed Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico which would bring the United States into compliance with it’s international obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The legal retaliatory tariff’s Mexico but on 99 US export products has cost more than 25,000 Americans their jobs and agri business loss of more than 14% market share, most going to Canada. To contact your Congressman and both of your Senators, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, tell the operator ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized “hate groups” for support.

Jun 152011
 
 15/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 15/06/2011 Comments Off
Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized "hate groups" for support.

“We’re as close as you can be,” Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari  said yesterday, confirming that  his country is preparing to sign the formal Cross Border Trucking agreement to end the trucking dispute with the U.S. as early as this month, setting the stage for the country to remove the punitive tariffs that have cost 25,000 or more US jobs and market share. Opponents of the program, The Teamsters and OOIDA in particular, in their desperation appear to be pulling out all stops, including turning to recognized HATE GROUPS to spread their message. In this case, the organization in question is ….Read More

Did you survive ROADCHECK 2011?

Jun 102011
 
 10/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:09 on 10/06/2011 1 Response »
Did you survive ROADCHECK 2011?

Roadcheck 2011 is one for the books for the most part. So, did everyone survive? From Canada to Mexico, there was supposed to be scores of Federal, State and local truck inspectors working round the clock in the annual CVSA 72 hour blitz known as “Roadcheck”, or to some of us, “Vacation Time”. I fall into the former category for the 25th year in a row. I learned my lesson early on. Stay the hell off the roads during this revenue enhancement effort. It helps that my birthday always falls in the middle of the “blitz”. Time to go back ….Read More

Mexico SCT equal partner in ROADCHECK 2011

Jun 072011
 
 07/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 16:41 on 07/06/2011 Comments Off
Mexico SCT equal partner in ROADCHECK 2011

COMUNICADO 044.- MÉXICO PARTICIPA EN EL “ROADCHECK” INTERNACIONAL DE VERIFICACIÓN EN AUTOTRANSPORTE FEDERAL •  El Roadcheck es un operativo de la Alianza de Seguridad en Vehículos Comerciales (CVSA), de la cual México forma parte desde 1991 •  Forma parte de acciones coordinadas por la Alianza en las tres naciones firmantes del TLC de América del Norte •  Revisiones a autotransporte federal en México, Estados Unidos y Canadá para comprobar que los vehículos estén en condiciones físico-mecánicas seguras. La Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT), a través de la Dirección General de Autotransporte Federal y los Departamentos de Autotransporte Federal de ….Read More

$9 million dollar pot bust on US 59 in Wharton County Texas – 3 Valley Residents busted

Jun 052011
 
 05/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:29 on 05/06/2011 Comments Off
$9 million dollar pot bust on US 59 in Wharton County Texas - 3 Valley Residents busted

Texas Department of Public safety troopers took more than $9 million dollars in marijuana out of the pipeline last weekend with the busts of three individuals and the seizure of 22,072 pounds of bundled marijuana with a wholesale street value in Houston of $9,270,240.   Saturday morning, May 28, about 0300, Troopers noticed a semi being followed by a four wheeler on US 59 in Wharton County and pulled the over for a traffic violation. The truck, a propane tanker with the markings “Auto Tanques Nieto,” was stopped minutes later further up U.S. 59, near FM 1162 in El Campo. ….Read More

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