Roadcheck 2008 begins today

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:28 on 03/06/2008 2 Responses »
Roadcheck 2008 begins today

The annual three-day inspection blitz known as Roadcheck takes place this week at more than 1,000 inspection locations at weigh stations and roadside checkpoints across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The annual event sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is Tuesday through Thursday, June 3-5, and will involve tens of thousands of inspections by federal, state, provincial and local inspectors. For Mexico Trucker, it will be the first time in almost 20 years I’ve worked during this event. Why? Well, my 10 year old Mexican owned Classic XL passed a Level I inspection in Louisiana last week so in ….Read More

NAFTA for Dummies

Jun 012008
 
 01/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 13:39 on 01/06/2008 6 Responses »
NAFTA for Dummies

The North American Free Trade Agreement has become a hot topic in the presidential campaign, with Democrats blaming it for lost jobs and Republicans praising it for boosting exports. Who’s right?

Candidates pander to the electorate over NAFTA

Mar 042008
 
 04/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:09 on 04/03/2008 Comments Off
Candidates pander to the electorate over NAFTA

After the vote tallies are in from today’s primary elections in Texas and Ohio, the presidential candidates should stop talking about gutting international trade treaties. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supported the North American Free Trade Agreement when campaigning in Texas but promised Ohio voters that they would force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate NAFTA. The reason for two positions on the same subject can be attributed to pandering for votes in Ohio, which has lost manufacturing jobs in recent years, whereas Texas’ economy has grown significantly since Congress approved the NAFTA treaty promoted by former President Clinton. Since ….Read More

Smuggling nukes through Canada easier than Mexico

Nov 172007
 
 17/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 20:00 on 17/11/2007 1 Response »

OTTAWA — On Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006, a silver SUV stopped on a dirt road along the Canada-U.S. border and a man in a windbreaker and jeans emerged toting a gym bag containing four small canisters of weapons-grade uranium. He walked about eight meters through a scrub field, past a stone obelisk marking the international boundary and a further dozen metres into the United States, where he handed the bag to a waiting accomplice. An alert citizen reported the suspicious rendezvous to the U.S. Border Patrol but when agents arrived, the men and the bag were gone. This fall, U.S. ….Read More

Canada worse than Mexico for U.S. border security

Sep 282007
 
 28/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 22:36 on 28/09/2007 Comments Off

Ed Note: But hey, they speak English in Canada so it isn’t a problem is it! Uncle Sam, occupied by the possibility of would-be terrorists among illegal aliens crossing its borders from Mexico, is now looking at Canada. A recent U.S. government report says it would be easy to smuggle dangerous materials into the United States. And if anyone wants to smuggle dangerous materials into the U.S., they have the more than 8,000 kilometers of US-Canada border to do so. The independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) sent investigators to test how easily they could transfer large red duffel bags at ….Read More

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