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
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
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
