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

Blogging the scene at the Otay Mesa border crossing

Aug 172009
 
 17/08/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:05 on 17/08/2009 Comments Off
Blogging the scene at the Otay Mesa border crossing

It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve had the opportunity to deliver a load here in the San Diego area, and the changes are enormous. The old 76 fuel stop on 905 where we used to fight for the few parking spaces in the dirt has that area fenced off and a new Pilot is across the street. CHP has a new inspection facility half a block from the commercial crossing, where every truck coming in from Mexico is directed to. The drop yard we use of Enrique Firmi was a surprise, inasmuch every trailer had it lights in place, ….Read More

CHP blames “speeding” truck with bad brakes as cause of I-5 tunnel crash

Feb 082009
 
 08/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:37 on 08/02/2009 Comments Off
CHP blames "speeding" truck with bad brakes as cause of I-5 tunnel crash

LOS ANGELES — A truck driver speeding on a rain-slicked interstate in 2007 lost control and crashed into a median barrier, setting off chain-reaction collisions that turned a tunnel into an inferno and left three dead, investigators concluded Friday. A report by the California Highway Patrol provides the most detailed picture yet of what led to a fiery tangle of more than two dozen vehicles on Interstate 5 — the major West Coast route between Mexico and Canada. The collisions closed the busy highway for two days and cost $17 million to clean up and repair. The report concluded that ….Read More

Investigation continues in I-5 crash

Oct 172007
 
 17/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 05:49 on 17/10/2007 Comments Off

The investigation continues into Friday’s 31 big rig crash in Southern California. And more information is becoming available. Investigators believe the catalyst for the crash was a big rig owned by Saia Freight Lines of Houma Louisiana, and LTL carrier. Sources say the Saia driver lost control outside the tunnel, hitting the guardrail with an impact that threw the engine block into the northbound lanes. The resulting slow downs triggered the tragedy in the tunnel.

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