1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The rest of the story

Aug 242011
 
 24/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:35 on 24/08/2011 Comments Off
1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The rest of the story

The rest of the story emerges about the El Paso times story we wrote about earlier this week, concerning the thousands of violations reported by Texas DPS inspectors at two commercial crossings in El Paso Texas. While we have some concerns about the number of violations reported over 4.5 years, the Times story claims 1.2 million inspections were done at the Zaragosa and Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, we could only find 811,574 inspections reported on the FMCSA NAFTA STATISTICS pages. Some have suggested that the numbers are flawed considering the man hours that would need to be ….Read More

OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to “protect the trees”

Aug 162011
 
 16/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 01:00 on 16/08/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to "protect the trees"

Say it ain’t so people! James P. Hoffa and his Teamsters, and Todd Spencer with his minority of American truckers are aligning themselves with the left wing enviro-wackos in a last desperate attempt to stop fewer than 100 late model Mexican trucks from entering the country? Politics and nativist protectionism make strange bedfellows sometimes as the latest press release from the Teamsters points out. In comments submitted to the Department of Transportation (DOT), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Sierra Club raised frivolous and baseless concerns with what they claim is the failure of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ….Read More

Mexican Labor Law and the Mexican Cross Border Trucking Debate

Aug 052011
 
 05/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:13 on 05/08/2011 Comments Off
Mexican Labor Law and the Mexican Cross Border Trucking Debate

Much of the misinformation coming from opponents of cross border trucking with Mexico seems to be coming from ignorance of the country rather than deliberate attempts to misinform the public, I’d like to think, at least where the regulatory structure in Mexico is concerned. Two of those issues that have been forcibly pushed on the public is lack of Hours of Service Regulations in Mexico and what some perceive as a “weak” or non existent regulations for the Mexican trucking industry. Regulations of the trucking industry in Mexico is neither of those. The differences are enormous as trucking journalist Tim ….Read More

Where’s the outrage? OOIDA not concerned about our porous borders – At least one of them

Aug 022011
 
 02/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:11 on 02/08/2011 Comments Off
Where's the outrage? OOIDA not concerned about our porous borders - At least one of them

Mark Reddig is on the radio exhorting his listeners that the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico will “destroy” the US trucking industry. The August issue of OOIDA’s in house rag, LAND LINE is being pimped on the same program with emphasis on their headline story DOT’s DOG & PONY SHOW, an article where they showcase their “expertise” on the southern border from their ivory tower in Grain Valley Missouri, 1000 miles from the source of their concern. OOIDA has long been using the illogical argument that Mexican trucks should be banned from the US because they “might” bring drugs, ….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

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

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

Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

Jun 012011
 
 01/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 03:15 on 01/06/2011 Comments Off
Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

James Hoffa’s mantra of “unsafe Mexican trucks” has been debunked and ridiculed. Mexico’s regulatory environment has been shown to be sufficient to ensure the safe compliant operations of their trucks in their country and the 2007 Cross Border Demonstration Project proved Mexican trucks were quite capable of complying to the regulatory standards and laws of the United States, so what now? TEAMSTERSNATION has perhaps found the ULTIMATE REASON to keep those naughty Mexican trucks out of our country and allow Mexico to continue with their legal job killing tariff’s. It has nothing to do with drugs, violence or illegals. Hang ….Read More

Opposing Mexican Trucking program with lies is irresponsible

Apr 102011
 
 10/04/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:34 on 10/04/2011 Comments Off
Opposing Mexican Trucking program with lies is irresponsible

Todd Spencer, Executive Vice President of OOIDA preaches that complying with our NAFTA obligations is “irresponsible and reckless”. What is more “irresponsible and reckless” is the opposition attempting to inflame the publics passions and prejudices with lies and misinformation about Mexico and it’s trucking industry.

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