So that’s over and done with, and truthfully, it is all anti-climatic. On Tuesday, February 12, the 9th Circuit heard oral arguments on the frivolous lawsuit brought before it by the Teamsters, OOIDA, Sierra Club and Public Citizen. The day started with members of the Teamsters showing their ass in a demonstration in front of the Federal Courthouse. The Teamsters claim 450 in attendance but other news sources put the attendance at around 100, a fact that photos of the event seem to sustain. At least a hundred Teamsters rallied outside the courthouse before the hearing. Teamsters carried signs that ….Read More
16/02/2008
1 Response »
FMCSA granted provisional authority to 3 more Mexican based carriers to participate in the cross border program on Friday afternoon, bringing the total to 15 carrier participants, with a total of 54 power units, more than enough to provide statistical evidence of the success of the program when it winds down in September. The carriers are: Transportes Francisca Burgos Vizcarra from Mexicali, Baja California with 10 trucks; M&N de Mexico from Tecate, Baja California with 1 truck; and Distribuidora Marina El Pescador of Tijuana, Baja California, also with one truck. To date, there are 31 more carriers approved and the ….Read More
Feb 082008
08/02/2008
Comments Off
WASHINGTON – In her first public statements on the Mexican trucking controversy, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters defended yesterday the pilot program that allows Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States in defiance of a congressional order. U.S. officials also responded to complaints that a Mexican carrier that withdrew from the program several days ago never should have qualified because of an allegedly poor safety record. Peters got an earful of criticism from several lawmakers during a House appropriations transportation subcommittee hearing on President Bush’s proposed budget. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, accused Peters of being in violation of the ….Read More
07/02/2008
Comments Off
I noticed a spike in visitors to the site today and I assumed they were looking for my reaction to the announcement that the Teamster’s are mounting a “grass roots” campaign to have Secretary of Transportation “fired”! My reaction? Who gives a rat’s ass! We’ve grown used to the lies and exaggerations of this group when anything concerning the Cross Border program is brought up. We’ve listened to Hoffa’s whining and his allegations without proof about the program. And now, like a child, he resorts to character assassination of a good woman doing the job she was hired to do. ….Read More
Dec 272007
27/12/2007
Comments Off
In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico. The current cross-border trucking demonstration project – established in September – will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first, with participating Mexican carriers subject to all safety standards required by the 2008 omnibus bill, while giving U.S. trucking companies new opportunities and U.S. consumers significant savings
07/12/2007
4 Responses »
U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella-DeLaney, who was at the rally, said union protectionism is the real force behind opposition and that Hoffa does not have the facts to back up his claims of unsafe trucks and drivers.
07/12/2007
Comments Off
After a lull in the campaign of misinformation being thrown about by OOIDA and it’s leadership <sic>, suddenly more “facts” emerge in their efforts to derail the Cross Border Truck Program. I say “facts”, because what they are reporting could not be further from the truth. World Net Daily, scraping a piece from the in-house rag of OOIDA, Landline Now, reports in it’s headline, Hundreds of safety violations documented for Mexican rigs This is a patently false statement!
Looking back on 2007 and ahead to 2008
What a year 2007 was. The war in Iraq continued and the casualty count is now well over three thousand and for what? To allow KBR civilian contractors and others to get rich scamming the government as those who were recently indicted in Afghanistan have shown us. Blackwater security employees used Iraq as their personal killing fields, putting themselves above the law, and now it appears, they will succeed. And how about the new “training” facility being built in San Diego county just a few klicks north of Tecate Mexico? That ought to make the hard core anti immigration folks ….Read More