OOIDA immediately responds with unsupported allegations against the company. In what has become a common practice with OOIDA, they have once again gone on the attack against a participant in the Cross Border Program, citing statistics not in existence to further their fear mongering about non existent safety issues. The latest target of their attack is AVOMEX INTERNATIONAL SA de CV, an importer of avocados, and other agricultural products. This is not the first time OOIDA has selected this company to spotlight with erroneous information. They were after them while the initial PASA’s were being performed. OOIDA makes this claim. ….Read More
14/03/2008
Comments Off
The Mexican Cross Border program was in the news the entire week after John Hill, administrator of FMCSA indicated the program might need to be extended to provide more accurate statistics. This brought out the expected firestorm from the opponents and bloggers with no connection to the trucking industry. First out of the chute of course, was Jimbo Hoffa, continuing to confuse the issue and subvert the facts, this time with a talking head from a Washington think tank who shares Or was paid to share Hoffa’s views. If you have the stomach, you can read the opinions here. Preceding ….Read More
05/03/2008
4 Responses »
A misguided Pennsylvania state lawmaker, looking to get his name in the media, is calling for President Bush to comply with the federal law regarding trucks from Mexico. State Rep. Dan Surra, D-Elk, has offered a resolution that urges the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation to obey recently enacted federal law. “Allowing Mexican truckers and long-haul rigs on highways throughout the United States – absent the rigorous inspections and safety and training standards for U.S. trucks and truck drivers – is dangerous to the public,” Surra said in a written statement. Congress approved legislation late last year ….Read More
26/02/2008
1 Response »
Texas Department of Public Safety Inspectors announced today their plans to cause a total disruption of border commerce in the Laredo sector Texas DPS along with USDOT and FMCSA have been handing out pamphlets announcing their intentions of turning back at the border, any transfer driver who can not or will not respond to their questions in English. Luis Brown Robert Sesma, president of the National Camera of the Motor transport de Carga (Canacar), expressed this week, his indignation of measures being announced, that the FMCSA and USDOT will take towards Mexican carriers. “it is ridiculous to announce that they ….Read More
Feb 212008
21/02/2008
Comments Off
For a year, OOIDA, as well as the Teamsters, has been filling the media with gross exaggerations, misrepresentation of facts and twisting the numbers to make them fit their agenda. Well, it’s payback time, and boy, are they whining! As they say, you play, you pay! Looks like OOIDA has gotten themselves blacklisted by the FMCSA Public Information Office. Pobrecitos! Since August of 2007, OOIDA media (Land Line Magazine and “Land Line Now” on XM radio) have been on the blacklist. Our honest and passionate criticism of the president’s Mexican cross border pilot program placed us crossways with the administration ….Read More
Feb 192008
19/02/2008
2 Responses »
I’ve always said that the entire debate is an exercise in gross stupidity and I continue to maintain that position. Teamster, OOIDA, Public Citizen and other fringe “safety” groups continue to oppose 12 Mexican carriers putting 54 well maintained trucks on the highways of the US. We’ve also made mention of the estimated 1000 Mexican carriers who were grandfathered in back in 1982 when President Reagon signed the moratorium against foreign carriers. But those were never mentioned and are not mentioned when discussing the Cross Border Program. Has anyone ever wondered exactly how many Mexican companies are assigned USDOT identification ….Read More
16/02/2008
Comments Off
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