Cross Border Trucking with Mexico – “It’s going to happen, There is no way to stop it”

Sep 012011
 
 01/09/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 01/09/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Trucking with Mexico - "It's going to happen, There is no way to stop it"

During the scheduled meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee in Alexandria Virginia yesterday, those were the words of  Carlos Sesma, an attorney representing Mexican trucking interests before the committee. And Sesma was correct. The MCSAC is a subcommittee of the FMCSA charged with overseeing the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. OOIDA Executive Vice-President Todd Spencer who is a member of the committee was making the usual asinine and totally false claims about the program. “What’s behind this is access to cheaper sources of labor,” Spencer claimed after the meeting, repeating the thoroughly debunked claim that it will put American ….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

OOIDA concedes defeat – Mexican trucks to roll in August or September

Jul 312011
 
 31/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 09:34 on 31/07/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA concedes defeat - Mexican trucks to roll in August or September

In an interview with Mark Reddig on Land Line Now Friday, Laura O’Neil of OOIDA’s Washington office conceded there is not much left to do to prevent the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program from beginning next month. O’Neil, saying that OOIDA continues to look for any roadblock they can throw up to stop the program, conceded that with the August recess upon us, the debate over the debt ceiling increase and the fact that their is not much interest in Congress in stopping the program, that they are out of options. She did suggest that members approach their representatives in ….Read More

OOIDA continues to defraud and mislead American truckers on cross border trucking issue

Mar 142011
 
 14/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:14 on 14/03/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA continues to defraud and mislead American truckers on cross border trucking issue

As the reality of a new and final cross border program to allow Mexican trucks access to American highways as we promised almost 20 years ago, comes closer to fruition, the desperation coming coming from the offices of OOIDA or Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association, is palpable. For instance, OOIDA spokesman Norita Taylor appeared on an interview on Houston radio station KTRH News Radio 740 along with Congressman Kevin Brady giving counterpoint, and alleged that Mexican carriers have no regulatory costs in their country. You can listen to the interview here. What Taylor doesn’t say is not only does Mexico ….Read More

Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

Aug 312010
 
 31/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 09:12 on 31/08/2010 Comments Off
Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

A caller to a nationally known trucking news report show recently starting spewing his objections and telling all who would listen why Mexican trucks should be forever banned from US highways. The days guest, a well known and respected journalist and trucking expert asked the caller; “Where do you get this information?” The caller, stunned at having his views questioned, stuttered and stammered for a moment and then blurted, “OOIDA of course!” And the journalist responded that , and I’m paraphrasing, “That for all the time OOIDA has been objecting to Mexican trucks, they have not ventured one fact to ….Read More

Does OOIDA’s Mark H. Reddig think we’re all as stupid as he sounds?

Feb 192009
 
 19/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 21:21 on 19/02/2009 2 Responses »
Does OOIDA's Mark H. Reddig think we're all as stupid as he sounds?

Most of us have heard Mark H. Reddig who hosts the OOIDA Landlinenow hour on XM radio, and know him as one who at times, has problems with reality and truth backed by facts, and this is one of those times. Reddig writes on the Landlinenow blog. In Mexico, our rejects can come back to haunt us Give me a fucking break! OOIDA and the Teamsters crap has been exposed for what it is and disproved numerous times here and elsewhere. Here is an expert line by line analysis of Reddig’s ridiculous claims. We’re all troubled enough about trucks based ….Read More

OOIDA – Good for a laugh on occasion

Jun 022008
 
 02/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:24 on 02/06/2008 4 Responses »
OOIDA - Good for a laugh on occasion

I couldn’t help but break out laughing, or as Stevie Sommers puts it, “chuckle”, listening to OOIDA and LandlineNow on XM-171 last Thursday, I think it was, when they brought up the almost dead subject of the Cross Border Program. I think Mark Reddig was talking with their Washington lobbyist about the status of the program and the comment was made; All of us at OOIDA are working full time to see this program is stopped in it’s tracks! Yep, 10 months into the program, and they’re working full time to stop a program that has been successful beyond even ….Read More

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