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 082008
08/02/2008
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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
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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