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It was no surprise when FMCSA Administrator John Hill extended the Mexican Cross Border Program for another two years, thus beating the opposition at their own game.
You see, FMCSA has been calling it a “demonstration program” while the opposition called it a “pilot program” which operates under different requirements, requirements that FMCSA has met.
So John [...]

“We also scan 100 percent of truck cargo entering the United States from Mexico and more than 90 percent of the truck cargo entering the United States from Canada. Just a few years ago, we didn’t scan any of this cargo for radiation” - Michael Chertoff
Secretary of Homeland Security

Senator Byron Lesly Dorgan, jumping at the command of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, offered an amendment to the 2009 Transportation Appropriations Bill aimed at shutting down the successful Mexican Cross Border Demonstration Truck Program.
Of course, Hoffa and OOIDA are praising the efforts, but the effort at what?
The current Cross Border Program is slated to [...]

You hear it every night on late night talk shows such as Rollye James and Art Bell and George Noory and it’s expected that some losers actually believe the talk about North American Unions, Superhighways to benefit Mexico and China and the like, and each time I hear these claims, I shake my head in [...]

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 [...]

“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.

Four years ago, the Government got rid of a state-controlled company that lost $25 million a year turning out smoky buses and trucks that could barely climb Mexico’s mountains.

That same company, Consorcio Grupo Dina, is now operated by a team of businessmen and has an annual profit of $90 million on a new line of [...]

Has anyone ever wondered why it seemed that FMCSA ignored the comments posted concerning Cross Border Program when making their decision to continue with the program? Did anyone with a brain read some of the 2300 comments posted, most in opposition to the program?
Here is an example of a comment posted on the FMCSA website [...]

On my days off this week, I needed to get away and relax and not having but a couple of days, headed to Monterrey Nuevo Leon.
It’s a good destination, a world class city that can hold it’s own against any similar city in North America.
It’s good to have friends there, especially those in the travel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

First Bozo and now Jimmy Hoffa. It amazes me how when desperation sets in, the bullshit intensifies.
If you want to read the whole article, you can read his crap here. But we’re going to look at some excerpted paragraphs and show how this SOB has no morals when it comes to shading the truth.
He’s talking [...]

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 employess used Iraq as their personal killing fields, [...]

Editors Note: Relevant then, even more so now.
I’ve hit a fork in the road in my thinking concerning the unrelenting campaign by the Teamsters to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways.
On the one hand, I recognize that these efforts are deplorable and destructive. They’ve tarnished the international reputation of the United States [...]

Editor’s Note: To the consternation, I’m certain, of the opponents of the cross border program, another well respected news organization is questioning the hypocrisy behind the opposition to Mexican trucks.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
November 26, 2007; Page A20

It’s hard to say who came out on top in the Nov. 15 debate among Democratic presidential candidates held [...]

It’s hard to stop a moving train and the Mexican Demonstration program is barreling ahead balls to the wall!
This week, two more Mexican carriers were granted access. one, the Mexican division of Trinity Industries headquartered in Dallas Texas, gives some heavy political weight to the issue now.
The updated list can be seen here That brings [...]

“I don’t think this has anything to do with Mexican trucks. It’s the flashpoint for all the other issues: secure borders, national security, immigration policy and NAFTA,” said Brigham McCown, a former U.S. Department of Transportation attorney who successfully defended the truck program in the U.S. Supreme Court.