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

CATO Institute – The Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions

May 052011
 
 05/05/2011  Posted by PMC at 20:50 on 05/05/2011 Comments Off

Comments for the Federal Register FMCSA–2011–0097 by Daniel Griswold These comments were submitted on May 4, 2011. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed restoration of long-haul cross-border trucking with Mexico in compliance with our commitments under the North American Free Trade Agreement. My name is Daniel Griswold. I’m director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. Cato is a non-profit, non-partisan educational institution supported by voluntary donations from individuals and foundations who share our core values of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, and peace. The suspension ….Read More

Sen. Patty Murray holding their “feet to the fire” for resolution of Mexican truck issue

Aug 062010
 
 06/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 23:31 on 06/08/2010 Comments Off
Sen. Patty Murray holding their "feet to the fire" for resolution of Mexican truck issue

WASHINGTON — A “frustrated” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., late Monday said she had included language in the Fiscal Year 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill that calls on the Obama administration to put forward a plan that would end retaliatory tariffs on Washington state agricultural products by Oct. 1. The bill passed the THUD subcommittee, which Murray chairs, as well as the full Appropriations committee, and will now head to the full Senate for consideration. “I am extremely frustrated that the administration has not yet acted while farmers across my home state of Washington continue to suffer ….Read More

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