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FMCSA oft controversial Mexican Cross Border Demonstration Program is at a milestone with 30 Mexican carriers participating with 101 trucks enrolled in the program.
Notice was published as required in the Federal Register and the public was given ample time to comment as required by law.
It would seem that Senator Byron Dorgan’s continued attempts to shut [...]

RAMOS ARIZPE,Coahuila, Mexico (MTN) — A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot, Lon Macintosh of Middletown Ohio, and severely injuring the co-pilot, Christopher Martin.
The plane crashed before dawn Sunday half a mile (one kilometer) from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, [...]

I came across the blog of a DISGRUNTLED REPUBLICAN who has written an excellent article debunking the mythical NAFTA Superhighway.
We all know it makes for good late night radio, giving the loony toons a sense of worth and something else to worry about, and of course, provides the likes of Lou Dobbs and others, fodder [...]

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 [...]

The North American Free Trade Agreement has become a hot topic in the presidential campaign, with Democrats blaming it for lost jobs and Republicans praising it for boosting exports. Who’s right?

Back in February, Mexico Trucker received a request for an interview, an occurrence that is fairly common reflecting the success of this site. Jessica Meyers, a UC Berkeley Grad student expressed interest in talking to us about the Cross Border Program.
On March 29, 2008, we spent a pleasant day with her and her accomplished photographer, [...]

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 [...]

Leave it up to the opposition to take a minor point and run it up the pole until it becomes a major problem. Such is the case with the “English Proficiency Requirement” brought up by that silly little man, Byron Leslie Dorgan, in the Capitol Hill ambush of Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. Let’s [...]

Trade has become a whipping boy in this year’s electoral campaign. As the presidential contest got under way in Iowa a few short weeks ago, some candidates railed about the impact of trade on manufacturing jobs, pointing to a Maytag plant that recently closed, its jobs sent overseas.
But those jobs didn’t go overseas; they came [...]

After the vote tallies are in from today’s primary elections in Texas and Ohio, the presidential candidates should stop talking about gutting international trade treaties.
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supported the North American Free Trade Agreement when campaigning in Texas but promised Ohio voters that they would force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate NAFTA.
The [...]

Over recent months, the level of violence along the U.S.-Mexican border has begun to rise substantially, with some of it spilling into the United States. Several months ago, the Mexican government began military operations on its side of the border against Mexican gangs engaged in smuggling drugs into the United States. The action apparently pushed [...]

MEXICO CITY – U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday that NAFTA has been a boon for the United States, Mexico and Canada, but the three signatory countries should help small Mexican farmers who have suffered from the pact.When the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, it contained a provision letting [...]

Finally, it must be assumed that members of Congress chose the wording of the transportation funding bill carefully. If they really wanted to forbid spending money on the cross-border program, surely our lawmakers would have blocked operation, not just the establishment, of such a plan.

From our friends at
Yucatan Living was pleased to see that the NAFTA treaties, related to trucking, will continue to be honored by the United States.
Unfortunately, there is still a steady stream of opposition coming from the Teamsters in the U.S., where the people are being told that Mexican trucks are unsafe and that Mexican drivers [...]

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, [...]

U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella-DeLaney, who was at the rally, said union protectionism is the real force behind opposition and that Hoffa does not have the facts to back up his claims of unsafe trucks and drivers.

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 [...]