Mexico Trucker Online

Teamsters file frivolous lawsuit seeking to stop Mexican Truck Program

Sep 022011

02/09/2011 Posted by PMC at 22:34 on 02/09/2011 Comments Off

Teamsters file frivolous lawsuit seeking to stop Mexican Truck Program

At the 11th hour today, Teamsters, along with Public Citizen filed a lawsuit in 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco seeking to stop implementation of the Mexican Cross Border Program. The suit was filed against the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration alleging that the pilot program sets standards that aren’t stringent enough for Mexican trucks and drivers. For example, the program waives a law requiring trucks to display proof of meeting federal safety standards, said Jonathan Weissglass, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. An official for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the Teamsters ….Read More

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

OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to “protect the trees”

Aug 162011

16/08/2011 Posted by PMC at 01:00 on 16/08/2011 Comments Off

OOIDA & Teamster demand Obama to "protect the trees"

Say it ain’t so people! James P. Hoffa and his Teamsters, and Todd Spencer with his minority of American truckers are aligning themselves with the left wing enviro-wackos in a last desperate attempt to stop fewer than 100 late model Mexican trucks from entering the country? Politics and nativist protectionism make strange bedfellows sometimes as the latest press release from the Teamsters points out. In comments submitted to the Department of Transportation (DOT), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Sierra Club raised frivolous and baseless concerns with what they claim is the failure of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ….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

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

Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Jun 202011

20/06/2011 Posted by PMC at 21:32 on 20/06/2011 Comments Off

Cross Border Proposal could be signed as soon as this week!

Speaking to a group of trucking, logistics and technology industry executives at SMC3’s annual summer conference last Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said that new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months although she added she doesn’t expect a wave of Mexican trucks heading for the U.S. border. The FMCSA and it’s Mexican counterpart SCT, expects the U.S. and Mexico to agree on a final program “quite soon” and to grant authority to the first Mexican carrier in the program “sometime in August.” Sources suggest the agreement ….Read More

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized “hate groups” for support.

Jun 152011

15/06/2011 Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 15/06/2011 Comments Off

Opponents of Cross Border Trucking turn to recognized "hate groups" for support.

“We’re as close as you can be,” Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said yesterday, confirming that his country is preparing to sign the formal Cross Border Trucking agreement to end the trucking dispute with the U.S. as early as this month, setting the stage for the country to remove the punitive tariffs that have cost 25,000 or more US jobs and market share. Opponents of the program, The Teamsters and OOIDA in particular, in their desperation appear to be pulling out all stops, including turning to recognized HATE GROUPS to spread their message. In this case, the organization in question is ….Read More

Straight answers to Teamsters questions

Jun 022011

02/06/2011 Posted by PMC at 14:50 on 02/06/2011 Comments Off

MEXICO TRUCKER ONLINE is pleased to help educate members of the TEAMSTERS who seem to lack the wherewithal to find answers to question on their own about the upcoming Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. Today, they made a post titled Truck driving champ says ‘NO’ to Mexican trucks where it appears a TEAMSTERS member and 13th place runner up in the ATA’s Truck Driver Championship (Straight Trucks) asks some questions about Mexican trucks that need answering. YRCW driver Scott Archer posed these questions. Will these men and women be trained as U.S. drivers? Look at the ATA 2011 Facts for Drivers ….Read More

Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

Jun 012011

01/06/2011 Posted by PMC at 03:15 on 01/06/2011 Comments Off

Teamsters find the ULTIMATE reason to stop Mexican Truck program

James Hoffa’s mantra of “unsafe Mexican trucks” has been debunked and ridiculed. Mexico’s regulatory environment has been shown to be sufficient to ensure the safe compliant operations of their trucks in their country and the 2007 Cross Border Demonstration Project proved Mexican trucks were quite capable of complying to the regulatory standards and laws of the United States, so what now? TEAMSTERSNATION has perhaps found the ULTIMATE REASON to keep those naughty Mexican trucks out of our country and allow Mexico to continue with their legal job killing tariff’s. It has nothing to do with drugs, violence or illegals. Hang ….Read More

Is Racism at work in Border Trucking debate?

May 252011

25/05/2011 Posted by PMC at 15:58 on 25/05/2011 1 Response »

Is Racism at work in Border Trucking debate?

That’s the question posed on the blog “ALL THAT’S TRUCKING” as she writes about the many nasty, racially tinged comments being thrown about as the red hot debate over Mexican cross border trucking heats up once again, and the usual actors, OOIDA, TEAMSTERS and their allies in talk radio fan the flames of their listeners prejudices. “Is racism rearing its ugly head in the debate over the long-delayed opening of the border to long-haul Mexican trucks, as required under the North American Free Trade Agreement that was signed nearly 20 years ago? I’m not saying anyone who opposes opening ….Read More

Older Entries

Get Cloud PHP Hosting on CatN