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

Teamsters President James P. Hoffa releases self serving and totally inaccurate statement on Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

May 162011
 
 16/05/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:11 on 16/05/2011 Comments Off
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa releases self serving and totally inaccurate statement on Cross Border Trucking with Mexico

Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, himself in hot water after caught using his position to offer union jobs, salaries, and pensions to bribe people for political support, released a “presser” giving his totally irrelevant and patently untrue rant in opposition to the upcoming cross border pilot program with Mexico. THE PUBLIC OPPOSES ILLEGAL, UNSAFE MEXICAN TRUCK PROGRAM is the title of this crapola presser released today which Hoffa continues to lie to his membership and the American public. Hoffa says; DOT’s proposal to open the border “fails to adequately protect our members, their families and the traveling public from the ….Read More

TEAMSTERS & OOIDA comments will fail to stop proposed cross border pilot program with Mexico

May 162011
 
 16/05/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:07 on 16/05/2011 Comments Off
TEAMSTERS & OOIDA comments will fail to stop proposed cross border pilot program with Mexico

The deadline for comments on FMCSA’s Proposed Cross Border Pilot Program ended Friday night at 23:59 with results being about as we suspected. 1,580 comments were submitted compared with 2,359 submitted in 2007. Very few of them provided salient objections as to why FMCSA should not proceed with the proposal. According to FMCSA, the purpose for the notice and comment process is to provide all interested parties with the opportunity to review information published by the Agency and comment on the specific details about the demonstration project. The operative word is “SPECIFIC”. This time, as in 2007, the views of ….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

Teamster’s Prez Jimmy Hoffa responds to OIG Report with typical irrelevance

Sep 042009
 
 04/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 15:30 on 04/09/2009 Comments Off
Teamster's Prez Jimmy Hoffa responds to OIG Report with typical irrelevance

James Hoffa came out of hiding today to respond to the OIG Final Report on FMCSA compliance with Section 350 of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002 and as usual, his comments were totally irrelevant, and contrary to what the report suggests. This is the type of comments we’ve come to expect and ignore from Hoffa. As expected, Hoffa’s initial response to the report was to declare that the “inspector general report shows once and for all that the border should remain closed to unsafe Mexican trucks.” We don’t disagree with that sentiment. ….Read More

OIG Final Report – FMCSA substantially met all Mexican Safety criteria of 350(c)

Sep 022009
 
 02/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 20:54 on 02/09/2009 Comments Off
OIG Final Report - FMCSA substantially met all Mexican Safety criteria of 350(c)

Once again, the latest report from the USDOT Office of Inspector General, verifies, substantiates and conclusively proves all that Mexico Trucker Online has reported about the safety of Mexican trucks and participants in the Cross Border Pilot Program From THE TRUCKER WASHINGTON — The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation said in a report released today that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had either met or “substantially” met the safety criteria set forth in a 2002 appropriations act related to Mexico-domiciled motor carriers potentially operating beyond narrow commercial zones along the border. The report, ….Read More

Explaining the Cross Border Program to Joe 6 pack American

Apr 092008
 
 09/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:07 on 09/04/2008 Comments Off
Explaining the Cross Border Program to Joe 6 pack American

When it comes to the Mexican Cross Border truck program, everyone seems to be trying to get on the bandwagon or use the issue to boost their rankings. It doesn’t seem to matter if they get their facts right. To the contrary, most think it is cute to pass along the misinformation that has been generated by the Unions, self styled “drivers association” who back pedal and double step away from the real issues confronting truckers today. The Mexican truck issue is a non issue. So, it seems we have yet another one popping up out there in the blogosphere, ….Read More

AVOMEX International newest participant in Cross Border Program

Mar 152008
 
 15/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:21 on 15/03/2008 Comments Off

OOIDA immediately responds with unsupported allegations against the company. In what has become a common practice with OOIDA, they have once again gone on the attack against a participant in the Cross Border Program, citing statistics not in existence to further their fear mongering about non existent safety issues. The latest target of their attack is AVOMEX INTERNATIONAL SA de CV, an importer of avocados, and other agricultural products. This is not the first time OOIDA has selected this company to spotlight with erroneous information. They were after them while the initial PASA’s were being performed. OOIDA makes this claim. ….Read More

The waits will be longer – Texas DPS threatens to disrupt border commerce

Feb 262008
 
 26/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:55 on 26/02/2008 1 Response »

Texas Department of Public Safety Inspectors announced today their plans to cause a total disruption of border commerce in the Laredo sector Texas DPS along with USDOT and FMCSA have been handing out pamphlets announcing their intentions of turning back at the border, any transfer driver who can not or will not respond to their questions in English. Luis Brown Robert Sesma, president of the National Camera of the Motor transport de Carga (Canacar), expressed this week, his indignation of measures being announced, that the FMCSA and USDOT will take towards Mexican carriers. “it is ridiculous to announce that they ….Read More

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