Mexico Trucker Online

I continue to be amazed that with all of the evidence showing the success of the Cross Border Demonstration Program, the “Union Brothers” continue to push the falsehoods and lies of Jim Hoffa and his gang of thugs.

I imagine though, you tell the same lies long enough, you begin to believe them. Here is a good example!

When the Mexican government announced Monday that it will apply tariffs to U.S. exports it was clear that this was done in direct retaliation to the Obama administration decision to halt the Mexican trucking pilot program.

The cross-border trucking program, which came about with NAFTA, never worked. The Teamsters, along with other organizations, led the fight to keep the Mexican trucks off U.S. highways because of the safety issues associated with both the trucks and the drivers.

The U.S. Inspector General had found that the trucks were substandard and that the Mexican drivers were not held to the same standards as their American counterparts. While it was determined a few years ago for the program to halt, President Bush ignored that law. With the former Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, the government blatantly broke the law and simultaneously put a lot of Americans in danger.

I think it is fairly bold for the Mexican government to make this tariff move because, as far as I know, they need us a little more than we need them, something a lot of newspapers reporting this story seem to be missing. In fact, a lot of the articles that I have read on the situation are forgetting why organizations, like the Teamsters, have fought this situation all along — they are just reporting about the tariff announcement and hypothesizing that this is the beginning of what could be a larger trade war.

Would it not make more sense for the national and state publications to see the benefit of halting a failed Bush program, one that potentially put a lot of people in danger. Wouldn’t it be cool if the publications and news agencies took a look at the exploited Mexican workers who are in these ill-equipped rigs with no enforceable hours of service rules? I don’t see that happening with the five or six stories that I picked up on this situation. What I read has been slanted toward big business and the potential for trade wars because of the Teamsters –as though the union and its allied organizations are responsible for a trade war but not safe US highways.

Anybody every read so much bullshit? Not a word of truth to it past the first paragraph!

Ill equipped rigs? Have you Teamsters looked at the crap your members are forced to drive? You might want to take a look!