The sun has barely begun it’s trajectory across the eastern sky as Mexican trucker José Antonio García Fuentes prepares to begin his workday. Dropping his kids off at school, Jose’ heads to his terminal for what promises to be a long and grueling day. Jose’ is a Mexican cross border transfer driver, or international transfer
We’re still waiting for the much ballyhooed invasion of the trucks and drivers from Mexico. You know, the ones we’ve been told are coming here to take all our freight and put us all in the welfare lines? Yet we never here anything about the Canadians causing the same catastrophe to our industry. We’re continually
The latest issue of CANACAR COMMUNICA is out and available for viewing online. CANACAR COMMUNICA is very similar to our own OVERDRIVE magazine and is presented in a similar format. Looking through the current and past issues, reveals some interesting facts and articles. In the July issue for instance, CANACAR is tracking the progress of
Anybody recall this statement made by OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer about a year ago? The U.S-Mexico agreement requires us to accept Mexican commercial driver licenses, but Mexico has no real system of driver licensing, training, drug testing, physical requirements, truck safety inspection or brake standards that match U.S. rules. That’s all been thoroughly
You’ve heard it time and again from the likes of Todd Spencer and Jim Johnston, that there is no drug testing of commercial drivers in Mexico. And time and again, we’ve proved them to be totally false. So here we go again. Commercial Public Transport Drivers in Cd. Juarez Chihuahua, across the border from El
I wrote yesterdayabout OOIDA and their President Jim Johnston’s rather idiotic protest against another Mexican carrier seeking entry into the Cross Border Pilot program, questioning that carriers “fitness” to participate. Today, we’re going to drill down a little deeper and look at that carrier a little closer to determine if OOIDA has a valid concern,
Data released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last month suggests that Mexican carriers and drivers still maintain a significant lead in safety over their US and Canadian counterparts. According to Jill Dunn, writing for E-Trucker The out-of-service rate for drivers of Mexican-domiciled CMVs inspected at the border during 2010 was just more than
Victor Galindo Moreno, Neuvo Laredo Director of Federal Auto Transport Mexico (SCT), said in an interview Tuesday that drivers to haul cross border freight (conductores transfronterizos or “transfer drivers) as well as truckers to haul freight throughout Mexico are in high demand by Mexican carriers at this time. And it is not only a demand
A collision between a tractor trailer pulling doubles and an interstate bus owned by TRANSPAIS collided this afternoon in San Fernando Tamaulipas killing 6 and injuring 19. Initial reports from State and Federal Police and units of the Mexican military indicate the northbound double trailer rig crossed the center line and was struck head on
Little is happening with the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program that wasn’t expected to happen. As of today, 4 Mexican carriers have been approved and are operating under the provisions of the pilot program. These 4 carriers have fielded 4 trucks and 5 drivers. They’ve made a total of 80 crossing and been inspected 80
We were told by OOIDA, the Teamsters and the bogus safety groups that make up their allies that 10’s of 1000’s of “dangerous, unsafe, unregulated” Mexican trucks driven by drug using, untrained, unlicensed scofflaws were waiting at out southern border to invade the United States, taking jobs from American truckers and wreaking havoc on our
US truckers could take a lesson from their cousins south of the border in Mexico. Nationwide protests and blockades by Mexican truckers against the use of double 53″ trailers and 80 metric ton weight limits was heard by the government in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday it will tighten inspections and lower maximum
Today, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters responded to the FMCSA’s response to the Teamster’s frivolous lawsuit with a totally bizarre brief, full of spin and out and out lies. Nothing we haven’t come to expect from the opponents of Mexican trucks and of America fulfilling the promises we made to our southern neighbor. The irrelevant
About a year ago, Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa signed a decree for the implementation of the Single Window of Foreign Trade, or “Ventanilla Unico” to streamline and consolidate Mexican Customs clearances. The new system is currently undergoing extensive testing which began last November. According to Alfonso Rojas Gonzalez de Castilla, president of the Confederation
Once again, ALIPAC President William Potter Gheen III is using a current event in his pathetic attempt to defraud American’s elderly population into donating to his nativist hate group, wrongfully called “Americans for Legal Immigration”. That’s right folks, Gheen, in the midst of his third attempt this year to scam unsuspecting old folks and others
After the completion of their first trip to Garland Texas under the new Cross Border Pilot Program, Transportes Olympics has been granted “permanent operating authority” by the FMCSA as specified in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the cross border program. The announcement was made last Wednesday by FMCSA North American Borders Specialist Carla Vagnini
An editorial caught me eye this morning, on this day that the first Mexican carrier to be granted authority to operate beyond the commercial zone enters the U.S. It reads in part; When a nation signs and ratifies a treaty with another, it is in effect a contract between those countries. And when one country
As part of it’s effort to get the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico up and running, FMCSA has been diligently complying with all the roadblocks thrown in their face by Congress at the behest of lobbyists for those opposing the program. On Friday, October 7, FMCSA reported on minor concerns it had after visits
We now know who the 8 Mexican carriers are who have made application to the FMCSA for OP-1MX authority to participate in the cross border pilot program expected to begin later this month. The carriers that are known at this time are: Transportes Olympic of Apodaca Nuevo Leon Grupo Behr de Baja SA de CV
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
The rest of the story emerges about the El Paso times story we wrote about earlier this week, concerning the thousands of violations reported by Texas DPS inspectors at two commercial crossings in El Paso Texas. While we have some concerns about the number of violations reported over 4.5 years, the Times story claims 1.2
That’s the question being posed on the Landline Now Media blog by Sandi Soendker, and it’s a valid question. The obvious answer to the question is of course, no. However, in their absence of a credible argument opposing the cross border trucking program with Mexico, OOIDA and other opponents are knowingly and willfully preying on
