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Mexican cross border drayage trucks revealed (28 photos - RAW)
2008-03-20 07:31:00 OOIDA’ executive vice president Todd Spencer, continues to try and convince the public, the Courts and Congress that the companies participating in the Cross Border Demonstration Project re using the same trucks as the border shuttle fleet or drayage operators. He insinuates this fleet is ill maintained, worn out junk rigs that have no place on ... More About: Photos , Trucks , Mexican
Promiles Releases Online Routing for Hispanic drivers
2008-03-18 03:04:00 ProMiles Software has released what is says is the first online routing application targeted at the Hispanic driver segment of our industry at millasdecamion.com. Statistics from the US Department of Labor indicate that Hispanic drivers make up almost 20% of the workforce, making Hispanics the largest minority in the US long haul driver demographic. The projected driver ... More About: Drivers , Online
The Great Texas TV Truck Race
2008-03-17 17:35:00 A day after a fatal highway drag racing crash, a pair of local television live trucks were caught on video in their own race at a local drag strip. The El Paso stations, KDBC-TV and KVIA-TV, were at the legal drag racing strip Friday night when a crowd of onlookers apparently convinced a pair of photographers ... More About: Truck , Great , Legal , Race
Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick?s Brigade (San Patricios)
2008-03-17 07:01:00 From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter ... More About: Culture , American , Patrick , Saint Patrick
What is ?English Proficiency? as it applies to a Mexican Trucker?
2008-03-15 23:05:00 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 ... More About: Mexican , Opinions , Spanish , Border Crossing
What is ?English Proficiency? as it applies to a Mexican Trucker?
2008-03-15 23:05:00 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 Dorgan, in the Capitol Hill ambush of Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. CVSA Inspector guidelines state: ?In ... More About: Mexican , Opinions , Spanish , Border Crossing
AVOMEX International newest participant in Cross Border Program
2008-03-15 22:21:00 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 ... More About: International
AVOMEX International newest participant in Cross Border Program
2008-03-15 22:21:00 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 ... More About: International
The Ethics of Senator Byron Dorgan (D)ND
2008-03-15 18:39:00 Has anyone ever wondered why a Senator from a nowhere state like South Dakota, would have such a passionate opposition to a Cross Border Truck Program that will not impact his state or constituents in the least? I have. As they say, “follow the money”! These politicians rarely do anything for the benefit of the people ... More About: Ethics , Dorgan
Cross Border Trucking Program - The Storm after the calm
2008-03-15 04:29:00 The Mexican Cross Border program was in the news the entire week after John Hill, administrator of FMCSA indicated the program might need to be extended to provide more accurate statistics. This brought out the expected firestorm from the opponents and bloggers with no connection to the trucking industry. First out of the chute of ... More About: Storm , Program , Trucking , Teamsters
NAFTA benefits Ohio workers much more than it hurts
2008-03-15 02:48:00 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 ... More About: Workers , Ohio , Jobs , Benefits , Exports
When you know nothing and think you know it all!
2008-03-06 14:10:00 It’s always good to wake up and find something that sets the tone for the day. Republican Texas Grandma - American and proud on the Greensboro NC blog, Greensboring.com, an appropriate name I think. So this 88 year old woman from Texas calls the place where this young lady works, lonely probably, but who knows, ... More About: Life , Culture , Immigration , That
Pennsylvania Lawmaker looking for his 15 seconds in the spotlight
2008-03-06 02:40:00 A misguided Pennsylvania state lawmaker, looking to get his name in the media, is calling for President Bush to comply with the federal law regarding trucks from Mexico. State Rep. Dan Surra, D-Elk, has offered a resolution that urges the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation to obey recently enacted federal law. ?Allowing ... More About: Spotlight , Seconds
Senate GOP pushes strict bills on immigration enforcement
2008-03-05 19:14:00 Editors Notes: What utter crap! With our economy in the crapper, Bush’s Iraq fiasco. And now this meaningless piece of legislation, which with luck, will never clear committee. Let’s see, 2 years imprisonment for crossing the border a second time, as if our prisons are not already overcrowded. Can’t open bank accounts when most don’t have ... More About: Immigration , Senate , Bills , Enforcement , Strict
So what?s up with Swift Transportation a week later?
2008-03-05 00:27:00 It’s been what, a week now, since the news everyone was talking about was the multi agency raid on Swift Transportation s Memphis terminal and truck driving school, or was it the Tennessee Department of Safety, on site license office. Things tend to get blurred when nobody knows anything but everyone’s an expert. So what’s going on? ... More About: Week
Candidates pander to the electorate over NAFTA
2008-03-04 21:09:00 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 ... More About: Candidates
No to a border wall in Laredo - It will not help
2008-03-02 16:44:00 A border wall does nothing but represent racism and fear, said David Almaraz, president of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, at a protest Saturday morning.Almaraz was one of approximately 75 Laredo residents who marched from San Agustin Plaza to City Hall in protest of a border wall. Alongside the residents were several city ... More About: Security , Wall , Border Crossing , Borderlands
More Mexican troops to the border
2008-03-02 02:46:00 A new batch of troops arrived in Nuevo Laredo this weekend to supplement the soldiers already assigned to border security. Although the authorities did not reveal the exact number of agents and soldiers who arrived, , military sources commented this week that between the 26 and the 29 of February, 2600 additional troops would be ... More About: Mexican , Cartel , Troops , Borderlands
The Geopolitics of Dope
2008-03-02 01:36:00 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 ... More About: Borderlands , Dope , Geopolitics
Independent truckers see end of the road
2008-03-01 15:26:00 Trucker Robert Griffith is on the road three weeks out of four, pulling oversize loads like crane booms, railroad ties and air conditioning ducts. One of his biggest worries: How he’ll find the money to buy his daughter a prom dress. As the cost of diesel doubled over the last four years, his take-home pay has ... More About: Independent , Road , Truckers , The Road
NAFTA a success, It is time to improve on that success.
2008-03-01 15:14:00 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 ... More About: Time , Success , Improve
Mexican Congress approves judicial reforms but refuses to allow warrantless
2008-02-27 18:27:00 Mexico’s lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence, but lawmakers deleted a proposal to allow police to search homes without a warrant.In the 462-6 vote with two abstentions, legislators approved the reform bill, which would also allow information from ... More About: Mexico , Mexican , Reform , Judicial
FBI & DHS raids on Swift Transportation - Day 2
2008-02-27 15:28:00 The day after a multi agency raid on Swift Transportation offices in Memphis and Millington Tennessee, authorities are keeping quiet on the reason for the raids and Swift management are doing the monkey dance proclaiming their innocence of any wrongdoing. Seven federal agencies and the Tennessee Highway Patrol raided Swift Transportation’s terminal operations in Memphis and ...
Cd Juarez Police find another mass grave in residential area
2008-02-27 04:31:00 MEXICO CITY? Investigators found parts from at least eight bodies in a series of backyard pits at a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso , prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Attorney General’s Office did not say how the victims died or who is believed to have buried their remains, but it did note ... More About: Murder , Residential , Police , Find
The waits will be longer - Texas DPS threatens to disrupt border commerce
2008-02-26 17:55:00 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 ... More About: English , Texas , Commerce , Border Crossing
Murder trial begins in AZ for illegal immigrant shooting
2008-02-26 14:59:00 A murder trial tinged with international controversy that begins this week will determine whether a U.S. Border Patrol agent was justified in shooting an illegal immigrant near the Mexican border. Jury selection will start Tuesday in federal court in the case of Agent Nicholas Corbett, who is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in ... More About: Murder , Trial , Shooting , Illegal , Immigrant
The price we pay for our lies!
2008-02-22 02:12:00 For a year, OOIDA, as well as the Teamsters, has been filling the media with gross exaggerations, misrepresentation of facts and twisting the numbers to make them fit their agenda. Well, it’s payback time, and boy, are they whining! As they say, you play, you pay! Looks like OOIDA has gotten themselves blacklisted by the ... More About: Opinions , Price , Lies
CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs
2008-02-20 15:57:00 LAREDO ? U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $1.8 million in cocaine and marijuana in three separate incidents recently, according to a news release from the agency. The largest seizure occurred Feb. 17, at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge when a drug dog reacted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the rear rocker panel area ... More About: Drugs , Border Crossing , Million , Officers
5 arrested in Nuevo Laredo kidnap attempt
2008-02-19 20:08:00 NUEVO LAREDO - Kidnappers demanding a $10 million ransom for the release of a Dallas man were captured by city police Sunday.The victim, Sergio Diaz de Leon Rivera, was rescued after family members called police to tell of the ransom demand. The five suspects snatched Diaz de Leon Rivera in the downtown historical district Saturday. The ... More About: Arrested , Missing , Borderlands , Laredo , Nuevo Laredo
Mexican carriers with USDOT Numbers
More articles from this author:2008-02-19 18:13:00 I’ve always said that the entire debate is an exercise in gross stupidity and I continue to maintain that position. Teamster, OOIDA, Public Citizen and other fringe “safety” groups continue to oppose 12 Mexican carriers putting 54 well maintained trucks on the highways of the US. We’ve also made mention of the estimated 1000 Mexican carriers who ... More About: Carriers , Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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