Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8923
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: Its Pole Line Road time
|
|
First Mexican truck set to enter US interior
link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44971132/ns/us_news-life/
SAN DIEGO — The first Mexican carrier is set to roll into the U.S. interior Friday, but the Teamsters union and two California congressmen haven't
given up on stopping the cross-border trucking program that had been stalled for years by safety concerns and political wrangling.
Teamsters union president James Hoffa speaks with Teamsters members during a rally against the cross-border trucking program Wednesday
U.S. Reps. Duncan Hunter and Bob Filner joined Teamsters President James Hoffa at the border Wednesday to take a bipartisan stand against the pilot
project that will allow approved Mexican trucks to come deep into the United States. The first one will enter Texas.
Hunter is a San Diego-area Republican, while Filner is a Democrat whose district includes California's border with Mexico.
They were surrounded at a news conference by more than 75 union members from at least five states.
Allowing Mexican trucking companies to deliver goods rather than transfer them to U.S. haulers at the border will put American jobs and highway safety
at risk, they said.
"We're literally taking good jobs here in America and passing them over the line to Mexico," Hunter told the crowd, many holding signs reading "NAFTA
kills" and "Stop the war on workers."
Washington on Friday last week approved the first Mexican trucking company, Transportes Olympic, nearly two decades after the hotly contested
provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement set off lawsuits and a costly trade dispute between the neighboring countries.
'They have to compete with us'
Transportes Olympic's long-haul truck will cross the border Friday at Laredo, Texas, and head about 450 miles north to Garland, Texas, to deliver
industrial equipment, said Guillermo Perez, the transport manager at the firm in the industrial Monterrey suburb of Apodaca, about two hours south of
Laredo.
He dismissed claims that Mexican trucking companies and their drivers do not meet U.S. safety standards. He said his company has a strict, random drug
testing policy for its 61 drivers and it has bought more than a dozen trucks in the past two years.
U.S. inspectors will check the trucks Thursday and will also have a database on truckers who have been approved by the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Perez said.
"It's a really controlled program. There's no way to avoid the law," he said. "We are really prepared for this. It's not weird for me that some (U.S.
trucking) companies are willing to shut it down because now they have to compete with us."
The company was approved under the pilot program in 2009 before President Barack Obama's administration cancelled it. Mexico retaliated by placing
tariffs on 99 agricultural products worth more than $2 billion annually.
Mexico cut the tariffs in half this summer after Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon approved an inspection and monitoring program for the
companies that had been approved in 2009. The Mexican government has vowed to lift the rest once the truck heads out of the border zone Friday.
"We're really excited," Perez said. "Now we can provide door-to-door service, so it's about a 15 percent savings for companies."
'Disaster'
Opponents say the fight isn't over.
Hunter has co-authored a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., that would stop the pilot program in three years and require Congress to
vote on the issue again.
"We hope we can stop this before we have a disaster," Filner said.
Criminal activity has been a problem for years even within the U.S. government's strictest trusted carrier programs.
continued on website....
|
|
|
CaboRon
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3401
Registered: 3-24-2007
Location: The Valley of the Moon
Member Is Offline
Mood: Peacefull
|
|
The first truck to cross approx. four days ago was stopped becaue of gross safety violations ....
|
|
|
jakecard
Nomad
Posts: 141
Registered: 7-13-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
The first truck to cross approx. four days ago was stopped becaue of gross safety violations .... |
Propaganda or a joke?
Where did you read this, CaboRon?
The article Ken posted says that the first truck is set to cross the border into Texas tomorrow.
Yet you have information saying that a truck crossed four days ago? And that after all the scrutiny over safety regulations that the very first truck
to cross just happened to be in "gross" violation? Come on, man.
Jake
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64587
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
When do U.S. truckers get to drive cargo into Mexico?
|
|
|
J.P.
Super Nomad
Posts: 1673
Registered: 7-8-2010
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
Mood: Easy Does It
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
When do U.S. truckers get to drive cargo into Mexico? |
U.S. trucks have crossing the border for years.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64587
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by J.P.
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
When do U.S. truckers get to drive cargo into Mexico? |
U.S. trucks have crossing the border for years. |
I said truckers, not trucks that are handed over to Mexican drivers... It isn't allowed, never has been... wondering when NAFTA works for everyone.
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 17555
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
win win, thank you Obama!
Mexican trucks are already allowed to circulate in the US within 25 miles of the border. The new agreement will allow Mexican trucks to deliver goods
into the US and to return goods to Mexico, but it bars the transport of goods between US destinations.
Several years ago, in the dark years of Shrub II, Mexican outrage over the American disregard for a NAFTA provision led to retaliatory Mexican tariffs
on US goods ranging from pork to consumer care products – which cost the US as much as $2 billion in exports. Now that we finally are complying with
NAFTA and honoring our agreements, Mexico will remove the tariffs they rightfully imposed when US defaulted on NAFTA.
|
|
|
jakecard
Nomad
Posts: 141
Registered: 7-13-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
What is the big deal about citing sources?
Below is the link to the Christian Science Monitor article from which mtgoat666 has plagiarized author Howard La Franchi word for word.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2011/0706/Landma...
Jake
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
Mexico will remove the tariffs they rightfully imposed when US defaulted on NAFTA. |
Will you hold your breath until that happens? I sure wouldn't.
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by jakecard
Below is the link to the Christian Science Monitor article from which mtgoat666 has plagiarized author Howard La Franchi word for word.
|
 BUSTED
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 17555
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
yep, i cut/pasted some text. but not "word for word." (and at least it was CSM and not Fox)
i suppose i should be flattered that you want to make the story about me, but i really don't care!
si, se puede! (i plagiarized that phrase too!)
|
|
|
Cypress
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7641
Registered: 3-12-2006
Location: on the bayou
Member Is Offline
Mood: undecided
|
|
mtgoat666, Thanks. At least we now know who to blame for the trucking fiasco. Bush strikes again! Is Obama's gonna be held responsible for the current
state of affairs? He's been prez for two or three years. Oh yea! Bush did it.
|
|
|
sanquintinsince73
Super Nomad
Posts: 1494
Registered: 6-8-2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Comoing soon to a freeway near you....
[Edited on 10-20-2011 by sanquintinsince73]
|
|
|
CaboRon
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3401
Registered: 3-24-2007
Location: The Valley of the Moon
Member Is Offline
Mood: Peacefull
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by jakecard
| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
The first truck to cross approx. four days ago was stopped becaue of gross safety violations .... |
Propaganda or a joke?
Where did you read this, CaboRon?
The article Ken posted says that the first truck is set to cross the border into Texas tomorrow.
Yet you have information saying that a truck crossed four days ago? And that after all the scrutiny over safety regulations that the very first truck
to cross just happened to be in "gross" violation? Come on, man.
Take your pick ... I saw it on CNN
Jake |
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
