Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Feb 9, 2012, 12:50 pm
Vicente Fernández Gómez, 71, beloved singer known throughout the world as “El rey de la canción ranchera” or “The King of Ranchera Music” announced in Mexico City his upcoming world tour will be his last. Speaking from Mexico City, the cultural icon with more than 50 albums to his credit ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Feb 9, 2012, 12:21 am
Grupo Behr, the Mexican carrier who was the first victim of OOIDA’s campaign of propaganda and misinformation, has allegedly been found to be in violation of  leasing statutes in Section 219 of the 1999 Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act, according to William Quade assistant administrator for ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Feb 2, 2012, 5:23 pm
We wrote last week about the Public Transit delegation in the border city of Nuevo Laredo had began testing all city transit and taxi drivers for drug and alcohol use and re-certifying those who passed. The first phase of the testing is complete, and while not surprising to us, debunks more of the...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jan 27, 2012, 3:34 am
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 No...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jan 27, 2012, 2:26 am
NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jan 15, 2012, 9:07 am
Nearly 20 years after President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, a key provision that grants Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways remains stalled. Staunch opposition from unions and consumer groups in this country, which argue that unsafe foreign trucks and inexperienced dri...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jan 11, 2012, 5:22 pm
The two separate and frivolous lawsuits filed last year by the Teamsters, Public Citizen, Sierra Club and Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) have now been consolidated into one lawsuit on orders from a Judge with the D.C. Court of Appeals. The case numbers for the two actions are...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Dec 23, 2011, 8:49 am
The long anticipated release of the revised hours of service regulations were finally released by FMCSA yesterday, and at first read, they are not as bad as anticipated. The 11 hour driving time has been retained, despite heavy pressure from the Teamsters and various bogus safety groups to reduce it...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Dec 10, 2011, 2:34 am
The U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center has released its National Drug Threat Assessment 2011 and to the consternation of many who have made the claim that Mexican trucks are the main conveyances with which drugs enter the US, pretty much debunks this idea. And as usual, we...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Dec 3, 2011, 11:54 am
The Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico is on track as more than 15 carriers have applied for admission into the program. The FMCSA is continuing to conduct the Pre-Authority Safety Audits (PASA) in full compliance with the terms of the pilot program. The latest applicant to u...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 28, 2011, 9:05 am
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...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 21, 2011, 3:50 pm
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...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 19, 2011, 8:39 pm
It was an afternoon full of alarmist rhetoric geared towards fueling the hysteria against anything Mexican to anyone who cared to listen. All and all, about what we expected. I’m referring of course to the presser held by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa who was joined by OOIDA VP Todd Spencer, ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 18, 2011, 3:41 am
Embattled President James P. Hoffa announced in a presser today that he and OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer, will be joined by nativist Congressmen Bob Filner (D-CA) and Duncan Hunter (R-CA) to whine about and bash the recent opening of the southern border to safe and closely monitored M...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 16, 2011, 6:28 pm
The headline from OOIDA reads; OOIDA comments prompt second look at cross-border applicant which is true to a point. OOIDA’s protest outlined research of the vehicle identification numbers from inspection reports contained on FMCSA’s CSA website and questioned whether Grupo Behr would be using ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 16, 2011, 5:53 pm
With the issuance of provisional operating authority to Transportes Olympics on Friday, October 14, 2011, our southern border is now open to long haul trucks from Mexico who have passed the requirements for participation in the pilot program. This puts the US into long overdue compliance with our ob...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 14, 2011, 2:04 pm
This morning, the FMCSA, as required by law, published their responses to comments made by interested parties concerning the first two companies to pass their initial Pre-Authorization Safety Audits, the first step to acquiring provisional operating authority for the Cross Border Pilot Program with ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 14, 2011, 1:38 pm
What can only be described as a resounding success in our efforts to see the United States come into compliance with it obligations under the NAFTA accords, the remaining 50 percent of the $2.4 billion regulatory tariffs imposed by Mexico in 2009 will now be lifted. The tariff’s, imposed after the...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 10, 2011, 8:38 am
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...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 2, 2011, 7:57 pm
Just as we've suggested all along, and now, The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced the availability of a Final Environmental Assessment that evaluates the potential environmental impacts resulting from the implementation of its U.S.-Mexico cross-border long-haul trucki...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 1, 2011, 4:01 pm
As the 2011 Cross Border Pilot Program unfolds, OOIDA continues to whine and grasp at straws in an ineffectual attempt to once again stop the United States from complying with an obligation 17 years overdue. OOIDA continues to demand access to all records concerning the companies applying for provis...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Oct 1, 2011, 2:13 pm
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...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 25, 2011, 11:30 am
By Laurence Iliff Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES  MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's 2012 budget for building and repairing highways is likely to stay near historically high levels after making its way through Congress, and the planned projects shouldn't suffer from a weaker peso since materials and manpowe...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 22, 2011, 2:10 am
Rep. Peter DeFazio, following OOIDA President Jim Johnston’s example sent a letter to FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro demanding she address his bogus concerns about the safety of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. But this isn’t about this vile little man’s irrelevant letter to Ms Ferro. It’s to b...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 15, 2011, 9:23 pm
This is so ridiculous it borders on the absurd. Yesterday, OOIDA President Jim Johnston sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood venting his frustrations at his associations failure to hoodwink Congress and the public into putting a stop to the cross border trucking program with Mexico. ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 13, 2011, 2:25 pm
Hey, we knew they could do it and that OOIDA was once again blowing smoke up the peoples asses when less than a week ago they were saying that FMCSA had “high hurdles” to cross before the Long Haul Program with Mexico was ready for prime time. Yesterday, FMCSA released their answer to the concer...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 13, 2011, 11:49 am
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the injunction sought by the Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) in their attempt to stop the Mexican cross border pilot program. According to TODAYS TRUCKING, the Court did agree to fast track the frivolous laws...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 10, 2011, 7:33 pm
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian truck driver who pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling cocaine in the floorboards of his truck was part of an operation that sent more than 1½ tons of drugs across the U.S. border into Canada since 2009, federal authorities said. Ravinder Arora, 30, of Brampton, Ontario...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
FMCSA spokesperson Candice Tolliver Burns announced late yesterday that two of the 7 applicants for the Cross Border Trucking Pilot Program with Mexico have successfully  passed their Pre-Authorization Safety Audits (PASA) and are ready to roll. Both carriers were participants in the 2007 cross bor...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 6, 2011, 3:03 pm
On August 19, 2011, the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Transportation, a non-partisan independent office tasked with oversight of the various agencies, released it’s long awaited audit on the Mexican cross border program, preparing to get underway. This audit w...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 3, 2011, 12:34 am
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 al...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Sep 1, 2011, 10:28 am
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 wit...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 27, 2011, 4:32 am
The attack on a popular Monterrey casino yesterday afternoon that left 63 people dead and dozens more injured, mostly women, has elevated the narco violence into Mexico into a de facto act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM and the response to this cowardly attack against innocent civilians should be treated as ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 27, 2011, 12:55 am
An opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in response to a lawsuit filed by the Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) against the mandate for Electronic Onboard Recorders (EOBR’s) has effectively vacated the regulation for now based on the argument of “dri...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 24, 2011, 8:35 am
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 ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 21, 2011, 3:50 pm
Today’s El Paso Times has a piece out titled “1 Million Truck Violations Cited at Border Crossing”by Diana Washington who has in the past been a reputable reporter on things concerning the US/Mexico border in El Paso. But the story is misleading and just the sort of thing we expect OOIDA to ju...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 16, 2011, 3:00 am
Say it ain’t so people! James P. Hoffa and his Teamsters, and Todd Spencer with his minority of American truckers are aligning themselves with the left wing enviro-wackos in a last desperate attempt to stop fewer than 100 late model Mexican trucks from entering the country? Politics and nativist p...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 12, 2011, 7:19 pm
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...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 5, 2011, 2:13 am
Much of the misinformation coming from opponents of cross border trucking with Mexico seems to be coming from ignorance of the country rather than deliberate attempts to misinform the public, I’d like to think, at least where the regulatory structure in Mexico is concerned. Two of those issues tha...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Aug 2, 2011, 2:11 am
Mark Reddig is on the radio exhorting his listeners that the Cross Border Pilot Program with Mexico will “destroy” the US trucking industry. The August issue of OOIDA’s in house rag, LAND LINE is being pimped on the same program with emphasis on their headline story DOT’s DOG & PONY SHOW, an...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 31, 2011, 11:34 am
In an interview with Mark Reddig on Land Line Now Friday, Laura O’Neil of OOIDA’s Washington office conceded there is not much left to do to prevent the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program from beginning next month. O’Neil, saying that OOIDA continues to look for any roadblock they can throw up...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 21, 2011, 9:52 am
Another report that opponents of cross border trucking have latched onto and using to push their agenda of misinformation about Mexican trucks is that of Mexican drug gangs “cloning” trucks to smuggle their contraband. There is no evidence to be found that 18 wheel road rigs are being “cloned�...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 21, 2011, 8:23 am
Absent any proof that allowing a few more Mexican trucks access to the United State under the upcoming Cross Border Pilot Program, will encourage more smuggling of contraband or worse, opponents of the pilot program, their allies and spokesmen on trucking talk radio are making an all out effort to f...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 14, 2011, 9:59 pm
One has to ask themselves, “Are the folks at OOIDA as stupid as they seem to be or do they simply think the American trucker and the public are stupid”? It would seem to be a little of both after the seeing the latest attempt to derail the Mexican cross border pilot program. The issues ....Read ...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 6, 2011, 5:25 pm
It didn’t take long after today’s announcement of the official signing of the Cross Border Pilot Program agreement in Mexico City for opponents to come out swinging with the lies, fear mongering and preying on the ignorance of those too apathetic to look for the truth for themselves. And as expe...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jul 6, 2011, 1:41 pm
It’s official folks! U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes Dionisio Arturo Pèrez-Jàcome Friscione joined today in Mexico City to sign agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and M...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jun 28, 2011, 2:32 am
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official. A formal agreement between the United States and Mexico could be signed in the next few weeks, William Quade, FMCSA’s...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jun 28, 2011, 2:26 am
RAYMONDVILLE – A routine traffic stop in the Valley by DPS leads to a close to $4 million drug bust. Fifty-six-year-old Bobby John McCarty was pulled over by DPS in Raymondville on Saturday. Court documents show his tractor trailer was taken in for further inspection at Los Tomates Bridge. That’...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jun 20, 2011, 11:32 pm
Speaking to a group of trucking, logistics and technology industry executives at SMC3’s annual summer conference last Thursday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said that new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two mo...
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Porter C. posted an article on Mexico Trucker - La Verdad sin Fronteras - Jun 19, 2011, 12:18 pm
EL PASO — A border security program to X-ray every train rolling into the US has prompted as much as $400 million in fines against US railroads, which are held responsible for bales of marijuana, bundles of cocaine, and anything else criminals cram into the boxcars as they roll through Mexico. Uni...
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