Broken pact; Mexico expected to ban U.S. truck drivers

LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 12/21/2007 | ASHLEY RICHARDS

[cripplecreek]

Yeah my mother is here for the holiday and we’ve been talking about this. She was telling me about driving through the the Bronx with guys hanging off her truck because she made the mistake of stopping at a red light.

[crz]

Did they pass that “Temp” service business tax up there yet?

GD what a shape that hussie has made of that state. Sad part is, since construction has collapsed here, I had to take a job running tree harvestor back up in the UP and am only back here in AZ once every two months for a week or so.

Az is a nice place to live as far as the weather goes...at least NW AZ is. But a lot of these people are about the laziest and most ignorant and dumb people I ever saw. Maybe its just the Kingman area..I dunno. They are CHEAP also and will lie at a drop of a hat.

[StnCldTruth]

Thanx...cleared that up. I was OTR for 11 years, doing LTL now so it’s kinda hard to keep up

[PeterFinn]

Good. Since they arrest and deport all Americans who illegally enter Mexico then they won’t mind when we return the favor, right?

[StnCldTruth]

had to have been going to Hunts Point...if so, time to lock and load

[cripplecreek]

She’s been driving for almost 20 years so she can opt out of a lot of the bad runs if she doesn’t want to make them. She won’t go to Quebec either.

[Mostly_Lurker]

Inspect all US bound trucks and ban all that do not meet US standards. Mexico needs to send stuff north more than we need to send stuff south.

Build the double fence. Mexico needs to send people north more than we need to send people south.

[freekitty]

What’s ya going to do about that President Bush?

[nicmarlo]

Calderon hasn’t told him yet.

[org.whodat]

"We don't think the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has the ability right now to make sure that safety is enforced."

Actually the DOT was prohibited from inspecting the Mexican trucks, some private firm, probably a bud of Jorge's, was suppose to inspect them.

[CARTOUCHE]

Incorrect. JB Hunt has a Hunt De Mexico division but does not allow its American drivers to cross the border.

[Ben Ficklin]

"ban all those that do not meet US standards"

The arbitration panel, in 2001, said that the US can set standards and exclude any Mexican truck that doesn't meet those standards.

But, the US can't exclude all Mexican trucks only because they are Mexican trucks. Nor can the US set higher standards for Mexican trucks than are set for US trucks.

[org.whodat]

I had heard that JB Hint and Schneider were making regular trips into Mexico...did I miss something ?

Probably a mexican pulling their tailers.

[org.whodat]

My brother in law was a truck driver, he said pretty much the same thing about N.Y.C., that many truckers would not go there

That is true, and a lot of them don't like Chicago either, low bridges everywhere.

[SeafoodGumbo]

He's gotta go somewhere...

[William Terrell]

I see any disagreement with Mexico at this time as very, very good.

[montag813]

John Cornyn has lost all credibility. It is he and Hutchison who conspired with the RATs to gut the border fence funding.