Posted on 10/08/2011 12:29:51 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Mexican trucks will start crossing the U.S. border again in a couple of weeks, reducing transportation costs between the two neighbors by some 15 percent, Mexico's Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said.
The resolution of the long-standing cross-border trucking dispute should give an additional boost to Mexican manufacturers, who have been fighting to increase their market share in the United States.
"If you take into consideration that Mexico's manufacturing costs are at least 25 percent lower than in the U.S., this is going to be a very strong competitive advantage," Ferrari told Reuters in an interview late Wednesday.
Mexican manufacturers have been in a fierce battle with Chinese exporters to gain market share in the U.S.
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Apparently, the response from Teamsters is *crickets.*
It probably would be different if the POTUS were Republican.
Oh, you want me to start in about what we saw and what our drivers reported? I could get that meme started up reeeeeeaaaaallllll good! Now you talk about a proper discussion I’ve got some real duzzies for ya. I did tell you I owned a trucking company right?
Perry is only for open borders in the way he is for open borders with Canada.
He had a lot of restrictions that he imposed on Mexico before they can have an open border with us.
The TTC would have restricted Mexican trucks while satisfying NAFTA.
As to encouraging illegals, I think that is a bit far fetched.
Perry passed an unvetoable bill that allowed some children of illegals to PAY in state tuition rates.
The Texas legislation voted on it almost unanimously and Texas State comptroller Susan Combs says that the legislation actually lowers the fiscal burden on Texans.
http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/undocumented/3education.html
Yes, you told me that you used to own a trucking company.
I am trying to tell you that Obama has just screwed truck owners good, and that What Perry had proposed was the less evil way of fulfilling the NAFTA law.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah we all know he had no choice. That’s why he called us heartless for not supporting it..
Dude, do you really think you are changing any minds?
I know I'll be nervous when I see one of these trucks making stops at one of the plants up here. Hope they will be required to have good insurance. It's been awhile since I've heard anything on the Midnight Radio Network about this topic.
Dayum dude, you’re acting like I don’t know much about this issue. Baby steps still lead to running. Perry’s way was just incremental implementation.
I admit, I have know idea why he hung the matter around his neck by saying that.
I still think that over all he has a very good track record.
Certainly better than Romneys or Huntsmans,or Obamas and the others have no track record.
That is the way it had been in the past, but hat is not what I am reading about Obamas new law.
Look, I lived in Texas for five years. Moved out after hurricane Ike. I know a little about his record and all that. Sure he’s been there for a lot of years but compared to who he ran against each time? Duh. And we all know just how much power the Texas governor actually has too. Let’s also remember that Texas sent us Ron Paul k.
You are the trucking expert.
Could you tell us how Obama’s new law effects us? Vices what Perry had proposed?
And can you tell us if this is all just some hare brained scheme Perry dreamt up or whether it is something that Bill Clinton signed into law?
Give us the skinny man!
He was also the Lt Gov.
Last time he ran against Kay Baily Hutchinson and Bill White
Last time he ran against Kay Baily Hutchinson and Bill White and Deborah Medina
Agreed.
Look, you can scream, cry, wail, snivel, obfuscate and denigrate but you can’t avoid people knowing that regardless of who “signed the bill” or “got it through” or “was responsible” the bottom line is that PERRY WAS FOR the TTC, open borders, tuition for illegals, building Mosques and getting Muslim history in schools.
I just want an honest discussion of the issues without all of the firebomb emotional BS.
I don’t have all the answers, but shouting that Rick Perry is the responsible for Illegal immigration or that Mexican Truckers will kill millions in a drunken stupor on the roads is not helpful.
Agreed again. It’s the crazy season. Primaries. By the time they get around to Texas we’re supposed to have our minds right. ;o)
I don’t doubt you at all.
These people need work—most of them are living way below the poverty line. I don’t know what the answers to their plight are.
The few we have hired around here seem to be really hard working, and very polite.
I own a small trucking company in Arizona (10 refrigerated trucks). This will cause havoc as the government is now going to allow ALL Mexican trucks that agree to inspection, have the proper insurance and the proper EPA approved equipment to cross the border and go anyplace they want.
Diesel fuel in Mexico is $2.79 per gallon-a DOLLAR less than in the USA on average. AND the trucks come across the border carrying 450-500 gallons of fuel (two 150 gallon side tanks and another saddle tank on their deck plates). At 6 miles per gallon, these trucks carry enough fuel to haul a load of product from Mexico to NYC and return part of the way before they have to pay for US diesel fuel. Sure, they have to pay the road and fuel taxes for fuel they DID NOT buy in each state, but if I was saving $1.00 per gallon, I could donate quite a bit of money for road and fuel taxes to high tax states like ILL (.$38 per gallon for fuel tax and $.11 per mile road tax. The Mexican trucks will cut the rates as they did the previous time they were let into the country because their overhead is NOT what it is in the USA.
The initial pilot program was restricted to the BIG Mexican trucking companies, primarily dry van companies, hauling parts and supplies to manufacturing companies. Now it is ALL trucks that will be allowed to roam the USA freely.
That didn’t work out the best for either side because the amount of freight going BACK into Mexico was not sufficient to keep all the trucks loaded going back and forth. And there were inspection, log book and insurance problems to say the least.
But now, the new law will allow ALL trucks to come across the border more than 100 miles. So the normal food hauling process where the trucks bring the produce, shrimp and other seafood items from Mexico and cross dock the freight through a USDA inspection and then onto an American truck in Laredo, Nogales, Brownsville, Otay Mesa, etc. etc. will now come to an end. I am seriously concerned about the USDA inspections as well as loosing my small business.
The independent truckers of the USA hauling refrigerated food products are few and far between anymore. This may be the end of small, refrigerated food hauling companies. I know I can’t compete with the Mexicans and their cheap trucks, cheap fuel and cheap labor.
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