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Over on Supply Excellence, Rachel Rutkoski has the scoop from a recent DOT safety report that found Mexican trucks crossing into the US were actually safer than US trucks (and drivers) operating within the country. Why does this matter? US protectionists...
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Viva la protectionism!!! Navistar and Daimler think you should pay more for Mexican made trucks .
mexican trucks, but I sure get to see hundreds of very unsafe and barely running mexican trucks.
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I'm considering going driving and I'm wondering what you think will be result of the US allowing Mexican trucks into the US?
What do you think about wages?
Thanks
Little Poll here:
Do you love driving?
Is it more than just the money?
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Or not...but the Mexican truck ordeal...I have the suspition that what is now .38 per mile will become .18c per mile think will be result of the US allowing Mexican trucks into the US?
What do you think about wages this these....
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Mexican Trucks!!!! NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) A Mexican truck crossed into the U.S. on Friday bound for the nation's interior, fulfilling a long-delayed provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement that had been stalled for years by concerns it...
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I crossed paths with a lot of Mexican trucks and quite regs and end up making even....
I think I have, that I drove in or near my home state of IL .
Re: Mexican Trucks!!!! I spent a lot of time running in the south and south west.
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Teamsters continue to battle Mexican trucks
Sean Holstege
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 3, 2007 12:00 AM
The plan to let Mexican trucks operate throughout the United States has prompted a war of words and legal papers between the Bush administration and ...
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Some truckers oppose letting Mexican trucks on U.S. roads
2/26/07
For thousands of Texas truckers, home is the open road.
But when it comes to sharing the road with truckers from south of the border, many are not in favor of an open house.
Safety. They...
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BC Letting Mexican companies to do business here on the Mexican....
The Mexican trucks deliver their cargo there...the American inspectors can do their thing before American trucks distribute the goods all over the USA.
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Read an amazing article from the San Diego Examiner newspaper a couple days back. PLEASE, someone slap me up side the head so I might understand.
It has been announced, the Arizona EPA has begun a program of retrofitting MEXICAN trucks with the equipment...
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To me like trucks are getting new mufflers and the labor, $1200 per truck is greasing someones are amazing thinking that at a maximum, 100 Mexican trucks will put 4.5 million US drivers out to hang a label on someone you know....
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Mexican Trucks Stay Home After 17-Year Push to Open U.S. Border Mexican Trucks Stay Home After 17-Year Push to Open U.S. Border
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- It took 17 years and $2.4 billion in trade tariffs to get the U.S. Transportation Department to let a...
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We already wasted a lot of....
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They need us not the other way around.
If Canacar wants to push a lawsuit, then the President should tell them to go to hell and sign the piece of paper to give 6 mos notice and cancel the agreement .
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:50:15 -0700 (PDT), Jose <pablo31@todito.com
The Trucker
In fact, Mexico’s Deputy Transportation Minister Humberto Trevino told
Bloomberg that “We don’t simply want to re-establish the pilot project
we had, but to have a project...
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If Obama
caves in to narco-terrorist Mexican demands, the American people will
have to take.
To open up our highways to Mexican trucks will be the last
straw..
To enforce immigration
laws.
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Http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44971132/
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AWESOME! Welcome AMIGOS!!!
Hey, what happened anyways??? Did all the American truckers lose their jobs? NO??? Oh, according to Hoffa and the wonderful Teamsters, this was the end for American... .
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My solution remains the simplest. Have each of the other border
states (AZ, NM, and TX) adopt the truck inspection standards of
California. Unsafe trucks and uninsured trucks would be stopped dead
in their tracks! If the other border states are unwilling...
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But I agree that if it is foreign....
Besides, the bad trucks know how to bypass the scales.
The rickety, rusted trucks
running short haul in California? Seems CA maintains a
different inspection standard for trucks licensed in CA.
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