Mexico outlines details of cross-border trucking pact

[gremlin]

this can not be good.

Some in Mexico expressed concern that the U.S. Congress may block the agreement. Ferrari said that his understanding was that Obama was asking for a consultation period that would include Congress, but that the legislative body's approval would not be required.

There will be three phases to the program, he said.

The first will be the application and inspection of Mexican trucks and the accreditation of their operators, Perez-Jacome said. This phase concludes with a provisional authorization being granted to enter the United States.

The second phase starts with a three-month period of thorough inspections of the vehicles crossing the border, checks that will decrease starting the fourth month, he said. It concludes with a certification that the company is following all the rules.

The last phase involves the Mexican companies being notified of their permanent authorization, which can be granted after 18 months of successful operations, Perez-Jacome said. This authorization can only be revoked if a safety regulation is broken.

A binational commission will be created to monitor all the phases of the new program.

"This is a great step forward in our bilateral relations," Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said. "The solution to this conflict represents a substantial advance for regional competitiveness, and, without a doubt, will offer new business opportunities for Mexican truckers."

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[Hoser John]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the mexican cartels will LOVE this insanity in a drug ruled failed Mexico government

[Geo-George]

I've paid my dues jammin' gears and don't like this one bit!
They can drop their trailers at the borders w/Canada and Mexico where they can be inspected,
then picked up by U.S. drivers for delivery.
Where I used to work, we got a lot of Ukranian drivers making deliveries to our plant.
( I specified the Ukranian drivers, so no one could say I was pickin' on the Mexicans, no racial profiling here. Got some things I could say 'bout them too, but I think I'm making my point. )
Got their licenses out of a Cracker Jack box.
Seriously, would you believe that it took these drivers 20 min to back up to a dock?
The record is 1 hr. 48 min. ......and he still couldn't do it.
One of our local drivers finally offered to help and had it docked in less than 5 min.

This is just one example of how proficiant the forgien drivers, aren't!
And here's the best part, they are driving the same roads as you.

The ones here on visa are crammed through a quick course an put behind the wheel.
The ones comming across our bourders don't know our rules and regulations.

[dickb]

This was tried several years ago, but was stopped dead in it's tracks. This is Corp America trying to outsource the american truck driving jobs. They can't ship the jobs to mexico, but they can bring mexican drivers into this country to do the driving and delivery of goods that the corps make in mexico.

If you drove a semi, would you want to take a load to mexico city? Where would you stop to sleep, eat, fuel, or clean up. Mexico doesn't have a safe enforcement system or protection of the people coming into the country. And if you don't speak spanish, you'r at a disadvantage and likely to be taken advantage of by the locals.

You should see what the Mexicans consider safe trucks to drive. I don't think that the average person has a clue, but if it moves in Mexico, it's safe to drive and America doesn't have any way to inspect these trucks coming into our country and take them off the road.

The system that we are using now works, protects the american truck drivers and keeps junk trucks off of the US roads.
Simply put, US drivers take the loads to the border and the loads are transfered to Mexican trucks and Mexican drivers take the load to the destinations in Mexico. Then then pick up loads in Mexico and haul them to the US border where they are inspected and reloaded on US trucks to deliver in the US. This Works, But the Corporations want cheap labor and don't care if the people in the US are working or safe!

Thats my take and I took many loads to Laredo from corps like John Deere and Con Arga. Any idea that your popcorn is grown in IA and shipped to Mexico to be packaged by Mexican workers and returned to the US to be sold.

Its only about US corporations making lots of profit and not caring how they do it!

Dickb

[gremlin]

back in 2000 canada trucks could take a load in to the states. drop off there load and only if there was a load at that plant could they pick up be for going back to canada. there trucks could and did pass us in spections. most of them passed the inspections on the first try.

I am wondering when, the truckers will strike. they all know the kinds of drivers and trucks are in mexico.

[dickb]

I lost my MC in 04/07, but I'd quit before I would accept a load going into Mexico. No job is worth the money to die for, Military and First responers exempt. Hell, if you got out of the truck to take a leak, it would probably be gone by the time you finished.

Sorry, touchy subject.

Dickb

[Reno badboy]

There ya' go. Open the borders even further to allow that many more in!!!! Then they can bring them in by the truck loads! Friggin' idiots!!! Stupid azzed govt.!!

[gremlin]

just when you thought it could not get any worse. we must use our tax dollars to pay for a gps system that reports if they go over on hours driving. our own drivers must buy the system.

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FMCSA to Pay for EOBRs on Mexican Trucks

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will require all Mexican trucks entering the United States to be equipped with electronic onboard recorders — and will pay for them, a Department of Transportation official said Wednesday.

The move was in part to quell concerns over Mexican drivers’ hours of service and FMCSA would own and control all data gathered by the EOBRs used by the carriers, said the DOT official, who asked not to be identified.

The mandate for EOBRs, which must be equipped with global positioning system capabilities, would be part of the cross-border trucking agreement reached last week between the United States and Mexico.

News that the agency would pay for EOBRs on Mexican trucks comes only weeks after FMCSA announced a proposed rule that would require U.S. carriers to install EOBRs on their trucks, at their own expense.

Under the agreement, Mexico would drop $2.4 billion in retaliatory tariffs it has imposed on U.S. products. Except for an 18-month pilot program that was ended by Congress in early 2009, most trucks from each country have not been allowed to deliver beyond an approximately 20-mile border zone.

John Hill, who was FMCSA’s administrator during the cross-border pilot program, told Transport Topics Wednesday that FMCSA paid for global positioning systems to be installed on all Mexican trucks that had participated in the previous pilot project.