2nd Invasion from Mexico

Unless the 9th circuit gets the injunction MEXICAN full semi 18 wheelers will have unlimited access to all 48 states effective 0001 20 Sep 07. Thats right vehicles and drivers who many suspect are not up to Federal DOT rules and regulations will share the road with trusting American motorists. Drivers without a basic understanding of language and American roads will be out among us. The CB is full of concerns, parking for trucks already at a premium now more trucks, rest areas at night will be that much more interesting, our major concern is safety. These trucks if the Larado/Nogalas expierience is any indication are junk. Will the Mexicans have to dump thier mixed diesel used motor oil fuel and fill with ULSD at the border, we have company issued fuel credit cards, many fear the mexicans will be issued a siphon hose and breath mints. What will be the cargos, illegals, drugs, no oversight as now with the tranfere points currently on the border, where the mexican trailers are unloaded under supervision and reloaded into american trailers under supervision. A Mexican truck hits your vehicle, Mexican companys are Mexican Government controled, so your insurance claim will be against the Mexican Government, lots of luck on the claim. Log books, vehicle inspections, fuel, Mexican $.11 per mile drivers replacing current american driver payscales. Yep, another fine Labor Day weekend.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/14003768/detail.html?rss =dgo&psp=news

Edited by oldsoldier - 30 August 2007 at 9:52pm

So where you been OS?

park your rig on I35...

xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx wrote: brihard wrote: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx wrote: So where you been OS? Getting owned by Mexicans, I suppose... That sucks.

OS is an independant owner/operator, so it's of understandable concern for him... One of his hobby horses.

That's not cool...

yeah, darn that free-market
capitalism.

NotDaveEllis wrote: The Article wrote: "What a slap in the face to American workers, opening the highways to dangerous trucks on Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest driving weekends of the year," said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa.

OMG Hes alive? What happened?

No hype Us Goverment Data on how Safe US Truck Drivers, Canadian TruckDrivers and the OMG they are gonna kill you all Mexican Drivers really are.

yeah, this issue is chock full
of misinformation, like the
"omg mexico will establish
sovereign territory in kansas
city!"

and yes, OS, outsourcing is
good for us. Wealth of
Nations, chapter 1.

The primary issue is safety. The figures for Mexican accident rates are based currently on the "25 mile buffer zone" that Mexican trucks can currently operate in. Once these trucks get deeper into the US, and more frequently into the US the accident rate will rise substantually. American and Canadian regulations on hours of service and inspection criteria are simular and enforced in both countries, as well as pay. For the who care types who have never seen the condition of trucks in the Nogalas/DelRio/Laredo buffer zones, and who by thier expertise in thier proffesion understand what exactly they are looking at in the way of conditions of vehicle, traffic rule observation, and general attitude of the Mexican trucker who is still very unfamiliar with the Amer/Can "traditions".
If the playing field was balanced on regulations, pay, and overall expierience we would not have so much of a problem, but unfortuanately Mexico will not abide by the rules and traditions established over generations of Amer/Can OTR driver/shipper co-operation.
Since the new target is the trucking industry, who basically controls the american economy, if we don't move it, you don't get it, you will get what you pay for each time you drive near any Mexican owned vehicle. And when you pull into the rest area and the wife and kids jump out for a bathroom break and there are 12 Mexican plated trucks parked and the drivers milling around, tell me "profiling" will not be going through your mind.
I really don't have too much of a stake in this anymore, retirement right around the corner, but whose jobs are next, to be replaced by cheaper labor, and when will your standard of living and life be affected by this new invasion. Maybe we can hire Mexican trained lawyers at $35.00 an hour instead of $300.00 an hour American lawyers, once the market is there.