[Alberta's Child]

They don't make a lot of noise about it (understandably), but behind the scenes, the American Trucking Association is a big supporter of the cross-border trucking initiative.

It sounds counter-intuitive, but I think a lot of the big U.S. trucking outfits (J.B. Hunt, Schneider, etc.) have plans in place -- if they haven't already started -- to buy Mexican trucking firms as subsidiaries and use them as much as possible for moving loads to the U.S. (and eventually within the U.S.).

[Joe Boucher]

I believe what you say.
Large trucking companies hedging their bets.
Surprise surprise.
Interesting angle, thanks.

[lentulusgracchus]

It sounds counter-intuitive, but I think a lot of the big U.S. trucking outfits (J.B. Hunt, Schneider, etc.) have plans in place ....to buy Mexican trucking firms as subsidiaries and use them as much as possible for moving loads to the U.S. (and eventually within the U.S.).

They already started that while Bush was in office.

And they hired lots of drivers in Texas and Mexico. (Umm, I wondered to myself, if I were white and showed up at Schneider's office and applied for one of those jobs, presented licenses etc., would I be hired ..... or did they want 100% illegals, like the building contractors who hire dayworkers?)

The new model is, Chinese labor, Chinese ships, Mexican ports, Mexican trucks, zero American taxes, zero American labor, zero American drayage ...... up the NASCO/SPP superhighways all the way to the Wal-Mart receiving manager's dock. That's the first time an (overpaid) American worker will touch it.

Come to think of it, Wal-Mart's hiring illegals to manage their back offices and warehouses, too. Wasn't there a story about that?

Get the picture?