Anyone ‘in the know’ about how well Mexican trucks are inspected and/or Mexican truck drivers qualified to drive a big rig?
per LaHood.. ‘safety concerns have been resolved’.
How long before U.S. trucks are hi-jacked and the drivers murdered or held for ransom?
We don’t know from trucks.
Americn trucks will likely not travel south of the border due to crime and hijackings.
Any truck carrying goods from an American company that fled to Mexico should have to pay that driver at the US wage rate while in the US. Likewise, any truck picking up any load or any trailer in the US should have to pay that driver at the US wage rate while in the US. Additionally, any driver carrying any American goods south of the border that normally were carried by US drivers should have to pay that driver at US wage rates.
This is just a barely concealed effort to use low-wage drivers to take US jobs. If they could have done it by phone from India or China, they would have done that.
So what does the Texas governor have to say about this?
I used to work near the truck crossing at the Otay Mesa port in San Diego. The roadsides are litterd with plastic bottles full of urine. Get used to it.
A few years ago we heard how the chi-coms sent a train of stuff to N. Korea and they kept the train,
I can see it now, American trucks go to Mexico to deliver the goods, the drivers disappear and their trucks bring illegals and marijuana back here with different numbers and drivers.
Coming to a neighborhood near you real soon,.
have the lawmakers actually observed mexican truck driver habits and their rigs? like sudden lane changes, occupying the hammer lane at 55mph (and then using their truck as a weapon against anyone flashing hibeams at them), and inoperative equipment like turn signals and brake lights? And where’s the independently-run random Drug testing program for Mexican drivers like Canadian and American drivers are subjected to? What about compliance with the air-quality regs that are keeping national truckers from driving in California, making them drop their trailers at the Cally border for other “compliant” trucks to take?
Why do I feel like America is a tree that everyone wants the fruit from, but noone wants to water or weed?
Great. Now we can expect American trucking firms to go under as traitorous scum like Wal Mart move their distribution centers to Mexico just so they can use cheap Mexican drivers to haul their loads.
I wonder if those Mexican trucks will get hijacked and destroyed?
Like chickens voting for Col. Sanders
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Looks like more deadly truck accidents along the I10 corridor in Southern California. I have seen their version of big rigs. Don’t think I would want to risk my life driving one.
If the California Highway Patrol truck safety stations are busy now with US truck inspections, just wait until these Mexican trucks start to roll. But in this new world, maybe Obama will tell Brown to instruct the CHP inspectors to pass all Mexican trucks. Hey, let the US simply close its eyes to one more threat.
We are. Seriously. Losing our nation.
It’s pretty scary when I think I agree with Jimmy Hoffa.
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