[norton]

A large percentage, if not the majority, of semi-drivers in the Los Angeles area ARE Mexicans. Does not matter where the truck is registered (and both countries are represented);
the trucks are below standard and the driving is scary,
safety checks are "racist",
freeways around the harbor are littered with lost parts,
and there have been efforts at unionizing as independents.

(I have this recurring vision of two impoverished mexicans watching an American truck go down their dirt trail and complaining about the "Gringo invasion".)

[Ben Ficklin]

You are describing Texas. It is intersting to note that CA claims to have inspected the mexican trucks down to where they are no worse than US trucks. They are equally and uniformly bad.

Part of the safety program of mexican trucks allows US inpectors to go onto the yards of those mexican truck companies that are permitted in the US and inspect up to half of the trucks. In Texas, inspetors are not allowed to inpect at the yard of Texas companies. The must wait and random inspect on the roads.