Trucking Regulations: Truckers allege Mexico-based operators are stealing jobs, profits

Mike

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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the Teamsters sent a joint message to the U.S. International Trade Commission this week, urging the adoption of interim rules to implement parts of the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement, which was approved earlier this year.

The prominent industry groups allege that weaker regulations imposed on Mexico-based cross-border trucking companies have allowed them to steal U.S. jobs and profits.

“Because Mexico-based trucking companies and drivers are not held to the same, rigorous U.S. safety and security regulations, they are endangering the American public and taking away jobs and profits from American drivers and carriers,” OOIDA President Todd Spencer said in a statement, adding that Mexico-based operators were also a larger threat to the American driving public.


 
They're saying they wanna go into Mexico and fetch the loads themselves?

Have at 'em boys. I'm cool up here. I've yet to see a Mexico plated truck up here doing general business.

If anything it's those damned Canadians. 😃
 
They're saying they wanna go into Mexico and fetch the loads themselves?

Have at 'em boys. I'm cool up here. I've yet to see a Mexico plated truck up here doing general business.

If anything it's those damned Canadians. 😃
Teamsters don't want anybody hustling and cutting in on their gravy train. They want all competition removed, so they can slow boat every job at the maximum possible rate of pay.

OOIDA has just seemed to always have it in for Mexican drivers. Until I got my authority, I actually let my long time membership lapse partly because of being sick of their constant pursuit of keeping Mexican drivers out of the United States. In the past, it was fear mongering over how they would be driving horrible equipment. That turned out to be a flop as the equipment I see them driving in most of the country is just as good as anybody elses. Now, they are horrible drivers and taking our "jubs". IMO, it just makes them look bad as an organization.
 
It's like a broken record with these two organizations when it comes to this.
Some people actually don't like having their jobs stolen by foreigners who work cheap.

I can't imagine why though, with economic security being so universally hated by all people everywhere. 🙄
 
Some people actually don't like having their jobs stolen by foreigners who work cheap.

This is trucking. It's not the "foreigners" who are causing us to work cheap, it's the Americans driving down the rates in the name of free market competition.

Let the Mexicans bring their freight in, and take freight back. That is, unless you want to take the freight down to them. I'm guessing you don't.

Let the Canadians bring their freight in, and take freight back.

In the process, if they grab another load here and there, so be it.

All it does is make the transportation industry, for all three countries, work more efficiently.

And if OOIDA is so concerned about the danger, they need to be pointing the finger equally at Canadian drivers, and at the piece of shit drivers we are producing right here in the United States.
 
This is trucking. It's not the "foreigners" who are causing us to work cheap, it's the Americans driving down the rates in the name of free market competition.

Let the Mexicans bring their freight in, and take freight back. That is, unless you want to take the freight down to them. I'm guessing you don't.

Let the Canadians bring their freight in, and take freight back.

In the process, if they grab another load here and there, so be it.

All it does is make the transportation industry, for all three countries, work more efficiently.

And if OOIDA is so concerned about the danger, they need to be pointing the finger equally at Canadian drivers, and at the piece of shit drivers we are producing right here in the United States.
Next time you see a truck with the name of any Chicago suburb on the door, take a look at whats behind the wheel.

Russians, Ukrainians,... foreigners.

Hauling freight all around the country, for break-even rates.

Aa for Mexico and Canada, we need to go back to cross dock facilities at the borders.

Especially at the southern border where everyone is always trying to smuggle in contraband.
 
Aa for Mexico and Canada, we need to go back to cross dock facilities at the borders.

Especially at the southern border where everyone is always trying to smuggle in contraband.
Yeah, because drugs was definitely not a major problem with that method of shipping.
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How do you magically know what their rates are?
Because I've spoken with a few of them. They're all over the place around here. I used to cross paths with them a lot. They would whine about the low rates (pay as O/Os leased to carriers) but wouldn't quit.
Yeah, because drugs was definitely not a major problem with that method of shipping.
They're smuggling children for use as victims for pedophiles.
 
Because I've spoken with a few of them. They're all over the place around here. I used to cross paths with them a lot. They would whine about the low rates (pay as O/Os leased to carriers) but wouldn't quit.
Those guys primarily pull contract freight - which is cheap as it gets.
 
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They're smuggling children for use as victims for pedophiles.
As they were before NAFTA, and as lots of natural born citizens are doing and have been doing for a long time. Drivers crossing borders didn’t create this.
 
It's like a broken record with these two organizations when it comes to this.
This is a joke! Remember a few years back when they had a pilot project of allowing Mexicans to run beyond their drop and hook radius and nobody showed up?
I mean Ya there was 12 trucks in total that signed up to take part in the program.
 
They're saying they wanna go into Mexico and fetch the loads themselves?

Have at 'em boys. I'm cool up here. I've yet to see a Mexico plated truck up here doing general business.

If anything it's those damned Canadians. 😃
I would never want to go beyond Laredo, TX.

I have seen 1 Mexican plated truck up here a couple times a few years back, Well the trailer was Mexican plated not sure about the truck.
 
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