Mexican Truck Program is Underway

From Fleet Owner

July 2011

=ALERT: U.S., Mexico sign cross-border trucking program

The U.S. and Mexico formalized a cross-border trucking program that will end more than $2 billion of tariffs on exported U.S. goods and open up U.S. roadways to approved Mexican trucks.

According to the Dept. of Transportation, the agreement calls for Mexican trucks to comply with all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and they must utilize electronic monitoring systems to track hours-of-service compliance. DOT will also review driving records and require drug testing of all drivers, to be analyzed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services at approved U.S. labs.

Mexican drivers will also have to prove “their ability to understand the English language and U.S. traffic signs.”

U.S. carriers will receive reciprocal authority to operate in Mexico.
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Why Trucking Should Adopt Social Media ...

Opinion: Why Trucking Should Adopt Social Media

From Transport Topics

By Dick Hyatt
President
Decisiv Inc.

Social media is transforming the way America does business, and there’s no reason that shouldn’t include trucking. When it comes to traditional trucking products such as vehicles, systems and components, the development life cycle can be fairly long. The time span required from initial concept through design, research and development and testing before production can begin, can be measured in years. Information-management technology, on the other hand, often has a much shorter development life.

What that means for those of us who supply the advanced technologies used to manage trucking companies today is that our objective has to be communicating more effectively with our customers and partners.

Traditionally, we have employed such practices as focus groups to accomplish this task, and while they yielded results, these groups were expensive, time-consuming and static.

Fixed in time, they simply could not address technology issues and customer and partner challenges in an effective and beneficial time frame.

But today, many trucking companies and industry suppliers of all types of technologies are successfully using social media communication channels such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to meet almost immediately the challenges and needs of customers and partners.

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Backlash to FREE EOBR's for Mexican Truckers

 Even more backlash...

40 Congresspeople have already rallied to end this nightmare proposal. I dont see any political benefit to the current administration to keep it

Here is the original article from Transport Topics

Dump Mexican trucking proposal: Lawmakers

May 5, 2011 12:13 PM, By Brian Straight, managing editor

A group of 44 lawmakers delivered a signed letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood yesterday demanding that the Obama Administration abandon plans to restart a controversial cross-border trucking program for Mexican motor carriers.

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From Transport Topics
3/23/2011

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood outlining his opposition to the U.S. proposal to buy electronic onboard recorders for Mexican trucks that will travel within the United States.

“I do not believe this concept is fair for U.S. carriers who are not eligible for such payments,” Pryor wrote in a letter dated Thursday.

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A Department of Transportation official said earlier this month that DOT will pay for EOBRs for Mexican trucks entering the United States under an agreement with Mexico. The program is meant to ensure drivers’ compliance with hours-of-service regulations while in the U.S.




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Mexico Ends Rotating Tariffs in Truck Dispute | Transport Topics Online | Trucking, Freight Transportation and Logistics News

From Transport Topics
Updated: 1/11/2011 9:00:00 AM

Mexico will maintain its existing tariffs on U.S. goods but will stop rotating tariffs on other products in a gesture to end the ongoing dispute over the U.S. cross-border trucking program, the Associated Press reported.

Mexican Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari called the move a show of goodwill following a U.S. Department of Transportation announcement last week that DOT will seek to end the impasse over the status of allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, AP said.

Ferrari made his comments after meeting U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk Monday, AP said. The Mexican government has protested the U.S. ban on Mexican trucks as a violation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. 

Kirk said the tariffs have caused U.S. companies about $2 billion in commercial losses, AP reported.

DOT’s said last week said it would consider reopening U.S. roads to Mexican trucking companies if they met certain conditions including a safety audit, meeting U.S. emissions standards and driver background checks, AP reported.

Mexico, which currently has tariffs on 99 U.S. products, put the tariffs on U.S. goods in 2009 after Congress passed a measure failing to renew the pilot program between the two countries after U.S. safety and labor groups cited safety and environmental concerns.

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