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Channel 19
CARB dismantled my truck, now it’s hauling around Mexico
That was the case after a truck owner participated in California’s Prop 1B grant program for truck replacement. After his truck was dismantled, a GPS unit that had been inadvertently left hardwired behind the dash reported years’ worth of positions at work south of the border in Jalisco.
March 21, 2019
Channel 19
Cabotage across the pond: How deregulatory moves in the EU sparked backlash
And: More intel following last week’s report on cabotage-related violations and what some watchers see as U.S. employers gaming the international-hauls and visa system for profit from less expensive drivers, particularly in big intrastate markets along the Southern border.
November 7, 2018
Business
Cabotage rules enforcement spike ongoing from Southern border areas
Federal investigators have found violations of cabotage rules by U.S. companies and foreign drivers otherwise engaged in cross-border trucking operations. Those rules prevent foreign nationals in the U.S. on B-1 business-visitor visas from competing with U.S. truckers on loads moving point to point in the United States.
October 29, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Nuevo Laredo: Mispronunciation perils and the boots and brokered loads that take you there
Enjoy this "mostly true" tall-tale from "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer about his experience learning Spanish while trucking in Nuevo Laredo.
October 9, 2018
Business
USA Truck logistics business expanding into Mexico
USAT Logistics, a division of USA Truck, is expanding its business with the opening of USAT Logistics de Mexico, located in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico.
March 8, 2017
Voices
Build the wall? Majority of readers favor Trump’s border plan
More than half of Overdrive readers supported efforts to build a wall across the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico. The most vocal among responding commenters, however, were those among the 27 percent who did not support the wall effort in any way.
February 28, 2017
Voices
POLL: Should the United States in fact follow through on Trump’s ‘build the wall’ campaign message?
Though a reported 700 miles of barrier exists on the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border today, with Donald Trump hammering away at his campaign pledge to build a barrier and get Mexico to pay for it, what’s your view of the idea?
January 26, 2017
Business
Landstar’s new Laredo facility
The 31,000-square-foot logistics facility is located on a 50-acre site that accommodates 450 trailers and provides room for future expansion. A heavy/specialized freight area with a custom 120-ton, stand-alone bridge crane, the company says, can transload the largest superloads.
January 20, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Deciphering Trump and the trade winds
Many U.S. truckers have feared the impending hordes of reckless Mexican drivers and the loss of U.S. driving jobs. So far, such concern appears overblown and misplaced. You could say the same for Trump’s rhetoric about isolating us from trading partners who have helped fuel America’s economic engines, including the trucking industry.
December 5, 2016
Business
Canada to move to Mexico if Trump is elected
As this report was going to press, developing news suggested Mexico had fired back with an announcement it would be relocating to Canada if Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United States in November, causing much concern over whether or not there will be a tear in the space-time continuum when migrating countries collide.
September 2, 2016
Voices
Readers sound off on FMCSA’s border move
U.S. truck operators see cheaper rates, more crashes and lower driver pay as possible effects of FMCSA’s expansion of cross-border trucking with Mexico.
January 15, 2015
Business
Cross-border pilot program reaches official end
The 13 U.S.-Mexico pilot program carriers cleared to haul into the U.S. interior, beyond the border commercial zone, will continue to have authority to operate in U.S.
October 14, 2014
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