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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
Business
Mexican carriers reportedly seek arbitration in cross-border long-haul dispute
Canacar reportedly has filed for arbitration against the United States because the Mexican trucking association says its neighbor continues to violate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
October 6, 2014
Channel 19
Revisiting the cross-border program â in Mexico
U.S.-based cross-border carriers continue to operate into Mexico â a lookback on past reporting on the program shows little progress in the U.S.-Mexican economic/political relationship.
September 11, 2012
Channel 19
Did Joe Biden drive a truck or didn't he?
Whatever the case, he did take a ride with an independent trucker in 1973, evidenced in this lookback. Trucking could use a little more of what Biden seems to have had back at that time, an empathy for the realities of the independent trucking business.
September 10, 2012
Voices
Hot buttons: Your choice for U.S. president
August 13, 2012
Business
Freedom drives prosperity, economist tells fleet execs
Speaking to attendees of the inaugural Great West Fleet Executive Conference in Vegas on Wednesday, noted economist Dr. Barry Asmus gave an enthusiastic endorsement of American exceptionalism and the importance of maintaining freedom and limited government to our countryâs future. With less than 5 percent of the worldâs population, the United States produces 30 percent [âŚ]
June 14, 2012
Channel 19
âBring Jabin homeâ â rally around jailed driver continues
Yesterday, May 10, Allen and Donna Smith of the Truth About Trucking advocacy organization and AsktheTrucker.com hosted a whoâs who of folks involved in the case of Demco Transportation driver Jabin Bogan, who is still being held by Mexican authorities after inadvertently proceeding to the border at El Paso/Juarez while toting a load of military-grade [âŚ]
May 11, 2012
Channel 19
Truckers Against Trafficking: A cause we can all get behind
Truckers News Editor Randy Grider says it best in his column in this monthâs issue, titled âYour most important callâ in reference to the Truckers Against Trafficking national hotline number for reporting incidents of child sex trafficking witnessed on the nationâs highways. âEach year in this country,â Grider writes, âtens of thousands of kids are [âŚ]
November 4, 2011
Channel 19
âAlcolocksâ coming to U.S. Class 8s?
In the area of emissions, the regs tend to roll from California to the rest of the country; in safety/in-cab technology, though, quite a lot has sailed west across the big Atlantic pond in recent years, from EOBRs to governors and moreâŚ.
November 12, 2010
Channel 19
Growing mode for cartel drug trafficking: Class 8 trucks, says NPR
In a story that aired on National Public Radioâs âAll Things Consideredâ program Monday, John Burnett dropped what is to my thinking a recently developing bombshell on hopes from some that a resolution to the U.S.-Mexican cross-border trucking stalemate would be soon in coming. âIn Nuevo Laredo,â he wrote, site of the high-volume trade border [âŚ]
November 10, 2010
Channel 19
Suvey says DOTâs happy, how âbout you?
We couldnât help but chuckle here at Overdrive HQ when we saw a particular press release blast from the U.S. Department of Transportationâs halls a couple weeks back now. Its title, âLatest Survey Shows DOT Employee Satisfaction on the Rise,â read to our trucking ears like a piece of news full of all manner of comic, [âŚ]
July 22, 2010
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