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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
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Channel 19
Revisiting the cross-border program — in Mexico
U.S.-based cross-border carriers continue to operate into Mexico — a lookback on past reporting on the program shows little progress in the U.S.-Mexican economic/political relationship.
September 11, 2012
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Business
Mexican carriers’ EOBRs flag hours ‘violations’
FMCSA Associate Administrator Bill Quade updated the MCSAC August 27 on progress in the U.S. Mexican cross-border trucking program.
August 28, 2012
Channel 19
Jabin Bogan’s Mexico entry re-enacted
The latest news, from AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, notes that on July 5, U.S. truck driver Jabin Bogan’s defense team gathered with local officials, prosecutors (which is trying Bogan on smuggling charges) and experts to “reenact” the alleged wrong turn that saw Bogan enter Mexico with a load of surplus […]
July 10, 2012
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Channel 19
Bogan case: More reasons to choose a carrier carefully
The Bogan case may be best viewed in the context of tried-and-true advice: be smart and choosy about who you run for. You never know when you may need the boss to go to bat for you rather than hanging you out to dry by being forced out of business.
May 30, 2012
Channel 19
‘Bring Jabin home’ — rally around jailed driver continues
Yesterday, May 10, Allen and Donna Smith of the Truth About Trucking advocacy organization and AsktheTrucker.com hosted a who’s 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 […]
May 11, 2012
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Business
Groups file lawsuit to block cross-border program
A lawsuit seeks to block the U.S. DOT from opening the U.S. border to Mexican trucks.
November 29, 2011
Channel 19
Has CSA hit you? And: DeFazio’s cross-border backlash
Today, a novel suggestion from the folks at J.J. Keller, who conducted a webinar yesterday aimed at providing carriers large and small with tools to combat the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, nearly a year into its history as the safety ranking system of record. This one has to do […]
September 21, 2011
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Channel 19
Mexico’s big human-smuggling bust; Truckers Against Trafficking makes industry headway
Technology makes a dent As this photo, released by the Mexican state of Chiapas and making news around the nation yesterday, makes abundantly clear, the issue of human smuggling is a multivalent and complex one. The photo shows would-be migrants to the U.S. in a van trailer in southern Mexico, caught in Mexican authorities’ X-ray […]
May 20, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
The feds’ favorite remedy: Your tax dollars
The annoying part of the logic behind buying EOBRs for Mexican carriers is how it reflects the paternalism and careless spending so rampant in Washington, D.C.
May 13, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Our EOBR gifts to Mexican carriers
One of the curious aspects of the current cross-border trucking plan is the U.S. paying for Mexican trucks to be equipped with electronic onboard recorders.
April 9, 2011
Business
Cross-border trucking with Mexico, again
Tell us what you think the proposal for a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico would mean for owner-operators.
January 20, 2011
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